Publications by Pascal Alexander Schouwink

Unraveling metal effects on CO2 uptake in pyrene-based metal-organic frameworks

Emad Oveisi, Berend Smit, Wendy Lee Queen, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Fatma Pelin Uran, Elias Moubarak, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Miriam Jasmin Pougin, Jordi Espin Marti, Yutao Li

Pyrene-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have tremendous potential for various applications. With infinite structural possibilities, the MOF community often relies on simulations to identify the most promising candidates for given applications. Among t ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Combinatorial Use of Reference Electrodes and DRT for Disentangling AEM Electrolyzer Losses

Jan Van Herle, Mounir Driss Mensi, Philippe Aubin, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Samaneh Daviran, Hamza Moussaoui, Suhas Nuggehalli Sampathkumar, Khaled Lawand

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Metal Doping of Strongly Confined Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals under Ambient Conditions

Aurélien Bornet, Emad Oveisi, Pascal Alexander Schouwink

Halide perovskite nanocrystals are promising materials for optoelectronic applications. Metal doping provides an avenue to boost their performance further, e.g., by enhancing light emission, or to provide additional functionalities, such as nanoscale magne ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Chemically Recyclable, Hydroxycinnamic Acid‐Derived Semi‐Aromatic Polycarbonates

Harm-Anton Klok, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Ghezae Tekleab

Polycarbonate polymers find widespread use for a variety of applications. Driven by the need to transition away from fossil‐based resources, there is increasing interest in exploring bio‐based monomers for the synthesis of polycarbonates. One interesting c ...

Wiley2025

Strain-induced rubidium incorporation into wide-bandgap perovskites reduces photovoltage loss

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Ursula Röthlisberger, David Lyndon Emsley, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jing Gao, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Michael Allan Hope, Lukas Pfeifer, Nikolaos Lempesis, Virginia Carnevali, Ümmügülsüm Günes, Lorenzo Agosta, Yuxuan Zhang, Likai Zheng

A-site cation mixing can enhance the photovoltaic performance of a wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite, but rubidium (Rb) cation mixing generally forms a nonperovskite phase. We report that lattice strain locks Rb ions into the α-phase of the lattice of a triple ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025

On the Accessibility of Higher-n Phases in Formamidinium-based Ruddlesden-popper and Dion-jacobson Layered Hybrid Perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Nikolaos Lempesis, Virginia Carnevali, Lorenzo Agosta

Layered (2D) hybrid perovskites offer a promising alternative for stabilizing halide perovskite materials, with a growing interest in formamidinium (FA(+)) lead iodide derivatives for photovoltaics due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties. While ...

WILEY2025

Enhancing the Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Using Chemical Bath Deposition of SnO2 Electron Transport Layers and 3D/2D Heterojunctions

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Hiroyuki Kanda, Liping Zhong, David Fernando Reyes Vasquez

Chemical bath deposition (CBD) is an effective technique used to produce high-quality SnO2 electron transport layers (ETLs) employed in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). By optimizing the CBD process, high-quality SnO2 films are obtained with minimal oxygen v ...

2024

Shallow-level defect passivation by 6H perovskite polytype for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Hiroyuki Kanda, Hobeom Kim, So-Min Yoo, Yong Ding

The power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells continues to increase. However, defects in perovskite materials are detrimental to their carrier dynamics and structural stability, ultimately limiting the photovoltaic characteristics and stability ...

Nature Research2024

Voltage-driven Chemical Reactions Enable the Synthesis of Tunable Liquid Ga – Metal Nanoparticles

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Valery Okatenko, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Alexander Nicolas Chen, Krishna Kumar

Nanosized particles of liquid metals are emerging materials which hold promise for applications spanning from microelectronics to catalysis. Yet, the knowledge of their chemical reactivity is largely unknown. Here, we study the reactivity of liquid Ga and ...

2023

All-polyamide nanofibrillar composites by in situ fibrillation of aramid fibers

John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Sylvain Cyril Claude Galland, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Nicolas Candau, Oguzhan Oguz

All-polyamide composites containing up to 30 vol% highly dispersed PPTA nanofibrils with diameters in the range 50-500 nm were prepared by melt-compounding polyamide 6,10 (PA610) with chopped poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide) (PPTA) fibers in the temperatu ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

Thermally controlled growth of photoactive FAPbI(3) films for highly stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Cyril Cayron, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

We employ flash infrared annealing to investigate the phase transition of formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI(3)) thin films for their solar cell applications. Measuring the enthalpy changes of the FAPbI(3) composition at different heating rates allows us ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Enhanced ductility in high performance polyamides due to strain-induced phase transitions

John Christopher Plummer, Véronique Michaud, Holger Frauenrath, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Nicolas Candau

Copolymerizing poly(hexamethylene terephthalamide-co-isophthalamide) (PA6TI) with 40 wt% polyamide 66 (PA66) results in only minor decreases in modulus and yield stress owing to isomorphous substitution of PA6TI units by PA66 units in the PA6TI alpha phase ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Tailoring Morphology and Elemental Distribution of Cu-In Nanocrystals via Galvanic Replacement

Emad Oveisi, Raffaella Buonsanti, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Laia Castilla Amorós, Valery Okatenko

The compositional and structural diversity of bimetallic nanocrystals (NCs) provides a superior tunability of their physico-chemical properties, making them attractive for a variety of applications, including sensing and catalysis. Nevertheless, the manipu ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Revealing Weak Dimensional Confinement Effects in Excitonic Silver/Bismuth Double Perovskites

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Giulia Grancini, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Inés Garcia Benito, Albertus Adrian Sutanto

Lead-free perovskites are attracting increasing interest as nontoxic materials for advanced optoelectronic applications. Here, we report on a family of silver/bismuth bromide double perovskites with lower dimensionality obtained by incorporating phenethyla ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Unblocking Ion-occluded Pore Channels in Poly(triazine imide) Framework for Proton Conduction

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Heng-Yu Chi, Qi Liu, Kangning Zhao, Laura Piveteau

Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is an ordered graphitic carbon nitride hosting angstrom-scale pores attractive for selective molecular transport. AA'-stacked PTI layers are synthesized by ionothermal route during which ions occupy the framework and occlude the ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Nanosegregation in arene-perfluoroarene pi-systems for hybrid layered Dion-Jacobson perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jovana Milic, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Algirdas Ducinskas, Lukas Pfeifer, Laura Piveteau

Layered hybrid perovskites are based on organic spacers separating hybrid perovskite slabs. We employ arene and perfluoroarene moieties based on 1,4-phenylenedimethylammonium (PDMA) and its perfluorinated analogue (F-PDMA) in the assembly of hybrid layered ...

2022

Stiff, Strong, Tough, and Highly Stretchable Hydrogels Based on Dual Stimuli-Responsive Semicrystalline Poly(urethane–urea) Copolymers

Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Nicolas Candau, Adrien Julien Demongeot, Oguzhan Oguz

There has been a considerable interest in developing stiff, strong, tough, and highly stretchable hydrogels in various fields of science and technology including biomedical and sensing applications. However, simultaneous optimization of stiffness, strength ...

2021

Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Production through MOF/MOF Heterojunctions

Fatmah Ebrahim, Berend Smit, Kyriakos Stylianou, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Stavroula Kampouri, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Maria Fumanal Quintana

A strategy for enhancing the photocatalytic performance of MOF- based systems (MOF: metal-organic framework) is developed through the construction of MOF/MOF heterojunctions. The combination of MIL-167 with MIL-125-NH2 leads to the formation of MIL-167/MIL ...

2021

Methylammonium Triiodide for Defect Engineering of High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Thomas Paul Baumeler, Linfeng Pan, Paramvir Ahlawat, Claudia Esther Avalos, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, George Cameron Fish, Mathias Dankl, Bowen Yang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Viktor Skorjanc, Anurag Krishna, Olivier Ouellette, Elsa John, Lukas Pfeifer

The defects present in metal halide perovskite are deleterious to both the performance and stability of photovoltaic devices. Consequently, there is an intense focus on developing defect mitigation strategies. Herein we report a facile strategy that employ ...

2021

Mechanistic Study on Thermally Induced Lattice Stiffening of ZIF-8

Deepu Joseph Babu, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Qi Liu, Jian Hao

The flexibility of the ZIF-8 aperture, which inhibits a molecular cutoff of 3.4 angstrom, can be reduced by rapid heat treatment to obtain CO2-selective membranes. However, the early stages of the structural, morphological, and chemical changes responsible ...

2021