Publications by Ona Segura Lecina

C-ald-grown Metal Oxide Shell Enables Distance-independent Triplet Energy Transfer From Quantum Dots to Molecular Dyes

Hybrid nanocomposites including quantum dots (QDs) and molecular dyes offer tunability of charge and energy transfer processes, which are attractive for applications spanning from light-emitting devices to photocatalysis and photon upconversion. Core@shell ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Hybrid oxide coatings generate stable Cu catalysts for CO2 electroreduction

Emad Oveisi, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Ona Segura Lecina, Min Wang, Philippe Benjamin Green, Mark Adrian Newton

Hybrid organic/inorganic materials have contributed to solve important challenges in different areas of science. One of the biggest challenges for a more sustainable society is to have active and stable catalysts that enable the transition from fossil fuel ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Hybrid organic/metal-oxide shells on semiconductor nanocrystals via colloidal atomic layer deposition

Ona Segura Lecina

The escalating energy demand and the imperative necessity to reduce the carbon footprint require transformative approaches to energy conversion. Materials chemistry plays a pivotal role in addressing these global challenges by developing novel materials fo ...

EPFL2024

Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition on Nanocrystals Using Ligand-Modified Precursors

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Ona Segura Lecina, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Philippe Benjamin Green, Mark Adrian Newton, Krishna Kumar, Jari Leemans

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a method to grow thin metal oxide layers on a variety of materials for applications spanning from electronics to catalysis. Extending ALD to colloidally stable nanocrystals promises to combine the benefits of thin metal oxi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Surface Chemistry Dictates the Enhancement of Luminescence and Stability of InP QDs upon c-ALD ZnO Hybrid Shell Growth

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Ona Segura Lecina, Philippe Benjamin Green, Mark Adrian Newton, Jari Leemans

Indium phosphide quantum dots (InP QDs) are a promising example of Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive (RoHS)-compliant light-emitting materials. However, they suffer from low quantum yield and instability upon processing under ambient conditions ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Colloidal-ALD Grown Hybrid Shells Nucleate via a Ligand–Precursor Complex

David Lyndon Emsley, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Snaedis Björgvinsdóttir, Kevin Rossi, Michael Allan Hope, Ona Segura Lecina, Amrit Venkatesh

Colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) enables the growth of hybrid organic/inorganic oxide shells with tunable thickness at the nanometer scale around ligand-functionalized inorganic nanoparticles (NPs). This recently developed method has demonstrated ...

2022

Synthetic Tunability of Colloidal Covalent Organic Framework/Nanocrystal Hybrids

Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar, Raffaella Buonsanti, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili, Yannick Thomas Guntern, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Jan Vávra, Ona Segura Lecina

The combination of porous reticular frameworks and nanocrystals (NCs) offers a rich playground to design materials with functionalities, which are beneficial for a large variety of applications. Achieving compositional and structural tunability of these hy ...

2021

Ligand Locking on Quantum Dot Surfaces via a Mild Reactive Surface Treatment

Aurélien Bornet, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Ona Segura Lecina

At the outermost surface of colloidal QDs are organic surface ligands which dynamically bind and release in solution to control the growth kinetics, control the size/shape of the crystals, passivate surface states, and provide colloidal stability through f ...

2021

Atomic Control in Multicomponent Nanomaterials: when Colloidal Chemistry Meets Atomic Layer Deposition

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Ona Segura Lecina

In the past decades, atomically controlled multicomponent nanomaterials have served as platforms to advance the understanding of scientific phenomena along with providing practical solutions for various applications. Colloidal chemistry and atomic layer de ...

2020