Publications by Laura Piveteau

Carbamate-bond breaking on bulk oxides realizes highly efficient polyurethane depolymerization

Paul Joseph Dyson, Xinbang Wu, Roland Christopher Turnell-Ritson, Laura Piveteau

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Polycondensation as a Universal Method for Preparing High-density Single-atom Catalyst Libraries

Mounir Driss Mensi, Paul Joseph Dyson, Daniel Ortiz Trujillo, Pascal Miéville, Miyeon Chang, Xinbang Wu, Xunhui Wang, Laura Piveteau, Ariana Serban, Timo Markus Oskar Felder, David Fernando Reyes Vasquez

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) present a promising subclass of classic heterogeneous catalysts by maximizing metal dispersion and enhancing efficiency. Although high-density SACs (HD-SACs) are reported, their synthesis is typically constrained to specific me ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Selective light olefin synthesis with high ethylene abundance via CO2 hydrogenation over (Ga-In)2O3/SSZ-13 catalysts

Mounir Driss Mensi, Andreas Züttel, Laura Piveteau

Direct light olefin synthesis from CO2 hydrogenation is a new pathway to decarbonize the chemical industry. Inspired by the promising catalytic activity of Ga2O3-based catalysts in alkane dehydrogenation, this study reveals that optimizing Ga content in th ...

2025

Dynamics of hydrogen-bonded end groups in bulk polymers revealed by solid-state NMR spectroscopy relaxation dispersion experiments

John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Laura Piveteau

The dynamic nature of supramolecular networks of telechelic polymers offers new avenues for the design of novel materials with enhanced melt strength and extensibility, increased energy at break, or self-healing properties. However, monitoring the kinetics ...

2025

From Chalcogen Bonding to S-π Interactions in Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics

Ursula Röthlisberger, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Mathias Dankl, Nikolaos Lempesis, Laura Piveteau, Virginia Carnevali, Lorenzo Agosta

The stability of hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite semiconductors remains a significant obstacle to their application in photovoltaics. To this end, the use of low-dimensional (LD) perovskites, which incorporate hydrophobic organic moieties, provi ...

WILEY2024

Metal−Solvent Complex Formation at the Surface of InP Colloidal Quantum Dots

Laura Piveteau

Published by American Chemical Society.The surface chemistry of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (QDs) profoundly influences their physical and chemical attributes. The insulating organic shell ensuring colloidal stability impedes charge transfer, thus ...

2024

Radiation Chemistry Reveals the Reaction Mechanisms Involved in the Reduction of Vinylene Carbonate in the Solid Electrolyte Interphase of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Daniel Ortiz Trujillo, Laura Piveteau

A safe and efficient lithium-ion battery requires including an additive in the electrolyte. Among the additives used, vinylene carbonate (VC) is particularly interesting, because it leads to the formation of a stable and protective solid electrolyte interp ...

2024

Disorder and Halide Distributions in Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals as Seen by Colloidal 133Cs Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Nuri Yazdani, Laura Piveteau

Colloidal nuclear magnetic resonance (cNMR) spectroscopy on inorganic cesium lead halide nanocrystals (CsPbX3 NCs) is found to serve for noninvasive characterization and quantification of disorder within these structurally soft and labile particles. In par ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Interfacial Modulation through Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures for Efficient and Hole Conductor-Free Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Anwar Qasem M Alanazi, Jovana Milic, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang, Laura Piveteau

Perovskite solar cells have led the new surge of solar energy research. However, their instability is a pressing issue mostly attributed to the perovskite interface with charge-selective transport layers. In this work, diethylammonium iodide (DEAI) surface ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Vanadium complexes with N-heterocyclic vinylidene ligands

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Paul Varava, Zhaowen Dong, Bastiaan Kooij, Laura Piveteau

The preparation and the structural characterization of vanadium complexes with terminal and bridging N-heterocyclic vinylidene ligands is reported. The synthesis of the complexes was enabled by utilization of diazoolefins as ligand precursors. Structural d ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

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

Enhanced Room-Temperature Ionic Conductivity of NaCB11H12 via High-Energy Mechanical Milling

Radovan Cerny, Matteo Brighi, Claudia Esther Avalos, Laura Piveteau

The body-centered cubic (bcc) polymorph of NaCB11H12 has been stabilized at room temperature by highenergy mechanical milling. Temperature-dependent electrochemical impedance spectroscopy shows an optimum at 45-min milling time, leading to an rt conductivi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Colloidal-ALD-Grown Core/Shell CdSe/CdS Nanoplatelets as Seen by DNP Enhanced PASS-PIETA NMR Spectroscopy

David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Laura Piveteau

Ligand exchange and CdS shell growth onto colloidal CdSe nanoplatelets (NPLs) using colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) were investigated by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments, in particular, dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) e ...

2020

Characterization of semiconductor nanocrystals using advanced NMR spectroscopy

David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Laura Piveteau

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Resolving the Core and the Surface of CdSe Quantum Dots and Nanoplatelets Using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced PASS-PIETA NMR Spectroscopy

David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Laura Piveteau

Understanding the surface of semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) prepared using colloidal methods is a long-standing goal of paramount importance for all their potential optoelectronic applications, which remains unsolved largely because of the lack of site-s ...

2018