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Cotton yarns decorated with hydrothermally reduced graphene oxide for flexible supercapacitors

Cotton fibers, a natural cellulose, have played a critical role in the development of wearable energy storage, owning to their wearability, integrability, eco-benignity, and cost effectiveness. Graphene, a two-dimensional carbon material, possesses excelle ...

Elsevier2023

Understanding the design principles of organic sensitizers for highly efficient dye sensitized solar cells

Marko Stojanovic

The conversion of solar to electrical power has presented itself as a solution to meet the growing energy demand and replace our current fossil fuel dependence, which causes dramatic damages to the environment. At the heart of this challenge lies the perfo ...

EPFL2021

Carbazol-phenyl-phenothiazine-based sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Lukas Pfeifer, Wei Huang, Dan Ren, Zhongjin Shen, Yunfei Jiao, Yi Ding

Heteroaromatic units are commonly used as pi-spacers for sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Here, we investigated the influence of the pi-spacer on the photophysical properties, electrochemical properties and photovoltaic performance of car ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

A 512 x 512 SPAD Image Sensor With Integrated Gating for Widefield FLIM

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü

In this paper, we report on SwissSPAD2, an image sensor with 512 x 512 photon-counting pixels, each comprising a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), a 1-b memory, and a gating mechanism capable of turning the SPAD ON and OFF, with a skew of 250 and 344 p ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Experimental demonstration of the water-holding property of three-dimensional vortices

When injecting dye into a vertical vortex generated by a commercial magnetic stirrer, one finds that dye remains captured around the vortex core over minutes, while it gets mixed with the water outside this region rather rapidly. Thus, considering its hori ...

IOP Publishing - EPL Association2018

Lateral Intermolecular Electronic Interactions of Diketopyrrolopyrrole D−π–A Solar Dye Sensitizers Adsorbed on Mesoporous Alumina

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Heewon Bahng

The development of push−pull organic dyes utilizing the donor−(π-conjugated bridge)−acceptor (D−π−A) motif has induced a paradigm shift in the design of efficient nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), offering control over the aesthetic prope ...

2018

Effect of Chaotropes on the Transfer of Ions and Dyes across the Liquid–Liquid Interface

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Lucie Josette Renée Rivier, Elena Vladimirova

Chaotropes such as urea can break the structure of water, weakening the hydrophobic effect and reducing aggregation. Here, we investigated how the addition of urea affects the transfer of ions and cationic dyes across the interface between immiscible elect ...

2018

Dyes, Radicals and Nitrous Oxide Adducts Derived from N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann

N-Heterocyclic carbenes are able to form covalent adducts with nitrous oxide (N2O) under ambient conditions. This thesis summarizes the studies of these adducts and their reactivity. A ditopic carbanionic N-heterocyclic carbene was found to react with nit ...

EPFL2018

Photoanode/Electrolyte Interface Stability in Aqueous Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Guido Viscardi

O'Regan and Gratzel conceived a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), which operates as an artificial photosynthetic system converting solar light into electricity. Nevertheless, it is only recently that the scientific community is focusing on truly aqueous DS ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Effect of mechanical damage and wound healing on the viscoelastic properties of stems of flax cultivars (Linum usitatissimum L. cv. Eden and cv. Drakkar)

Véronique Michaud, Sara Dalle Vacche, Federica Sordo

As plant fibres are increasingly used in technical textiles and their composites, underlying principles of wound healing in living plant fibres are relevant to product quality, and provide inspiration for biomimetic healing in synthetic materials. In this ...

Public Library of Science2017

Significance of pi-bridge contribution in pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine featured D-A-pi-A organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yelin Hu, Fabrizio Giordano, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhongjin Shen

The 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) pi-bridge is one of the most commonly used building blocks for sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). We investigated its influence on the molecular structure, the photophysical and electrochemical properti ...

Chinese Chemical Soc2017

Pyridyl- and Picolinic Acid Substituted Zinc(II) Phthalocyanines for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Aravind Kumar Chandiran

A series of tri-tert-butyl zinc(II) phthalocyanines (Pcs) substituted with pyridyl, carboxyl, or picolinic acid anchoring groups on the periphery were prepared. Photovoltaic (PV) studies on these dyes were carried out revealing some interesting features. I ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2017

Rationalizing Fluorescence Quenching in meso-BODIPY Dyes

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Alberto Fabrizio, Antonio Prlj

meso-Substituted boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) dyes are a puzzling class of molecules, which feature contrasting emissive behaviors. The full mechanistic picture for these distinctive properties is still missing. Using static and dynamic excited state comp ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

A Facile in Situ and UV Printing Process for Bioinspired Self-Cleaning Surfaces

Yves Leterrier, Sara Dalle Vacche, Marina Aymara González Lazo, Feyza Karasu Kiliç, Ioannis Katrantzis

A facile in situ and UV printing process was demonstrated to create self-cleaning synthetic replica of natural petals and leaves. The process relied on the spontaneous migration of a fluorinated acrylate surfactant (PFUA) within a low-shrinkage acrylated h ...

MDPI2016

Preparation of cationic azo compounds

Kay Severin, Alexander Tskhovrebov

The present invention relates to a novel method for preparing cationic azo compounds, which preferably can be used as dyes. Further, the invention relates to novel cationic azo compounds and the use of N2O in the synthesis of azo-imidazolium dyes. ...

2016

A study of oligothiophene-acceptor dyes in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Lei Zhang, Peng Liu

Two new dyes, E1 and E2, equipped with triphenylamine as the electron donor, oligothiophene as the linker and different electron acceptor groups, have been designed and synthesized as photosensitizers for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (p-DSCs). A syste ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Novel Blue Organic Dye for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Achieving High Efficiency in Cobalt-Based Electrolytes and by Co-Sensitization

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jiahuan Zhang, Kazuteru Nonomura, Yan Hao, Yasemin Saygili, Anna Eriksson, Enrico Polanski

Blue and green dyes as well as NIR-absorbing dyes have attracted great interest because of their excellent ability of absorbing the incident photons in the red and near-infrared range region. A novel blue D-pi-A dye (Dyenamo Blue), based on the diketopyrro ...

2016

The effect of mesoporous TiO2 pore size on the performance of solid-state dye sensitized solar cells based on photoelectrochemically polymerized Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) hole conductor

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jiahuan Zhang

Photoelectrochemical polymerization of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiphene) (PEDOT) has recently been introduced and widely investigated for fabrication of the hole transporting material (HTM) in highly efficient solid state dye sensitized solar cells (sDSCs). ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Multimodel Approach to the Optical Properties of Molecular Dyes in Solution

Iurii Timrov

We introduce a multimodel approach to the simulation of the optical properties of molecular dyes in solution, whereby the effects of thermal fluctuations and of dielectric screening on the absorption spectra are accounted for by explicit and implicit solva ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Accurate and Inexpensive Prediction of the Color Optical Properties of Anthocyanins in Solution

Iurii Timrov

The simulation of the color optical properties of molecular dyes in liquid solution requires the calculation of time evolution of the solute absorption spectra fluctuating in the solvent at finite temperature. Time-averaged spectra can be directly evaluate ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015