Publications de Mathieu Steven Prévot

Evaluating spinel ferrites MFe2O4 (M = Cu, Mg, Zn) as photoanodes for solar water oxidation: prospects and limitations

Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Pauline Bornoz, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

2018

Evaluating Charge Carrier Transport and Surface States in CuFeO

Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Wiktor Stefan Bourée, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Interest in delafossite (CuFeO2) as a candidate p-type photocathode for photoelectrochemical (PEC) solar fuel production has recently been increasing, mainly due to its excellent stability in aqueous environments and favorable light absorption properties. ...

American Chemical Society2017

Investigating and controlling charge carrier behavior in p-type delafossite CuFeO₂ photocathodes for solar fuel production

Mathieu Steven Prévot

Humanity is facing the challenge of a global-scale energy transition over the next decades, where solar energy is set to play a crucial role. With the immense amount of sunlight reaching the surface or the Earth, and constantly decreasing manufacturing cos ...

EPFL2017

CuInGaS2 photocathodes treated with SbX3 (X = Cl, I): the effect of the halide on solar water splitting performance

Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Pauline Bornoz, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Wiktor Stefan Bourée, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

The realization of photoelectrochemical tandem cells for efficient solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion is currently impeded by the lack of inexpensive, stable, and efficient photocathodes. The family of sulfide chalcopyrites (CuInxGa1-xS2) has recently dem ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

A Gibeon meteorite yields a high-performance water oxidation electrocatalyst

Paul Joseph Dyson, Arnaud Magrez, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Wiktor Stefan Bourée, Charlotte Marie Sornay, Julie Voit, Aswin Gopakumar, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Examining the electrocatalytic performance of naturally-occurring metallic minerals is of interest for energy conversion applications given their unique atomic composition and formation history. Herein, we report the electrocatalytic function of an iron-ba ...

2016

A Bottom-Up Approach toward All-Solution-Processed High-Efficiency Cu(In,Ga)S

Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Pauline Bornoz, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Wiktor Stefan Bourée, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

The development of solution-processable routes to prepare efficient photoelectrodes for water splitting is highly desirable to reduce manufacturing costs. Recently, sulfide chalcopyrites (Cu(In,Ga)S-2) have attracted attention as photocathodes for hydrogen ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2016

Improving charge collection with delafossite photocathodes: a host–guest CuAlO2/CuFeO2 approach

Kevin Sivula, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yang Li

p-Type delafossite CuFeO2 has recently been reported as a promising candidate for direct photoelectrochemical solar water reduction in alkaline conditions. However, despite its favorable optical band gap energy and light absorption, this material suffers f ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Robust Hierarchically Structured Biphasic Ambipolar Oxide Photoelectrodes for Light-Driven Chemical Regulation and Switchable Logic Applications

Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Wiktor Stefan Bourée, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Tunable ambipolar photoelectrochemical behavior emerges from microdomains of nanostructured p-type CuFeO2 and n-type Fe2O3 that arise from a single facile solution-processed thin fi lm. The switchable operation of this system is controlled by chemical, opt ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Self-assembled 2D WSe2 thin films for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production

Kevin Sivula, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

WSe2-a layered semiconductor that can be exfoliated into atomically thin two-dimensional sheets-offers promising characteristics for application in solar energy conversion. However, the lack of controllable, cost-effective methods to scalably fabricate hom ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Direct Light-Driven Water Oxidation by a Ladder-Type Conjugated Polymer Photoanode

Kevin Sivula, Pauline Bornoz, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

A conjugated polymer known for high stability (poly[benzimidazobenzophenanthroline], coded as BBL) is examined as a photoanode for direct solar water oxidation. In aqueous electrolyte with a sacrificial hole acceptor (SO32-), photoelectrodes show a morphol ...

American Chemical Society2015

Autodecomposition Approach for the Low-Temperature Mesostructuring of Nanocrystal Semiconductor Electrodes

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Templating nanocrystals into mesoporous electrodes using an organic porogen typically requires thermal oxidation at >400 degrees C to completely remove the organic material and afford good electronic properties. These oxidation conditions are incompatible ...

American Chemical Society2015

Enhancing the Performance of a Robust Sol-Gel-Processed p-Type Delafossite CuFeO2 Photocathode for Solar Water Reduction

Kevin Sivula, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Delafossite CuFeO2 is a promising material for solar hydrogen production, but is limited by poor photocurrent. Strategies are demonstrated herein to improve the performance of CuFeO2 electrodes prepared directly on transparent conductive substrates by usin ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2015

Templating Sol-Gel Hematite Films with Sacrificial Copper Oxide: Enhancing Photoanode Performance with Nanostructure and Oxygen Vacancies

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yuehui Li, Yang Li

Nanostructuring hematite films is a critical step for enhancing photoelectrochemical performance by circumventing the intrinsic limitations on minority carrier transport. Herein, we present a novel sol-gel approach that affords nanostructured hematite film ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Surface modification of semiconductor photoelectrodes

Kevin Sivula, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells have emerged as promising devices that afford the direct conversion of solar energy into electric power and/or chemical fuels. Apart from the obvious importance of the bulk properties of semiconductor materials employed as ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Challenges towards Economic Fuel Generation from Renewable Ellectricity: The Heed for Efficient Electro-Catalysis

Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Wiktor Stefan Bourée, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Utilizing renewable sources of energy is very attractive to provide the growing population on earth in the future but demands the development of efficient storage to mitigate their intermittent nature. Chemical storage, with energy stored in the bonds of c ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2015

Multiflake Thin Film Electronic Devices of Solution Processed 2D MoS2

Kevin Sivula, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Enhancing the Charge Separation in Nanocrystalline Cu2ZnSnS4 Photocathodes for Photoelectrochemical Application: The Role of Surface Modifications

Kevin Sivula, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) colloidal inks were employed to prepare thin-film photocathodes that served as a model system to interrogate the effect of different surface treatments, viz. CdS, CdSe, and ZnSe buffer layers along with methylviologen (MV) adsorption, on t ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Photoelectrochemical Tandem Cells for Solar Water Splitting

Kevin Sivula, Mathieu Steven Prévot

In order to be economically competitive with simple "brute force" (i.e., PV + electrolyzer) strategies or the production of promising solar fuels, like H-2, from fossil fuels, a practical photoelectrochemical device must optimize cost, longevity, and perfo ...

American Chemical Society2013