Publications de Claudia Esther Avalos

Solid-state 31P NMR reveals the biological organophosphorus compounds as the dominant phosphorus species in Saharan dust aerosols

Pierre Rossi, Claudia Esther Avalos, Athanasios Nenes, Kalliopi Violaki, Christos Panagiotopoulos

Phosphorus is a critical nutrient affecting primary productivity across all ecosystems. Many regions worldwide are limited or co-limited by phosphorus availability, which can be alleviated through atmospheric deposition. Dust is known to be a key external ...

2025

Optically Enhanced Solid-State H-1 NMR Spectroscopy

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Jonas Milani, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini, Claudia Esther Avalos, Gabriele Stevanato, Aditya Mishra, Michael Allan Hope, Federico De Biasi, Moreno Lelli, Saumya Badoni

Low sensitivity is the primary limitation to extendingnuclearmagnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to more advanced chemical andstructural studies. Photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization(photo-CIDNP) is an NMR hyperpolarization technique where ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Fully Conjugated Benzyne-Derived Three-Dimensional Porous Organic Polymers

Claudia Esther Avalos

Porous organic polymers (POPs) have gained tremendous attention owing to their chemical tunability, stability and high surface areas. Whereas there are several examples of fully conjugated two-dimensional (2D) POPs, three-dimensional (3D) ones are rather c ...

2023

Atom-by-Atom Synthesis of Multiatom-Supported Catalytic Clusters by Liquid-Phase Atomic Layer Deposition

Mounir Driss Mensi, Ursula Röthlisberger, Jeremy Luterbacher, Benjamin Pierre Le Monnier, Claudia Esther Avalos, Murat Kiliç

Here, we introduce a method for the synthesis of atomically precise, supported, multiatom catalysts by liquid-phase atomic layer deposition. This technique is based on consecutive grafting reactions in mild conditions that build supported active sites atom ...

2022

Thiocyanate-Mediated Dimensionality Transformation of Low- Dimensional Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Claudia Esther Avalos, Zaiwei Wang, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren

Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid perovskite solar cells have induced widespread research interest owing to their higher stability as compared to three-dimensional (3D) analogues. The photovoltaic performance, however, is still limited. Here, we report a perovsk ...

2022

Hybridization of Synthetic Humins with a Metal-Organic Framework for Precious Metal Recovery and Reuse

Wendy Lee Queen, Claudia Esther Avalos, Olga Trukhina, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jordi Espin Marti

The number of synthetic strategies used to functionalize MOFs with polymers is rapidly growing; this stems from the knowledge that non-native polymeric guests can significantly boost MOF performance in a number of desirable applications. The current work p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

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

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

Enhanced Intersystem Crossing and Transient Electron Spin Polarization in a Photoexcited Pentacene–Trityl Radical

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini, Claudia Esther Avalos, Gabriele Stevanato, Moreno Lelli

Identifying and characterizing systems that generate well-defined states with large electron spin polarization is of high interest for applications in molecular spintronics, high-energy physics, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The generation of electr ...

2020

Vapor-assisted deposition of highly efficient, stable black-phase FAPbI(3) perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Xiong Li, Wolfgang Richard Tress, David Lyndon Emsley, Paramvir Ahlawat, Claudia Esther Avalos, Zaiwei Wang, Yuhang Liu, Anand Agarwalla, Brian Irving Carlsen, Fan Fu, Aditya Mishra, Haizhou Lu, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Xianfu Zhang, Likai Zheng, Ying Yang

Mixtures of cations or halides with FAPbI(3) (where FA is formamidinium) lead to high efficiency in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) but also to blue-shifted absorption and long-term stability issues caused by loss of volatile methylammonium (MA) and phase se ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2020

Intermediate Phase Enhances Inorganic Perovskite and Metal Oxide Interface for Efficient Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Wolfgang Richard Tress, David Lyndon Emsley, Claudia Esther Avalos, Zaiwei Wang, Yuhang Liu, Anand Agarwalla, Brian Irving Carlsen, Wanchun Xiang, Mona Shasti, Jiahuan Zhang, Aditya Mishra, Haizhou Lu, Ziyun Wang

Interfacial modification is crucial to fully develop the potential of semiconductor devices, including the revolutionary halide perovskite-based optoelectronics, such as photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, and photodetectors. The all-inorganic halide per ...

CELL PRESS2020

Gas-sieving zeolitic membranes fabricated by condensation of precursor nanosheets

Yu Han, Michele Ceriotti, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Claudia Esther Avalos, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Rocio Semino Barbaresi

The synthesis of molecular-sieving zeolitic membranes by the assembly of building blocks, avoiding the hydrothermal treatment, is highly desired to improve reproducibility and scalability. Here we report exfoliation of the sodalite precursor RUB-15 into cr ...

2020

Fast and Sensitive Detection of Paramagnetic Species Using Coupled Charge and Spin Dynamics in Strongly Fluorescent Nanodiamonds

Claudia Esther Avalos

Sensing of a few unpaired electron spins, such as in metal ions and radicals, is a useful but difficult task in nanoscale physics, biology, and chemistry. Single negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) centers in diamond offer high sensitivity and spatia ...

2019

Chemical exchange at the ferroelectric phase transition of lead germanate revealed by solid state Pb-207 nuclear magnetic resonance

Arnaud Magrez, David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Jasmine Viger-Gravel, Claudia Esther Avalos

The nature of the dynamics and structural changes that take place at the ferroelectric phase transition in lead oxides is a rich field of study. Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of Pb-207 is well suited to study the local structure and disorder ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Lead-Oxygen Bond Length Distributions of the Relaxor Ferroelectric 0.67PbMg(1/3)Nb(2/3)O(3)-0.33PbTiO(3) from Pb-207 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Claudia Esther Avalos

We investigate changes in the local environment of Pb-207 sites in the relaxor ferroelectric 0.67PbMg(1/3)Nb(2/3)O(3)-0.33PbTiO(3) using variable temperature magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance. We observe a Gaussian distribution of Pb-207 chem ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

F-19 Magic Angle Spinning Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy

David Benjamin Roger Antoine Gajan, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Jasmine Viger-Gravel, Claudia Esther Avalos, Moreno Lelli

The introduction of high-frequency, high-power microwave sources, tailored biradicals, and low-temperature magic angle spinning (MAS) probes has led to a rapid development of hyperpolarization strategies for solids and frozen solutions, leading to large ga ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Using 207Pb NMR to investigate temperature dependent nuclear spin relaxation and Pb-O bond covalency in relaxor ferroelectrics

David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Claudia Esther Avalos

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

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Solid-state 31P NMR reveals the biological organophosphorus compounds as the dominant phosphorus species in Saharan dust aerosols

Optically Enhanced Solid-State H-1 NMR Spectroscopy

Fully Conjugated Benzyne-Derived Three-Dimensional Porous Organic Polymers

Atom-by-Atom Synthesis of Multiatom-Supported Catalytic Clusters by Liquid-Phase Atomic Layer Deposition

Thiocyanate-Mediated Dimensionality Transformation of Low- Dimensional Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Hybridization of Synthetic Humins with a Metal-Organic Framework for Precious Metal Recovery and Reuse

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

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

Enhanced Intersystem Crossing and Transient Electron Spin Polarization in a Photoexcited Pentacene–Trityl Radical

Vapor-assisted deposition of highly efficient, stable black-phase FAPbI(3) perovskite solar cells

Intermediate Phase Enhances Inorganic Perovskite and Metal Oxide Interface for Efficient Photovoltaics

Gas-sieving zeolitic membranes fabricated by condensation of precursor nanosheets

Fast and Sensitive Detection of Paramagnetic Species Using Coupled Charge and Spin Dynamics in Strongly Fluorescent Nanodiamonds

Chemical exchange at the ferroelectric phase transition of lead germanate revealed by solid state Pb-207 nuclear magnetic resonance

Lead-Oxygen Bond Length Distributions of the Relaxor Ferroelectric 0.67PbMg(1/3)Nb(2/3)O(3)-0.33PbTiO(3) from Pb-207 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

F-19 Magic Angle Spinning Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy

Solvent effects on the polarization transfer between a photo-excited spin-polarized radical pair and a TEMPO radical

Coupled charge and spin dynamics in high-density ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

207Pb NMR of ferroelectric perovskite lead germanate at and below the paraelectric phase transition

Using 207Pb NMR to investigate temperature dependent nuclear spin relaxation and Pb-O bond covalency in relaxor ferroelectrics