Publications associées à A new family of substituted triethoxysilyl iodides as organic iodide sources for dye-sensitised solar cells

A Functional Perspective on Information Measures

Since the birth of Information Theory, researchers have defined and exploited various information measures, as well as endowed them with operational meanings. Some were born as a "solution to a problem", like Shannon's Entropy and Mutual Information. Other ...

EPFL2022

Discretisation and continuity: The emergence of symbols in communication

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Robert Lieck

Vocal signalling systems, as used by humans and various non-human animals, exhibit discrete and continuous properties that can naturally be used to express discrete and continuous information, such as distinct words to denote objects in the world and proso ...

2021

A semiconducting polymer bulk heterojunction photoanode for solar water oxidation

Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Arvindh Sekar, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu, Rebekah Anne Wells, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Han-Hee Cho

Organic semiconductors hold promise to enable scalable, low-cost and high-performance artificial photosynthesis. However, the performance of systems based on organic semiconductors for light-driven water oxidation have remained poor compared with inorganic ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Fine-Tuning by Triple Bond of Carbazole Derivative Dyes to Obtain High Efficiency for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Copper Electrolyte

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Li Zhang

Three novel dyes consisting of a 5,8,15-tris(2-ethylhexyl)-8,15-dihydro-SH-benzo[1,2-b:3,4-b':6,5-b '']tricarbazole (BTC) electron-donating group and a 4,7-bis(4-hexylthiophen-2-yl)benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole (BTBT) pi-bridge with an anchoring group of phen ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Optoelectronic and/or electrochemical learning device

Michael Graetzel, Hoi Nok Tsao

The present invention concerns photoelectronic and/or optoelectronic learning device and/or memory device. In an embodiment, the device is a dye- sensitized solar cell. The short circuit photocurrent density (Jsc) of the device, and wherein a degree of a J ...

2018

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

Multidimensional Anodized Titanium Foam Photoelectrode for Efficient Utilization of Photons in Mesoscopic Solar Cells

Jun Ho Yum

Mesoscopic solar cells based on nanostructured oxide semiconductors are considered as a promising candidates to replace conventional photovoltaics employing costly materials. However, their overall performances are below the sufficient level required for p ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Hybrid Heterojunctions of Solution-Processed Semiconducting 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Xiaoyun Yu, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenides (2D-TMDs) are attractive light-harvesting materials for large-area and inexpensive solar energy conversion given their ability to form highly tolerant heterojunctions. However, the preparation of large-area heter ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Influence of Ionic Liquid Electrolytes on the Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet

New binary ionic liquid electrolytes based on 1-methyl-1-butylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluromethylsulfonyl)imide, 1-butylpyridinium bis(trifluromethylsulfonyl)imide, 1-methyl-3-ethylimidazolium bis(trifluromethylsulfonyl)imide, 1-methyl-3-ethylimidazolium tetr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Orlicz regularity of the gradient of solutions to quasilinear elliptic equations in the plane

Linda Maria De Cave

Given a planar domain Omega, we study the Dirichlet problem {-divA(x, del v) = f in Omega, v = 0 on partial derivative Omega, where the higher-order term is a quasilinear elliptic operator, and f belongs to the Zygmund space L(log L)delta(log log log L)(be ...

2016

A New Design Paradigm for Smart Windows: Photocurable Polymers for Quasi-Solid Photoelectrochromic Devices with Excellent Long-Term Stability under Real Outdoor Operating Conditions

Michael Graetzel

A new photoelectrochromic device (PECD) is presented in this work proposing the combination of a WO3-based electrochromic device (ECD) and a polymer-based dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). In the newly designed architecture, a photocurable polymeric membra ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

In-situ mapping of the molecular arrangement of amphiphilic dye molecules at the TiO2 surface of dye sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Nicolas Tétreault, Negar Ashari Astani, Francesco Stellacci, Kislon Voitchovsky, Hauke Arne Harms

Amphiphilic sensitizers are central to the function of dye-sensitized solar cells. It is known that the cells performance depends on the molecular arrangement and the density of the dye on the semiconductor surface, but a molecular-level picture of the cel ...

2015

Lessons from Nature: Computational Design of Biomimetic Compounds and Processes

Ursula Röthlisberger, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Elizabeth Claire Brunk, Negar Ashari Astani, Esra Bozkurt, Marta Andreia Da Silva Perez, Nicholas John Browning

Through millions of years of evolution, Nature has accomplished the development of highly efficient and sustainable processes and the idea to understand and copy natural strategies is therefore very appealing. However, in spite of intense experimental and ...

2014

Low band gap S,N-heteroacene-based oligothiophenes as hole-transporting and light absorbing materials for efficient perovskite-based solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Qin, Amaresh Mishra

Novel low band gap oligothiophenes incorporating S,N-heteropentacene central units were developed and used as hole-transport materials (HTMs) in solid-state perovskite-based solar cells. In addition to appropriate electronic energy levels, these materials ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Quantum dot-sensitized solar cells based on directly adsorbed zinc copper indium sulfide colloids

Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Heavy metal-based quantum dots (QDs) have been demonstrated to behave as efficient sensitizers in QD-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs), as attested by the countless studies and encouraging efficiencies reported so far. However, their intrinsic toxicity has a ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Rediscovering a Key Interface in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Guanidinium and Iodine Competition for Binding Sites at the Dye/Electrolyte Surface

Robin Humphry-Baker, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiong Li

We propose a new mechanism by which the common electrolyte additive guanidinium thiocyanate (GdmSCN) improves efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). We demonstrate that binding of Gdm(+) to TiO2 is weak and does not passivate recombination sites ...

American Chemical Society2014

Interpretation of Optoelectronic Transient and Charge Extraction Measurements in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Takeru Bessho, Xiong Li

Tools that assess the limitations of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) made with new materials are critical for progress. Measuring the transient electrical signals (voltage or current) after optically perturbing a DSSC is an approach which can give infor ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Electronic and structural modification of titanium dioxide/zinc oxide photoanode for dye-sensitized solar cells

Aravind Kumar Chandiran

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) are a new class of molecular photovoltaics that mimics the natural photosynthesis, for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity. A typical DSC is a sandwich of a dye sensitized nanoparticle TiO2 film and a catalys ...

EPFL2013

Spaces With Noetherian Cohomology

Jérôme Scherer

Is the cohomology of the classifying space of a p-compact group, with Noetherian twisted coefficients, a Noetherian module? In this paper we provide, over the ring of p-adic integers, such a generalization to p-compact groups of the Evens-Venkov Theorem. W ...

Cambridge University Press2013

A Decay Property Of Solutions To The K-Generalized Kdv Equation

Joules Elie Nahas

We use a Leibniz-rule-type inequality for fractional derivatives to prove conditions under which a solution u(x, t) of the k-generalized KdV equation is in the space L-2(vertical bar x vertical bar(2s) dx) for s is an element of R+. ...

Khayyam Publ Co Inc2012