Publications associées à Transferring lead-free piezoelectric ceramics into application

Lead immobilization for environmentally sustainable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Hui Zhang, Antonio Abate

Lead halide perovskites are promising semiconducting materials for solar energy harvesting. However, the presence of heavy-metal lead ions is problematic when considering potential harmful leakage into the environment from broken cells and also from a publ ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Ultrahigh Electrostrictive Effect in Lead-Free Ferroelectric Ceramics Via Texture Engineering

Dragan Damjanovic, Li Jin, Yuan Sun

The electrostrictive effect, which induces strain in ferroelectric ceramics, offers distinct advantages over its piezoelectric counterpart for high-precision actuator applications, including anhysteretic behavior even at high frequencies, rapid reaction ti ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

How natural materials remove heavy metals from water: mechanistic insights from molecular dynamics simulations

Wanda Andreoni, Fabio Pietrucci

Water pollution by heavy metals is of increasing concern due to its devastating effects on the environment and on human health. For the removal of heavy metals from water sources, natural materials, such as spent-coffee-grains or orange/banana/chestnut pee ...

2021

Fighting Health Hazards in Lead Halide Perovskite Optoelectronic Devices with Transparent Phosphate Salts

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Xavier François Mettan, Pavao Roko Andricevic, Márton Kollár

Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskite (CH3NH3PbI3) solar cells have surpassed 25% power conversion efficiency, being ready for industrial-scale production of cheap photovoltaic (PV) panels. In this action, the major hurdle is its lead content, which in ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Catalyst design for the transformation of CO2 into value-added products

Felix Daniel Bobbink

The mass-utilization of fossil resources has led to a dramatic increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) production, most of which is released directly into the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in global warming. Efforts to contain CO2 emissions and to capture, store ...

EPFL2018

Metal Distribution and Characterization of Cultivable Lead-Resistant Bacteria in Shooting Range Soils

Aline Sondra Adler

Shooting ranges represent about 10% of polluted sites in Switzerland. This pollution, mainly consisting of lead (Pb) and antimony (Sb), can spread into the local groundwater, wildlife and plants. In this study, shooting range stop butt soils (elevated soil ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2016

Solution-Processed Tin-Based Perovskite for Near-Infrared Lasing

Michael Graetzel, Nripan Mathews

The family of solution-processed tin-based perovskites is demonstrated as a new and superior near-infrared gain medium. Due to the large electron-hole bimolecular recombination associated with tin and the reduced trap density with SnF2 treatment, these lea ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Measurements of long-range near-side angular correlations in root sNN=5TeV proton-lead collisions in the forward region

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Alessandro Mapelli, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Cédric Potterat, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Julien Rouvinet, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Bastien Luca Muster, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Thibaud Humair, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Jessica Prisciandaro, Ilya Komarov, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Maurizio Martinelli, Guido Andreassi, Jian Wang, Liupan An, Yi Zhang, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Goldschmidt's Rules and Strontium Replacement in Lead Halogen Perovskite Solar Cells: Theory and Preliminary Experiments on CH3NH3SrI3

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Tor Jesper Jacobsson

During the past few years, organic lead halogen perovskites have emerged as a class of highly promising solar cell materials, with certified solar cell efficiencies now surpassing 20%. Concerns have, however, been raised about the possible environmental an ...

American Chemical Society2015

Flexoelectric Effect in Solids

Alexander Tagantsev

Flexoelectricity-the coupling between polarization and strain gradients-is a universal effect allowed by symmetry in all materials. Following its discovery several decades ago, studies of flexoelectricity in solids have been scarce due to the seemingly sma ...

Annual Reviews2013

Enhanced electromechanical response of ferroelectrics due to charged domain walls

Dragan Damjanovic, Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Maxim Gureev, Tomas Sluka

While commonly used piezoelectric materials contain lead, non-hazardous, high-performance piezoelectrics are yet to be discovered. Charged domain walls in ferroelectrics are considered inactive with regards to the piezoelectric response and, therefore, are ...

Nature Research2012

Mechanics of Growth and Coalescence of Pre-existing Voids in a Ductile Matrix

Tomasz Jodlowski

This research project experimentally and numerically investigates the growth and coalescence of pre-existing voids for a wide range of stress states in a ductile matrix with a special focus on shear dominated loading conditions and presents quantitative ki ...

EPFL2011

Improvement of elevated temperature mechanical properties of Cu–Ni–Sn–Pb alloys

Andreas Mortensen, Vincent Laporte, Doris Empl

Cu-Ni-Sn alloys with Pb additions exhibit high mechanical strength at room temperature coupled with good machinability but experience a significant ductility loss above the melting point of lead. We explore here the influence of minor additions of Al, Mn, ...

Elsevier2010

Synthesis and glycosidase inhibitory activity of 1-amino-3,6-anhydro-1-deoxy-D-sorbitol derivatives

Pierre Vogel, Claudia Bello

3,6-Anhydro-1-(aryl or alkylamino)-1-deoxy-D-sorbitol derivatives have been prepared in four steps from isosorbide, a by-product from the starch industry. The inhibitory activities of these new compounds have been evaluated towards 13 glycosidases. A first ...

2010

Solving an Avionics Real-Time Scheduling Problem by Advanced IP-Methods

Friedrich Eisenbrand, Martin Niemeier

We report on the solution of a real-time scheduling problem that arises in the design of software-based operation control of aircraft. A set of tasks has to be distributed on a minimum number of machines and offsets of the tasks have to be computed. The ta ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2010

High-Strain Lead-free Antiferroelectric Electrostrictors

Dragan Damjanovic

Research on lead-free piezoceramics has dramatically increased over the last years due to stringent legislation demanding to phase out current lead- containing piezoceramics. The use of electrostrictive materials for electric-field induced strain has been ...

Wiley2009

About the Electrospray Ionization Source in Mass Spectrometry: Electrochemistry and On-chip Reactions

Hubert Girault, Joël Stéphane Rossier, Michel Prudent, Niels Erik Lion, Christophe Roussel, Bin Su, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo

The present work shows that the electrochemical properties of electrospray ionization (ESI) can be used to add functions to the process. As example, we show how the choice of the electrode material can be used to study interactions between metal ions and b ...

2009

Diffuse release of environmental hazards by railways

Luca Rossi

There is increasing concern about environmental pollution by diffuse emissions of various environmental hazards emitted by transportation activities. For the first time substances released by railways to the environment were investigated. We considered the ...

2008

Effect of Lead Pollution on Testate Amoebae Communities living in Sphagnum fallax: an experimental study

Edward Mitchell

We studied the effects of lead pollution on testate amoebae communities living on Sphagnum fallax by growing this moss under controlled conditions. A progressive series of lead (Pb) concentration was used in the growing solution of the mosses: 0 (control), ...

2008

Replacement and emulation of a lead-acid battery with supercapacitors for a UPS application

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade, Yannick Louvrier

This contribution proposes the study of an ‘On-Line’ UPS, where adaptations have been made to replace the initial batteries with supercapacitors. As the electrical behavior of supercapacitors is different from that one of lead-acid batteries, a power elect ...

2008