• openAccess   Aggregation-induced heterogeneities in the emission of upconverting nanoparticles at the submicron scale unfolded by hyperspectral microscopy 

      Gonell, Francisco; Botas, Alexandre M. P.; Brites, Carlos B. S.; Amorós, Pedro; Carlos, Luis D.; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz; Ferreira, Rute A. S. Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)
      Transparent upconverting hybrid nanocomposites are exciting materials for advanced applications such as 3D displays, nanosensors, solar energy converters, and fluorescence biomarkers. This work presents a simple strategy ...
    • openAccess   Easy Formation of Functional Liposomes in Water Using a pH‐Responsive Microbial Glycolipid: Encapsulation of Magnetic and Upconverting Nanoparticles 

      Van Renterghem, Lisa; Guzzetta, F.; Le Griel, Patrick; Selmane, Mohamed; Ben Messaoud, Ghazi; Teng, Tabitha Tan Su; Lim, Sierin; Soetaert, Wim; Roelants, Sophie; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz; Baccile, Niki Wiley (2019)
      The compartmentalization of colloids into topologically closed, vesicular, microphases offers an attractive mean to concentrate a functional cargo in aqueous solutions for a range of biomedical, cosmetic, and biotechnological ...
    • openAccess   Facile Surfactant-Assisted Synthesis of BiVO4 Nanoparticulate Films for Solar Water Splitting 

      Montañés, Laura; Mesa, Camilo A.; Gutiérrez-Blanco, Ana; Robles, Christian; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz; Gimenez, Sixto MDPI (2021-10-15)
      Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4), which has attractive applicability as a photoactive material, presents applications that range from catalysis to water treatment upon visible light irradiation. In this study, we develop a simple ...
    • openAccess   Lead Sulfide Nanocubes for Solar Energy Storage 

      Lemsi, Amira; Cardenas-Morcoso, Drialys; Haro, Marta; Gil Barrachina, Carlos; Aranda Alonso, Clara; Maghraoui Meherzi, Hager; García-Tecedor, Miguel; Gimenez, Sixto; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz Wiley (2020-04-23)
      Lead sulfide (PbS) nanocubes are produced by a very simple solvothermal procedure that uses a unique molecule, ethylenediamine, as solvent and capping ligand to control the size and shape of the nanocrystals. Detailed ...
    • openAccess   Ligand & band gap engineering: tailoring the protocol synthesis for achieving high-quality CsPbI3 quantum dots 

      Hassanabadi, Ehsan; Latifi, Masoud; Gualdrón Reyes, Andrés Fabián; Masi, Sofia; YOON, SEOG JOON; Poyatos, Macarena; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz; Mora-Sero, Ivan Royal Society of Chemistry (2020)
      Hot-injection has become the most widespread method used for the synthesis of perovskite quantum dots (QDs) with enormous interest for application in optoelectronic devices. However, there are some aspects of the chemistry ...
    • openAccess   Microwave-Mediated Synthesis of Lead-Free Cesium Titanium Bromide Double Perovskite: A Sustainable Approach 

      Reyes-Francis, Emmanuel; Echeverría-Arrondo, Carlos; Esparza, Diego; López-Luke, Tzarara; Soto-Montero, Tatiana; Morales-Masis, Monica; Turren Cruz, Silver Hamill; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz American Chemical Society (2024-02-02)
      Theoretical studies have identified cesium titanium bromide (Cs2TiBr6), a vacancy-ordered double perovskite, as a promising lead-free and earth-abundant candidate to replace Pb-based perovskites in photovoltaics. Our ...
    • openAccess   Structural and Electrical Investigation of Cobalt-Doped NiOx/Perovskite Interface for Efficient Inverted Solar Cells 

      Rezay Marand, Zahra; Kermanpur, Ahmad; Karimzadeh, Fathallah; Barea, Eva M; Hassanabadi, Ehsan; Halvani Anaraki, Elham; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz; Masi, Sofia; Mora-Sero, Ivan MDPI (2020-04-30)
      Inorganic hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for stable and cheap inverted perovskite-based solar cells are highly desired. In this context, NiOx, with low synthesis temperature, has been employed. However, the low ...
    • openAccess   Switchable All Inorganic Halide Perovskite Nanocrystalline Photoelectrodes for Solar-Driven Organic Transformations 

      Fernandez-Climent, Roser; Gualdrón Reyes, Andrés Fabián; García-Tecedor, Miguel; Mesa, Camilo A.; Cardenas-Morcoso, Drialys; Montañés, Laura; Barea, Eva M; Mas, Elena; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Gimenez, Sixto Wiley (2021-10-30)
      All inorganic halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) are considered as fascinating materials for a wide range of optoelectronic applications encompassing photovoltaics, lasing, sensing, and photocatalysis due to their ...
    • openAccess   Up-Converting Lanthanide-Doped YAG Nanospheres 

      Vallés Pelarda, Marta; S. Sánchez, Rafael; Barea, Eva M; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz Frontiers Media (2020-08-07)
      The development of lanthanide-doped Y3Al5O12 (Ln:YAG) garnet nanostructures is a hot topic in the field of inorganic nanophosphors due to the current interest in developing small nanoparticles for solid-state lighting ...
    • openAccess   α-FAPbI3 powder presynthesized by microwave irradiation for photovoltaic applications 

      Solis, Omar E.; Fernández-Saiz, Carolina; Rivas Martínez, Jesús Manuel; Esparza, Diego; Turren Cruz, Silver Hamill; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz; Boix, Pablo P; Mora-Sero, Ivan Elsevier (2022-12-10)
      The development of up-scalable and high-throughput methodologies to fabricate high-efficiency lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on α-phase formamidinium lead iodide (FAPbI3) is one of the main challenges of ...