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The AEROPILs Generation: novel poly(Ionic liquid)-based aerogels for CO2 capture
MDPI (2021)CO2 levels in the atmosphere are increasing exponentially. The current climate change effects motivate an urgent need for new and sustainable materials to capture CO2 . Porous materials are particularly interesting for ... -
The combination of a polymer–carbon composite electrode with a high-absorptivity ruthenium dye achieves an efficient dye-sensitized solar cell based on a thiolate–disulfide redox couple
Royal Society of Chemistry (2012)To overcome the intrinsic shortcomings of the traditional iodide–triiodide redox couple and pursue a further performance improvement, intense efforts have been made to exploit alternative redox shuttles in dye-sensitized ... -
The Complex Proteolipidic Behavior of the SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein Channel: Weak Selectivity and Heterogeneous Oligomerization
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) (2023-08-05)The envelope (E) protein is a small polypeptide that can form ion channels in coronaviruses. In SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent that caused the recent COVID-19 pandemic, and its predecessor SARS-CoV-1, E protein ... -
The Complex Role of Carbon Nitride as a Sensitizer in Photoelectrochemical Cells
Wiley (2015-08)The role of carbon nitride (C3N4) as an absorber in a photoelectrochemical cell is reported. C3N4-sensitized TiO2 mesoporous film created via in-situ, vapor-transport growth results in a direct Ti–O–C bonding. The material ... -
The Cytoplasmic Domain of the SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein Assembles into a β-Sheet Bundle in Lipid Bilayers
Elsevier (2023-01-28)The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) envelope (E) protein forms a pentameric ion channel in the lipid membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC) of the infected ... -
The ionic selectivity of large protein ion channels
Institut d'Estudis Catalans. Secció de Ciències i Tecnologia (2008)Large, highly conductive ion channels have a major functional role in the cell life cycle. They allow the exchange of charged and neutral solutes across the cell membrane envelope and regulate the influx of nutrients ... -
The P. aeruginosa effector Tse5 forms membrane pores disrupting the membrane potential of intoxicated bacteria
Nature Research (2022)The type VI secretion system (T6SS) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa injects effector proteins into neighbouring competitors and host cells, providing a fitness advantage that allows this opportunistic nosocomial pathogen to ... -
The role of crystal facets and disorder on photo-electrosynthesis
Royal Society of Chemistry (2022-09-23)Photoelectrochemistry has the potential to play a crucial role in the storage of solar energy and the realisation of a circular economy. From a chemical viewpoint, achieving high conversion efficiencies requires subtle ... -
The structural and electrochemical properties of CuCoO2 crystalline nanopowders and thin films: conductivity experimental analysis and Insights from density functional theory calculations
MDPI (2023-08-11)A novel manufacturing process is presented for producing nanopowders and thin films of CuCoO2 (CCO) material. This process utilizes three cost-effective synthesis methods: hydrothermal, sol-gel, and solid-state reactions. ... -
The Swift Surge of Perovskite Photovoltaics
American Chemical Society (2013)The breakthrough early 1990s dye sensitization of mesoscopic TiO2 films along with a regenerative iodide redox couple led to the explosive growth of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) research. The pioneering work of Grätzel ... -
Theory of Impedance and Capacitance Spectroscopy of Solar Cells with Dielectric Relaxation, Drift-Diffusion Transport, and Recombination
American Chemical Society (2014-07)Semiconductor photovoltaic devices currently investigated, such as hybrid organic–inorganic lead halide perovskite based solar cells, have shown a high dielectric polarization combined with ambipolar carrier transport. In ... -
Theory of Impedance Spectroscopy of Ambipolar Solar Cells with Trap-Mediated Recombination
American Chemical Society (2014-01)The analysis of recombination in solar cells suggests in many cases the presence of trap-mediated recombination in the absorber. We present a theory of the recombination of electrons and holes, the Shockley–Read–Hall model, ... -
Theory of the impedance of charge transfer via surface states in dye-sensitized solar cells
Elsevier (2010)The dynamics of trapping coupled with charge transfer is analysed in the frequency domain for a model of the dye-sensitized solar cell. We solve the steady state occupations of the surface state and the resulting recombination ... -
Thermal effects on the resonance fluorescence of doubly dressed artificial atoms
American Physical Society (2020-09-30)In this work, robustness of controlled density of optical states in doubly driven artificial atoms is studied under phonon dissipation. By using both perturbative and polaron approaches, we investigate the influence of ... -
Thermodynamic stability screening of IR-photonic processed multication halide perovskite thin films
Royal Society of Chemistry (2021-11-24)We report a material screening study for phase transitions of multication hybrid halide perovskite films. Two hundred sixty-six films processed with flash infrared annealing were optically and structurally characterized. This ... -
Three dimensional-TiO2 nanotube array photoanode architectures assembled on a thin hollow nanofibrous backbone and their performance in quantum dot-sensitized solar cells
Royal Society of Chemistry (2013-02-18)Facile synthesis of TiO2 nanotube branched (length [similar]0.5 μm) thin hollow-nanofibers is reported. The hierarchical three dimensional photoanodes (H-TiO2-NFs) (only [similar]1 μm thick) demonstrate their excellent ... -
Time-expanded φOTDR using low-frequency electronics
Optica Publishing Group (2023-01)Time expanded phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (TE-φOTDR) is a recently reported technique for distributed optical fiber sensing based on the interference of two mutually coherent optical frequency combs. ... -
Titanium Dioxide Nanomaterials for Photovoltaic Applications
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Top Selected Papers in the Physical Chemistry of Energy Materials 2016–2017
American Chemical Society (2018-10-04)Research on energy materials continues to generate a huge amount of activity. The growth of the community in China is enormous, in terms of the creation of research facilities, endowing of major projects, and hiring of ... -
Toward Efficient Carbon Nitride Photoelectrochemical Cells: Understanding Charge Transfer Processes
Wiley (2016-06)Hole extraction is the key! Charge recombination, electron injection and hole extraction rates between C3N4, TiO2, and several electrolytes in a photoelectrode configuration are studied. It is found that the TiO2/C3N4 ...