29.06.21 – Head of the Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Materials at EPFL, Wendy Queen’s sponges tells us about her love for sponges. A certain kind of sponges. “I am Wendy Queen. I’m originally from South Carolina. I moved to Switzerland from the San … Continue reading →
25.06.21 – EPFL scientists have used an unprecedented method with multimodal host-guest complexation to greatly improve the stability of perovskite solar cells while also reducing the release of lead into the environment. Perovskites are hybrid compounds made from metal halides … Continue reading →
24.06.21 – Maxim Karpov, who received his PhD from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences, has been awarded one of the two 2021 Thesis Prizes for applied aspects from the Quantum Electronics and Optics division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society … Continue reading →
23.06.21 – The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, appointed Prof. Michael Graetzel as a Distinguished Fellow. The appointment is effective as of June, 2021, for seven years minimum. IAS@NTU was established in July … Continue reading →
22.06.21 – LIMNO researchers demonstrate the incorporation of a benzodithiophene (BDT)-based organic cation in layered and quasi-layered lead halide perovskites. Incorporating extended pi-conjugated organic cations in layered lead halide perovskites is a recent trend promising to merge the fields of organic … Continue reading →
15.06.21 – Raffaella joins the editorial team of ACS Catalysis. Raffaella will handle manuscripts in heterogeneous electro- and photo- catalysis. She is excited to join the wonderful editorial team of the journal and to serve the community in this new … Continue reading →
10.06.21 – Scientists in LIMNO are generating oxygen from sunlight, water and semiconducting polymers with breakthrough performance. The approach presents a promising way towards economical and scalable solar fuel production. Natural photosynthesis evolved to convert water and sunlight into oxygen (O2) … Continue reading →
09.06.21 – In an international collaboration including EPFL, scientists have achieved giant nonlinearity of UV hybrid light-matter states up to room temperature in a waveguide made of AlInGaN, a wide bandgap semiconductor. The achievement paves the way for new devices … Continue reading →
07.06.21 – Understanding charge mobility of the very popular lead-halide perovskite materials is crucial for their very promising photovoltaic applications. Using X-ray spectroscopic techniques, the structural deformations affecting the charge mobility, which plays a central role in solar energy conversion, … Continue reading →
07.06.21 – Understanding charge mobility of the very popular lead-halide perovskite materials is crucial for their very promising photovoltaic applications. Using X-ray spectroscopic techniques, the structural deformations affecting the charge mobility, which plays a central role in solar energy conversion, … Continue reading →