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Two-Dimensional Gallium Sulfide Nanoflakes for UV-Selective Photoelectrochemical-type Photodetectors
Marilena I. Zappia, Gabriele Bianca, Sebastiano Bellani +12
Two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal monochalcogenides have been recently predicted to be potential photo(electro)catalysts for water splitting and photoelectrochemical (PEC) reac…
Graphene-Based Electrodes in a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Produced by Rapid Low-Pressure Combined Gas Plasma Treatments
Sebastiano Bellani, Leyla Najafi, Mirko Prato +13
The development of high-power density vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) with high energy efficiencies (EEs) is crucial for the widespread dissemination of this energy storage t…
Scalable spray-coated graphene-based electrodes for high-power electrochemical double-layer capacitors operating over a wide range of temperature
Mohammad Akbari Garakani, Sebastiano Bellani, Vittorio Pellegrini +14
Advancements in electrochemical double-layer capacitor (EDLC) technology require the concomitant use of novel efficient electrode materials and viable electrode manufacturing metho…
Solution-processed GaSe nanoflake-based films for photoelectrochemical water splitting and photoelectrochemical-type photodetectors
Marilena Isabella Zappia, Gabriele Bianca, Sebastiano Bellani +10
Gallium selenide (GaSe) is a layered compound, which has been exploited in nonlinear optical applications and photodetectors due to its anisotropic structure and pseudo-direct opti…
Flexible Graphene/Carbon Nanotube Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitors with Ultrahigh Areal Performance
Valentino Romano, Beatriz Martin-Garcia, Sebastiano Bellani +10
The fabrication of electrochemical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) with high areal capacitance relies on the use of elevated mass loadings of highly porous active materials. Herein…
Extending the colloidal transition metal dichalcogenide library to ReS2 nanosheets for application in gas sensing and electrocatalysis
Beatriz Martin-Garcia, Davide Spirito, Sebastiano Bellani +12
Among the large family of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), recently ReS2 has stood out due to its nearly layer-independent optoelectronic and physicochemical properties. T…
Octapod-shaped CdSe nanocrystals hosting Pt with high-mass activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction
Leyla Najafi, Sebastiano Bellani, Andrea Castelli +8
The design of efficient electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting with minimal amount of precious metal is crucial to attain renewable and sustainable energy conversion.…
Niobium disulphide (NbS)-based (heterogeneous) electrocatalysts for an efficient hydrogen evolution reaction
Leyla Najafi, Sebastiano Bellani, Reinier Oropesa-Nuñez +8
The design of efficient and cost-effective catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is the key for molecular hydrogen (H2) production from electrochemical water splittin…
CVD-graphene/graphene flakes dual-films as advanced DSSC counter electrodes
Andrea Capasso, Sebastiano Bellani, Alessandro Lorenzo Palma +10
The use of graphene-based electrodes is burgeoning in a wide range of applications, including solar cells, light emitting diodes, touch screens, field-effect transistors, photodete…
WS2-graphite dual-ion battery
Sebastiano Bellani, Faxing Wang, Gianluca Longoni +8
A novel WS2-graphite dual-ion battery (DIB) is developed by combining together a conventional graphite cathode and high-capacity few-layer WS2 flakes anode. The WS2 flakes are prod…
MoS2 Quantum Dot/Graphene Hybrids for Advanced Interface Engineering of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Solar Cell with Efficiency over 20%
Leyla Najafi, Babak Taheri, Beatriz Martin-Garcia +11
Interface engineering of organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) plays a pivotal role in achieving high power conversion efficiency (PCE). Graphene and related two-d…
Engineered MoSe2-based heterostructures for efficient electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction
Leyla Najafi, Sebastiano Bellani, Reinier Oropesa-Nuñez +4
Two-dimensional transition metal-dichalcogenides are emerging as efficient and cost-effective electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, only the edge sites o…
Doped-MoSe2 nanoflakes/3d metal oxide-hydr(oxy)oxides hybrid catalysts for pH-universal electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction
Leyla Najafi, Sebastiano Bellani, Reinier Oropesa-Nuñez +4
Clean hydrogen production through efficient and cost-effective electrochemical water splitting is highly promising to meeting future global energy demands. The design of Earth-abun…
Thioethyl-porphyrazine/Nanocarbon Hybrids for Photoinduced Electron Transfer
Sandra Belviso, Andrea Capas, Ernesto Santoro +9
We designed a novel pyrene-substituted thioethyl-porphyrazine (PzPy) and the formation of supramolecular assembly with nanocarbons demonstrating photoinduced electron transfer abil…
Ruthenium Tetrazole-Based Electroluminescent Device: The Key Role of Counter-Ions for the Light Emission Properties
Hashem Shahroosvand, Leyla Najafi, Ahmad Sousaraei +3
Light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs), thanks to their simple device structure and the tunable emission wavelength of the light-emitting layer, are emerging as a class of ele…
Solution-processed hybrid graphene flake/2H-MoS2 quantum dot heterostructures for efficient electrochemical hydrogen evolution
Leyla Najafi, Sebastiano Bellani, Beatriz Martin-Garcia +5
We designed solution-processed, flexible hybrid graphene flake/2H-MoS2 quantum dot (QD) heterostructures, showing enhanced electrocatalytic activity for the hydrogen evolution reac…
Few-layer MoS2 flakes as hole-selective layer for solution-processed hybrid organic hydrogen-evolving photocathodes
Sebastiano Bellani, Leyla Najafi, Antonio Esau Del Rio Castillo +3
High-efficiency organic photocathodes, based on regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) and phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (rr-P3HT:PCBM) bulk heterojunction sandwiched between c…
Graphene-Based Hole Selective Layers for High-Efficiency, Solution-Processed, Large-Area, Flexible, Hydrogen-Evolving Organic Photocathodes
Sebastiano Bellani, Leyla Najafi, Beatriz Martín-García +5
Regio-regular poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (rr-P3HT), the work-horse of organic photovoltaics, has been recently exploited in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) configuration with phenyl…