LIMNO

The Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Optoelectronic Nanomaterials
LIMNO is part of the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL. Research in LIMNO is directed to engineering new, inexpensive, and solution-processable semiconductor materials for implementation into high performance devices. We are especially driven by the goal of inexpensive solar energy conversion. As such, we focus on materials systems with sufficient earth abundance and environmental compatibility, and we employ techniques that are highly scalable and economically feasible. Overall LIMNO incorporates competences of semiconductor synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication while individual projects concentrate on directing the composition, crystallinity, self-assembly, and morphology of our new materials using bottom-up techniques in order to control the semiconductor band gap, light absorption, charge transfer, carrier transport and device performance.

Latest LIMNO news:

Alternative Oxidation Reactions for Solar-Driven Fuel Production

— A new perspective on how to valorize oxidation reactions during the artificial photosynthesis of solar fuel is reported by LIMNO researchers in the journal ACS Catalysis. 

Y. Liu and N. Guijarro shine new light on copper ferrite photoanodes

— Photoelectrochemical solar fuel production requires robust photoanode materials. In a new report published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Yongpeng Liu and Dr. Néstor Guijarro lead a study that reveals deep insights into the performance of a potential photoanode material:Copper ferrite.

LIMNO Reports New Route to Make Stable Organic Solar Cells

— The stability of donor-acceptor bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics (BHJ OPV) can be increased by using fully conjugated block co-polymers (BCPs) but the lack of facile routes to prepare BCPs from diverse monomers has limited the advancement of BCP based BHJ OPVs. LIMNO has advanced the field in a new report.

Yongpeng Liu wins poster prize at nanoGE!

— At the Fall 2018 nanoGE meeting October 22-26, in Torremolinos, Málaga, Spain

Organic Semiconductors for Solar Fuels Reviewed by LIMNO

— Splitting water with sunlight and organic semiconductor devices is emerging as a promising approach for the inexpensive and scalable direct solar-to-fuel production.

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Prof. Kevin SIVULA

 

EPFL SB ISIC LIMNO

Station 6, Bât. CH

CH H4 565

1015 Lausanne

 

Tél.: +41 (0)21 693 79 79

Tél.: +41 (0)21 693 79 78

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