[{"project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"article_type":"letter_note","date_published":"2026-01-09T00:00:00Z","issue":"1","title":"Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3","author":[{"last_name":"Patil","full_name":"Patil, Niraj Nitish","first_name":"Niraj Nitish"},{"first_name":"Ruiqi","full_name":"Wu, Ruiqi","last_name":"Wu"},{"first_name":"Christine","full_name":"Fiedler, Christine","id":"bd3fceba-dc74-11ea-a0a7-c17f71817366","last_name":"Fiedler"},{"last_name":"Kapuria","full_name":"Kapuria, Nilotpal","first_name":"Nilotpal"},{"first_name":"Bingfei","full_name":"Nan, Bingfei","last_name":"Nan"},{"last_name":"Navita","id":"6ebe278d-ba0b-11ee-8184-f34cdc671de4","orcid":"0000-0001-7408-8197","first_name":"Navita","full_name":"Navita, Navita"},{"first_name":"Andreu","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"},{"first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"},{"last_name":"Ryan","first_name":"Kevin M.","full_name":"Ryan, Kevin M."},{"last_name":"Ganose","full_name":"Ganose, Alex M.","first_name":"Alex M."},{"last_name":"Singh","full_name":"Singh, Shalini","first_name":"Shalini"}],"date_created":"2026-01-18T23:02:43Z","intvolume":"        11","acknowledgement":"This publication has emanated from research conducted with the financial support of Taighde Éireann-Research Ireland under Grant number 22/FFP-P/11591. C.F. and M.I. would like to acknowledge the financial support of ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. N.N.P. acknowledges the financial support of AMBER under grant number 12/rc/2278_p2.","doi":"10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909","volume":11,"scopus_import":"1","year":"2026","publication":"ACS Energy Letters","status":"public","day":"09","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2380-8195"]},"article_processing_charge":"No","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"},{"_id":"GradSch"}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication_status":"published","OA_type":"closed access","abstract":[{"text":"Copper chalcogenides offer high charge mobility and low lattice thermal conductivity but suffer from structural instability due to dynamic Cu+ migration. Here, we report a colloidal hot-injection synthesis of ternary cesium copper selenide (CsCu5Se3) nanocrystals (NCs), achieving precise control over phase, size, and morphology through tailored precursor-ligand modulation. This strategy enabled systematic exploration of stable and metastable Cs–Cu–Se phases and mechanistic investigation of nucleation and growth, providing insight into phase modulation and dimensional control at the nanoscale. CsCu5Se3 NCs exhibit low lattice thermal conductivity (∼0.5 Wm–1K–1) and an experimental zT of 0.27 at 718 K. Complementary first-principles calculations, consistent with experimental electronic and optical responses, predict a zT of 1.05 at 1000 K. These findings elucidate the formation dynamics of CsCu5Se3 and establish ABZ (A = alkali, B = metal, Z = chalcogen) NCs as tunable platforms for advanced functional applications.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"21001","type":"journal_article","month":"01","citation":{"ieee":"N. N. Patil <i>et al.</i>, “Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3,” <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>, vol. 11, no. 1. American Chemical Society, pp. 481–488, 2026.","mla":"Patil, Niraj Nitish, et al. “Layered Alkali-Copper Selenides: Deciphering Thermoelectric Properties and Reaction Pathways for Nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3.” <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>, vol. 11, no. 1, American Chemical Society, 2026, pp. 481–88, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909\">10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909</a>.","apa":"Patil, N. N., Wu, R., Fiedler, C., Kapuria, N., Nan, B., Jakhar, N., … Singh, S. (2026). Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3. <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909</a>","short":"N.N. Patil, R. Wu, C. Fiedler, N. Kapuria, B. Nan, N. Jakhar, A. Cabot, M. Ibáñez, K.M. Ryan, A.M. Ganose, S. Singh, ACS Energy Letters 11 (2026) 481–488.","ista":"Patil NN, Wu R, Fiedler C, Kapuria N, Nan B, Jakhar N, Cabot A, Ibáñez M, Ryan KM, Ganose AM, Singh S. 2026. Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3. ACS Energy Letters. 11(1), 481–488.","chicago":"Patil, Niraj Nitish, Ruiqi Wu, Christine Fiedler, Nilotpal Kapuria, Bingfei Nan, Navita Jakhar, Andreu Cabot, et al. “Layered Alkali-Copper Selenides: Deciphering Thermoelectric Properties and Reaction Pathways for Nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3.” <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>. American Chemical Society, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909</a>.","ama":"Patil NN, Wu R, Fiedler C, et al. Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3. <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>. 2026;11(1):481-488. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909\">10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909</a>"},"page":"481-488","oa_version":"None","publisher":"American Chemical Society","quality_controlled":"1","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2026-01-19T08:43:21Z"},{"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"NanoFab"}],"tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2026-02-12T13:05:19Z","oa_version":"Published Version","publisher":"Elsevier","quality_controlled":"1","citation":{"mla":"Shi, Changwei, et al. “Hydrogen Induced Palladium-Based Heterojunction Electrocatalysts to Enhance the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performance.” <i>Chemical Engineering Science</i>, vol. 324, 123348, Elsevier, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348\">10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348</a>.","ieee":"C. Shi <i>et al.</i>, “Hydrogen induced palladium-based heterojunction electrocatalysts to enhance the oxygen reduction reaction performance,” <i>Chemical Engineering Science</i>, vol. 324. Elsevier, 2026.","short":"C. Shi, S. Horta, M. Ibáñez, T. Kallio, P.R. Martínez-Alanis, X. Wang, A. Cabot, Chemical Engineering Science 324 (2026).","apa":"Shi, C., Horta, S., Ibáñez, M., Kallio, T., Martínez-Alanis, P. R., Wang, X., &#38; Cabot, A. (2026). Hydrogen induced palladium-based heterojunction electrocatalysts to enhance the oxygen reduction reaction performance. <i>Chemical Engineering Science</i>. Elsevier. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348</a>","ama":"Shi C, Horta S, Ibáñez M, et al. Hydrogen induced palladium-based heterojunction electrocatalysts to enhance the oxygen reduction reaction performance. <i>Chemical Engineering Science</i>. 2026;324. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348\">10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348</a>","ista":"Shi C, Horta S, Ibáñez M, Kallio T, Martínez-Alanis PR, Wang X, Cabot A. 2026. Hydrogen induced palladium-based heterojunction electrocatalysts to enhance the oxygen reduction reaction performance. Chemical Engineering Science. 324, 123348.","chicago":"Shi, Changwei, Sharona Horta, Maria Ibáñez, Tanja Kallio, Paulina R. Martínez-Alanis, Xiang Wang, and Andreu Cabot. “Hydrogen Induced Palladium-Based Heterojunction Electrocatalysts to Enhance the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performance.” <i>Chemical Engineering Science</i>. Elsevier, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348</a>."},"month":"01","type":"journal_article","oa":1,"abstract":[{"text":"The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) remains a critical bottleneck in fuel cells and metal-air batteries due to the lack of highly efficient electrocatalysts. Here, we report a simple strategy for synthesizing a palladium-based heterostructured electrocatalyst supported on a carbon nitride matrix (PdH-Pd@CN), which exhibits remarkable ORR activity with a half-wave potential of 0.91 V and excellent durability in 0.1 M KOH. Within the heterostructure, hydrogen intercalation expands the Pd lattice, while interstitial hydrogen doping facilitates charge transfer from Pd to H owing to their electronegativity difference. These synergistic effects modulate the electronic structure, thereby enhancing both activity and stability. When employed in Zn-air batteries, PdH-Pd@CN delivers a maximum power density of 176 mW cm− (Liu et al., 2025) and capacity of 805 mAh g− (Sun et al., 2021) Zn. These findings demonstrate the strong potential of PdH-Pd@CN as an efficient ORR electrocatalyst for next-generation metal-air batteries and related energy technologies.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"21037","PlanS_conform":"1","OA_place":"publisher","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","publication_status":"epub_ahead","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348","open_access":"1"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","status":"public","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["0009-2509"],"issn":["1873-4405"]},"day":"12","OA_type":"hybrid","title":"Hydrogen induced palladium-based heterojunction electrocatalysts to enhance the oxygen reduction reaction performance","date_created":"2026-01-25T23:01:39Z","article_number":"123348","author":[{"first_name":"Changwei","full_name":"Shi, Changwei","last_name":"Shi"},{"full_name":"Horta, Sharona","first_name":"Sharona","last_name":"Horta","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez"},{"full_name":"Kallio, Tanja","first_name":"Tanja","last_name":"Kallio"},{"last_name":"Martínez-Alanis","full_name":"Martínez-Alanis, Paulina R.","first_name":"Paulina R."},{"last_name":"Wang","first_name":"Xiang","full_name":"Wang, Xiang"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"}],"project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"article_type":"original","date_published":"2026-01-12T00:00:00Z","volume":324,"scopus_import":"1","year":"2026","publication":"Chemical Engineering Science","intvolume":"       324","doi":"10.1016/j.ces.2026.123348","acknowledgement":"The authors thank the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grants No. 22302151) and Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (Grants No. 2024AFB755, 2024AFB267), Key Project of Hubei Provincial Department of Education Scientific Research Plan (F2023007). This work is supported by funding from Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of MonocrystallineSilicon Semiconductor Materials and Technology (2025KFKT021). This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA Austria through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF). “M.I. and S.H. acknowledge financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation.”","ddc":["540"]},{"external_id":{"pmid":["41961944"]},"publication_status":"published","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","article_processing_charge":"Yes","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2375-2548"]},"day":"10","has_accepted_license":"1","status":"public","file_date_updated":"2026-05-06T06:06:26Z","OA_type":"gold","article_number":"eaec9073","date_created":"2026-04-19T22:07:47Z","author":[{"first_name":"Mengyao","full_name":"Li, Mengyao","last_name":"Li"},{"first_name":"Xueke","full_name":"Zhao, Xueke","last_name":"Zhao"},{"last_name":"Zhang","full_name":"Zhang, Yu","first_name":"Yu"},{"first_name":"Jing","full_name":"Yu, Jing","last_name":"Yu"},{"last_name":"Liu","full_name":"Liu, Xuyang","first_name":"Xuyang"},{"full_name":"Jia, Mochen","first_name":"Mochen","last_name":"Jia"},{"full_name":"Song, Hongzhang","first_name":"Hongzhang","last_name":"Song"},{"last_name":"Wang","first_name":"Dongyang","full_name":"Wang, Dongyang"},{"last_name":"Arbiol","full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi","first_name":"Jordi"},{"first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"},{"last_name":"Shan","first_name":"Chongxin","full_name":"Shan, Chongxin"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"},{"last_name":"Wang","first_name":"Ziyu","full_name":"Wang, Ziyu"}],"title":"Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6","file":[{"file_size":3727993,"date_created":"2026-05-06T06:06:26Z","creator":"dernst","file_name":"2026_ScienceAdv_Li.pdf","checksum":"9bd4546a23f218972f83164fb21003e1","content_type":"application/pdf","file_id":"21802","success":1,"access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","date_updated":"2026-05-06T06:06:26Z"}],"issue":"15","date_published":"2026-04-10T00:00:00Z","article_type":"original","project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"publication":"Science Advances","year":"2026","pmid":1,"scopus_import":"1","volume":12,"ddc":["530"],"doi":"10.1126/sciadv.aec9073","acknowledgement":"The Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA supported this research through resources provided by the Lab Support Facility (LSF). This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China grant 2024YFE0105200 (to C.S.), National Natural Science Foundation of China grant 12504038 (to M.L.), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation grant 2023M743151 (to M.L.), Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province grant 252300421763 (to M.L.), Key Scientific Research Project of Higher Education Institutions in Henan Province grant 25A140004 (to M.L.), National Natural Science Foundation of China grant 12204156 (to D.W.), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation grant 2023TQ0315 and 2023 M743224 (to D.W.), Generalitat de Catalunya grant 2021SGR00457 (to J.A.), and European Regional Development Fund grants ENE2016-77798-C4-3-R, PID2020-116093RB-C43, and AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (to A.C.). This work also was financially supported by ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation (to M.I.).","intvolume":"        12","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"LifeSc"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2026-05-06T06:08:27Z","tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by_nc.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY-NC (4.0)"},"quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"AAAS","oa_version":"Published Version","oa":1,"citation":{"short":"M. Li, X. Zhao, Y. Zhang, J. Yu, X. Liu, M. Jia, H. Song, D. Wang, J. Arbiol, M. Ibáñez, C. Shan, A. Cabot, Z. Wang, Science Advances 12 (2026).","apa":"Li, M., Zhao, X., Zhang, Y., Yu, J., Liu, X., Jia, M., … Wang, Z. (2026). Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6. <i>Science Advances</i>. AAAS. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073\">https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073</a>","ista":"Li M, Zhao X, Zhang Y, Yu J, Liu X, Jia M, Song H, Wang D, Arbiol J, Ibáñez M, Shan C, Cabot A, Wang Z. 2026. Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6. Science Advances. 12(15), eaec9073.","chicago":"Li, Mengyao, Xueke Zhao, Yu Zhang, Jing Yu, Xuyang Liu, Mochen Jia, Hongzhang Song, et al. “Electronic-Phononic Decoupling and Fermi-Level Tuning Enable High Thermoelectric Performance in Ag8SnSe6.” <i>Science Advances</i>. AAAS, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073\">https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073</a>.","ama":"Li M, Zhao X, Zhang Y, et al. Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6. <i>Science Advances</i>. 2026;12(15). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073\">10.1126/sciadv.aec9073</a>","ieee":"M. Li <i>et al.</i>, “Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6,” <i>Science Advances</i>, vol. 12, no. 15. AAAS, 2026.","mla":"Li, Mengyao, et al. “Electronic-Phononic Decoupling and Fermi-Level Tuning Enable High Thermoelectric Performance in Ag8SnSe6.” <i>Science Advances</i>, vol. 12, no. 15, eaec9073, AAAS, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073\">10.1126/sciadv.aec9073</a>."},"type":"journal_article","month":"04","_id":"21750","abstract":[{"text":"Liquid-like superionic conductors, with highly mobile ions in a rigid framework, offer intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity without compromising electronic transport. Argyrodite-type Ag8SnSe6 exhibits a melt-like Ag sublattice that drives lattice thermal conductivity (κL) below 0.2 watts per meter per kelvin, yet its low carrier concentration limits the power factor. Here, interstitial Ag atoms raise the Fermi level into the conduction band, substantially increasing the electron concentration. Simultaneously, the formation of a secondary Ag2Se phase generates lattice distortions that enhance phonon scattering. A pronounced mismatch between electronic (~200 nanometers) and phononic (~0.22 nanometers) mean free paths decouples charge and heat transport, enabling concurrent suppression of κL and retention of high electrical conductivity. This coupled electronic-phononic modulation yields a record ZT of 0.72 at ambient temperature and a peak ZT of 1.1 at 735 kelvins, with an average ZTavg of 0.72 over 320 to 735 kelvins. A unicouple device achieves 6.3% efficiency under a 357-kelvin gradient, highlighting a practical strategy for high-performance midtemperature thermoelectrics.","lang":"eng"}],"OA_place":"publisher","DOAJ_listed":"1"},{"date_published":"2025-04-01T00:00:00Z","article_type":"original","project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"title":"Influence of surface engineering on the transport properties of lead sulfide nanomaterials","date_created":"2024-12-29T23:01:56Z","author":[{"last_name":"Shu","first_name":"Haibo","full_name":"Shu, Haibo"},{"last_name":"Zhao","first_name":"Mingjun","full_name":"Zhao, Mingjun"},{"last_name":"Lu","full_name":"Lu, Shaoqing","first_name":"Shaoqing"},{"first_name":"Shanhong","full_name":"Wan, Shanhong","last_name":"Wan"},{"last_name":"Genç","full_name":"Genç, Aziz","first_name":"Aziz"},{"full_name":"Huang, Lulu","first_name":"Lulu","last_name":"Huang"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"first_name":"Khak Ho","full_name":"Lim, Khak Ho","last_name":"Lim"},{"last_name":"Hong","first_name":"Min","full_name":"Hong, Min"},{"last_name":"Liu","id":"2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-7313-6740","first_name":"Yu","full_name":"Liu, Yu"}],"acknowledgement":"Y.L. acknowledges funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grants No. 22209034), the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of Overseas Returnees in Anhui Province (Grant No. 2022LCX002) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JZ2024HGTB0239). M.I. acknowledges financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. K.H.L. acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 22208293). M.H acknowledges funding from Australian Research Council (FT230100316 and IH200100035) and iLAuNCH, Trailblazer Universities Program. L. H. and S. W. acknowledge the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JZ2023HGTA0179, JZ2024HGTA0170).","doi":"10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.067","intvolume":"       683","publication":"Journal of Colloid and Interface Science","year":"2025","scopus_import":"1","pmid":1,"volume":683,"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1095-7103"],"issn":["0021-9797"]},"day":"01","status":"public","isi":1,"external_id":{"isi":["001393340800001"],"pmid":["39706089"]},"publication_status":"published","article_processing_charge":"No","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"OA_type":"closed access","_id":"18707","abstract":[{"text":"Lead Sulfide (PbS) has garnered attention as a promising thermoelectric (TE) material due to its natural abundance and cost-effectiveness. However, its practical application is hindered by inherently high lattice thermal conductivity and low electrical conductivity. In this study, we address these challenges by surface functionalization of PbS nanocrystals using Cu2S molecular complexes-based ligand displacement. The molecular complexes facilitate the incorporation of Cu into the PbS matrix and leads to the formation of nanoscale defects, dislocations, and strain fields while optimizing the charge carrier transport. The structural modulations enhance the phonon scattering and lead to a significant reduction in lattice thermal conductivity of 0.60 W m−1K−1 at 867 K in the PbS-Cu2S system. Simultaneously, the Cu incorporation improves electrical conductivity by increasing both carrier concentration and mobility with carefully optimized the content of Cu2S molecular complexes. These synergistic modifications yield a peak figure-of-merit (zT) of 1.05 at 867 K for the PbS-1.0 %Cu2S sample, representing an almost twofold enhancement in TE performance compared to pristine PbS. This work highlights the effectiveness of surface treatment in overcoming the intrinsic limitations of PbS-based materials and presents a promising strategy for the development of high-efficiency TE systems.","lang":"eng"}],"page":"703-712","type":"journal_article","citation":{"apa":"Shu, H., Zhao, M., Lu, S., Wan, S., Genç, A., Huang, L., … Liu, Y. (2025). Influence of surface engineering on the transport properties of lead sulfide nanomaterials. <i>Journal of Colloid and Interface Science</i>. Elsevier. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.067\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.067</a>","short":"H. Shu, M. Zhao, S. Lu, S. Wan, A. Genç, L. Huang, M. Ibáñez, K.H. Lim, M. Hong, Y. Liu, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 683 (2025) 703–712.","ama":"Shu H, Zhao M, Lu S, et al. Influence of surface engineering on the transport properties of lead sulfide nanomaterials. <i>Journal of Colloid and Interface Science</i>. 2025;683:703-712. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.067\">10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.067</a>","chicago":"Shu, Haibo, Mingjun Zhao, Shaoqing Lu, Shanhong Wan, Aziz Genç, Lulu Huang, Maria Ibáñez, Khak Ho Lim, Min Hong, and Yu Liu. “Influence of Surface Engineering on the Transport Properties of Lead Sulfide Nanomaterials.” <i>Journal of Colloid and Interface Science</i>. Elsevier, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.067\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.067</a>.","ista":"Shu H, Zhao M, Lu S, Wan S, Genç A, Huang L, Ibáñez M, Lim KH, Hong M, Liu Y. 2025. Influence of surface engineering on the transport properties of lead sulfide nanomaterials. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 683, 703–712.","ieee":"H. Shu <i>et al.</i>, “Influence of surface engineering on the transport properties of lead sulfide nanomaterials,” <i>Journal of Colloid and Interface Science</i>, vol. 683. Elsevier, pp. 703–712, 2025.","mla":"Shu, Haibo, et al. “Influence of Surface Engineering on the Transport Properties of Lead Sulfide Nanomaterials.” <i>Journal of Colloid and Interface Science</i>, vol. 683, Elsevier, 2025, pp. 703–12, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.067\">10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.067</a>."},"month":"04","quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"Elsevier","oa_version":"None","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2025-05-19T14:03:54Z"},{"OA_type":"closed access","isi":1,"status":"public","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0002-7863"],"eissn":["1520-5126"]},"day":"22","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication_status":"published","external_id":{"pmid":["40402919"],"isi":["001493301300001"]},"intvolume":"       147","doi":"10.1021/jacs.5c01700","acknowledgement":"P.N. thanks the IISER Bhopal for a fellowship. S.R.C. acknowledges generous funding support and CIF facility (PXRD) from IISER Bhopal. C.F. acknowledges the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under SFB1143 (project no. 247310070), the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter─ct.qmat (EXC 2147, project no. 390858490) and the QUAST-FOR5249-449872909. P.L. and D.U. acknowledge support by DFG EXC-2123 QuantumFrontiers–390837967. The work of M.I. was funded by the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR-C17.I1, as well as by the IKUR Strategy under the collaboration agreement between Ikerbasque Foundation and DIPC on behalf of the Department of Education of the Basque Government. M.G.V. and M.I. thank support to the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (grant PID2022-142008NBI00). Y.Z. is supported by the Max Planck Partner lab from Max Planck Institute Chemical Physics of Solids. We acknowledge Petra III-DESY for the XPDF measurements and PXRD measurements. This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA Austria through resources provided by Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF). ISTA acknowledges the Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) for financial support.","volume":147,"pmid":1,"scopus_import":"1","year":"2025","publication":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"article_type":"original","date_published":"2025-05-22T00:00:00Z","issue":"22","title":"Evidence of ferroelectric distortions in topological crystalline insulators via transverse thermoelectric measurements","author":[{"first_name":"Pranav","full_name":"Negi, Pranav","last_name":"Negi"},{"first_name":"Bin","full_name":"He, Bin","last_name":"He"},{"full_name":"Ukolov, Denis","first_name":"Denis","last_name":"Ukolov"},{"first_name":"Sharona","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","last_name":"Horta"},{"first_name":"Krishnendu","full_name":"Maji, Krishnendu","last_name":"Maji","id":"76bc9e9f-ba0b-11ee-8184-90edabd17a58"},{"first_name":"Ning","full_name":"Mao, Ning","last_name":"Mao"},{"full_name":"Peshcherenko, Nikolai","first_name":"Nikolai","last_name":"Peshcherenko"},{"full_name":"Yanda, Premakumar","first_name":"Premakumar","last_name":"Yanda"},{"last_name":"Yao","full_name":"Yao, Mengyu","first_name":"Mengyu"},{"full_name":"Dutta, Moinak","first_name":"Moinak","last_name":"Dutta"},{"last_name":"Robredo","full_name":"Robredo, Iñigo","first_name":"Iñigo"},{"last_name":"Iraola","first_name":"Mikel","full_name":"Iraola, Mikel"},{"last_name":"Vergniory","full_name":"Vergniory, Maia G.","first_name":"Maia G."},{"first_name":"Peter","full_name":"Lemmens, Peter","last_name":"Lemmens"},{"last_name":"Zhang","first_name":"Yang","full_name":"Zhang, Yang"},{"last_name":"Shekhar","first_name":"Chandra","full_name":"Shekhar, Chandra"},{"first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"},{"last_name":"Felser","first_name":"Claudia","full_name":"Felser, Claudia"},{"first_name":"Subhajit","full_name":"Roychowdhury, Subhajit","last_name":"Roychowdhury"}],"date_created":"2025-06-03T07:30:22Z","oa_version":"None","publisher":"American Chemical Society","quality_controlled":"1","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2025-12-30T08:32:19Z","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"NanoFab"}],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The transverse thermoelectric (Nernst) effect is a powerful probe for studying the electronic and structural properties of materials. In this study, we employ transverse thermoelectric measurements to investigate the ferroelectric distortion in the topological crystalline insulator (TCI) Pb0.60Sn0.40Te, a compound derived from PbTe and SnTe, known for their exceptional thermoelectric performance and distinct ferroelectric properties. By leveraging Nernst measurements, we provide direct evidence of ferroelectric distortion in this TCI, corroborated by Shubnikov–de Haas quantum oscillations that confirm the presence of two topologically nontrivial Fermi pockets. Density functional theory calculations show that these pockets originate from the L and T points in the Brillouin zone of the distorted structure within the TCI phase. Raman spectroscopy further identifies a structural phase transition below 50 K, consistent with the quantum oscillation observations. This observation is further substantiated by temperature-dependent synchrotron X-ray pair distribution function analysis and transmission electron microscopy, which confirm the local off-centering of cations at low temperature. These findings underscore the potential of transverse thermoelectric measurements in unveiling ferroelectric distortions and their role in modulating topological quantum states, opening new directions for research into the synergy between ferroelectricity and topological phases."}],"_id":"19779","month":"05","citation":{"ieee":"P. Negi <i>et al.</i>, “Evidence of ferroelectric distortions in topological crystalline insulators via transverse thermoelectric measurements,” <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>, vol. 147, no. 22. American Chemical Society, pp. 18704–18711, 2025.","mla":"Negi, Pranav, et al. “Evidence of Ferroelectric Distortions in Topological Crystalline Insulators via Transverse Thermoelectric Measurements.” <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>, vol. 147, no. 22, American Chemical Society, 2025, pp. 18704–11, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c01700\">10.1021/jacs.5c01700</a>.","ista":"Negi P, He B, Ukolov D, Horta S, Maji K, Mao N, Peshcherenko N, Yanda P, Yao M, Dutta M, Robredo I, Iraola M, Vergniory MG, Lemmens P, Zhang Y, Shekhar C, Ibáñez M, Felser C, Roychowdhury S. 2025. Evidence of ferroelectric distortions in topological crystalline insulators via transverse thermoelectric measurements. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(22), 18704–18711.","chicago":"Negi, Pranav, Bin He, Denis Ukolov, Sharona Horta, Krishnendu Maji, Ning Mao, Nikolai Peshcherenko, et al. “Evidence of Ferroelectric Distortions in Topological Crystalline Insulators via Transverse Thermoelectric Measurements.” <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>. American Chemical Society, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c01700\">https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c01700</a>.","ama":"Negi P, He B, Ukolov D, et al. Evidence of ferroelectric distortions in topological crystalline insulators via transverse thermoelectric measurements. <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>. 2025;147(22):18704-18711. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c01700\">10.1021/jacs.5c01700</a>","apa":"Negi, P., He, B., Ukolov, D., Horta, S., Maji, K., Mao, N., … Roychowdhury, S. (2025). Evidence of ferroelectric distortions in topological crystalline insulators via transverse thermoelectric measurements. <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c01700\">https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c01700</a>","short":"P. Negi, B. He, D. Ukolov, S. Horta, K. Maji, N. Mao, N. Peshcherenko, P. Yanda, M. Yao, M. Dutta, I. Robredo, M. Iraola, M.G. Vergniory, P. Lemmens, Y. Zhang, C. Shekhar, M. Ibáñez, C. Felser, S. Roychowdhury, Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (2025) 18704–18711."},"type":"journal_article","page":"18704-18711"},{"publication":"Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference","year":"2025","doi":"10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.173","acknowledgement":"ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation financially supported this work. The Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA supported this research through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), NMR Facility and the Lab Support Facility (LSF).","month":"03","type":"conference","citation":{"ista":"Lee S, Balazs D, Horta S, Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil A, Ibáñez M. 2025. Reaction precursor-mediated formation of stable supercrystals in colloidal nanocrystal synthesis: PbTe case. Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference. MATSUS: Materials for Sustainable Development Conference, 173.","chicago":"Lee, Seungho, Daniel Balazs, Sharona Horta, Aiswarya Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil, and Maria Ibáñez. “Reaction Precursor-Mediated Formation of Stable Supercrystals in Colloidal Nanocrystal Synthesis: PbTe Case.” In <i>Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference</i>. Fundació de la comunitat valenciana SCITO, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.173\">https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.173</a>.","ama":"Lee S, Balazs D, Horta S, Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil A, Ibáñez M. Reaction precursor-mediated formation of stable supercrystals in colloidal nanocrystal synthesis: PbTe case. In: <i>Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference</i>. Fundació de la comunitat valenciana SCITO; 2025. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.173\">10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.173</a>","apa":"Lee, S., Balazs, D., Horta, S., Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil, A., &#38; Ibáñez, M. (2025). Reaction precursor-mediated formation of stable supercrystals in colloidal nanocrystal synthesis: PbTe case. In <i>Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference</i>. Sevilla, Spain: Fundació de la comunitat valenciana SCITO. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.173\">https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.173</a>","short":"S. Lee, D. Balazs, S. Horta, A. Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil, M. Ibáñez, in:, Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference, Fundació de la comunitat valenciana SCITO, 2025.","mla":"Lee, Seungho, et al. “Reaction Precursor-Mediated Formation of Stable Supercrystals in Colloidal Nanocrystal Synthesis: PbTe Case.” <i>Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference</i>, 173, Fundació de la comunitat valenciana SCITO, 2025, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.173\">10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.173</a>.","ieee":"S. Lee, D. Balazs, S. Horta, A. Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil, and M. Ibáñez, “Reaction precursor-mediated formation of stable supercrystals in colloidal nanocrystal synthesis: PbTe case,” in <i>Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference</i>, Sevilla, Spain, 2025."},"date_created":"2025-07-21T08:33:20Z","conference":{"end_date":"2025-03-07","name":"MATSUS: Materials for Sustainable Development Conference","start_date":"2025-03-03","location":"Sevilla, Spain"},"article_number":"173","title":"Reaction precursor-mediated formation of stable supercrystals in colloidal nanocrystal synthesis: PbTe case","author":[{"id":"BB243B88-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425","last_name":"Lee","orcid":"0000-0002-6962-8598","first_name":"Seungho","full_name":"Lee, Seungho"},{"last_name":"Balazs","id":"302BADF6-85FC-11EA-9E3B-B9493DDC885E","orcid":"0000-0001-7597-043X","first_name":"Daniel","full_name":"Balazs, Daniel"},{"id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","last_name":"Horta","first_name":"Sharona","full_name":"Horta, Sharona"},{"full_name":"Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil, Aiswarya","first_name":"Aiswarya","last_name":"Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil","id":"8aceb01b-8972-11ed-ae7b-d5fe53775add"},{"last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria"}],"project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Supercrystals represent three-dimensional orderings of colloidal nanocrystals (NCs), showcasing collective properties in photonics, phononics, and electronics applications.1,2 Recent studies have shown that such assemblies are directly produced during nanocrystal reactions.3–6 However, a fundamental understanding of in situ formed supercrystals that withstand typical NC purification processes remains underexplored, which is important for further use. Herein, we report the reaction precursor-mediated formation of stable PbTe supercrystals. Rationalizing the formation of these assemblies through small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements, we unveil their formation mechanism. Our findings reveal that the supercrystal formation occurs in the presence of an excess of lead oleates in the crude solution. It should be noted that the formed supercrystals can be stabilized under specific conditions determined by the lead oleate cluster concentration, content of trioctylphosphine telluride (TOP-Te), NC size and the need of an annealing step at mild conditions. Furthermore, this approach allows for the continuous growth of a secondary phase within the supercrystal; for example in the case of PbTe supercrystals, a PbS shell can be grown on each PbTe NC constituent, resulting in core-shell PbTe-PbS supercrystals. Our work elucidates that reaction precursors play an important role in in situ SC formation and stabilization, implying the possibility of applying this knowledge to other NC reactions."}],"_id":"20055","date_published":"2025-03-15T00:00:00Z","date_updated":"2026-02-19T09:25:57Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa_version":"None","corr_author":"1","OA_type":"closed access","publisher":"Fundació de la comunitat valenciana SCITO","quality_controlled":"1","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"NMR"},{"_id":"LifeSc"}],"department":[{"_id":"MaIb"},{"_id":"LifeSc"}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","article_processing_charge":"No","publication_status":"published","status":"public","day":"15"},{"citation":{"ieee":"R. He <i>et al.</i>, “Amorphous high entropy alloy nanosheets enabling robust Li–S batteries,” <i>Advanced Functional Materials</i>. Wiley, 2025.","mla":"He, Ren, et al. “Amorphous High Entropy Alloy Nanosheets Enabling Robust Li–S Batteries.” <i>Advanced Functional Materials</i>, e13859, Wiley, 2025, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202513859\">10.1002/adfm.202513859</a>.","short":"R. He, S. Lee, Y. Ding, C. Huang, X. Lu, L. Zheng, A. Yu, C. Zhang, C. Li, X. Bi, Y. Li, Y. Liao, J. Li, A. Ostovari Moghaddam, S. Yernar, Y. Xu, M. Ibáñez, C. Zhang, L. Yang, Y. Zhou, A. Cabot, Advanced Functional Materials (2025).","apa":"He, R., Lee, S., Ding, Y., Huang, C., Lu, X., Zheng, L., … Cabot, A. (2025). Amorphous high entropy alloy nanosheets enabling robust Li–S batteries. <i>Advanced Functional Materials</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202513859\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202513859</a>","chicago":"He, Ren, Seungho Lee, Yang Ding, Chen Huang, Xuan Lu, Lirong Zheng, Ao Yu, et al. “Amorphous High Entropy Alloy Nanosheets Enabling Robust Li–S Batteries.” <i>Advanced Functional Materials</i>. Wiley, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202513859\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202513859</a>.","ista":"He R, Lee S, Ding Y, Huang C, Lu X, Zheng L, Yu A, Zhang C, Li C, Bi X, Li Y, Liao Y, Li J, Ostovari Moghaddam A, Yernar S, Xu Y, Ibáñez M, Zhang C, Yang L, Zhou Y, Cabot A. 2025. Amorphous high entropy alloy nanosheets enabling robust Li–S batteries. Advanced Functional Materials., e13859.","ama":"He R, Lee S, Ding Y, et al. Amorphous high entropy alloy nanosheets enabling robust Li–S batteries. <i>Advanced Functional Materials</i>. 2025. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202513859\">10.1002/adfm.202513859</a>"},"month":"08","type":"journal_article","oa":1,"abstract":[{"text":"High-entropy alloys (HEAs) show great potential for catalyzing complex multi-step reactions, but optimizing their parameters, i.e., composition, but also their crystallinity and morphology, remains a significant challenge. In this study, FeCoNiMoW HEAs are synthesized into either amorphous nanosheets (HEANS) or crystalline nanoparticles (HEANP), which are then used to catalyze the lithium–sulfur (Li–S) reaction of Li–S batteries (LSBs). Evaluations in symmetric cells, coin cells, and pouch cells reveal that HEANS significantly enhance LSB performance, achieving initial discharge capacities up to 1632 mAh g−1. The batteries also exhibit excellent cycling stability over 1000 cycles at 3Cand maintain high-rate performance up to 10C with a capacity of 614 mAh g−1. Comprehensive in situ analyses and density functional theory calculations demonstrate that amorphous HEANS provide more active sites, better ionic conductivity and stronger chemical interactions with lithium polysulfides (LiPS). These properties effectively suppress the shuttle effect, promote the complete S8 → Li2S conversion by reducing the impedance of the solid-electrolyte interphase, and accelerate the Li2S4 → Li2S2 step by lowering the nucleation energy barrier. Overall, this study highlights the superior catalytic properties of amorphous 2D HEAs in LSBs and offers new insights into the mechanisms of LiPS conversion.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"20191","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2025-09-30T14:20:56Z","tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by_nc_nd.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)","short":"CC BY-NC-ND (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode"},"oa_version":"Published Version","quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"Wiley","author":[{"last_name":"He","first_name":"Ren","full_name":"He, Ren"},{"first_name":"Seungho","full_name":"Lee, Seungho","id":"BB243B88-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425","last_name":"Lee","orcid":"0000-0002-6962-8598"},{"first_name":"Yang","full_name":"Ding, Yang","last_name":"Ding"},{"full_name":"Huang, Chen","first_name":"Chen","last_name":"Huang"},{"last_name":"Lu","first_name":"Xuan","full_name":"Lu, Xuan"},{"last_name":"Zheng","first_name":"Lirong","full_name":"Zheng, Lirong"},{"last_name":"Yu","full_name":"Yu, Ao","first_name":"Ao"},{"last_name":"Zhang","full_name":"Zhang, Chaoyue","first_name":"Chaoyue"},{"full_name":"Li, Canhuang","first_name":"Canhuang","last_name":"Li"},{"full_name":"Bi, Xiaoyu","first_name":"Xiaoyu","last_name":"Bi"},{"last_name":"Li","full_name":"Li, Yaqiang","first_name":"Yaqiang"},{"last_name":"Liao","full_name":"Liao, Yaqi","first_name":"Yaqi"},{"full_name":"Li, Junshan","first_name":"Junshan","last_name":"Li"},{"last_name":"Ostovari Moghaddam","full_name":"Ostovari Moghaddam, Ahmad","first_name":"Ahmad"},{"last_name":"Yernar","first_name":"Salimov","full_name":"Yernar, Salimov"},{"last_name":"Xu","first_name":"Ying","full_name":"Xu, Ying"},{"last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria"},{"first_name":"Chaoqi","full_name":"Zhang, Chaoqi","last_name":"Zhang"},{"last_name":"Yang","first_name":"Linlin","full_name":"Yang, Linlin"},{"last_name":"Zhou","first_name":"Yingtang","full_name":"Zhou, Yingtang"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"}],"title":"Amorphous high entropy alloy nanosheets enabling robust Li–S batteries","article_number":"e13859","date_created":"2025-08-17T22:01:37Z","article_type":"original","project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"date_published":"2025-08-06T00:00:00Z","publication":"Advanced Functional Materials","year":"2025","scopus_import":"1","ddc":["540"],"doi":"10.1002/adfm.202513859","acknowledgement":"The authors acknowledge support from the 2BoSS project of the ERA-MIN3 program with the Spanish grant number PCI2022-132985/AEI/10.13039/50110001103, and funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2021SGR01581 and European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR. L.Yang, C.Huang, X.Lu, A.Yu, C.Li, J.Yu, and X.Bi thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for the scholarship support. This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), and by the Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) for financial support.","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","external_id":{"isi":["001544757200001"]},"publication_status":"epub_ahead","has_accepted_license":"1","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202513859"}],"status":"public","isi":1,"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1616-3028"],"issn":["1616-301X"]},"day":"06","OA_type":"hybrid"},{"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"date_updated":"2025-09-30T14:27:03Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"American Chemical Society","quality_controlled":"1","oa_version":"Preprint","page":"30371-30382","oa":1,"month":"08","type":"journal_article","citation":{"ieee":"N. Reichholf <i>et al.</i>, “Identification and elimination of surface emission in lanthanide (Co)doped zirconia nanocrystals,” <i>ACS Nano</i>, vol. 19, no. 33. American Chemical Society, pp. 30371–30382, 2025.","mla":"Reichholf, Nico, et al. “Identification and Elimination of Surface Emission in Lanthanide (Co)Doped Zirconia Nanocrystals.” <i>ACS Nano</i>, vol. 19, no. 33, American Chemical Society, 2025, pp. 30371–82, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c09137\">10.1021/acsnano.5c09137</a>.","chicago":"Reichholf, Nico, Sharona Horta, David Van Der Heggen, Carlotta Seno, Jikson Pulparayil Mathew, Maria Ibáñez, Philippe F. Smet, and Jonathan De Roo. “Identification and Elimination of Surface Emission in Lanthanide (Co)Doped Zirconia Nanocrystals.” <i>ACS Nano</i>. American Chemical Society, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c09137\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c09137</a>.","ista":"Reichholf N, Horta S, Van Der Heggen D, Seno C, Pulparayil Mathew J, Ibáñez M, Smet PF, De Roo J. 2025. Identification and elimination of surface emission in lanthanide (Co)doped zirconia nanocrystals. ACS Nano. 19(33), 30371–30382.","ama":"Reichholf N, Horta S, Van Der Heggen D, et al. Identification and elimination of surface emission in lanthanide (Co)doped zirconia nanocrystals. <i>ACS Nano</i>. 2025;19(33):30371-30382. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c09137\">10.1021/acsnano.5c09137</a>","short":"N. Reichholf, S. Horta, D. Van Der Heggen, C. Seno, J. Pulparayil Mathew, M. Ibáñez, P.F. Smet, J. De Roo, ACS Nano 19 (2025) 30371–30382.","apa":"Reichholf, N., Horta, S., Van Der Heggen, D., Seno, C., Pulparayil Mathew, J., Ibáñez, M., … De Roo, J. (2025). Identification and elimination of surface emission in lanthanide (Co)doped zirconia nanocrystals. <i>ACS Nano</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c09137\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c09137</a>"},"_id":"20252","abstract":[{"text":"Zirconia nanocrystals (ZrO2 NCs) are a stable host material for lanthanides, but their performance lags behind that of the leading NaYF4 nanomaterials. Here, we leverage surface chemistry and core/shell architectures to uncover the contribution of dopants at the nanocrystal surface and of dopants in the nanocrystal bulk. We first assess the doping efficiency by ICP and find that, while Eu is almost quantitatively incorporated, the other lanthanides (La, Ce, Tb, Tm, Er, Yb) have about 50% incorporation efficiency over the studied doping range of 1–10%. We then determine the nanocrystal surface chemistry using NMR spectroscopy, despite the additional spectral line broadening caused by the paramagnetic lanthanide dopants. By varying the surface ligands and measuring the photoluminescence, we resolve the spectroscopic signals that are sensitive to a change in surface chemistry. Time-resolved emission spectra further reinforce the notion of a bulk component with a long luminescent lifetime and a surface component with a fast lifetime. Upon shelling Eu- or Tb-doped zirconia NCs with pure zirconia, the surface component disappears, and the photoluminescence quantum yield increases. We further functionalized the surface of the core/shell particles with oleylphosphonic acid ligands to obtain excellent dispersibility. These results show that lanthanide-doped zirconia NCs can be engineered to eliminate deactivation pathways.","lang":"eng"}],"OA_place":"repository","publication_status":"published","external_id":{"isi":["001550173000001"]},"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","article_processing_charge":"No","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"day":"26","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1936-086X"]},"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-r1gw4","open_access":"1"}],"status":"public","isi":1,"OA_type":"green","title":"Identification and elimination of surface emission in lanthanide (Co)doped zirconia nanocrystals","date_created":"2025-08-31T22:01:31Z","author":[{"full_name":"Reichholf, Nico","first_name":"Nico","last_name":"Reichholf"},{"id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","last_name":"Horta","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","first_name":"Sharona"},{"last_name":"Van Der Heggen","first_name":"David","full_name":"Van Der Heggen, David"},{"first_name":"Carlotta","full_name":"Seno, Carlotta","last_name":"Seno"},{"first_name":"Jikson","full_name":"Pulparayil Mathew, Jikson","last_name":"Pulparayil Mathew"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"last_name":"Smet","first_name":"Philippe F.","full_name":"Smet, Philippe F."},{"first_name":"Jonathan","full_name":"De Roo, Jonathan","last_name":"De Roo"}],"issue":"33","date_published":"2025-08-26T00:00:00Z","project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"article_type":"original","scopus_import":"1","publication":"ACS Nano","year":"2025","volume":19,"acknowledgement":"N.R. and C.S. thank the SNSF Eccellenza funding scheme (Project 194172) for funding. D.V.d.H. is supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) through a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (N° 1237825N). P.F.S. acknowledges the Special Research Fund at UGent (bof/baf/4y/2024/01/037). M.I. acknowledges financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA Austria through resources provided by the electron microscopy facility (EMF). We thank Tommaso Costanzo for providing assistance during STEM measurements. We acknowledge DESY (Hamburg, Germany), a member of the Helmholtz Association HGF, for the provision of experimental facilities. Parts of this research were carried out using beamline P21.1 at PETRA III, and the authors thank Ann-Christin Dippel, Jiatu Liu, and Fernando Igoa for assistance in using the beamline for PDF acquisition (Proposal I-20231114 EC). The authors thank Daniel Häussinger for help with the analysis of NMR spectra.","doi":"10.1021/acsnano.5c09137","intvolume":"        19"},{"OA_place":"publisher","PlanS_conform":"1","_id":"20329","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Nanocrystals (NCs) of various compositions have made important contributions to science and technology, with their impact recognized by the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). Over four decades of research into NCs has led to numerous advancements in diverse fields, such as optoelectronics, catalysis, energy, medicine, and recently, quantum information and computing. The last 10 years since the predecessor perspective “Prospect of Nanoscience with Nanocrystals” was published in ACS Nano have seen NC research continuously evolve, yielding critical advances in fundamental understanding and practical applications. Mechanistic insights into NC formation have translated into precision control over NC size, shape, and composition. Emerging synthesis techniques have broadened the landscape of compounds obtainable in colloidal NC form. Sophistication in surface chemistry, jointly bolstered by theoretical models and experimental findings, has facilitated refined control over NC properties and represents a trusted gateway to enhanced NC stability and processability. The assembly of NCs into superlattices, along with two-dimensional (2D) photolithography and three-dimensional (3D) printing, has expanded their utility in creating materials with tailored properties. Applications of NCs are also flourishing, consolidating progress in fields targeted early on, such as optoelectronics and catalysis, and extending into areas ranging from quantum technology to phase-change memories. In this perspective, we review the extensive progress in research on NCs over the past decade and highlight key areas where future research may bring further breakthroughs."}],"oa":1,"page":" 31969–32051","citation":{"ieee":"M. Ibáñez <i>et al.</i>, “Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals: 2025 edition,” <i>ACS Nano</i>, vol. 19, no. 36. American Chemical Society, pp. 31969–32051, 2025.","mla":"Ibáñez, Maria, et al. “Prospects of Nanoscience with Nanocrystals: 2025 Edition.” <i>ACS Nano</i>, vol. 19, no. 36, American Chemical Society, 2025, pp. 31969–32051, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c07838\">10.1021/acsnano.5c07838</a>.","apa":"Ibáñez, M., Boehme, S. C., Buonsanti, R., De Roo, J., Milliron, D. J., Ithurria, S., … Kovalenko, M. V. (2025). Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals: 2025 edition. <i>ACS Nano</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c07838\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c07838</a>","short":"M. Ibáñez, S.C. Boehme, R. Buonsanti, J. De Roo, D.J. Milliron, S. Ithurria, A.L. Rogach, A. Cabot, M. Yarema, B.M. Cossairt, P. Reiss, D.V. Talapin, L. Protesescu, Z. Hens, I. Infante, M.I. Bodnarchuk, X. Ye, Y. Wang, H. Zhang, E. Lhuillier, V.I. Klimov, H. Utzat, G. Rainò, C.R. Kagan, M. Cargnello, J.S. Son, M.V. Kovalenko, ACS Nano 19 (2025) 31969–32051.","ama":"Ibáñez M, Boehme SC, Buonsanti R, et al. Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals: 2025 edition. <i>ACS Nano</i>. 2025;19(36):31969–32051. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c07838\">10.1021/acsnano.5c07838</a>","chicago":"Ibáñez, Maria, Simon C. Boehme, Raffaella Buonsanti, Jonathan De Roo, Delia J. Milliron, Sandrine Ithurria, Andrey L. Rogach, et al. “Prospects of Nanoscience with Nanocrystals: 2025 Edition.” <i>ACS Nano</i>. American Chemical Society, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c07838\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c07838</a>.","ista":"Ibáñez M, Boehme SC, Buonsanti R, De Roo J, Milliron DJ, Ithurria S, Rogach AL, Cabot A, Yarema M, Cossairt BM, Reiss P, Talapin DV, Protesescu L, Hens Z, Infante I, Bodnarchuk MI, Ye X, Wang Y, Zhang H, Lhuillier E, Klimov VI, Utzat H, Rainò G, Kagan CR, Cargnello M, Son JS, Kovalenko MV. 2025. Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals: 2025 edition. ACS Nano. 19(36), 31969–32051."},"type":"journal_article","month":"09","quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"American Chemical Society","corr_author":"1","oa_version":"Published Version","date_updated":"2025-12-30T09:35:54Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"ddc":["540"],"doi":"10.1021/acsnano.5c07838","acknowledgement":"This article was inspired by the discussions and presentations at the NaNaX10 (Nanoscience with Nanocrystals) conference held in the Institute of Science and Technology of Austria (ISTA), July 3–7, 2023. M.I. acknowledges financial support from the Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) and Abayomi Lawal, Christine Fiedler, Ihor Cherniukh, Francesco Milillo, Navita Jakhar, and Magali Lorion for all their help in editing this manuscript. M.I. would also like to acknowledge Christine Fiedler for the design of the TOC. S.C.B. acknowledges Dr. Dmitry Dirin for proofreading and the Weizmann-ETH Zurich Bridge Program for financial support. A.C. thanks Linlin Yang for drafting Figure 6 and acknowledges support from the project Sydecat with reference PID2022-136883OB-C22 under MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE, and to the Departament de Recerca i Universitats of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021 SGR 01581). M.C. acknowledges support from the Sloan Foundation, BASF Corporation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center (CORC), and the US Department of Energy, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, via the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis. D.V.T. acknowledges support from the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant Number CHE-2404291. V.I.K. acknowledges support by the Solar Photochemistry Program of the Chemical Sciences, Biosciences and Geosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (overview of studies of spin-exchange interactions in Mn-doped QDs) and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program at Los Alamos National Laboratory under project 20250443ER (overview of QD optical gain and lasing studies). E.L. acknowledges financial from the ERC grant blackQD (grant no. 756225) and AQDtive (grant no. 101086358), and from French state funds managed by the ANR through the grants Bright (ANR-21-CE24-0012-02), MixDferro (ANR-21-CE09-0029), Quicktera (ANR-22-CE09-0018), E-map (ANR-23-CE50-0025), DIRAC (ANR-24-ASM1-0001), camIR (ANR-24-CE42-2757), and Piquant (ANR-24-CE09-0786). L.P. acknowledges financial support from SOLAR NL, funded by the National Growth Fund in The Netherlands. G.R. acknowledges funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant No. 200021_192308, “Q-Light─Engineered Quantum Light Sources with Nanocrystal Assemblies”). P.R. acknowledges funding from European Union’s Horizon research and innovation program under grant agreement 101135704 (HortiQD project) and from the French Research Agency ANR (grant ANR-24-CE09-0786-01 PIQUANT). A.L.R. acknowledges financial support from the Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong (ITS/027/22MX), and from the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong SAR through the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS 2324-1S04). J.S.S. acknowledges financial support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2022R1A2C3009129). X.Y. acknowledges support from the U.S. National Science Foundation under awards DMR-2102526 and CBET-2223453. Y.W. acknowledges the support from the Science and Technology Program in Jiangsu Province (BK20232041) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22171132 and 52472165). M.Y. acknowledges funding by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 852751. I.I., Z.H. and M.K acknowledge the European Commission for funding (MSCA-DN Track The Twin, grant agreement 101168820). Z.H. acknowledges funding from the FWO-Vlaanderen (research projects G0B2921N and G0C5723N) and Ghent University (BOF-GOA 01G02124). H.Z. acknowledges W. Liu for editing Figure 19 and the financial support from Beijing Natural Science Foundation (JQ24003).","intvolume":"        19","year":"2025","publication":"ACS Nano","scopus_import":"1","pmid":1,"volume":19,"date_published":"2025-09-03T00:00:00Z","article_type":"review","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"title":"Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals: 2025 edition","date_created":"2025-09-10T05:47:13Z","author":[{"id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria"},{"last_name":"Boehme","full_name":"Boehme, Simon C.","first_name":"Simon C."},{"full_name":"Buonsanti, Raffaella","first_name":"Raffaella","last_name":"Buonsanti"},{"last_name":"De Roo","full_name":"De Roo, 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This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), and by the Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) for financial support.","doi":"10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01360","volume":12,"publication":"ACS Photonics","year":"2025","scopus_import":"1","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"corr_author":"1","oa_version":"Published Version","quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"American Chemical Society","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2025-12-01T12:59:51Z","tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"abstract":[{"text":"Dielectric breakdown of physical vacuum (Schwinger effect) is the textbook demonstration of compatibility of Relativity and Quantum theory. Although observing this effect is still practically unachievable, its analogue generalizations have been shown to be more readily attainable. This paper demonstrates that a gapped Dirac semiconductor, methylammonium lead-bromide perovskite (MAPbBr3), exhibits analogue dynamic Schwinger effect. Tunneling ionization under deep subgap mid-infrared irradiation leads to intense photoluminescence in the visible range, in full agreement with quasi-adiabatic theory. In addition to revealing a gapped extended system suitable for studying the analogue Schwinger effect, this observation holds great potential for nonperturbative field sensing, i.e., sensing electric fields through nonperturbative light-matter interactions. First, this paper illustrates this by measuring the local deviation from the nominally cubic phase of a perovskite single crystal, which can be interpreted in terms of frozen-in fields. Next, it is shown that analogue dynamic Schwinger effect can be used for nonperturbative amplification of nonparametric upconversion process in perovskites driven simultaneously by multiple optical fields. This discovery demonstrates the potential for material response beyond perturbation theory in the tunneling regime, offering extremely sensitive light detection and amplification across an ultrabroad spectral range not accessible by conventional devices.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"20405","type":"journal_article","month":"08","citation":{"ieee":"D. Lorenc <i>et al.</i>, “Observation of analogue dynamic Schwinger effect and non-perturbative light sensing in lead halide perovskites,” <i>ACS Photonics</i>, vol. 12, no. 9. American Chemical Society, pp. 5220–5230, 2025.","mla":"Lorenc, Dusan, et al. “Observation of Analogue Dynamic Schwinger Effect and Non-Perturbative Light Sensing in Lead Halide Perovskites.” <i>ACS Photonics</i>, vol. 12, no. 9, American Chemical Society, 2025, pp. 5220–30, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01360\">10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01360</a>.","short":"D. Lorenc, A. Volosniev, A.A. Zhumekenov, S. Lee, M. Ibáñez, O.M. Bakr, M. Lemeshko, Z. Alpichshev, ACS Photonics 12 (2025) 5220–5230.","apa":"Lorenc, D., Volosniev, A., Zhumekenov, A. A., Lee, S., Ibáñez, M., Bakr, O. M., … Alpichshev, Z. (2025). Observation of analogue dynamic Schwinger effect and non-perturbative light sensing in lead halide perovskites. <i>ACS Photonics</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01360\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01360</a>","ista":"Lorenc D, Volosniev A, Zhumekenov AA, Lee S, Ibáñez M, Bakr OM, Lemeshko M, Alpichshev Z. 2025. Observation of analogue dynamic Schwinger effect and non-perturbative light sensing in lead halide perovskites. ACS Photonics. 12(9), 5220–5230.","chicago":"Lorenc, Dusan, Artem Volosniev, Ayan A. Zhumekenov, Seungho Lee, Maria Ibáñez, Osman M. Bakr, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Zhanybek Alpichshev. “Observation of Analogue Dynamic Schwinger Effect and Non-Perturbative Light Sensing in Lead Halide Perovskites.” <i>ACS Photonics</i>. American Chemical Society, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01360\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01360</a>.","ama":"Lorenc D, Volosniev A, Zhumekenov AA, et al. Observation of analogue dynamic Schwinger effect and non-perturbative light sensing in lead halide perovskites. <i>ACS Photonics</i>. 2025;12(9):5220-5230. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01360\">10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01360</a>"},"oa":1,"page":"5220-5230","arxiv":1,"OA_place":"publisher","PlanS_conform":"1"},{"OA_type":"hybrid","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","publication_status":"epub_ahead","external_id":{"pmid":["41025826"],"isi":["001583809400001"]},"status":"public","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906","open_access":"1"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","isi":1,"publication_identifier":{"issn":["0935-9648"],"eissn":["1521-4095"]},"day":"30","pmid":1,"scopus_import":"1","year":"2025","publication":"Advanced Materials","doi":"10.1002/adma.202510906","acknowledgement":"M.I. and S.H. acknowledge financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. Q.S. acknowledges financial support from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 101211154. This work was supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Grant No. 2021SGR01581), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 52125505 and 52475336), and the Joint Fund of Henan Province Science and Technology R&D Program (Grant No. 235200810097). Part of this research was carried out with support from the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), utilizing resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NFF).","ddc":["530"],"article_number":"e10906","title":"Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating","author":[{"last_name":"Zeng","first_name":"Guifang","full_name":"Zeng, Guifang"},{"id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","last_name":"Horta","first_name":"Sharona","full_name":"Horta, Sharona"},{"full_name":"Sun, Qing","first_name":"Qing","last_name":"Sun"},{"first_name":"Malik Dilshad","full_name":"Khan, Malik Dilshad","last_name":"Khan"},{"orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria"},{"last_name":"Han","first_name":"Yuhang","full_name":"Han, Yuhang"},{"last_name":"Wang","full_name":"Wang, Shang","first_name":"Shang"},{"last_name":"Li","full_name":"Li, Longqiu","first_name":"Longqiu"},{"full_name":"Ci, Lijie","first_name":"Lijie","last_name":"Ci"},{"full_name":"Tian, Yanhong","first_name":"Yanhong","last_name":"Tian"},{"last_name":"Cabot","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu"}],"date_created":"2025-10-19T22:01:32Z","project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"article_type":"original","date_published":"2025-09-30T00:00:00Z","tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2025-12-01T12:56:48Z","oa_version":"Published Version","publisher":"Wiley","quality_controlled":"1","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"NanoFab"},{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"PlanS_conform":"1","OA_place":"publisher","type":"journal_article","citation":{"ieee":"G. Zeng <i>et al.</i>, “Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating,” <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley, 2025.","mla":"Zeng, Guifang, et al. “Crystal Growth Engineering for Dendrite-Free Zinc Metal Plating.” <i>Advanced Materials</i>, e10906, Wiley, 2025, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906\">10.1002/adma.202510906</a>.","apa":"Zeng, G., Horta, S., Sun, Q., Khan, M. D., Ibáñez, M., Han, Y., … Cabot, A. (2025). Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating. <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906</a>","short":"G. Zeng, S. Horta, Q. Sun, M.D. Khan, M. Ibáñez, Y. Han, S. Wang, L. Li, L. Ci, Y. Tian, A. Cabot, Advanced Materials (2025).","chicago":"Zeng, Guifang, Sharona Horta, Qing Sun, Malik Dilshad Khan, Maria Ibáñez, Yuhang Han, Shang Wang, et al. “Crystal Growth Engineering for Dendrite-Free Zinc Metal Plating.” <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906</a>.","ista":"Zeng G, Horta S, Sun Q, Khan MD, Ibáñez M, Han Y, Wang S, Li L, Ci L, Tian Y, Cabot A. 2025. Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating. Advanced Materials., e10906.","ama":"Zeng G, Horta S, Sun Q, et al. Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating. <i>Advanced Materials</i>. 2025. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906\">10.1002/adma.202510906</a>"},"month":"09","oa":1,"abstract":[{"text":"The practical implementation of aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) is limited by uncontrolled zinc (Zn) dendrite growth during anode plating, compromising both safety and cycle life. Typically, Zn plating proceeds via 2D growth along the six equivalent prismatic [1010] directions of the hexagonal close-packed (HCP) Zn lattice, forming hexagonal platelets that promote dendrite formation. Here, an effective electrolyte engineering strategy is presented using rare-earth ions to regulate Zn plating. Combined multiscale experimental analyses and computational modeling reveal that these ions preferentially adsorb onto the prismatic {1010} facets, suppressing lateral epitaxial growth of the basal (0002) planes. This redirects Zn plating toward an apparent screw dislocation-driven growth along the [0001] axis. The resulting growth pathway, together with randomly oriented Zn nucleation, yields dense, uniform, and dendrite-free Zn layers with markedly improved cycling stability and high depth-of-discharge operation, thereby challenging the prevailing assumption that dendrite suppression requires (0002)-oriented growth parallel to the substrate. This work provides new mechanistic insights into Zn plating dynamics and establishes a scalable strategy for stable, dendrite-free Zn anodes in next-generation AZIBs.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"20496"},{"acknowledgement":"This work was supported by the European Commission-financed project IntelLigent (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-02) with project ID number 101069765. In collaboration with ALBA staff, the operando SXRD and XAS experiments were performed at BL-16-NOTOS beamline at ALBA Synchrotron Light Source (experiment number: 2023097765). This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NFF), and M.I. and S.H. acknowledge financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. Jordi Jacas Biendicho acknowledges the fellowship RYC2021-034994-I, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union «NextGenerationEU»/PRTR». Jordi Llorca is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to projects MICIN/AEI/FEDER PID2021-124572OB-C31 and Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2023-001300-M, and GC 2021 SGR 01061.","doi":"10.1002/advs.202515962","ddc":["540"],"scopus_import":"1","publication":"Advanced Science","year":"2025","date_published":"2025-12-12T00:00:00Z","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"article_type":"original","date_created":"2025-12-21T23:01:35Z","article_number":"e15962","author":[{"last_name":"Chang","full_name":"Chang, Xingqi","first_name":"Xingqi"},{"last_name":"Escudero","first_name":"Carlos","full_name":"Escudero, Carlos"},{"last_name":"Black","first_name":"Ashley P.","full_name":"Black, Ashley P."},{"first_name":"Sharona","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","last_name":"Horta"},{"last_name":"Martínez","full_name":"Martínez, Elías","first_name":"Elías"},{"last_name":"Lu","full_name":"Lu, Xuan","first_name":"Xuan"},{"first_name":"Jordi","full_name":"Llorca, Jordi","last_name":"Llorca"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"last_name":"Biendicho","first_name":"Jordi Jacas","full_name":"Biendicho, Jordi Jacas"},{"last_name":"Cabot","first_name":"Andreu","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu"}],"title":"Mitigating the rock-salt phase transformation in disordered LNMO through synergetic solid-state AlF3/LiF modifications","OA_type":"gold","day":"12","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2198-3844"]},"status":"public","has_accepted_license":"1","publication_status":"epub_ahead","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","article_processing_charge":"Yes","OA_place":"publisher","DOAJ_listed":"1","PlanS_conform":"1","_id":"20851","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"High-voltage disordered spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 is a promising cathode material for high power density in lithium-ion batteries. However, it suffers from poor cycle life associated with the rock-salt phase transformation. This study presents a straightforward synthesis approach to enhance the electrochemical performance of LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 through a synergistic solid-state modification with LiF and AlF3. This dual modification promotes rapid Li⁺ diffusion, enables near-complete delithiation/lithiation, approaching the theoretical capacity of disordered LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4, and, more importantly, effectively mitigates the formation of the rock-salt phase, thereby enhancing structural stability, as confirmed by operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD). As a result, the optimized LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (10 mg AlF3 + 30 mg LiF) delivers high reversible capacities of 142.1, 139.1, 129.2, 121.6, 110.3, 93.5, and 76.1 mAh∙g−1 at 0.2C, 0.5C, 1.0C, 2.0C, 3.0C, 4.0C, and 5.0C, respectively. Full cells using graphite as the anode and a high-loading cathode exhibit excellent cycling performance. They retain 80% of their capacity after 200 cycles at 0.5C within a voltage window of 3.5–4.9 V with cathode loading of 11 mg∙cm−2. The findings of this study will significantly advance high-power LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 materials, offering improved battery life and thereby enhancing their potential for practical applications."}],"citation":{"ieee":"X. Chang <i>et al.</i>, “Mitigating the rock-salt phase transformation in disordered LNMO through synergetic solid-state AlF3/LiF modifications,” <i>Advanced Science</i>. Wiley, 2025.","mla":"Chang, Xingqi, et al. “Mitigating the Rock-Salt Phase Transformation in Disordered LNMO through Synergetic Solid-State AlF3/LiF Modifications.” <i>Advanced Science</i>, e15962, Wiley, 2025, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202515962\">10.1002/advs.202515962</a>.","ista":"Chang X, Escudero C, Black AP, Horta S, Martínez E, Lu X, Llorca J, Ibáñez M, Biendicho JJ, Cabot A. 2025. Mitigating the rock-salt phase transformation in disordered LNMO through synergetic solid-state AlF3/LiF modifications. Advanced Science., e15962.","chicago":"Chang, Xingqi, Carlos Escudero, Ashley P. Black, Sharona Horta, Elías Martínez, Xuan Lu, Jordi Llorca, Maria Ibáñez, Jordi Jacas Biendicho, and Andreu Cabot. “Mitigating the Rock-Salt Phase Transformation in Disordered LNMO through Synergetic Solid-State AlF3/LiF Modifications.” <i>Advanced Science</i>. 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L. acknowledges funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22209034), the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of Overseas Returnees in Anhui Province (No. 2022LCX002), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. JZ2024HGTB0239). K. H. L. acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22208293). M. I. acknowledge financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. M. H. acknowledges funding from Australian Research Council (No. FT230100316). L. L. H. and S. H. W. acknowledge the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 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Band and defect engineering in solution-processed nanocrystal building blocks to promote transport properties in nanomaterials: The case of thermoelectric Cu            <sub>3</sub>SbSe            <sub>4</sub>. <i>Nano Research</i>. 2025;18(1). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.26599/nr.2025.94907072\">10.26599/nr.2025.94907072</a>","mla":"Xiao, Shanshan, et al. “Band and Defect Engineering in Solution-Processed Nanocrystal Building Blocks to Promote Transport Properties in Nanomaterials: The Case of Thermoelectric Cu            <sub>3</sub>SbSe            <sub>4</sub>.” <i>Nano Research</i>, vol. 18, no. 1, 94907072, Tsinghua University Press, 2025, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.26599/nr.2025.94907072\">10.26599/nr.2025.94907072</a>.","ieee":"S. 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This study presents a detailed comparative analysis of three strategies to promote the electrical transport properties of Cu3SbSe4 through Sn doping: conventional Sn atomic doping, surface treatment with SnSe molecular complexes, and blending with SnSe nanocrystals to form nanocomposites, all followed by annealing and hot pressing under identical conditions. Our results reveal that a surface treatment using SnSe molecular complexes significantly enhances TE performance over atomic doping and nanocomposite formation, achieving a power factor of 1.1 mW·m−1·K−2 and a maximum dimensionless figure of merit zT value of 0.80 at 640 K, representing an excellent performance among Cu3SbSe4-based materials produced via solution-processing methods. This work highlights the effectiveness of surface engineering in optimizing the transport properties of nanostructured materials, demonstrating the versatility and cost-efficiency of solution-based technologies in the development of advanced nanostructured materials for application in the field of TE among others."}],"_id":"21321"},{"file_date_updated":"2025-10-07T08:57:14Z","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"]},"day":"01","alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"status":"public","supervisor":[{"last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria"},{"first_name":"Loredana","full_name":"Protesescu, Loredana","last_name":"Protesescu"},{"id":"A8CA28E6-CE23-11E9-AD2D-EC27E6697425","last_name":"Freunberger","orcid":"0000-0003-2902-5319","first_name":"Stefan Alexander","full_name":"Freunberger, Stefan Alexander"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","publication_status":"published","user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","article_processing_charge":"No","department":[{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"MaIb"}],"doi":"10.15479/AT-ISTA-20415","ddc":["540"],"year":"2025","date_published":"2025-10-01T00:00:00Z","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"title":"Nanoparticle-based precursors toward advanced crystalline inorganic solids","author":[{"first_name":"Seungho","full_name":"Lee, Seungho","id":"BB243B88-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425","last_name":"Lee","orcid":"0000-0002-6962-8598"}],"date_created":"2025-10-01T09:04:00Z","file":[{"file_size":88706648,"date_created":"2025-10-03T12:29:43Z","creator":"slee","file_name":"2025_Lee_Seungho_Thesis.docx","file_id":"20420","access_level":"closed","checksum":"fa6d5946feb37b678ee1c6dffb4fa167","content_type":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","date_updated":"2025-10-07T08:57:14Z","relation":"source_file"},{"embargo_to":"open_access","file_size":14587276,"date_created":"2025-10-03T12:29:25Z","creator":"slee","file_name":"2025_Lee_Seungho_Thesis__.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","checksum":"c5ba6d464113ad0c5812a9d24b539b86","access_level":"closed","file_id":"20421","date_updated":"2025-10-03T12:29:25Z","relation":"main_file","embargo":"2026-10-03"}],"publisher":"Institute of Science and Technology Austria","oa_version":"Published Version","corr_author":"1","date_updated":"2026-04-07T11:52:32Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"LifeSc"},{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"OA_place":"publisher","_id":"20415","degree_awarded":"PhD","page":"144","related_material":{"record":[{"relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"15357","status":"public"},{"relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"12237","status":"public"}]},"type":"dissertation","citation":{"short":"S. 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Q., Maji, K., Lorion, M., &#38; Ibáñez, M. (2025). Interfacial bonding enhances thermoelectric cooling in 3D-printed materials. <i>Science</i>. AAAS. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads0426\">https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads0426</a>","ama":"Xu S, Horta S, Lawal AQ, Maji K, Lorion M, Ibáñez M. Interfacial bonding enhances thermoelectric cooling in 3D-printed materials. <i>Science</i>. 2025;387(6736):845-850. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads0426\">10.1126/science.ads0426</a>","chicago":"Xu, Shengduo, Sharona Horta, Abayomi Q Lawal, Krishnendu Maji, Magali Lorion, and Maria Ibáñez. “Interfacial Bonding Enhances Thermoelectric Cooling in 3D-Printed Materials.” <i>Science</i>. AAAS, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads0426\">https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads0426</a>.","ista":"Xu S, Horta S, Lawal AQ, Maji K, Lorion M, Ibáñez M. 2025. Interfacial bonding enhances thermoelectric cooling in 3D-printed materials. Science. 387(6736), 845–850.","mla":"Xu, Shengduo, et al. “Interfacial Bonding Enhances Thermoelectric Cooling in 3D-Printed Materials.” <i>Science</i>, vol. 387, no. 6736, AAAS, 2025, pp. 845–50, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads0426\">10.1126/science.ads0426</a>.","ieee":"S. Xu, S. Horta, A. Q. Lawal, K. Maji, M. Lorion, and M. Ibáñez, “Interfacial bonding enhances thermoelectric cooling in 3D-printed materials,” <i>Science</i>, vol. 387, no. 6736. AAAS, pp. 845–850, 2025."},"type":"journal_article","page":"845-850","abstract":[{"text":"Thermoelectric coolers (TECs) are pivotal in modern heat management but face limitations in efficiency and manufacturing scalability. We address these challenges by using an extrusion-based 3D printing technique to fabricate high-performance thermoelectric materials. Our ink formulations ensure the integrity of the 3D-printed structure and effective particle bonding during sintering, achieving record-high figure of merit (zT) values of 1.42 for p-type bismuth antimony telluride [(Bi,Sb)2Te3] and 1.3 for n-type silver selenide (Ag2Se) materials at room temperature. The resulting TEC demonstrates a cooling temperature gradient of 50°C in air. Moreover, this scalable and cost-effective method circumvents energy-intensive and time-consuming steps, such as ingot preparation and subsequently machining processes, offering a transformative solution for thermoelectric device production and heralding a new era of efficient and sustainable thermoelectric technologies.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"19364","user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","article_processing_charge":"No","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"external_id":{"isi":["001514422600026"],"pmid":["39977506"]},"publication_status":"published","status":"public","isi":1,"day":"20","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1095-9203"]},"OA_type":"closed access","issue":"6736","author":[{"last_name":"Xu","id":"12ab8624-4c8a-11ec-9e11-e1ac2438f22f","first_name":"Shengduo","full_name":"Xu, Shengduo"},{"first_name":"Sharona","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","last_name":"Horta"},{"full_name":"Lawal, Abayomi Q","first_name":"Abayomi Q","id":"5bdaf946-5355-11ee-ae5a-8061700bd605","last_name":"Lawal"},{"id":"76bc9e9f-ba0b-11ee-8184-90edabd17a58","last_name":"Maji","full_name":"Maji, Krishnendu","first_name":"Krishnendu"},{"full_name":"Lorion, Magali","first_name":"Magali","last_name":"Lorion","id":"bc07ac4d-142e-11eb-a9d5-d72db792859d"},{"first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"}],"date_created":"2025-03-09T23:01:26Z","title":"Interfacial bonding enhances thermoelectric cooling in 3D-printed materials","article_type":"original","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"date_published":"2025-02-20T00:00:00Z","volume":387,"year":"2025","publication":"Science","scopus_import":"1","pmid":1,"intvolume":"       387","acknowledgement":"This work was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), the Lab Support Facility (LSF), the Communication & Events facility, the Miba Machine Shop, and the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF). The Mechanical Response of Materials (MRM) Service Unit of the Technical University of Wien is acknowledged for Mechanical tests. X. L. Yan and S. Bühler-Paschen (Institute of Solid-State Physics, Technical University of Wien) are acknowledged for granting us access to their equipment, which allowed us to perform independent corroborative measurements. M. Qin is acknowledged for help with Au deposition and wire bonding for samples used for PPMS measurements. The lab of B. Hof and Z. Lu is acknowledged for help with rheological properties measurements. The members of the Ibáñez research group, especially N. Jakhar, C. Fiedler, and T. Kleinhanns, are acknowledged for their feedback on the manuscript and fruitful discussions. This work was financially supported by ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation.","doi":"10.1126/science.ads0426"},{"issue":"35","file":[{"file_id":"20334","success":1,"access_level":"open_access","checksum":"52892fa91adadd39a1c42da9e01139a5","content_type":"application/pdf","relation":"main_file","date_updated":"2025-09-10T06:55:17Z","file_name":"2025_JACS_Liu.pdf","date_created":"2025-09-10T06:55:17Z","creator":"dernst","file_size":9997327}],"title":"Liquid-solid interface reactions drive enhanced thermoelectric performance in Ag2Se","author":[{"first_name":"Yu","full_name":"Liu, Yu","id":"2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Liu","orcid":"0000-0001-7313-6740"},{"orcid":"0000-0003-1537-7436","last_name":"Kleinhanns","id":"8BD9DE16-AB3C-11E9-9C8C-2A03E6697425","full_name":"Kleinhanns, Tobias","first_name":"Tobias"},{"last_name":"Horta","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","first_name":"Sharona"},{"full_name":"Dutkiewicz, Ewelina","first_name":"Ewelina","id":"0601cc46-c082-11ec-9b07-bb29641d1de9","last_name":"Dutkiewicz"},{"last_name":"Lu","first_name":"Shaoqing","full_name":"Lu, Shaoqing"},{"last_name":"Spadaro","full_name":"Spadaro, Maria Chiara","first_name":"Maria Chiara"},{"first_name":"Aziz","full_name":"Genç, Aziz","last_name":"Genç"},{"first_name":"Lei","full_name":"Chen, Lei","last_name":"Chen"},{"last_name":"Lim","full_name":"Lim, Khak Ho","first_name":"Khak Ho"},{"first_name":"Min","full_name":"Hong, Min","last_name":"Hong"},{"full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi","first_name":"Jordi","last_name":"Arbiol"},{"first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"}],"date_created":"2025-09-10T05:44:03Z","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"article_type":"original","date_published":"2025-08-22T00:00:00Z","volume":147,"scopus_import":"1","year":"2025","publication":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","intvolume":"       147","acknowledgement":"M.I. acknowledges financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. The Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA supported this work through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), the Lab Support Facility (LSF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF) and the LSF Mass Spectrometry Service. The members of the Ibáñez research group are acknowledged, especially Christine Fiedler for scientific illustration and Ihor Cherniukh for valuable discussions. Y.L. acknowledges funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grants No. 22209034), the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of Overseas Returnees in Anhui Province (Grant No. 2022LCX002) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JZ2024HGTB0239). K.H.L. acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 22208293). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2021SGR00457. Authors acknowledge the Advanced Materials programme by the Spanish Government with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1) and by Generalitat de Catalunya (Project In-CAEM). The authors thank support from the project AMaDE (PID2023-149158OB-C43), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/and by “ERDF Away of making Europe”, by the “European Union”. ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MCIN/AEI (Grant No.: CEX2021-001214-S) and is funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 is founding member of e-DREAM. (68) M.H. acknowledges the funding from the Australian Research Council (FT230100316 and IH200100035). M.H. acknowledges the computational support from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia.","doi":"10.1021/jacs.5c11435","ddc":["540"],"department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","publication_status":"published","external_id":{"isi":["001558320100001"]},"has_accepted_license":"1","isi":1,"status":"public","day":"22","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1520-5126"],"issn":["0002-7863"]},"file_date_updated":"2025-09-10T06:55:17Z","OA_type":"hybrid","month":"08","related_material":{"record":[{"id":"22017","status":"for_moderation","relation":"dissertation_contains"}]},"citation":{"apa":"Liu, Y., Kleinhanns, T., Horta, S., Dutkiewicz, E., Lu, S., Spadaro, M. C., … Ibáñez, M. (2025). Liquid-solid interface reactions drive enhanced thermoelectric performance in Ag2Se. <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c11435\">https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c11435</a>","short":"Y. Liu, T. Kleinhanns, S. Horta, E. Dutkiewicz, S. Lu, M.C. Spadaro, A. Genç, L. Chen, K.H. Lim, M. Hong, J. Arbiol, M. Ibáñez, Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (2025) 32199–32208.","ista":"Liu Y, Kleinhanns T, Horta S, Dutkiewicz E, Lu S, Spadaro MC, Genç A, Chen L, Lim KH, Hong M, Arbiol J, Ibáñez M. 2025. Liquid-solid interface reactions drive enhanced thermoelectric performance in Ag2Se. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(35), 32199–32208.","chicago":"Liu, Yu, Tobias Kleinhanns, Sharona Horta, Ewelina Dutkiewicz, Shaoqing Lu, Maria Chiara Spadaro, Aziz Genç, et al. “Liquid-Solid Interface Reactions Drive Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Ag2Se.” <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>. American Chemical Society, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c11435\">https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c11435</a>.","ama":"Liu Y, Kleinhanns T, Horta S, et al. Liquid-solid interface reactions drive enhanced thermoelectric performance in Ag2Se. <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>. 2025;147(35):32199-32208. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c11435\">10.1021/jacs.5c11435</a>","mla":"Liu, Yu, et al. “Liquid-Solid Interface Reactions Drive Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Ag2Se.” <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>, vol. 147, no. 35, American Chemical Society, 2025, pp. 32199–208, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c11435\">10.1021/jacs.5c11435</a>.","ieee":"Y. Liu <i>et al.</i>, “Liquid-solid interface reactions drive enhanced thermoelectric performance in Ag2Se,” <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>, vol. 147, no. 35. American Chemical Society, pp. 32199–32208, 2025."},"type":"journal_article","page":"32199-32208","oa":1,"abstract":[{"text":"Ag2Se is a promising n-type thermoelectric material, but its performance is limited by excessive carrier concentration, compositional inhomogeneity, and phase instability, challenges rooted in a narrow homogeneity range and uncontrolled Ag+ diffusion in the superionic phase. Here, we address these issues by exploiting liquid–solid interface reactions using CdSe complexes that remove surface excess Ag to yield stoichiometric Ag2Se and generate CdSe nanodomains that inhibit Ag+ diffusion and constrain grain growth. The resulting Ag2Se-CdSe nanocomposites exhibit a reproducible, stable figure of merit (zT) of 1.04 between 300 and 390 K. Beyond demonstrating high performance, we elucidate the interfacial chemical reactions that give rise to the observed microstructure and transport properties, providing a foundation for rationally engineering interfacial chemistry to tailor transport properties across diverse thermoelectric material systems.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"20326","PlanS_conform":"1","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"LifeSc"},{"_id":"NanoFab"}],"tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2026-06-19T08:16:17Z","oa_version":"Published Version","corr_author":"1","publisher":"American Chemical Society","quality_controlled":"1"},{"article_processing_charge":"No","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"publication_status":"published","external_id":{"pmid":["37555532"],"isi":["001085681000001"]},"isi":1,"status":"public","day":"04","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0935-9648"],"eissn":["1521-4095"]},"volume":36,"pmid":1,"scopus_import":"1","publication":"Advanced Materials","year":"2024","intvolume":"        36","doi":"10.1002/adma.202305128","acknowledgement":"G.Z. and Q.S. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52105329, 52175300) and the Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LH2022E059). G.Z., X.L., and C.Z. thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for the scholarship support. This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units of ISTA through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility. S.H. and M.I. acknowledge funding by ISTA and Werner Siemens.","issue":"1","author":[{"last_name":"Zeng","first_name":"Guifang","full_name":"Zeng, Guifang"},{"last_name":"Sun","full_name":"Sun, Qing","first_name":"Qing"},{"id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","last_name":"Horta","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","first_name":"Sharona"},{"first_name":"Shang","full_name":"Wang, Shang","last_name":"Wang"},{"first_name":"Xuan","full_name":"Lu, Xuan","last_name":"Lu"},{"full_name":"Zhang, Chaoyue","first_name":"Chaoyue","last_name":"Zhang"},{"last_name":"Li","first_name":"Jing","full_name":"Li, Jing"},{"last_name":"Li","first_name":"Junshan","full_name":"Li, Junshan"},{"last_name":"Ci","first_name":"Lijie","full_name":"Ci, Lijie"},{"first_name":"Yanhong","full_name":"Tian, Yanhong","last_name":"Tian"},{"first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"}],"date_created":"2023-10-17T10:53:56Z","title":"A layered Bi2Te3@PPy cathode for aqueous zinc ion batteries: Mechanism and application in printed flexible batteries","article_number":"2305128","project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"article_type":"original","date_published":"2024-01-04T00:00:00Z","date_updated":"2025-04-15T06:36:40Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa_version":"None","publisher":"Wiley","quality_controlled":"1","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"type":"journal_article","citation":{"mla":"Zeng, Guifang, et al. “A Layered Bi2Te3@PPy Cathode for Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries: Mechanism and Application in Printed Flexible Batteries.” <i>Advanced Materials</i>, vol. 36, no. 1, 2305128, Wiley, 2024, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202305128\">10.1002/adma.202305128</a>.","ieee":"G. Zeng <i>et al.</i>, “A layered Bi2Te3@PPy cathode for aqueous zinc ion batteries: Mechanism and application in printed flexible batteries,” <i>Advanced Materials</i>, vol. 36, no. 1. Wiley, 2024.","apa":"Zeng, G., Sun, Q., Horta, S., Wang, S., Lu, X., Zhang, C., … Cabot, A. (2024). A layered Bi2Te3@PPy cathode for aqueous zinc ion batteries: Mechanism and application in printed flexible batteries. <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202305128\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202305128</a>","short":"G. Zeng, Q. Sun, S. Horta, S. Wang, X. Lu, C. Zhang, J. Li, J. Li, L. Ci, Y. Tian, M. Ibáñez, A. Cabot, Advanced Materials 36 (2024).","chicago":"Zeng, Guifang, Qing Sun, Sharona Horta, Shang Wang, Xuan Lu, Chaoyue Zhang, Jing Li, et al. “A Layered Bi2Te3@PPy Cathode for Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries: Mechanism and Application in Printed Flexible Batteries.” <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley, 2024. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202305128\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202305128</a>.","ista":"Zeng G, Sun Q, Horta S, Wang S, Lu X, Zhang C, Li J, Li J, Ci L, Tian Y, Ibáñez M, Cabot A. 2024. A layered Bi2Te3@PPy cathode for aqueous zinc ion batteries: Mechanism and application in printed flexible batteries. Advanced Materials. 36(1), 2305128.","ama":"Zeng G, Sun Q, Horta S, et al. A layered Bi2Te3@PPy cathode for aqueous zinc ion batteries: Mechanism and application in printed flexible batteries. <i>Advanced Materials</i>. 2024;36(1). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202305128\">10.1002/adma.202305128</a>"},"month":"01","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Low‐cost, safe, and environmental‐friendly rechargeable aqueous zinc‐ion batteries (ZIBs) are promising as next‐generation energy storage devices for wearable electronics among other applications. However, sluggish ionic transport kinetics and the unstable electrode structure during ionic insertion/extraction hampers their deployment. Herein,  we propose a new cathode material based on a layered metal chalcogenide (LMC), bismuth telluride (Bi<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>Te<jats:sub>3</jats:sub>), coated with polypyrrole (PPy). Taking advantage of the PPy coating, the Bi<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>Te<jats:sub>3</jats:sub>@PPy composite presents strong ionic absorption affinity, high oxidation resistance, and high structural stability. The ZIBs based on Bi<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>Te<jats:sub>3</jats:sub>@PPy cathodes exhibit high capacities and ultra‐long lifespans of over 5000 cycles. They also present outstanding stability even under bending. In addition,  we analyze here the reaction mechanism using in situ X‐ray diffraction, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and computational tools and demonstrate that, in the aqueous system, Zn<jats:sup>2+</jats:sup> is not inserted into the cathode as previously assumed. In contrast, proton charge storage dominates the process. Overall, this work not only shows the great potential of LMCs as ZIBs cathode materials and the advantages of PPy coating, but also clarifies the charge/discharge mechanism in rechargeable ZIBs based on LMCs."}],"_id":"14435","keyword":["Mechanical Engineering","Mechanics of Materials","General Materials Science"]},{"OA_type":"closed access","publication_status":"published","external_id":{"isi":["001133369800001"],"pmid":["38152986"]},"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2366-9608"]},"day":"01","isi":1,"status":"public","pmid":1,"scopus_import":"1","year":"2024","publication":"Small Methods","volume":8,"doi":"10.1002/smtd.202301377","acknowledgement":"Y.L. acknowledges funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grants No. 22209034), the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of Overseas Returnees in Anhui Province (Grant No. 2022LCX002). K.H.L. acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 22208293). M.I. acknowledges financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation.","intvolume":"         8","date_created":"2024-01-07T23:00:51Z","title":"Band engineering through Pb-doping of nanocrystal building blocks to enhance thermoelectric performance in Cu3SbSe4","author":[{"last_name":"Wan","first_name":"Shanhong","full_name":"Wan, Shanhong"},{"first_name":"Shanshan","full_name":"Xiao, Shanshan","last_name":"Xiao"},{"last_name":"Li","full_name":"Li, Mingquan","first_name":"Mingquan"},{"full_name":"Wang, Xin","first_name":"Xin","last_name":"Wang"},{"last_name":"Lim","first_name":"Khak Ho","full_name":"Lim, Khak Ho"},{"last_name":"Hong","full_name":"Hong, Min","first_name":"Min"},{"first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"},{"last_name":"Cabot","first_name":"Andreu","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu"},{"first_name":"Yu","full_name":"Liu, Yu","id":"2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Liu","orcid":"0000-0001-7313-6740"}],"article_number":"2301377","issue":"8","date_published":"2024-08-01T00:00:00Z","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"article_type":"original","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2025-09-04T11:37:19Z","publisher":"Wiley","quality_controlled":"1","oa_version":"None","type":"journal_article","month":"08","citation":{"short":"S. Wan, S. Xiao, M. Li, X. Wang, K.H. Lim, M. Hong, M. Ibáñez, A. Cabot, Y. Liu, Small Methods 8 (2024).","apa":"Wan, S., Xiao, S., Li, M., Wang, X., Lim, K. H., Hong, M., … Liu, Y. (2024). Band engineering through Pb-doping of nanocrystal building blocks to enhance thermoelectric performance in Cu3SbSe4. <i>Small Methods</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301377\">https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301377</a>","ama":"Wan S, Xiao S, Li M, et al. Band engineering through Pb-doping of nanocrystal building blocks to enhance thermoelectric performance in Cu3SbSe4. <i>Small Methods</i>. 2024;8(8). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301377\">10.1002/smtd.202301377</a>","ista":"Wan S, Xiao S, Li M, Wang X, Lim KH, Hong M, Ibáñez M, Cabot A, Liu Y. 2024. Band engineering through Pb-doping of nanocrystal building blocks to enhance thermoelectric performance in Cu3SbSe4. Small Methods. 8(8), 2301377.","chicago":"Wan, Shanhong, Shanshan Xiao, Mingquan Li, Xin Wang, Khak Ho Lim, Min Hong, Maria Ibáñez, Andreu Cabot, and Yu Liu. “Band Engineering through Pb-Doping of Nanocrystal Building Blocks to Enhance Thermoelectric Performance in Cu3SbSe4.” <i>Small Methods</i>. Wiley, 2024. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301377\">https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301377</a>.","ieee":"S. Wan <i>et al.</i>, “Band engineering through Pb-doping of nanocrystal building blocks to enhance thermoelectric performance in Cu3SbSe4,” <i>Small Methods</i>, vol. 8, no. 8. Wiley, 2024.","mla":"Wan, Shanhong, et al. “Band Engineering through Pb-Doping of Nanocrystal Building Blocks to Enhance Thermoelectric Performance in Cu3SbSe4.” <i>Small Methods</i>, vol. 8, no. 8, 2301377, Wiley, 2024, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301377\">10.1002/smtd.202301377</a>."},"_id":"14734","abstract":[{"text":"Developing cost-effective and high-performance thermoelectric (TE) materials to assemble efficient TE devices presents a multitude of challenges and opportunities. Cu3SbSe4 is a promising p-type TE material based on relatively earth abundant elements. However, the challenge lies in its poor electrical conductivity. Herein, an efficient and scalable solution-based approach is developed to synthesize high-quality Cu3SbSe4 nanocrystals doped with Pb at the Sb site. After ligand displacement and annealing treatments, the dried powders are consolidated into dense pellets, and their TE properties are investigated. Pb doping effectively increases the charge carrier concentration, resulting in a significant increase in electrical conductivity, while the Seebeck coefficients remain consistently high. The calculated band structure shows that Pb doping induces band convergence, thereby increasing the effective mass. Furthermore, the large ionic radius of Pb2+ results in the generation of additional point and plane defects and interphases, dramatically enhancing phonon scattering, which significantly decreases the lattice thermal conductivity at high temperatures. Overall, a maximum figure of merit (zTmax) ≈ 0.85 at 653 K is obtained in Cu3Sb0.97Pb0.03Se4. This represents a 1.6-fold increase compared to the undoped sample and exceeds most doped Cu3SbSe4-based materials produced by solid-state, demonstrating advantages of versatility and cost-effectiveness using a solution-based technology.","lang":"eng"}]},{"file_date_updated":"2024-07-16T07:54:21Z","has_accepted_license":"1","isi":1,"status":"public","day":"28","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2637-6113"]},"department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","publication_status":"published","external_id":{"isi":["000986859000001"],"pmid":["38828037"]},"intvolume":"         6","acknowledgement":"Open Access is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). B.N., M.L., Y.Z., K.X., and X.H. thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for the scholarship support. C.C. received funding from the FWF “Lise Meitner Fellowship” grant agreement M 2889-N. M.I. acknowledges the financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2021SGR00457 and project NANOGEN (PID2020-116093RB-C43) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/. ICN2 was supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MCIN/AEI (Grant No.: CEX2021-001214-S) and was funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. J.L. is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to the ICREA Academia program and projects MICINN/FEDER PID2021-124572OB-C31 and 2021 SGR 01061. K.H.L. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22208293). This study is part of the Advanced Materials programme and was supported by MCIN with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1) and by Generalitat de Catalunya.","doi":"10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055","ddc":["540"],"volume":6,"scopus_import":"1","pmid":1,"year":"2024","publication":"ACS Applied Electronic Materials","project":[{"_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","grant_number":"M02889","name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications"},{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"article_type":"review","date_published":"2024-05-28T00:00:00Z","issue":"5","file":[{"relation":"main_file","date_updated":"2024-07-16T07:54:21Z","access_level":"open_access","file_id":"17250","success":1,"content_type":"application/pdf","checksum":"1f743eaf4fc988cd30102b7c2f12c15d","file_name":"2024_ACSAppElecMaterials_Nan.pdf","creator":"dernst","date_created":"2024-07-16T07:54:21Z","file_size":5851865}],"title":"Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature","date_created":"2023-05-28T22:01:03Z","author":[{"last_name":"Nan","first_name":"Bingfei","full_name":"Nan, Bingfei"},{"last_name":"Li","first_name":"Mengyao","full_name":"Li, Mengyao"},{"first_name":"Yu","full_name":"Zhang, Yu","last_name":"Zhang"},{"last_name":"Xiao","first_name":"Ke","full_name":"Xiao, Ke"},{"full_name":"Lim, Khak Ho","first_name":"Khak Ho","last_name":"Lim"},{"last_name":"Chang","id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425","orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","first_name":"Cheng","full_name":"Chang, Cheng"},{"full_name":"Han, Xu","first_name":"Xu","last_name":"Han"},{"last_name":"Zuo","first_name":"Yong","full_name":"Zuo, Yong"},{"last_name":"Li","first_name":"Junshan","full_name":"Li, Junshan"},{"last_name":"Arbiol","full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi","first_name":"Jordi"},{"first_name":"Jordi","full_name":"Llorca, Jordi","last_name":"Llorca"},{"last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria"},{"first_name":"Andreu","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","publisher":"American Chemical Society","quality_controlled":"1","tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"date_updated":"2025-04-14T09:29:33Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"abstract":[{"text":"The direct, solid state, and reversible conversion between heat and electricity using thermoelectric devices finds numerous potential uses, especially around room temperature. However, the relatively high material processing cost limits their real applications. Silver selenide (Ag2Se) is one of the very few n-type thermoelectric (TE) materials for room-temperature applications. Herein, we report a room temperature, fast, and aqueous-phase synthesis approach to produce Ag2Se, which can be extended to other metal chalcogenides. These materials reach TE figures of merit (zT) of up to 0.76 at 380 K. To improve these values, bismuth sulfide (Bi2S3) particles also prepared in an aqueous solution are incorporated into the Ag2Se matrix. In this way, a series of Ag2Se/Bi2S3 composites with Bi2S3 wt % of 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 are prepared by solution blending and hot-press sintering. The presence of Bi2S3 significantly improves the Seebeck coefficient and power factor while at the same time decreasing the thermal conductivity with no apparent drop in electrical conductivity. Thus, a maximum zT value of 0.96 is achieved in the composites with 1.0 wt % Bi2S3 at 370 K. Furthermore, a high average zT value (zTave) of 0.93 in the 300–390 K range is demonstrated.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"13093","citation":{"mla":"Nan, Bingfei, et al. “Engineering of Thermoelectric Composites Based on Silver Selenide in Aqueous Solution and Ambient Temperature.” <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>, vol. 6, no. 5, American Chemical Society, 2024, pp. 2807–215, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055\">10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055</a>.","ieee":"B. Nan <i>et al.</i>, “Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature,” <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>, vol. 6, no. 5. American Chemical Society, pp. 2807–215, 2024.","apa":"Nan, B., Li, M., Zhang, Y., Xiao, K., Lim, K. H., Chang, C., … Cabot, A. (2024). Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature. <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055</a>","short":"B. Nan, M. Li, Y. Zhang, K. Xiao, K.H. Lim, C. Chang, X. Han, Y. Zuo, J. Li, J. Arbiol, J. Llorca, M. Ibáñez, A. Cabot, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 6 (2024) 2807–215.","ista":"Nan B, Li M, Zhang Y, Xiao K, Lim KH, Chang C, Han X, Zuo Y, Li J, Arbiol J, Llorca J, Ibáñez M, Cabot A. 2024. Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 6(5), 2807–215.","chicago":"Nan, Bingfei, Mengyao Li, Yu Zhang, Ke Xiao, Khak Ho Lim, Cheng Chang, Xu Han, et al. “Engineering of Thermoelectric Composites Based on Silver Selenide in Aqueous Solution and Ambient Temperature.” <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>. American Chemical Society, 2024. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055</a>.","ama":"Nan B, Li M, Zhang Y, et al. Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature. <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>. 2024;6(5):2807-215. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055\">10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055</a>"},"month":"05","type":"journal_article","page":"2807-215","oa":1},{"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","external_id":{"isi":["001273082800019"],"pmid":["38484066"]},"publication_status":"published","status":"public","isi":1,"day":"14","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1095-9203"],"issn":["0036-8075"]},"volume":383,"publication":"Science","year":"2024","scopus_import":"1","pmid":1,"intvolume":"       383","doi":"10.1126/science.ado4077","acknowledgement":"The authors thank the Werner-Siemens-Stiftung and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria for financial support.","issue":"6688","title":"Electron highways are cooler","author":[{"orcid":"0000-0001-7408-8197","id":"6ebe278d-ba0b-11ee-8184-f34cdc671de4","last_name":"Navita","full_name":"Navita, Navita","first_name":"Navita"},{"id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria"}],"date_created":"2024-03-24T23:00:58Z","article_type":"letter_note","project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"date_published":"2024-03-14T00:00:00Z","date_updated":"2025-09-04T13:12:19Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"corr_author":"1","oa_version":"None","quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"American Association for the Advancement of Science","citation":{"short":"N. Jakhar, M. Ibáñez, Science 383 (2024) 1184.","apa":"Jakhar, N., &#38; Ibáñez, M. (2024). Electron highways are cooler. <i>Science</i>. American Association for the Advancement of Science. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4077\">https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4077</a>","ama":"Jakhar N, Ibáñez M. Electron highways are cooler. <i>Science</i>. 2024;383(6688):1184. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4077\">10.1126/science.ado4077</a>","ista":"Jakhar N, Ibáñez M. 2024. Electron highways are cooler. Science. 383(6688), 1184.","chicago":"Jakhar, Navita, and Maria Ibáñez. “Electron Highways Are Cooler.” <i>Science</i>. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2024. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4077\">https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4077</a>.","mla":"Jakhar, Navita, and Maria Ibáñez. “Electron Highways Are Cooler.” <i>Science</i>, vol. 383, no. 6688, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2024, p. 1184, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4077\">10.1126/science.ado4077</a>.","ieee":"N. Jakhar and M. Ibáñez, “Electron highways are cooler,” <i>Science</i>, vol. 383, no. 6688. American Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 1184, 2024."},"month":"03","type":"journal_article","page":"1184","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Reducing defects boosts room-temperature performance of a thermoelectric device"}],"_id":"15166"}]