Maria Méndez , José G. Sánchez , Eugenia Martínez-Ferrero , Emilio J. Palomares
{"title":"Insights into charge dynamics and recombination processes in ternary organic solar cells through photophysical characterization techniques","authors":"Maria Méndez , José G. Sánchez , Eugenia Martínez-Ferrero , Emilio J. Palomares","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101865","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101865","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The incorporation of a third component in organic solar cells (OSCs), the so-called ternary OSCs, has given rise to an increase in the power conversion efficiencies of the devices. This improvement has been assigned to the broadening of the absorption spectrum, the tuning of the energy levels, and positive changes in the morphology of the active layer, resulting in remarkable power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of up to 20.2 %. Current research highlights the crucial role of morphology in enhancing device performance. However, achieving higher efficiencies requires improved charge dissociation, balanced charge transport, and minimized energy loss and recombination, which is not always attained. This review describes the most common steady-state techniques, such as photoluminescence, and advanced transient techniques, such as transient photovoltage and transient absorption spectroscopy, to gain insights into the photovoltaic charge dynamic processes to contribute to the improvement of the performance of TOSCs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101865"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Pascual , Teresa S. Ripolles , Silver-Hamill Turren-Cruz , Juan Luis Delgado
{"title":"The rise and potential of top interface modification in tin halide perovskite solar cells","authors":"Jorge Pascual , Teresa S. Ripolles , Silver-Hamill Turren-Cruz , Juan Luis Delgado","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101863","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101863","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Top interface engineering is becoming one of the preferred methodologies for easily improving tin halide perovskite solar cell efficiency. The particular effectiveness of this strategy for tin-based materials may stem from their fragility in terms of oxidation and defect chemistry. Studies mainly focus on the design of novel fullerenes as interlayers or electron-selective layers, as well as on the application of organic and inorganic molecules of varying sizes. In this mini-review, we highlight the rise and potential of top interface modification in tin halide perovskite solar cells.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101863"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Harito , Syauqi Abdurrahman Abrori , Munawar Khalil , Brian Yuliarto , Sule Erten-Ela
{"title":"Current progress of perovskite solar cells stability with bibliometric study","authors":"Christian Harito , Syauqi Abdurrahman Abrori , Munawar Khalil , Brian Yuliarto , Sule Erten-Ela","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101862","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101862","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Perovskite solar cells have matched or even surpassed commercial silicone-based photovoltaics (PVs) in terms of cost effectiveness and power conversion efficiency. However, the stability is quite far behind the commercial silicone-based PV. Humidity, electrical bias, high temperature, and ultraviolet light are the determining stressors in the degradation of perovskite solar cells. This review provides the current advancement (2022 to July 31<sup>st</sup>, 2024) to the stability problem in perovskite solar cells. Equipped with bibliometric study, we deploy keyword analysis, citation analysis, and notable progress to give an overview and latest progress in perovskite solar cells stability. The importance of interface passivation is highlighted. The scalability studies of nontoxic, lead-free, stable perovskite solar cells are expected in near future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101862"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to use stimuli-responsive soft materials for detection?","authors":"Anne-Laure Fameau , Jonathan Potier , Ricardo Ayala , Hernan Ritacco , Romain Bordes","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101860","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The growing demand for rapid, cost-effective, and user-friendly detection methods has driven advancements in “stimuli-responsive soft materials” for sensor development. Many examples of complex and liquid crystals emulsions can be found demonstrating their application for the detection of bacteria, virus, enzyme, or specific molecules. However, despite frequent comparisons between emulsions and foams, the exploration of liquid foams for sensor applications remains limited. Paradoxically, foam-based sensors for fetal lung maturity were developed in the 1970s, before the emergence of more sophisticated detection methods. Here, we describe some examples of soft interfaces used as sensor to detect biomarkers, enzymes, and bacteria, with a strong emphasis on foam. We demonstrate how to use the foamability and foam stability as read-out mechanism. We discuss approaches developed for complex emulsions and liquid crystals, highlighting their potential adaptation to liquid foams.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101860"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Iron-organic matter colloid control rare earth element environmental mobility","authors":"Yasaman Tadayon , Mélanie Davranche , Delphine Vantelon , Aline Dia , Julien Gigault","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rare earth elements (REE) have raised significant environmental concerns due to their increasing use in human activities and subsequent release into the environment. Hence, in the context of growing demand for “green” technologies and potential mismanagement of their life cycle, understanding their potential mobility within and between environmental compartments becomes crucial for evaluating their environmental risks. Colloids emerge as primary carriers/vectors facilitating REE mobility and transfer in the environment. This work addresses major topics related to the control exerted by colloids on the REE speciation and subsequent patterns. Among colloids, iron-organic matter colloids have been identified as the major REE carrier in surface water under various pedoclimatic conditions. Compelling evidences were provided that the mixing of iron-, organic- and iron-organic colloids could explain both REE concentration and pattern under environmental conditions. However, there is currently a lack of data on the specific distribution of REE between the iron and organic matter phases within Fe-OM colloids. It remains unclear whether REE distribution is primarily controlled by colloid mixing since structural rearrangements of Fe-OM colloids under varying hydrological and physicochemical conditions exert also a significant role.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101859"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142326615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of carboxymethyl cellulose on the rheology of anode slurries in lithium-ion batteries","authors":"Masahiko Ishii, Soichiro Makino, Hiroshi Nakamura","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101858","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101858","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in modern society, and research and development activities with the aim of further improving battery performance. The anode slurries in these devices typically include graphite as an active material and styrene-butadiene rubber as a binder, together with carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) in water. Despite much effort to date, there is no agreement regarding the role of CMC. This mini-review summarizes the function of CMC based on prior research findings. The results of previous studies indicate that, at moderate concentrations, CMC can act as a dispersant but can serve as a thickener at high concentrations. Our experimental results suggest that steric and electrostatic repulsion effects play a crucial role in anode slurries. Also, we show that the preparation processes can drastically change the rheological properties of the slurries despite the same materials and the same composition being used.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101858"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics and rheology of 2D particles at fluid–fluid interfaces","authors":"Joseph R. Samaniuk","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101857","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101857","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Two-dimensional (2D) particles can be confined to a fluid–fluid interface to create a rheologically-complex interface with dynamic particle–particle and particle–membrane interactions that are still poorly understood. There are dozens of bulk materials from which 2D particles can be made, including graphene, graphene oxide, hexagonal boron nitride, molybdenum disulfide, and MXenes, and there is interest in utilizing them because of the unique properties they have over their bulk counterparts. Increasing use of 2D materials in consumer products and novel materials science applications such as Pickering emulsions, composite foams, and films, adds urgency to improve our understanding of how the atomically thin nature and variable chemistry of 2D particles makes their dynamics and interfacial rheological properties at fluid–fluid interfaces different than spheroidal particles. This short review highlights key advances that have been made in understanding the dynamics of 2D particles at fluid–fluid interfaces, including in interfacial rheology and particle–particle dynamics, and it includes discussion on important future research directions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101857"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142319444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Volodymyr I. Kovalchuk , Giuseppe Loglio , Eugene V. Aksenenko , Francesca Ravera , Libero Liggieri , Emanuel Schneck , Reinhard Miller
{"title":"Dynamic dilational viscoelasticity of surfactant layers at liquid–liquid interfaces","authors":"Volodymyr I. Kovalchuk , Giuseppe Loglio , Eugene V. Aksenenko , Francesca Ravera , Libero Liggieri , Emanuel Schneck , Reinhard Miller","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101849","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101849","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Dynamic dilational viscoelasticity is an important physical characteristic of interfacial layers because it influences the dynamics and stability of multiphase systems, such as thin liquid films, foams and emulsions. Dilational viscoelasticity depends on many factors. Less studied, but very important, factors are the solubility of the solution components in two contacting liquids, the simultaneous presence of two solution components within a mixed adsorption layer and the curvature of the interface. In this review, we considered several new developments of previously proposed models, which can be used for the analysis of new experimental data. In the presence of such effects, the behaviour of the dilational viscoelasticity becomes more complicated and requires more parameters for its description. An alternative way is to use phenomenological models, which do not identify the particular relaxation processes but propose a description of the dilational viscoelasticity in general terms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101849"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142271565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perovskite solar cells: Organic-based molecules for electron and hole transport materials with machine learning insights","authors":"Reda M. El-Shishtawy , Nesma ElShishtawy","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101848","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101848","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have rapidly advanced as a promising new photovoltaic generation technology. In a decade, a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 26% was achieved, comparable to silicon-based traditional solar cells. However, their stability and sustainability still need to be improved before commercialization. The potential replacement of some of the inorganic components in the PSCs with organic ones could address these concerns as the organic components may offer the advantages of being biodegradable, low cost, and easily processed, with the potential of protecting the perovskite from the ambient environment. Thus, this review focuses on the recent developments in organic electron transport materials (ETMs) and hole transport materials (HTMs). Additionally, machine-learning insights and perspectives for future research directions are proposed for the advancements of PSCs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101848"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142241755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liquid foam: Fundamentals, rheology, and applications of foam displacement in porous structures","authors":"Nikoo Moradpour , Junyi Yang , Peichun Amy Tsai","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101845","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2024.101845","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Liquid foams, as colloidal systems comprising a dispersed gas phase within a continuous liquid medium, exhibit unique structural and rheological properties beneficial for various industrial and environmental applications. This review synthesizes current knowledge on the fundamentals, stability mechanisms, and practical applications of liquid foams. We first discuss foam structures, transitioning from ball to wet and dry foams, influenced by the liquid fraction and surfactant presence, which also influence the foam’s mechanical and stability properties. We further describe the mechanisms of foam generation (for confined foams), stability, and decay, highlighting the roles of snap-off, lamellae division, and leave-behind in foam formation and the adverse effects of coarsening, gravity drainage, and collapse on foam stability. Additionally, the review covers the rheological behavior of foams under shear stress, illustrating their complex viscoelastic or viscoplastic nature. Finally, we review recent studies of foam injection and displacement in porous structures, utilizing Hele–Shaw cells and microfluidics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101845"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359029424000633/pdfft?md5=db5cfbca774cfeef81ccfba7587e20c3&pid=1-s2.0-S1359029424000633-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142163338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}