Javier Castillo Seoane
Nationality: Spanish
+41 21 693 19 20
Office: MXC 331
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Website: https://lmsc.epfl.ch/
Education
Ph.D.
| New Materials Science and Technology2019 – 2024 University of Seville (Spain)
M.Sc.
| New Materials Science and Technology2018 – 2019 University of Seville (Spain)
B.Sc.
| Physics2013 – 2018 University of Seville (Spain)
B.E.
| Materials Engineering2013 – 2018 University of Seville (Spain)
Professionals experiences
Lecturer
Courses:
- Energetic Engineering, Heat Transfer and Fluids (Theory + Laboratory / 4 ECTS)
- Energetic Engineering and Heat Transfer (Theory + Laboratory / 10 ECTS)
- Master Thesis. Student: Mr Daniel Zapata. Title: “Interface engineering of metal halide perovskite nanostructured devices by plasma technology”
Lecturer
Courses:
- Experimental Techniques in Solid State Physics (Laboratory / 1.5 ECTS)
Predoctoral Researcher
Group: Nanotechnology on Surfaces and Plasma
Supervisors: Dr. Juan Ramón Sánchez Valencia and Dr. Ana Borrás Martos
Grade: Excellent Cum Laude with International Doctorate mention
Degree Internship
Group: Mechanical properties of Solids Group
Selected publications
Multidimensional Nanoarchitectures for Improved Indoor Light Harvesting in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
J. Castillo-Seoane, L. Contreras-Bernal,* A. J. Riquelme, S. Fauvel, Y. Kervella, J. Gil-Rostra, G. Lozano, Ã. Barranco, R. Demadrille, J. R. Sánchez-Valencia, A. Borrás
Published in Materials Today Energy. 2025. 49, 101851 in
Highly Stable Photoluminescence in Vacuum-Processed Halide Perovskite Core–Shell 1D Nanostructures
J. Castillo-Seoane, L. Contreras-Bernal, T. C. Rojas, J. P. Espinós, A. Castro, J. P. Correa-Baena, A. Barranco, J. R. Sanchez-Valencia, A. Borrás
Published in Adv. Func. Mat. 2024, 2403763 in
Photoelectrochemical water splitting with ITO/WO3/BiVO4/CoPi multishell nanotubes enabled by a vacuum and plasma soft-template synthesis
J. Gil-Rostra, J. Castillo-Seoane, Q. Guo, A. B. Jorge Sobrido, A. Gonzalez-Elipe, A. Borrás
Published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15, 7, 9250 – 9262 in
Ultrathin plasma polymer passivation of perovskite solar cells for improved stability and reproducibility
J. M. Obrero-Perez, L. Contreras-Bernal, F. Nuñez-Galvez, J. Castillo-Seoane, K. Valadez-Villalobos, F. J. Aparicio, J.A. Anta, A. Borras, J.R. Sánchez-Valencia, Ã. Barranco
Published in Adv. Ener. Mat. 2022, 2200812 in
Highly anisotropic organometal halide perovskite nanowalls grown by Glancing Angle Deposition
J. Castillo-Seoane, L. Contreras-Bernal, J. M. Obrero-Pérez, X. GarcÃa-Casas, F. Lorenzo-Lázaro, F. Javier Aparicio, M. C. López-Santos, T. C. Rojas, J. A. Anta, A. Borrás, Ã. Barranco, J. R. Sánchez-Valencia
Published in Adv. Mater. 2022, 34, 2107739 in
Plasma engineering of microstructured piezo – Triboelectric hybrid nanogenerators for wide bandwidth vibration energy harvesting
X. GarcÃa-Casas, A. Ghaffarinejad,* F. J. Aparicio, J. Castillo-Seoane, C. López-Santos, J. P. Espinós, J. Cotrino, J. R. Sánchez-Valencia, Ã. Barranco, A. Borrás
Published in Nano Ener. 2022, 91, 106673 in
One-reactor vacuum and plasma synthesis of transparent conducting oxide nanotubes and nanotrees: from single wire conductivity to ultra-broadband perfect absorbers in the NIR
J. Castillo-Seoane, J. Gil-Rostra, V. López-Flores, G. Lozano, F. J. Ferrer, J. P. Espinós, K. Ostrikov, F. Yubero, A. R. González-Elipe, Ã. Barranco, J. R. Sánchez-Valencia, A. Borrás
Published in Nanoscale 2021, 13, 13882 in
Plasma-Enabled Amorphous TiO2 Nanotubes as Hydrophobic Support for Molecular Sensing by SERS
A. N. Filippin , J. Castillo-Seoane , M. C. López-Santos, C. T. Rojas, K. Ostrikov, Ã. Barranco, J. R. Sánchez-Valencia, A. Borrás
Published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2020, 12, 45, 50721–50733 in