Sophia Haussener

sophia.haussener@epfl.ch +41 21 693 38 78 http://lrese.epfl.ch
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Infoscience publications
2020
Mitigating voltage losses in photoelectrochemical cell scale-up
Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2020-06-01. DOI : 10.1039/d0se00246a.Pressure Drop and Convective Heat Transfer in Different SiSiC Structures Fabricated by Indirect Additive Manufacturing
Journal Of Heat Transfer-Transactions Of The Asme. 2020-03-01. DOI : 10.1115/1.4045732.Design guidelines for Al-12%Si latent heat storage encapsulations to optimize performance and mitigate degradation
Applied Surface Science. 2020-03-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.143684.Optimizing and Implementing Light Trapping in Thin-Film, Mesostructured Photoanodes
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2020-02-05. DOI : 10.1021/acsami.9b17856.Dynamic system modeling of thermally-integrated concentrated PV-electrolysis
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2020.Numerical optimization of evaporative cooling in artificial gas diffusion layers for fuel cell applications
Applied Thermal Engineering. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.116460.Buoyancy-driven melting and solidification heat transfer analysis in encapsulated phase change materials
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.120525.Sodium plating and stripping from Na-β"-alumina ceramics beyond 1000 mA/cm2
Materials Today Energy. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.mtener.2020.100515.Theoretical maximum photogeneration efficiency and performance characterization of InxGa1-xN/Si tandem water-splitting photoelectrodes
APL Materials. 2020. DOI : 10.1063/5.0007034.Multi-physical characterization of cellular ceramics for high-temperature applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9779.Practical challenges in the development of photoelectrochemical solar fuels production
Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2020. DOI : 10.1039/C9SE00869A.2019
Majority Charge Carrier Transport in Particle-based Photoelectrodes
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2019-10-03. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b07580.Effective conductivity of porous ceramics in a radiative environment
Ceramics International. 2019-09-30. DOI : 10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.09.272.Rapid Performance Optimization Method for Photoelectrodes
Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2019-08-07. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b04102.Kinetic Competition between Water-Splitting and Photocorrosion Reactions in Photoelectrochemical Devices
Chemsuschem. 2019-05-08. DOI : 10.1002/cssc.201802558.A thermally synergistic photo-electrochemical hydrogen generator operating under concentrated solar irradiation
Nature Energy. 2019-04-29. DOI : 10.1038/s41560-019-0373-7.Pcm-based heat exchanger and uses thereof
WO2019220395 . 2019.Integrated photo-electrochemical device for concentrated irradiation
EP3500694 ; US2019177860 ; WO2018033886 . 2019.Design and optimization of a high-temperature latent heat storage unit
Applied Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114330.Modeling and experimentation of conductive and radiative transfer through heterogeneous insulators in high-flux environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7273.Preparation of high-conductivity, high-capacity phase change media capsules with enhanced thermos-chemical stability in thermal energy storage applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9715.Material and mesostructural design guidelines for high performing photoelectrodes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7408.Sequential Cascade Electrocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to C-C Coupled Products
Acs Applied Energy Materials. 2019. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.9b00791.Optimizing Mesostructured Silver Catalysts for Selective Carbon Dioxide Conversion into Fuels
Energy Environmental Science. 2019. DOI : 10.1039/C9EE00656G.Linking Morphology and Multi-Physical Transport in Structured Electrodes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9394.Controlling strategies to maximize reliability of integrated photo-electrochemical devices exposed to realistic disturbances
Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2019. DOI : 10.1039/c8se00441b.Unsteady Radiative Heat Transfer Model of a Ceria Particle Suspension Undergoing Solar Thermochemical Reduction
Journal Of Thermophysics And Heat Transfer. 2019-01-01. DOI : 10.2514/1.T5314.Inverse Analysis of Radiative Flux Maps for the Characterization of High Flux Sources
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. 2019. DOI : 10.1115/1.4042227.2018
Solar production of nylon polymers and prescursors for nylon polymer production
US2020048415 ; WO2018172927 ; WO2018172927 . 2018.Continuum-scale Modeling of Solar Water-splitting Devices
Integrated Solar Fuel Generators; Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018. p. 500-536.Linking Morphology and Multi-Physical Transport in Structured Photoelectrodes
Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2018. DOI : 10.1039/C8SE00215K.Atomic layer deposition of TiO2 for stabilization of Pt nanoparticle oxygen reduction reaction catalysts
Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. 2018. DOI : 10.1007/s10800-018-1226-y.An integrated concentrated solar fuel generator utilizing a tubular solid oxide electrolysis cell as solar absorber
Journal of Power Sources. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.08.009.Determination and optimization of material parameters of particle-based LaTiO2N photoelectrodes
Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2018. DOI : 10.1039/C8TA03649G.Pathways to Electrochemical Solar-Hydrogen Technologies
Energy & Environmental Science. 2018. DOI : 10.1039/C7EE03639F.Solar-Driven High-Temperature Electrolysis Reactor for Fuel Processing
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8465.Modeling and experimental demonstration of an integrated photoelectrochemical hydrogen generator working under concentrated irradiation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8508.Chapter 9. Modelling-derived Design Guidelines for Photo-electrochemical Devices
Advances in Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting: Theory, Experiment and Systems Analysis; Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018. p. 239-265.Modeling and design guidelines for direct steam generation solar receivers
Applied Energy. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.044.Optical characterization of multi-scale morphologically complex heterogeneous media – Application to snow with soot impurities
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.11.025.Transport characteristics of saturated gas diffusion layers treated with hydrophobic coatings
Chemical Engineering Science. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.ces.2017.10.035.Design and demonstration of a prototype 1.5 kWth hybrid solar/autothermal steam gasifier
Fuel. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.fuel.2017.09.059.2017
Radiative characterization of random fibrous media with optically large long cylindrical fibers
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.08.002.Techno-economic modeling and optimization of solar-driven high-temperature electrolysis systems
Solar Energy. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.solener.2017.07.077.Modelling of Solar Thermochemical Reaction Systems
Solar Energy. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.solener.2017.07.069.High-flux optical systems for solar thermochemistry
Solar Energy. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.solener.2017.07.046.Tomography-based radiative characterisation of decomposing carbonaceous heat shield materials
Carbon. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.carbon.2017.06.045.Numerical Quantification of Coupling Effects for Radiation-Conduction Heat Transfer in Participating Macroporous Media: Investigation of a Model Geometry
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.03.079.Reliable Performance Characterization of Mediated Photocatalytic Water-Splitting Half Reactions
ChemSusChem. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/cssc.201601901.Degradation in photoelectrochemical devices: Review with an illustrative case study
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 2017. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6463/aa5b11.2016
Charge Transport in Two-Photon Semiconducting Structures for Solar Fuels
ChemSusChem. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/cssc.201600773.Minimization of Ionic Transport Resistance in Porous Monoliths for Application in Integrated Solar Water Splitting Devices
Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2016. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06766.Experimental and Numerical Characterization of a New 45 kWel Multisource High-Flux Solar Simulator
Optics Express. 2016. DOI : 10.1364/OE.24.0A1360.Modeling of concurrent CO2 and water splitting by practical photoelectrochemical devices
Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 2016. DOI : 10.1149/2.0661610jes.Integrated Photo-Electrochemical Solar Fuel Generators under Concentrated Irradiation- Part I: 2-D Non-Isothermal Multiphysics Modelling
Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 2016. DOI : 10.1149/2.0311610jes.Modeling, Simulation, and Implementation of Solar-Driven Water-Splitting Devices
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201510463.Early-stage oxidation behavior at high temperatures of SiSiC cellular architectures in a porous burner
Ceramics International. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.ceramint.2016.07.159.Mass transport aspects of electrochemical solar-hydrogen generation
Energy Environmental Science. 2016. DOI : 10.1039/C5EE03698D.Combined Experimental-Numerical Analysis of Transient Phenomena in a Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Cell
Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2016. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b12445.Utilizing modeling, experiments, and statistics for the analysis of water-splitting photoelectrodes
Journal of Materials Chemistry. A. 2016. DOI : 10.1039/C5TA07328F.2015
Phase Change Material Systems for High Temperature Heat Storage
Chimia. 2015. DOI : 10.2533/chimia.2015.1.Holistic design guidelines for solar hydrogen production by photo-electrochemical routes
Energy Environmental Science. 2015. DOI : 10.1039/c5ee01821h.Design guidelines for concentrated photo-electrochemical water splitting devices based on energy and greenhouse gas yield ratios
Energy Environmental Science. 2015. DOI : 10.1039/C5EE01269D.Solar fuel processing efficiency for ceria redox cycling using alternative oxygen partial pressure reduction methods
Energy. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.energy.2015.06.006.Design of Compact Photoelectrochemical Cells for Water Splitting
Oil & Gas Science And Technology – Rev. IFP Energies Nouvelles. 2015. DOI : 10.2516/ogst/2015015.Optical Design of Multisource High-Flux Solar Simulators
Journal Of Solar Energy Engineering-Transactions Of The Asme. 2015. DOI : 10.1115/1.4028702.Vapor-fed microfluidic hydrogen generator
Lab on a Chip. 2015. DOI : 10.1039/C5LC00259A.Solar hydrogen reaching maturity
Oil & Gas Science And Technology – Rev. IFP Energies Nouvelles. 2015. DOI : 10.2516/ogst/2014061.An Integrated Device View on Photoelectrochemical Solar-Hydrogen Generation
Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 2015. DOI : 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-061114-123357.2014
Heat transfer modeling in integrated photoelectrochemical hydrogen generators using concentrated irradiation
2014. 15th International Heat Transfer Conference, Kyoto, Japan, August 10-15, 2014.Characterising Internal Heat Transfer in Thermal Protection Systems
2014. 29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 7-12, 2014.Pore-level engineering of macroporous media for increased performance of solar-driven thermochemical fuel processing
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.07.020.Robust production of purified H-2 in a stable, self-regulating, and continuously operating solar fuel generator
Energy & Environmental Science. 2014. DOI : 10.1039/c3ee43214a.2013
Morphology Engineering of Porous Media for Enhanced Solar Fuel and Power Production
Jom. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s11837-013-0787-9.Simulations of the irradiation and temperature dependence of the efficiency of tandem photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems
Energy & Environmental Science. 2013. DOI : 10.1039/c3ee41302k.Simulations of the Irradiation and Temperature Dependence of the Efficiency of Tandem Photoelectrochemical Water-splitting Systems
2013. 2nd International Symposium on Electrochemical Synthesis of Fuels (ESF), 2nd International Symposium on Electrochemical Synthesis of Fuels (ESF). p. 293-303. DOI : 10.1149/05802.0293ecst.An analysis of the optimal band gaps of light absorbers in integrated tandem photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems
Energy and Environmental Science. 2013. DOI : 10.1039/c3ee40453f.Review of Heat Transfer Research for Solar Thermochemical Applications
Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications. 2013. DOI : 10.1115/1.4024088.Integrated microfluidic test-bed for energy conversion devices
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2013. DOI : 10.1039/c3cp51302e.Net primary energy balance of a solar-driven photoelectrochemical water-splitting device
Energy & Environmental Science. 2013. DOI : 10.1039/c3ee40880a.Sulphur based thermochemical cycles: Development and assessment of key components of the process
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.01.068.Tetrahedral mesh generation based on space indicator functions
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/nme.4419.2012
Separator design criteria for a solar-hydrogen electrochemical generator
2012.Multi-Scale Modelling of a Solar Reactor for the High-Temperature Step of a Sulphur-Iodine-Based Water Splitting Cycle
2012. ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and M, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, USA. p. 287-296. DOI : 10.1115/HT2012-58323.Modeling, simulation, and design criteria for photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems
Energy Environ. Sci.. 2012. DOI : 10.1039/C2EE23187E.Transport phenomena in complex multi-phase media. A tomography-based approach applied to solar fuel production and snow science
SVH Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften.High Performance Hydrogen/Bromine Redox Flow Battery for Grid-Scale Energy Storage
Journal Of The Electrochemical Society. 2012. DOI : 10.1149/2.018211jes.Determination of the macroscopic optical properties of snow based on exact morphology and direct pore-level heat transfer modeling
Journal of Geophysical Research. 2012. DOI : 10.1029/2012JF002332.Effective Heat and Mass Transport Properties of Anisotropic Porous Ceria for Solar Thermochemical Fuel Generation
Materials. 2012. DOI : 10.3390/ma5010192.Tomography-Based Determination of Effective Transport Properties for Reacting Porous Media
Journal of Heat Transfer. 2012. DOI : 10.1115/1.4004842.2011
Tomography-based heat and mass transport characterization of complex porous materials and their application and importance in solar fuel processing
2011. WEC, Geneva, September 4–9, 2011.HycycleS: a project on nuclear and solar hydrogen production by sulphur-based thermochemical cycles
International Journal of Nuclear Hydrogen Production and Applications. 2011. DOI : 10.1504/IJNHPA.2011.038344.Discrete vs continuum level simulation of radiative transfer in semitransparent two-phase media
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.01.025.Tomography-based determination of permeability and Dupuit-Forchheimer coefficient of characteristic snow samples
Journal Of Glaciology. 2011. DOI : 10.3189/002214311798043799.2010
Discrete vs continuum level simulations of radiative transfer in semitransparent two-phase media
2010. 6th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, Antalya, June 13–19, 2010.Continuum radiative transfer modeling in media consisting of optically distinct components in the limit of geometrical optics
2010. 6th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, Antalya, June 13–19 , 2010.TOMOGRAPHY-BASED DETERMINATION OF EFFECTIVE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES FOR REACTING POROUS MEDIA
2010. p. 883-892.Application of the spatial averaging theorem to radiative heat transfer in two-phase media
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.08.001.Continuum radiative heat transfer modeling in media consisting of optically distinct components in the limit of geometrical optics
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.06.022.Effective heat and mass transport properties of anisotropic porous ceria for solar thermochemical fuel generation
2010. 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City.Teaching & PhD
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