Due to the depletion of the global ozone layer and the presence of ozone holes, humans are increasingly exposed to threats from solar ultraviolet radiation. Therefore, researching and developing a highly selective, sensitive, simple, and fast ultravi...
The sintering process of the MoOx target has an impact on the quality of the sputtered film. In this study, powders of MoO3 (78 wt%) and MoO2 (22 wt%) were milled and hot-pressed to prepare the MoOx target. The effects of the sintering temperature of...
Substoichiometric molybdenum oxide (MoOx) has good potential as a hole-collecting layer in solar cells. In this paper, we report on the application of ultrathin evaporated MoOx as a hole collector at the back side of two distinct photovoltaic technol...
Molybdenum oxide (MoOX) has been widely utilized as a hole transport layer (HTL) in crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, owing to characteristics such as a wide bandgap and high work function. However, the relatively low conductivity of MoOX films...
Photochromic materials have attracted increasing attention. Here, we report a novel photo-reversible color switching system based on oxygen-vacancy-engineered MoOx nanostructures with water/N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) as solvents. In this work, the...
Molybdenum oxide is an attractive material for application in several technology fields such as sensors, displays, and batteries, among many others. In this work, we present a reliable laser direct writing (LDW) method for synthesizing multi-phase mo...
This study proposed a novel perovskite/silicon heterojunction (SHJ) tandem device structure without an interlayer, represented as ITO/NiO/perovskite/SnO2/MoOX/i-a-Si:H/n-c-Si/i-a-Si:H/n-a-Si:H/Ag, which was investigated by Silvaco TCAD software. The...
In this study, four monolithic, vanadium-based catalysts in granular (Vox/TiO2), honeycomb-type (Vox-Wox/TiO2 and Vox-MoOx/TiO2), and corrugated forms (Vox-Wox/TiO2) were investigated by multiple characterization methods (BET, XRF, XPS, XRD, H2-TPR,...
In this study, we investigated the morphology, chemical composition and pH measurement performance of MoOx electrodes prepared via thermal oxidation and submitted to hydration in milliQ water. Surface analysis using SEM-EDS and XPS revealed that the...
This paper presents a study that aims to enhance the performance of quantum dot light-emitting didoes (QLEDs) by employing a solution-processed molybdenum oxide (MoOx) nanoparticle (NP) as a hole injection layer (HIL). The study investigates the impa...
Substoichiometric molybdenum oxide is widely utilized as a hole transport layer (HTL) in polymer solar cells and perovskite solar cells. In this study, the possibility of developing MoOx layers applicable as HTLs with different characteristics by mag...
The identification, fine‐tuning, and process optimization of appropriate hole transporting layers (HTLs) for organic solar cells is indispensable for the production of efficient and sustainable functional devices. In this study, the optimization of a...
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a non-destructive spectra analysis technique. It has the virtues of high detectivity and sensitivity, and has been extensively studied for low-trace molecule detection. Presently, a non-noble-metal-based SE...
Efficient oxidation of refractory sulfides, such as dibenzothiophene (DBT) and its derivatives, provides a promising strategy to produce fuel oils with ultra-low sulfur content, or even completely sulfur-free. In this study, a series of non-stoichiom...
CO2 reduction to CO as raw material for conversion to chemicals and gasoline fuels via the reverse water–gas shift (RWGS) reaction is generally acknowledged to be a promising strategy that makes the CO2 utilization process more economical and e...
This study investigates how molybdenum oxide (MoOx) rear interface passivation—specifically its thickness and deposition conditions—affects CIGS thin-film solar cells. The MoOx layer effectively suppresses selenium/sulfur diffusion into t...
Work investigates the doping of molybdenum oxide (MoOx) with tungsten (W). The successful incorporation of W into the MoOx lattice was confirmed through X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). Structural...
In this work, a new design of transparent conductive electrode based on a graphene monolayer is evaluated. This hybrid electrode is incorporated into non-standard, high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells, where the conventional emitter is rep...
In search of a more effective process of ethane oxidative hydrogenation, different operation modes (thermal and microwave heating) are compared. The catalyst Mo1-V0.3-Te0.13-Nb0.11-Ox was prepared by hydrothermal synthesis and characterized by a set...
In this work, the results of gas phase cyclohexane photocatalytic oxidative dehydrogenation on MoOx/SO4/TiO2 catalysts with DRIFTS analysis are presented. Analysis of products in the gas-phase discharge of a fixed bed photoreactor was coupled with in...
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), the strongest greenhouse gas, has great challenges in degradation because of its stable structure, posing significant environmental concerns. Photocatalysis offers an environmentally friendly, low-energy solution, but the f...
Earth-abundant and low-cost catalysts with excellent electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity in alkaline solution play an important role in the sustainable production of hydrogen energy. In this work, a catalyst of Ni(P, O)x·MoOx...
With the increasing market demands for wearable and portable electronic devices, binary metal oxides (BMOs) with a remarkable capacity and good structure stability have been considered as a promising candidate for fabricating coplanar micro-supercapa...
Substoichiometric molybdenum oxide ceramics have aroused widespread interest owing to their promising optical and electrical performance. In this work, the thermal stability and decomposition mechanism of Mo9O26 and Mo4O11 at 700–1000 °C an...
A MoOx/Al2O3 catalyst was synthesised and tested for oxidative (ODP) and non-oxidative (DP) dehydrogenation of propane in a reaction cycle of ODP followed by DP and a second ODP run. Characterisation results show that the fresh catalyst contains high...
This study investigates the simultaneous decoration of vertically aligned molybdenum disulfide nanostructure (VA-MoS2) with Ag nanoparticles (NPs) and nitrogen functionalization. Nitrogen functionalization was achieved through physical vapor depositi...
Transition-metal oxides (TMOs) possess pronounced optoelectronic properties and are widely exploited in photovoltaics and photocatalysis. Here, we introduce a hot wire oxidation sublimation deposition (HWOSD) that directly converts elemental Mo and W...
In order to utilize the longer wavelength light, the surface sulfurization of MoO3 was carried out. The photocurrent responses to typical 650, 808, 980, and 1064 nm light sources with Au gap electrodes were investigated. The results showed that the s...
This study presents the synthesis of a multicomponent metal oxide electrocatalyst that increases the activity of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). We synthesized transition metal oxides (MnOx, FeOx, CoOx, and NiOx) with MoO3 heterostructures throu...
Monolithic perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells with MoOx hole selective contact silicon bottom solar cells show a power conversion efficiency of 8%. A thin 15 nm-thick MoOx contact to n-type Si was used instead of a standard p+ emitter to collect h...
Different contact materials and optimization of techniques of their depositions expand the possibilities to obtain high performance room temperature CdTe-based X/γ-ray detectors. The heterostructures with ohmic (MoOx) and Schottky (MoOx, TiOx, TiN, a...
Structural color emerges from the interaction of light with structured matter when its dimension is comparable to the incident wavelength. The reflected color can be switched by controlling such interaction with materials whose properties can be chan...
Ethylene is mainly produced by steam cracking of naphtha or light alkanes in the current petrochemical industry. However, the high-temperature operation results in high energy demands, high cost of gas separation, and huge CO2 emissions. With the gro...
The ball-milling (BM) method benefits the stabilization and dispersion of metallic particles for the preparation of the PtSnK–Mo/ZSM-5 catalyst. Based on the TPR, H2-TPD, XPS, and CO-FTIR results, the Pt–SnOx and MoOx species were formed...
This study investigates the implementation of dopant-free charge-selective contacts—i.e., the replacement of conventional doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) layers—for silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells as a simplified al...
The catalytic transformation of sugars into lactic acid has shown great potential for the scalable utilization of renewable biomass. Herein, RuOx/MoS2 catalysts were synthesized with the assistance of CaO for the one-pot conversion of glucose to lact...
Fabrication of high-performance, flexible quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) requires the reliable manufacture of a flexible transparent electrode to replace the conventional brittle indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrode, along with fle...
The development of catalysts for the hydrodeoxygenation of bio-based feedstocks is an important step towards the production of fuels and chemicals from biomass. This paper describes in situ-generated bulk molybdenum and tungsten oxides in the hydrode...
Thin and single MoS2 flakes are envisioned to contribute to the flexible nanoelectronics, particularly in sensing, optoelectronics and energy harvesting. Thus, it is important to study their stability and local surface reactivity. Their most straight...
Light alkanes are abundant in shale gas resources. The bulk mixed metal oxide MoVTe(Sb)NbOx catalysts play a very important role in dehydrogenation and selective oxidation reactions of these short hydrocarbons to produce high-value chemicals. This ca...
In this paper, we have demonstrated the optimized device performance in the Γ-shaped gate AlGaN/AlN/GaN metal oxide semiconductor high electron mobility transistor (MOS-HEMT) by incorporating aluminum into atomic layer deposited (ALD) HfO2 and compar...
Electrochemical nitrate reduction (NO3−RR) has been recognized as a promising strategy for sustainable ammonia (NH3) production due to its environmental friendliness and economical nature. However, the NO3−RR reaction involves an eight-el...
Surface passivation is critically important to improve the current collapse and the overall device performance in metal-oxide semiconductor high-electron mobility transistors (MOS-HEMTs) and, thus, their reliability. In this paper, we demonstrate the...
TiO2 nanoparticles containing 0.0, 1.0, 5.0, and 10.0 wt.% Mo were prepared by a reverse micelle template assisted sol–gel method allowing the dispersion of Mo atoms in the TiO2 matrix. Their textural and surface properties were characterized b...
In this work, a new multi-component (CrFeMoNbZr)Ox system was developed. The thin films presented dual-phase amorphous structures, comprising a dominant amorphous alloy phase and a small amount of an amorphous oxide phase. The thin films showed highe...
Poor selectivity is one of the main bottlenecks restricting the development of metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) sensors. In this paper, using hydrogen cyanide (HCN) as the target gas, CeMnOx as the catalytic layer material and Pt@SnO2 as the gas-sensi...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) of the transition metal dichalcogenides family, are widely investigated because of their outstanding electrical and optical properties. However, not much of the 2D materials research...
This study focuses on a comparative analysis of AlCrXN (X = Mo or V) coatings with the reference AlCrN coating via arc ion plating technique (AIP). The XRD and XPS results showed that the AlCrXN coatings were mainly composed of fcc-(Cr,Al)N solid sol...
This work aimed at synthesizing MoO3 and MoO2 by a facile and cost-effective method using extract of orange peel as a biological chelating and reducing agent for ammonium molybdate. Calcination of the precursor in air at 450 °C yielded the stochi...
Small pore zeolites have shown great potential in a number of catalytic reactions. While Mo-containing medium pore zeolites have been widely studied for methane dehydroaromatisation (MDA), the use of small pore supports has drawn limited attention du...
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