Selenium environmental cycling and bioavailability: a structural chemist point of view

A Fernández-Martínez, L Charlet - Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2009 - Springer
Selenium is usually known as the 'double-edged sword element'for its dual toxic and
beneficial character to health. Since the pioneer works by Schwarz and Foltz on the …

Control of the phase evolution of kesterite by tuning of the selenium partial pressure for solar cells with 13.8% certified efficiency

J Zhou, X Xu, H Wu, J Wang, L Lou, K Yin, Y Gong… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
The control of the phase evolution during the selenization of kesterite Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4
(CZTSSe) is crucial for efficient solar cells. Here, we regulate the phase-evolution kinetics of …

Relaxation and physical aging in network glasses: a review

M Micoulaut - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent progress in the description of glassy relaxation and aging are reviewed for the wide
class of network-forming materials such as GeO 2, Ge x Se 1− x, silicates (SiO 2–Na 2 O) or …

Quasi-Vertically Oriented Sb2Se3 Thin-Film Solar Cells with Open-Circuit Voltage Exceeding 500 mV Prepared via Close-Space Sublimation and Selenization

P Fan, GJ Chen, S Chen, ZH Zheng… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sb2Se3, one of the most desirable absorption materials for next-generation thin-film solar
cells, has an excellent photovoltaic characteristic. The [hk1]-oriented (quasi-vertically …

Sb2Se3 thin film solar cells in substrate configuration and the back contact selenization

Z Li, X Chen, H Zhu, J Chen, Y Guo, C Zhang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, antimony selenide (Sb 2 Se 3) thin films were prepared by co-evaporation of Sb
2 Se 3 and selenium (Se) sources on molybdenum (Mo)-coated soda lime glass. Solar cells …

Amorphous structure and crystal stability determine the bioavailability of selenium nanoparticles

K Li, J Li, S Zhang, J Zhang, Q Xu, Z Xu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microorganisms play a critical role in the biogeochemical cycling of selenium, often reducing
selenite/selenate to elemental selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs). These SeNPs typically exist …

Structure of amorphous selenium: small ring, big controversy

W Lu, Z Li, M Feng, L Zheng, S Liu, B Yan… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Selenium (Se) discovered in 1817 belongs to the family of chalcogens. Surprisingly, despite
the long history of over two centuries and the chemical simplicity of Se, the structure of …

Electrochemical etching induced high-valence cobalt with defects site for boosting electrochemical water splitting

H Gao, J Liu, Z Zhang, Y Lu, R Chen, YC Huang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The active origin of the high-valence-state enhance the oxygen evolution reaction
performance, which still lacks confident evidence, especially on how to delay the loss of …

Postsurface Selenization for High Performance Sb2S3 Planar Thin Film Solar Cells

S Yuan, H Deng, X Yang, C Hu, J Khan, W Ye… - Acs …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Sb2S3 has attracted great research interest very recently as a promising absorber material
for thin film photovoltaics because of their unique optical and electrical properties, binary …

Multiwavelength excitation Raman scattering study of Sb2Se3 compound: fundamental vibrational properties and secondary phases detection

P Vidal-Fuentes, M Guc, X Alcobe, T Jawhari… - 2D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This work presents a complete analysis of Raman active modes of Sb 2 Se 3 measured by
six different excitation wavelengths from NIR to UV, under different polarization …