Publications by authors named "Nicolas Loones"
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a chemical sensor upregulating the transcription of responsive genes associated with endocrine homeostasis, oxidative balance and diverse metabolic, immunological and inflammatory processes, which have raised the pharmacological interest on its modulation. Herein, a novel set of 32 unsymmetrical triarylmethane (TAM) class of structures has been synthesized, characterized and their AhR transcriptional activity evaluated using a cell-based assay. Eight of the assayed TAM compounds (14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 28) exhibited AhR agonism but none of them showed antagonist effects.
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- Researchers developed MoO-free semitransparent perovskite solar cells (PSCs) that achieved Power Conversion Efficiencies (PCE) of up to 15.7%, building on prior opaque PSCs with a maximum efficiency of 19.7%.
- They replaced the traditional rear metal contact with a transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) film, resulting in the highest efficiency for buffer layer-free semitransparent PSCs reported so far.
- By creating a 4-terminal tandem system that combines their semitransparent PSC with a silicon wafer, they achieved an overall tandem efficiency of 21.18%, enhancing the silicon wafer’s performance by 1.66%.