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OWSD Programmes

February 2020 OWSD Award
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TWAS award

September 2017 Award
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Awards

September 2017 Guatemaltecos Ilustres

February 2020 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award for Early Career Women Scientists

Degrees:

2015
Doctorate     Other
PhD in nanoscience and nanotechnology
2013
Master     Other
M.Sc. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
2010
Undergraduate     Engineering sciences
Chemical Engineer

Publications resulting from Research
 New cyclopentadithiophene (CDT) linked porphyrin donors with different end-capping acceptors for efficient small molecule organic solar cells. Arrechea, S.; Aljarilla, A.; de la Cruz, P.; Kumar, P.; Sharma, G. D.; Langa, F. J. Mater. C. 2017, DOI. 10.1039/C7TC00812K
 Methodology for Monitoring Sustainable Development of Isolated Microgrids in Rural Communities. Rahmann, C.; Núñez, O.; Valencia, F.; Arrechea, S.; Sager, J.; Kammen, D. Sustainability 2016, 8, 1163.
 Efficiency Improvement Using Bis(trifluoromethane) Sulfonamide Lithium Salt as Chemical Additive in Porphyrin Based Organic Solar Cells. Arrechea, S.; Aljarilla, A.; de la Cruz, P.; Palomares, E. ; Sharma, G. D. ; Langa, F. Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 17953-17962.
 High Photo-Current in Solution Processed Organic Solar Cells Based on Porphyrin Core A--D--A as Electron Donor Material. Montcada, N. F.; Arrechea, S.; Molina-Ontoria A.; Aljarilla, A. I.; de la Cruz, P.; Echegoyen, L.; Palomares, E.; Langa, F. Organic Electronics, 2016, 38, 330-330-336.
 CuSCN as selective contact in solution-processed small-molecule organic solar cells leads to over 7% efficient porphyrin-based device. Móran, G. ; Arrechea, S. ; de la Cruz, P. ; Cuesta, V. ; Biswas, S. ; Palomares, E. ; Sharma, G. D. ; Langa, F. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 11009-11022
 Charge Recombination Losses in Thiophene-Substituted Porphyrin Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Arrechea, S.; Clifford, J. N.; Pelleja, L.; Aljarilla, A.; de la Cruz, P.; Palomares, E.; Langa, F. Dyes Pigm. 2016, 126, 147-153.
 Effect of porphyrin loading on Dye Sensitized Solar Cell performance based on iodide/tri-iodide and cobalt electrolytes. Aljarilla, A.; Clifford, J. N.; Pelleja, L.; Moncho, A.; Arrechea, S.; de la Cruz, P.; Langa, F.; Palomares, E. J. Mater. Chem. A. 2013, 1, 13640.
 New Acceptor-π-Porphyrin-π-Acceptor Systems for Solution-Processed Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells. Arrechea, S.; Molina-Ontoria, A.; Aljarilla, A.; de la Cruz, P.; Langa, F.; Echegoyen, L. Dyes Pigm. 2015, 121, 109.
 Push-Pull cromophores based on triphenylamine as photosensitizers and electron donors for molecular solar cells. Aljarilla, A.; Herrero-Ponce, P.; Atienzar, P.; Arrechea, S.; de la Cruz, P.; L.; Langa, F.; García, H. Tetrahedron. 2013, 69, 6875