September 2017
Award
TWAS Prizes for Young Scientists in Developing Countries
September 2017
Susana Arrechea > Other Awards
Guatemaltecos Ilustres, scientific cathegory
February 2020
Susana Arrechea > Other Awards
For her research on the potential industrial and environmental applications of materials such as nanoparticles, nanotubes, and graphene, which can be employed in creating more sustainable building materials, in water treatment, and in solar devices and other renewable energy solutions.
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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
2013
Master
Other
2010
Undergraduate
Engineering sciences

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
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OWSD Programmes

February 2020 OWSD Award
twas-bollino
TWAS award

September 2017 Award
other-awards
Awards

September 2017 Guatemaltecos Ilustres

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