List of publications
1. Daniel Ursu , Cristian Casut , Daiana Albulescu, Melinda Vajda, Cristina Mosoarca, Marinela Miclau, ,,Enhanced Indoor Conversion Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Optimizing Ball-Milling Process of TiO2 Paste”, Coatings, 14, 283, (2024).
2. Szilard Bularka, Melinda Vajda, EliseiIlieș, Radu Ricman, Magdalena Marinca, MarinelaMiclau, , and Aurel Gontean, Daniel Ursu*, ,,Photovoltaic Tiles for the Wavelength-Selective Greenhouse: Exploring Yellow and Green Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells in Outdoor Conditions”, Appl. Sci., 14(5), 1957, (2024).
3. Daniel Ursu, Marinela Miclau, Cristian Casut, Daiana Albulescu, Corneliu Birtok-Baneasa, Melinda Vajda ,,Efficient indoor dye-sensitized solar cells based on TiO2 hollow sphere", Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 976, 5, 173134, (2024)
4. Daniel Ursu, Melinda Vajda, Elisei Ilieş, Radu Ricman, Magdalena Marinca, Szilard Bularka, Marinela Miclau, Aurel Gontean ,,Towards the thermal stability of dye-sensitized solar cells for wavelength-selective greenhouses using the polymorphism of light-scattering layers", Sustainable Energy Fuels,8, 54-63, (2024)
5. Cristian Casut, , Raul Bucur, Daniel Ursu, Iosif Malaescu, Marinela Miclau ,,Increasing Electrical Resistivity of p-Type BiFeO3 Ceramics by Hydrogen Peroxide-Assisted Hydrothermal Synthesis", Materials, 16, 3130, (2023)
6. Marius Cristian Mareș, Gheorghe Alexandru Mătușa, Adrian Chesim, Daniel Ursu, Ciprian Ionescu, Paul Svasta, Data Analysis for Several Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Tested at Different Wavelengths and Lighting Conditions, 46th International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology (ISSE), 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISSE57496.2023.10168491, (2023)
7. D. Ursu, M. Vajda, M. -C. Mareș, N. Miclau, M. Miclau and P. Svasta, "Exploring the Photo-Electrochemical Processes of the Parallel Connected DSSCs in Indoor Conditions," 2023 46th International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology (ISSE), 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISSE57496.2023.10168443, (2023).
8. R. Ș. Ricman, M. Marinca, E. Ilies, S. Bularka, A. Gontean and D. Ursu, "Design and Implementation of a Greenhouse Monitoring and Control System," 2023 46th International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology (ISSE), 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISSE57496.2023.10168422 (2023).
9. Daniel Ursu, Melinda Vajda, Marinela Miclau ,,Highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells for wavelength-selective greenhouse: A promising agrivoltaic system", Int J Energy Res.46:18550–18561 (2022)
10. Daniel Ursu, Radu Banică, Melinda Vajda, Corneliu Birtok Baneasa, Marinela Miclau ,,Investigation of silver nanowires in Zn2SnO4 spheres for enhanced dye-sensitized solar cells performance", Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 902, 5, 163890, (2022)
11. Iulia Păusescu, Anamaria Todea, Diana-Maria Dreavă, Tania Boboescu, Bianca Patcan, Larisa Patcan, Daiana Albulescu, Valentin Badea, Francisc Peter, Róbert Totos, Daniel Ursu, Lorant Szolga, Mihai Medeleanu, ,,Experimental and Computational Studies on Bio-Inspired Flavylium Salts as Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells", Materials, 15, 6985, (2022)
12. Ioana Maria Carmen Ienașcu , Adina Căta , Mariana Nela Ştefănuț , Iuliana Popescu, Gerlinde Rusu , Paula Sfîrloagă , Daniel Ursu, Cristina Moşoarcă, Anamaria Dabici , Corina Danciu, Delia Muntean , Raluca Pop, ,,Novel Chloro-Substituted Salicylanilide Derivatives and Their β-Cyclodextrin Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Antibacterial Activity", Biomedicines, 19;10(7), 1740, (2022)
13. Melinda Vajda, Daniel Ursu, Nicolae Miclau, Narcis Duteanu & Marinela Miclau, ,, Fabrication of copper oxide-based dye-sensitized solar cell with high short-circuit current density (JSC) using flexible and binder-free porous photoelectrode", J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 20790–20801 (2022)
14. Daiana Albulescu , Daniel Ursu, Lucian-Mircea Rusnac, Sabina Nitu, Marinela Miclau, Melinda Vajda ,,Investigation of UV Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Water Electrolyte: A New Insight for Wavelength-Selective Greenhouse", Crystals, 12, 98, (2022)
15. N. Miclau, M. Vajda, D. Ursu and M. Miclau, "Preliminary investigation of dye-sensitized solar cells for an optoelectronic neural network with zero electric power consumption," International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications (ISETC), 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ISETC56213.2022.10010323 (2022)
16. Melinda Vajda, Daiana Albulescu, Daniel Ursu, Elisei Ilieş, Magdalena Marinca, Aurel Gontean, Nicolae Miclau, Narcis Duţeanu, Szilard Bularka, Marinela Miclau, ,,Preliminary study for outdoor testing: Effect of Moisture and Temperature on the Stability of UV Dye Sensitized Solar Cells," IEEE 28th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), 58-60, doi: 10.1109/SIITME56728.2022.9987958 (2022)
17. Carmen Lazau, Maria Poienar, Corina Orha, Daniel Ursu, Mircea Nicolaescu, Melinda Vajda, Cornelia Bandas, ,,Development of a new “n-p” heterojunction based on TiO2 and CuMnO2 synergy materials", Materials Chemistry and Physics, 272, 1, 124999, (2021)
18. Albulescu Daiana, Ursu Daniel, Dabici Anamaria, Birdeanu Mihaela, Duteanu Narcis, Popa Simona, Miclau Marinela, Nitu, Sabina ,,Impact of the selectivity of titanium dioxide on photovoltaic performance of anthocyanin-sensitized solar cells", Energy sources, part a: recovery, utilization, and environmental effects, https://doi.org/10.1080/15567036.2021.191880, (2021)
19. D. Ursu, P. Svera, R. Banica ,,Influence of PDS Loading Upon Type CD1–xZnxS Photocatalysts”. J. Water Chem. Technol. 43, 475–482 (2021).
20. P. C. Fannin, O. M. Bunoiu, I. Malaescu, C. N. Marin, D. Ursu, Magnetically tuning microwave propagation parameters in ferrofluids. Eur. Phys. J. E 44, 83 (2021)
21. Melinda Vajda, Daniel Ursu, Cristina Mosoarca, Narcis Duteanu, Marinela Miclau ,, Experimental investigation of hydrogen insertion in copper oxide on photovoltaic performance of p-type dye-sensitized solar cell”, Int J Energy Res., 1–9, (2020)
22. Melinda Vajda, Daniel Ursu, Narcis Duteanu, Marinela Miclau ,,Low lying valence band edge materials based on copper oxide for tandem dye-sensitized solar cells” , Materials Letters, 15, 128151, (2020)
23. Daniel Ursu, Melinda Vajda, Marinela Miclau, ,,Hydrothermal synthesis of 3D hierarchical flower-like CuGaO2 with high surface area for dye-sensitised solar cell”, Micro & Nano Letters, 14, 8, 872-876, (2020)
24. Marinela Miclau, Sanjay Kumar, Daniel Ursu, Corina Orha, Nicolae Miclau, Jean-Michel Rueff, Sylvie Malo, Christine Martin,,Ag2CrO4 for photocatalytic applications: High performance of crystals designed by autogenous pressure”, Materials Characterization, 158, 109970, (2019)
25. Daniel Ursu, Melinda Vajda, Marinela Miclau ,,Investigation of the p-type dye-sensitized solar cell based on full Cu2O electrodes”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 802, 86-92, (2019)
26. Daniel Ursu, Anamaria Dabici, Marinela Miclau, Nicolae Miclau ,,Low-temperature hydrothermal synthesis of hierarchical flower-like CuB2O4 superstructures”, Processing and Application of Ceramics 14, 2 113–118, (2020)
27. Marinela Miclau, Anamaria Dabici, Melinda Vajda, Daniel Ursu*,,CrOOH as high-performance surface passivation material for dye-sensitized solar cell”, Materials Letters, 216, 119-122, (2018)
28. M. Poienar, P. Sfirloaga, C. Martin, D. Ursu, P. Vlazan, Hydrothermal synthesis of crednerite CuMn1−xMxO2 (M = Mg, Al; x = 0–0.08): structural characterisation and magnetic properties. J Mater Sci 53, 2389–2395 (2018)
29. D. Ursu, N. Miclau, M. Miclau ,,n-Type Conductivity of Cu2O Thin Film Prepared in Basic Aqueous Solution Under Hydrothermal Conditions”, Electron. Mater. Lett. 14, 405–412 (2018)
30. D. Ursu, A. Dabici, N. C. Bublea, N. Duteanu, N. Miclau and M. Vajda ,,Effect of mixed-phase copper oxide on photovoltaic performance of p-type dye-sensitized solar cells" International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications (ISETC),1-3, doi: 10.1109/ISETC.2018.8584013, (2018)
31. R. Banica, P. Svera, C. Mosoarca, M. Miclau, T. Nyari, D. Ursu ,,New synthesis method of cheap and highly efficient PdS/Zn1-xCdxS-type photocatalysts for hydrogen production”, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials – Rapid Communications, 12, 9-10, 613 – 616, (2018)
33. Paula Svera, Daniel Niznansky, Mariana Nela Stefanut, Daniel Ursu, Paula Sfirloaga, Anamaria Dabici, Bogdan-Ovidiu Taranu, Ana-Maria Putz, Viorel-Aurel Serban, ,,Studies on the hydrothermal synthesis of CdxZn1-xS compounds”, Processing and Application of Ceramics, 12, 3, 287 – 294, (2018).
33. Radu Banica, Daniel Ursu, Terezia Nyari, Andrea Kellenberger, ,,Two step polyol-solvothermal growth of thick silver nanowires”, Materials Letters,194, 181-184, (2017)
34. Mircea Nicoara, Cosmin Locovei, Carmen Opris, Daniel Ursu, Radu Vasiu, Mihai Stoica ,,Optimizing the parameters for in situ fabrication of hybrid Al-Al2O3 composites”, J Therm Anal Calorim 127, 115–122 (2017)
35. R. Banica, D. Ursu, T. Nyari, A. Kellenberger, Polyol synthesis of silver nanowires in the presence of silver chloride, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 19, 3 - 4, 266 – 271, (2017)
36. M. Miclau, N. Miclau, R. Banica, D. Ursu ,,Effect of polymorphism on photovoltaic performance of CuAlO2 delafossite nanomaterials for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells application”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 4, 7, Part 1, (2017)
37. Mihaela Birdeanu, Mirela Vaida, Daniel Ursu, Eugenia Fagadar-Cosma, ,,Obtaining and characterization of Zn3V2O8 and Mg3V2O8 pseudo binary oxide nanomaterials by hydrothermal method”, AIP Conf. Proc. 1796, 030006 (2017)
38. Radu Banica, Daniel Ursu, Paula Svera, Claudia Sarvas, Stefania F. Rus, Stefan Novaconi, Andrea Kellenberger, Andrei V. Racu, Terezia Nyari, Nicolae Vaszilcsin, ,,Electrical properties optimization of silver nanowires supported on polyethylene terephthalate”, Particulate science and technology 1–6 (2016)
39. D. Ursu, N. Vaszilcsin, R. Banica, and M Miclau ,,Effect of Al Doping on Performance of CuGaO2 p-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”. J. of Materi Eng and Perform, 25, 59–63 (2016)
40. P. Svera, A.V. Racu, C. Mosoarca, D. Ursu, P. A. Linul, R. Baies, R. Banica, Influence of precursor crystallinity on photocatalytic activity of PdS/CdS-ZnS, Journal Of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials,18, 11-12, 1027 – 1032, (2016)
41. Radu Banica, Daniel Ursu, Paula Svera, Claudia Sarvas, Stefania F. Rus, Stefan Novaconi, Andrea Kellenberger, Andrei V. Racu, Terezia Nyari, Nicolae Vaszilcsin, ,,Electrical properties optimization of silver nanowires supported on polyethylene terephthalate”, Particulate Science And Technology, 1–6, (2016)
42. P. Vlazan, D.H. Ursu, C. Irina-Moisescu, I. Miron, P. Sfirloaga, E. Rusu, ,,Structural and electrical properties of TiO2/ZnO core–shell nanoparticles synthesized by hydrothermal method”, Materials Characterization, 101, 153-158, (2015)
43. A.V. Racu, D.H. Ursu, O.V. Kuliukova, C. Logofatu, A. Leca, M. Miclau, ,,Direct low temperature hydrothermal synthesis of YFeO3 microcrystals”, Materials Letters, 140, 107-110, (2015)
44. D. Ursu, M. Miclau, R. Banica, N. Vaszilcsin, ,,Impact of Fe doping on performances of CuGaO2 p-type dye-sensitized solar cells”, Materials Letters, 143, 91-93, (2015)
45. Adina Căta, Marinela Miclău, Ioana Ienaşcu, Daniel Ursu, Cristian Tănasie , Mariana N. Ştefănuţ, ,,Chemical recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste using sub- and supercritical water”, Rev. Roum. Chim., 60(5-6), 579-585, (2015)
46. R. Banica, D. Ursu, P. Linul, T. Nyaria, N. Vaszilcsin, Influence of pH and pressure on the microwave-assisted hydrothermal growth of ZnIn2S4, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials – Rapid Communications, 9, 3-4,511 – 516, (2015)
47. D. Ursu, M. Miclau ,,Thermal stability of nanocrystalline 3R-CuCrO2” J Nanopart Res 16, 2160 (2014)
48. R. Banica, D. Ursu, T. Nyari, P. Svera, N. Vaszilcsin, ,,Study of copper diffusion under solvothermal conditions in In2S3 layers synthesized by spray pyrolysis”, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials,177-8, 1012 – 1020, (2015)
49. D. Ursu, M. Miclău, Grozescu ,,In situ variable temperature X-ray diffraction studies on size scale of CuCrO2 polytypes with delafossite structure” Journal Of Optoelectronics And Advanced Materials, 15,7- 8,768 – 773 (2013)
50. D.H.Ursu, M. Miclău, R. Bănică, I. Grozescu ,,Hydrothermal synthesis and optical characterization of Ni-doped CuCrO2 nanocrystals, Phys. Scr., 014053 (2013)
51. M. Miclau, D. Ursu, S. Kumar, I. Grozescu ,,Hexagonal polytype of CuCrO2 nanocrystals obtained by hydrothermal method”. J Nanopart Res 14, 1110 (2012)
52. I. Miron, D.H.Ursu, M. Miclau, I. Grozescu Sn/SiO2 single crystals growth by the hydrothermal method at high temperatures and pressures, Phys. Scr., 014061, (2012)
53. M. Chirita, R. Banica, A. Ieta, A. Bucur, P. Sfiarloaga, D. H. Ursu, I. Grozescu ,,Highly Crystalline Microparticle Synthesis by Hydrothermal Decomposition of Fe‐EDTA Complex”, AIP Conf. Proc. 1262, 124–129 (2010)