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Galvani potential

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Fluoride-Rich, Organic-Inorganic Gradient Interphase Enabled by Sacrificial Solvation Shells for Reversible Zinc Metal Batteries

Lei Zhang, Kangning Zhao

Zinc metal batteries are strongly hindered by water corrosion, as solvated zinc ions would bring the active water molecules to the electrode/electrolyte interface constantly. Herein, we report a sacrificial solvation shell to repel active water molecules f ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Local stiffness and work function variations of hexagonal boron nitride on Cu(111)

Klaus Kern, Markus Ternes, Abhishek Grewal

Combined scanning tunnelling and atomic force microscopy using a qPlus sensor enables the measurement of electronic and mechanic properties of two-dimensional materials at the nanoscale. In this work, we study hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), an atomically ...

BEILSTEIN-INSTITUT2021

Discrete Helmholtz charge distribution at liquid-liquid interfaces: Electrocapillarity, capacitance and non-linear spectroscopy studies

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

The structure of the polarised interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) has usually been deduced from electrocapillarity and capacitance measurements. However, these two methods only offer an indirect access to the surface change dens ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

How to polarise an interface with ions: the discrete Helmholtz model

Hubert Girault, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

The distribution of electrolytes in an electric field usually relies on theories based on the Poisson-Boltzmann formalism. These models predict that, in the case of a metallic electrode, ionic charges screen the electrode potential, leading to concentratio ...

2020

Highly spatially resolved mapping of the piezoelectric potentials in InGaN quantum well structures by off-axis electron holography

Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

The internal fields in 2.2nm thick InGaN quantum wells in a GaN LED structure have been investigated by using aberration-corrected off-axis electron holography with a spatial resolution of better than 1nm. To improve the spatial resolution, different types ...

2020

Mapping Electrochemical Heterogeneity at Gold Surfaces: A Second Harmonic Imaging Study

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Igor Nahálka

Designing efficient catalysts requires correlating surface structure and local chemical composition with reactivity on length scales from nanometers to tens of microns. While much work has been done on this structure/function correlation on single crystals ...

2020

On-Site Purification of Copper-Contaminated Vanadium Electrolytes by using a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

Hubert Girault, Heron Vrubel, Danick Reynard, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Alberto Battistel

Corrosion of carbon-based electrodes and bipolar plates is a major hurdle and can be a cause of failure in commercial vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs). Carbon corrosion was found to occur in a commercial VRFB (10 kW/40 kWh), whereby cracks through bip ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

An ultra-fast mechanically active cell culture substrate

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Cristina Martin Olmos, Matthias Imboden, Alexandre Poulin, Francesca Sorba

We present a mechanically active cell culture substrate that produces complex strain patterns and generates extremely high strain rates. The transparent miniaturized cell stretcher is compatible with live cell microscopy and provides a very compact and por ...

Nature Research2018

Electrovariable gold nanoparticle films at liquid–liquid interfaces: from redox electrocatalysis to Marangoni-shutters

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

Control over the physical properties of nanoparticle assemblies at a liquid–liquid interface is a key technological advancement to realize the dream of smart electrovariable nanosystems. Electrified interfaces, such as the interface between two immiscible ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Electronic and structural characterization of barrier-type amorphous aluminium oxide

Alfredo Pasquarello, Francesco Ambrosio, Claudia Cancellieri

The structural, electronic, and dielectric properties of barrier -type anodic Al oxides prepared with various thicknesses have been investigated. The planar and cross morphologies as well as the surface charge distribution were investigated as a function o ...

Elsevier2017

Battery

Pekka Eero Peljo

In a battery system, an electrochemical cell has a first compartment containing a positive electrolyte with an electrode 2 at least partially immersed in the positive electrolyte containing the first redox active material, forming a positive half cell. A s ...

2017

Ion Transfer Battery: Storing Energy by Transferring Ions across Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo

A battery utilizing the Galvani potential difference between aqueous and organic phases is demonstrated. The battery consists of two organic redox electrolytes separated by an immiscible aqueous phase. The charge is stored by transferring a salt from the a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Contact potentials, Fermi level equilibration and surface charging

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo

This paper focuses on contact electrification from thermodynamic equilibration of the electron electrochemical potentials of two conductors upon contact. The contact potential difference generated in bimetallic macro- and nanosystems, the Fermi level after ...

American Chemical Society2016

Metal-Coated SU-8 Structures for High-Density 3-D Microelectrode Arrays

Carlotta Guiducci, Samuel Kilchenmann, Pietro Maoddi, Enrica Rollo

Electric fields can be effectively used to sense, manipulate, and move particles in lab-on-a-chip devices. Nevertheless, the throughput of such devices is a critical issue, which can be effectively improved by increasing the height of the microchannels. Fo ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Kinetic differentiation of bulk/interfacial oxygen reduction mechanisms at/near liquid/liquid interfaces using scanning electrochemical microscopy

Hubert Girault, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Pekka Eero Peljo, Dmitry Momotenko, Haiqiang Deng, Thomas James Stockmann

The present work describes the application of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) in the feedback mode to determine the kinetics of oxygen reduction at or near the liquid/liquid interface – between water and 1,2-dichloroethane (w/DCE). The system co ...

Elsevier2014

Electrochemical Control of Two-Color Emission from Colloidal Dot-in-Bulk Nanocrystals

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland

Colloidal "dot-in-bulk" nanocrystals (DiB NCs) consist of a quantum confined core embedded into a bulklike shell of a larger energy gap. The first reported example of this class of nanostructures are CdSe/CdS DiB NCs that are capable of producing tunable t ...

American Chemical Society2014

Hydrogen Peroxide Generation at Liquid|Liquid Interface under Conditions Unfavorable for Proton Transfer from Aqueous to Organic Phase

Hubert Girault

The charge transfer processes across the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) can be employed for energy storage and conversion, solvent extraction, or sensing or in life sciences. Among them are catalytic reactions, which have on ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Segmented Field OFFGEL® Electrophoresis

Hubert Girault, Julien Maillard, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Dmitry Momotenko, Elena Tobolkina

A multielectrode setup for protein OFFGEL electrophoresis that significantly improves protein separation efficiency has been developed. Here, the electric field is applied by segments between seven electrodes connected in series to six independent power su ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Structural Determinants of the Sign of the Pyroelectric Effect in Quasi-Amorphous SrTiO3 Films

Alexander Tagantsev

The magnitude and direction of the permanent electric polarization in the non-crystalline, polar phase (termed quasi-amorphous) of SrTiO3 in Si\SiO2\Me\SrTiO3\Me, (Me = Cr or W), Si\SrRuO3\SrTiO3, and Si\SrTiO3 layered structures were investigated. Three p ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Oxygen reduction catalyzed by a fluorinated tetraphenylporphyrin free base at liquid/liquid interfaces

Hubert Girault, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Bin Su, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Imren Hatay

The diprotonated form of a fluorinated free base porphyrin, namely 5-(p-aminophenyl)-10,15,20-tris(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin (H(2)FAP), can catalyze the reduction of oxygen by a weak electron donor, namely ferrocene (Fc). At a water/1,2-dichloroethane in ...

American Chemical Society2010