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Glassy carbon

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Understanding the role of surface oxygen-containing functional groups on carbon-supported cobalt catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Andreas Züttel, Kangning Zhao, Liping Zhong, Thi Ha My Pham, Youngdon Ko, Manhui Wei

Supported Co-based catalysts exhibit promising catalytic activities in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during alkaline water electrolysis. Surface functionalization of the support modulates the dispersion of the catalysts and their interaction with the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Cotton yarns decorated with hydrothermally reduced graphene oxide for flexible supercapacitors

Dou Du

Cotton fibers, a natural cellulose, have played a critical role in the development of wearable energy storage, owning to their wearability, integrability, eco-benignity, and cost effectiveness. Graphene, a two-dimensional carbon material, possesses excelle ...

Elsevier2023

Adsorption Behavior of the Coenzyme NADH at the Carbon/ Electrolyte Interface Determined by Neutron Reflectometry

Mary Hannah Wood

The adsorption behavior of beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) at the carbon/electrolyte interface has been studied using a combination of neutron reflectometry (NR) and solution depletion isotherms. Coupling the NR technique with an electrochemi ...

2022

Flowing Gas Experiments Reveal Mechanistic Details of Interfacial Reactions on a Molecular Level at Knudsen Flow Conditions

Christian Ludwig, Michel Rossi, Riccardo Iannarelli

Knudsen flow experiments and its interpretation in terms of adsorption/desorption kinetics as well as quantitative uptake on substrates of interest is presented together with the description of critical design parameters of the Knudsen Flow Reactor (KFR). ...

2022

Quantum vibronic effects on the electronic properties of solid and molecular carbon

Michele Ceriotti

We study the effect of quantum vibronic coupling on the electronic properties of carbon allotropes, including molecules and solids, by combining path integral first principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) with a colored noise thermostat. In addition to avoidi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Nanosecond pulsed laser-processing of CVD diamond

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Marco Cantoni, Sébastien Equis

This work considers the resulting material structural effects of laser-processing chemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond. The utilized 532 nm wavelength laser had a pulse duration of 40 ns together with a spot diameter of ca. 40 mu m. The effect of cutting ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Electrochemical performance of polymer-derived SiOC and SiTiOC ceramic electrodes for artificial cardiac pacemaker applications

Jürgen Brugger, Fatemeh Navaee, Jongmoon Jang, Lorenz Hagelüken

In an implantable electrode, such as a pacemaker electrode, fibrotic tissue formation due to a foreign body reaction is an important challenge affecting the efficiency to transmit the electrical signal of the device. The chemical inertness, biocompatibilit ...

2020

Carbon Nanomaterials from Oligoyne Surfactants

Enzo Jean Raymond Bomal

Carbonaceous nanocoatings such as diamond-like amorphous carbon or graphene layers exhibit remarkable properties in multiple fields, ranging from corrosion protection to electronics and lubrication. However, they are typically deposited from the vapor phas ...

EPFL2020

Gold and silver bio/nano-hybrids-based electrochemical immunosensor for ultrasensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigen

Sandro Carrara, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani

Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is an important oncomarker for the detection of breast cancer. For ultra-sensitive sensing of CEA with great specificity and accuracy, an innovative and reliable electrochemical immunosensor was developed using various nano-h ...

2019

Inkjet printing and electrocatalysis

Victor Costa Bassetto

The transition in energy matrix, from fossil to renewable energy sources, will require the utilization of grid levelling alternatives to cope with the intermittent characteristic of renewable energy. Advanced electrochemical energy conversion and storage d ...

EPFL2019

Hydrogen sieving from intrinsic defects of benzene-derived single-layer graphene

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Shiqi Huang, Mojtaba Chevalier, Jing Zhao, Mina Moradi

Single-layer graphene films, crystallized by chemical vapor deposition, host a low density of vacancy defects that are attractive for the size-sieving of molecules. The size and the density of such defects are a function of the growth temperature and the c ...

2019

Electrochemical Behavior of Carbon Electrodes for In Situ Redox Studies in a Transmission Electron Microscope

Vasiliki Tileli, Robin Pierre Alain Girod, Nikolaos Nianias

Electrochemical liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a unique technique for probing nanocatalyst behavior during operation for a range of different electrocatalytic processes, including hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution r ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2019

Enhanced Sensing of Interleukin 8 by Stripping Voltammetry: Carbon Nanotubes versus Fullerene

Sandro Carrara, Tugba Kilic, Sarah Tonello

The ability to detect protein biomarkers at a subnanomolar level represents a pervasive challenge in order to bring a significant improvement in early diagnosis or progression of pato-physiological processes. To this aim, Screen Printed Electrochemical Sen ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD2018

Photosensitized Hydrogen Evolution on a Floating Electrocatalyst Coupled to Electrochemical Recycling

Hubert Girault, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta

Photoexcited protonated tetrathiafulvalene (HTTF+) was found to act as a photosensitizer, injecting electrons into Pt microparticles (floating electrocatalysts) to produce H2 and TTF•+ in acidic acetonitrile. In addition, TTF•+ was electrochemically reduce ...

2018

Influence of Ablation on Vacuum-Ultraviolet Radiation in a Plasma Wind Tunnel Flow

Pénélope Leyland

Plasma wind tunnel experiments have been performed simulating a Hayabusa reentry trajectory point at 78.8km altitude with a velocity of 11.7km/s corresponding to a local mass-specific enthalpy of 68.4MJ/kg and a stagnation pressure of 2.44kPa. Ablation-rad ...

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics2017

Multimaterial Nanoporous Membranes Shaped through High Aspect-Ratio Sacrificial Silicon Nanostructures

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Niccolo Piacentini, Stefano Silvio Giovanni Varricchio

We present an innovative fabrication method for solid-state nanoporous membranes based on the casting of sacrificial silicon nanostructures. The process allows the individual definition of geometry and placement of each nanopore through e-beam lithography ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

On the Limits of Precision Glass Molding for Diffractive Optical Elements

Karin Prater

Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) consist of surface reliefs with dimensions in the micrometer range and nanometer precision. Two technologies dominate: Elements replicated in plastic and directly microfabricated elements in fused silica. Plastic DOEs ar ...

EPFL2017

Columnar self-assembly of N,N ',N ''-trihexylbenzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamides investigated by means of NMR spectroscopy and computational methods in solution and the solid state

Diego Carnevale

The columnar self-assembly resulting from units of N, N', N"-trihexylbenzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide is investigated in solution and the solid state by means of NMR spectroscopy. A parallel computational study utilizing both semiempirical and DFT methods allo ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Precision glass molding of high-resolution diffractive optical elements

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Karin Prater

The demand of high resolution diffractive optical elements (DOE) is growing. Smaller critical dimensions allow higher deflection angles and can fulfill more demanding requirements, which can only be met by using electron-beam lithography. Replication techn ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Order/Disorder Dynamics in a Dodecanethiol-Capped Gold Nanoparticles Supracrystal by Small-Angle Ultrafast Electron Diffraction

Francesco Stellacci, Fabrizio Carbone, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Javier Reguera Gomez, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Francesco Pennacchio

The design and the characterization of functionalized gold nanoparticles supracrystals require atomically resolved information on both the metallic core and the external organic ligand shell. At present, there is no known approach to characterize simultane ...

American Chemical Society2016