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Exploring Perovskite-Metal Nanoassemblies for Photocatalytic Applications

The development of sustainable, renewable and economic chemical processes lies in the centre of todayâ s global energy challenge. Like in plants, artificial photosynthesis offers an auspicious solution in harvesting solar energy and storing it in chemical ...

EPFL2020

Trisubstituted geminal diazaalkene derived transient 1,2-carbodications

Shubhajit Das

The coulombic repulsion between two adjacent cation centres of 1,2-carbodications is known to decrease with pi- and/or n-donor substituents by a positive charge delocalization. Here we report the delocalization of the positive charge of transient 1,2-carbo ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Two-dimensional nanochannel membranes for molecular and ionic separations

Guangwei He, Yifan Li, Shaoyu Wang

Two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets have emerged as promising functional materials owing to their atomic thickness and unique physical/chemical properties. By using 2D nanosheets as building blocks, diverse kinds of two-dimensional nanochannel membranes (2DNCM ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Thermomechanical Nanocutting of 2D Materials

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio, Samuel Tobias Howell

Atomically thin materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, are promising candidates for future applications in micro/nanodevices and systems. For most applications, functional nanostructures have to be patterned by lithography. Devel ...

Wiley2020

Molecular Engineering of Electrode Surfaces for Electrocatalysis

Patrick Eduard Alexa

Electrocatalysts play an important part on the route towards environmental friendly energy sources. They support modern technologies like fuel cells to move further away from the utilization of fossil fuels and the resulting CO2 emission into our atmospher ...

EPFL2020

Gold Chain Formation via Local Lifting of Surface Reconstruction by Hot Electron Injection on H-2(D-2)/Au(111)

Klaus Kern, Anna Maria Roslawska, Abhishek Grewal

The hexagonal close packed surface of gold shows a 22 x root 3 "herringbone" surface reconstruction which makes it unique among the (111) surfaces of all metals. This long-range energetically favored dislocation pattern appears in response to the strong te ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Functional and Responsive Polymers via Controlled Radical Polymerization

Jian Wang

This Thesis is built around 4 topics, which share in common that they all take advantage of the assets of controlled radical polymerization to either (i) prepare well-defined model systems to address fundamental research questions with regard to the sensit ...

EPFL2020

Analysis of the inter-species power balance in JET plasmas

Henri Weisen, Mikhail Maslov

Most auxiliary heating methods provide heating to more than one particle species (electrons, ions, impurities) in a fusion plasma. This can lead to substantial temperature differences between species, depending on conditions such as heating power to the di ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Discovery of a self-healing catalyst for the hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane

Emad Oveisi, Mounir Driss Mensi, Kyriakos Stylianou, Ngoc Tú Nguyên, Andrzej Gladysiak, Fatmah Ebrahim, Bardiya Valizadeh, Fatma Pelin Uran

Sustainable catalysts based on earth-abundant elements are considered as economical alternatives to precious-metal-bearing catalysts and could be impactful for many applications. Self-healing sustainable catalysts, which in addition to their 'green' charac ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

An ultrathin cobalt-iron oxide catalyst for water oxidation on nanostructured hematite photoanodes

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Jingshan Luo, Laurent Liardet

The harvesting of sunlight by a photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell to split water into hydrogen and oxygen is an attractive strategy to store solar energy in the form of chemical bonds. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) remains a bottleneck for the developm ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Molybdenum-Based Ternary Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles

Hubert Girault

The search for highly active earth-abundant elements and nonexpensive catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction is a vital and demanding task to minimize energy consumption. Transition metals incorporated into molybdenum sulfides are promising candidates f ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019