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Dynamic hydrogen electrode

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Photochemical oxidation of phenols and anilines mediated by phenoxyl radicals in aqueous solution

Urs von Gunten, Stephanie Christa Remke

Reactive intermediates formed upon irradiation of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) contribute to the degradation of various organic contaminants in surface waters. Besides well-studied "short-lived" photo oxidants, such as triplet state CDOM (3 ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Bulk Heterojunction Organic Semiconductor Photoanodes: Tuning Energy Levels to Optimize Electron Injection

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Arvindh Sekar, Han-Hee Cho, Juan Manuel Moreno Naranjo, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich

The use of a bulk heterojunction of organic semiconductors to drive photoelectrochemical water splitting is an emerging trend; however, the optimum energy levels of the donor and acceptor have not been established for photoanode operation with respect to e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Solid-state synthesis of CdFe2O4 binary catalyst for potential application in renewable hydrogen fuel generation

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Clean energy is highly needed at this time when the energy requirements are rapidly increasing. The observed increasing energy requirement are largely due to continued industrialization and global population explosion. The current means of energy source is ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Engineering of PEM-PEC photocathodes for solar-driven hydrogen production

Marina Caroline Michèle Caretti

Earth has always been in perpetual evolution, but today we must face its rapid change due to human activity. The intensification of industrial activities and transportation to support our modern lifestyles are the main causes of climate change and the adve ...

EPFL2022

New Insights into the Interface of Electrochemical Flow Cells for Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Ethylene

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Dan Ren, Jing Gao

The implementation of an electrochemical flow cell has enabled improved efficiency for CO2 reduction. However, in situ spectroscopic insights into the interface are still lacking. Here, we investigate a series of copper layers with different thicknesses on ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Enhanced transformation of aquatic organic compounds by long-lived photooxidants (LLPO) produced from dissolved organic matter

Urs von Gunten, Stephanie Christa Remke

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays a crucial role in the photochemical transformation of organic contaminants in natural aquatic systems. The present study focuses on the characterization of a specific effect previously observed for electron-rich phenols ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

A semiconducting polymer bulk heterojunction photoanode for solar water oxidation

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Arvindh Sekar, Rebekah Anne Wells, Han-Hee Cho

Organic semiconductors hold promise to enable scalable, low-cost and high-performance artificial photosynthesis. However, the performance of systems based on organic semiconductors for light-driven water oxidation have remained poor compared with inorganic ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Ablation in Externally Applied Electric and Magnetic Fields

Yves Bellouard, Tao Yang

To harness light-matter interactions at the nano-/micro-scale, better tools for control must be developed. Here, it is shown that by applying an external electric and/or magnetic field, ablation of Si and glass under ultra-short (sub-1 ps) laser pulse irra ...

2020

Hydrogen storage and electrochemical properties of LaNi5-xCux hydride-forming alloys

Andreas Züttel, Natalia Gasilova, Mariana Spodaryk

LaNi5-type alloys are commercial materials for the negative electrode in Ni-MH rechargeable batteries. Partial substitution of La by mischmetal (Mm) and of Ni by elements like Co, Al, and Mn significantly improve the cycle stability and high-rate discharge ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Boosting the performance of Cu2O photocathodes for unassisted solar water splitting devices

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Amita Ummadisingu, Linfeng Pan, Minkyu Son, Jinhyun Kim

Although large research efforts have been devoted to photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting in the past several decades, the lack of efficient, stable and Earth-abundant photoelectrodes remains a bottleneck for practical application. Here, we report a ...

2018

Photoelectrochemical deposition of CoP on cuprous oxide photocathodes for solar hydrogen production

Xile Hu, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Lucas-Alexandre Stern, Laurent Liardet, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is an attractive and sustainable energy conversion method. In this work, cobalt phosphide (CoP) is photoelectrochemically deposited on a p-type cuprous oxide (pCu(2)O) photocathode for solar hydrogen production. U ...

Elsevier2017

A copper nickel mixed oxide hole selective layer for Au-free transparent cuprous oxide photocathodes

Michael Graetzel, Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Marcel Roland Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Minkyu Son

State-of-the-art cuprous oxide (Cu2O) photocathodes for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting have a long tradition of using gold (Au)-coated F-doped SnO2 (FTO) substrates for the improvement of Cu2O electrodeposition and overall PEC performance. Au i ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

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

All Solution-Processed, Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Photocathode for Hydrogen Evolution

Michael Graetzel, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Marcel Roland Schreier

Nowadays, the efficient, stable, and scalable conversion of solar energy into chemical fuels represents a great scientific, economic, and ethical challenge. Amongst the available candidate technologies, photoelectrochemical water splitting potentially has ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Enhancing the Performance of a Robust Sol-Gel-Processed p-Type Delafossite CuFeO2 Photocathode for Solar Water Reduction

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Delafossite CuFeO2 is a promising material for solar hydrogen production, but is limited by poor photocurrent. Strategies are demonstrated herein to improve the performance of CuFeO2 electrodes prepared directly on transparent conductive substrates by usin ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2015

Study of the Redox Properties of Singlet and Triplet Tris(2,2 '-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) ([Ru(bpy)(3)](2+)) in Aqueous Solution by Full Quantum and Mixed Quantum/Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Jérôme Florian Gonthier, Polydefkis Diamantis

The oxidation of ground-state (singlet) and triplet Ru(bpy)(3) were studied by full quantum-mechanical (QM) and mixed quantum/classical (QM/MM) molecular dynamics simulations. Both approaches provide reliable results for the redox potentials of the t ...

2014

Hydrogen and Hydrogen Peroxide Formation in Trifluorotoluene-Water Biphasic Systems

Hubert Girault, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta

Hydrogen or hydrogen peroxide can be generated in liquid-liquid biphasic systems, where the organic phase contains sufficiently strong electron donor (whose redox potential is lower than the potential of reversible hydrogen electrode). H2O2 generation with ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Understanding the Role of Underlayers and Overlayers in Thin Film Hematite Photoanodes

Michael Graetzel, Stanley David Tilley, Ludmilla Steier

Recent research on photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting has introduced the concept of under-and overlayers for the activation of ultrathin hematite films. Their effects on the photocatalytic behavior were clearly shown; however, the mechani ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Ruthenium Oxide Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis on Composite Cuprous Oxide Water-Splitting Photocathodes

Michael Graetzel, Morgan Mertens Stefik, Marcel Roland Schreier, Stanley David Tilley

Photocathodes based on cuprous oxide (Cu2O) are promising materials for large scale and widespread solar fuel generation due to the abundance of copper, suitable bandgap, and favorable band alignments for reducing water and carbon dioxide. A protective ove ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Hydrogen evolution from a copper(I) oxide photocathode coated with an amorphous molybdenum sulphide catalyst

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Stanley David Tilley, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Concerns over climate change resulting from accumulation of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the uncertainty in the amount of recoverable fossil fuel reserves are driving forces for the development of renewable, carbon-neutral energy tech ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

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Enhanced transformation of aquatic organic compounds by long-lived photooxidants (LLPO) produced from dissolved organic matter

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Study of the Redox Properties of Singlet and Triplet Tris(2,2 '-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) ([Ru(bpy)(3)](2+)) in Aqueous Solution by Full Quantum and Mixed Quantum/Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Jérôme Florian Gonthier, Polydefkis Diamantis

2014