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Hydrogenation of ZnFe2O4 Flat Films: Effects of the Pre-Annealing Temperature on the Photoanodes Efficiency for Water Oxidation

Kevin Sivula, Charles Roger Jean Lhermitte

The effects induced by post-synthesis hydrogenation on ZnFe2O4 flat films in terms of photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance of photoanodes for water oxidation have been deeply investigated as a function of the pre-annealing temperature of the materials. T ...

2020

Small Molecule Activation by Multimetallic Uranium Complexes

Marta Falcone

The development of new processes for the selective and sustainable transformation of abundant small molecules constitutes one of the major research areas in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. These molecules as CO2, CO, N2 and H2 are abundant reservoi ...

EPFL2019

Stronger Reductive Environment in Solvothermal Synthesis Leads to Improved Ga Doping Efficiency in ZnO Nanocrystals and Enhanced Plasmonic Absorption

Reinis Ignatans

The key parameter for degenerated semiconductor oxide plasmonic nanocrystals is the doping level. Hydrothermal and solvothermal approaches are considered to be less effective toward achieving high concentration of aliovalent donor dopants in a host oxide w ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2019

Highly dispersed cobalt oxides nanoparticles on activated carbon fibres as efficient structured catalysts for the transfer hydrogenation of m-nitrostyrene

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lioubov Kiwi, Oliver Anthony Beswick

The facile preparation of structured catalysts featuring highly-dispersed non-precious metal (Fe, Ni, Co) oxide nanoparticles stabilized within a super-microporous network of activated carbon fibres (ACF) is described. The catalyst morphology was controlle ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Fully inkjet printed SnO2 gas sensor on plastic substrate

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, El Hadji Malick Camara

A tin dioxide (SnO2) sensor was fabricated by inkjet printing onto polyimide foil. Gold electrodes and heater were printed on each side of the substrate. A SnO2 based ink was developed by sol-gel method and jetted onto the electrodes. A final annealing at ...

Elsevier2016

Thiazolium carbene catalysts for the fixation of CO2 onto amines

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Safak Bulut, Shoubhik Das, Mylène Soudani

The catalytic N-formylation and N-methylation of amines using CO2 as the carbon source represents a facile and sustainable approach for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and natural products. Herein, we describe highly effective and inexpensive thiazolium c ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Iron oxide nanoparticles supported on activated carbon fibers catalyze chemoselective reduction of nitroarenes under mild conditions

Lioubov Kiwi, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Oliver Anthony Beswick

Highly dispersed iron oxide (Fe2O3) nanoparticles (NPs) have been immobilized on structured supports of activated carbon fibers (ACF). Systematic catalyst characterizations suggest that ACF-based catalysts remain ultra-microporous after Fe2O3 NPs (similar ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Highly Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitro- to Azoarenes under Ambient Conditions

Lioubov Kiwi, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Catalytic system of Au nanoparticles supported on metal oxides has been developed to produce azoarenes in one-step directly from nitroarenes under mild conditions (30 °C, 1 bar of N2) using 2-propanol as solvent and reducing agent. Close to 100 % chemosele ...

Springer/Plenum Publishers2014

Impact of organic-ligand shell on catalytic performance of colloidal Pd nanoparticles for alkyne gas-phase hydrogenation

Lioubov Kiwi, Daniel André Samuel Lamey

Monodispersed Pd nanoparticles (NPs) have been prepared by colloidal technique and deposited on a structured support consisting of carbon nanofibers (CNF) grown on sintered metal fibres (SMF). The surface properties of Pd NPs have been fine-tuned by (i) ch ...

Elsevier2014

Stable isotope (S, C) chemostratigraphy and hydrocarbon biomarkers in the Ediacaran upper section of Sierras Bayas Group, Argentina

Mariluz Bagnoud

The Neoproterozoic sedimentary successions of the Sierras Bayas Group (SBG) are situated within the Tandilia Belt, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The Loma Negra Formation (LNF) from the upper part of the SBG has been investigated using a combination of ...

Elsevier2013

The Effect of Free-Atmosphere Stratification on Boundary-Layer Flow and Power Output from Very Large Wind Farms

Fernando Porté Agel, Mahdi Abkar

Large-eddy simulation is used to study the influence of free-atmosphere stratification on the structure of atmospheric boundary-layer flow inside and above very large wind farms, as well as the power extracted by the wind turbines. In the simulations, tuni ...

Mdpi Ag2013

Luminescence studies on photostimulable phosphor CsBr:Eu2+

Giovanni Dietler, Serguei Sekatski, Kanat Dukenbayev

Photostimulable phosphor CsBr:Eu2+ is prepared through a solid-state reaction. The effect of annealing atmosphere on photoluminescence and photostimulated luminescence was investigated. Optimum luminescence intensity was obtained when samples were prepared ...

Taylor & Francis2013

Ruthenium-catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Addition Reactions

Kay Severin

Certain ruthenium complexes are potent catalysts for atom transfer radical addition (ATRA) and cyclization (ATRC) reactions, in particular if they are used in conjunction with reducing agents such as magnesium. This short overview summarizes recent develop ...

2012

Hydrogen evolution at polarised liquid/liquid interfaces catalyzed by molybdenum disulfide

Hubert Girault, Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Peiyu Ge, Imren Hatay

Molybdenum disulfide microparticles in suspension in an aqueous acidic solution adsorb at the interface with an organic electrolyte solution containing the reducing agent, decamethylferrocene, to catalyse hydrogen evolution. This catalytic process has been ...

2011

Sequential ATRA-Reductive Cyclopropanation Reactions with a Ruthenium Catalyst in the Presence of Manganese

Kay Severin

Atom-transfer radical addition (ATRA) reactions of ethyl trichloroacetate, dichloromalononitrile, or diethyl 2,2-dichloromalonate with olefins followed by dechlorination have provided functionalized cyclopropanes in one step. The RuIII complex [Cp*RuCl2(PP ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

The electro-deoxidation of dense titanium dioxide precursors in molten calcium chloride giving a new reaction pathway

Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander

A new study is presented on the electro-deoxidation of porous TiO2 precursors in molten calcium chlo- ride electrolytes. It is shown that by reducing precursor open porosity from standard values of ≥25% to ∼11–12%, such that there is insufficient free volu ...

Elsevier2011

Detection of hydrogen peroxide produced at a liquid/liquid interface using scanning electrochemical microscopy

Hubert Girault, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Bin Su

Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) was used to monitor in situ hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) produced at a polarized water/1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) interface. The water/DCE interface was formed between a DCE droplet containing decamethylferrocene (DMFc) ...

Elsevier2009

Comparative dissolution kinetics of biogenic and chemogenic uraninite under oxidizing conditions in the presence of carbonate

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Harish Veeramani, Jonathan Sharp

The long-term stability of biogenic uraninite with respect to oxidative dissolution is pivotal to the success of in situ bioreduction strategies for the subsurface remediation of uranium legacies. Batch and flow-through dissolution experiments were conduct ...

Elsevier2009

H2O2 generation by decamethylferrocene at a liquid | liquid interface

Hubert Girault, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Bin Su, Michel Prudent, Mohamad Hojeij

Hydrogen peroxide generation at a liquid|liquid interface occurs with a yield of 20 % with respect to the concentration of reducing agent (decamethylferrocene). The liquid|liquid interface supplies electrons from the reducing agent and protons from the aqu ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2008

Fabrication of gold nano- and microstructures in ionic liquids - A remarkable anion effect

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei

Au nano- and microstructures such as polyhedral crystals, large single-cryst. nanoplates, hollow trapeziform crystals, holey polyhedra, and dendrites were produced via microwave heating of HAuCl4·4H2O in a variety of ionic liqs. (ILs) in the absence of cap ...

2008