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Propylene oxide

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Biobased surfactant

Jeremy Luterbacher, Stefania Bertella, Songlan Sun, Anastasiia Komarova

The present invention relates to a compound of the general formula (I), (II) and (III), more specifically of formula (Ia), (Ib), (Ic)wherein R11 and R12 or R21 and R22 or R31 and R32 are both hydrogen or form together with CHR50 a cyclic moiety or one of R ...

2024

Biobased surfactant

Jeremy Luterbacher, Stefania Bertella, Songlan Sun, Anastasiia Komarova

The present invention relates to a compound of the general formula (I), and (II)wherein one of R11 and R12 is hydrogen and the other is -CH2-R70, and one of R13 and R14 is hydrogen and the other is -CH2-R71, or wherein one of R11 and R12 is hydrogen and th ...

2024

Toward Sustainable and Cost-Effective CO2 Conversion Processes to Propylene Carbonate Based on Ionic Liquids

Elia Mercedes Ruiz Pachon

The use of ionic liquids (ILs) for CO2 capture and utilization into a valuable product is attracting interest even though literature evaluating their sustainability is scarce. A liquid-liquid extraction (LLE)-based separation is recently proposed as an alt ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Investigation of Ethylene and Propylene Production from CO2 Reduction over Copper Nanocubes in an MEA-Type Electrolyzer

Raffaella Buonsanti, Valery Okatenko

Previous work carried out in fully liquid environ-ments and at low current densities has demonstrated that highly uniform faceted copper nanocrystals display different selectivity profiles in CO2 reduction compared to polycrystalline copper. As part of ong ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Silver oxide model surface improves computational simulation of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy on silver nanoparticles

Tzu-Heng Chen

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) coupled with density functional theory (DFT) computations can characterise the adsorption orientation of a molecule on a nanoparticle surface. When using DFT to simulate SERS on a silver surface, one typically emp ...

2021

Catalyst design for C-O bond hydrogenolysis of renewable materials

Antoine Philippe Van Muyden

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions leading to climate change require to use of renewable carbon sources such as CO2 and biomass which differ from fossil resources by having a higher number of oxygen atoms. Therefore, catalytic C-O bond cleavage will pl ...

EPFL2020

Photochemical Functionalization of Heterocycles with EBX Reagents: C-H Alkynylation versus Deconstructive Ring Cleavage

Jérôme Waser, Marion Marie-Agnès Garreau

The development of novel methodologies for the functionalization of saturated heterocycles is highly desirable. Herein, we report a cheap and efficient photochemical method for the C-H functionalization of saturated O-heterocycles, as well as the deconstru ...

2020

Pivotal role of the redox-active tyrosine in driving the water splitting catalyzed by photosystem II

Leonardo Guidoni, Daniele Narzi

Photosynthetic water oxidation is catalyzed by the Mn4Ca cluster in photosystem II (PSII). The nearby redox-active tyrosine (Y-Z) serves as a direct electron acceptor of the Mn4Ca cluster and it forms a low-barrier H-bond (LBHB) with a neighboring histidin ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Indirect CO2 Methanation: Hydrogenolysis of Cyclic Carbonates Catalyzed by Ru-Modified Zeolite Produces Methane and Diols

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Zhangjun Huang, Wei-Tse Lee

We report a ruthenium‐modified zeolite which efficiently transforms propylene carbonate to propylene glycol and methane, under solvent‐free conditions. The catalyst achieved high product selectivity and no significant ageing effect was observed after multi ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

The Effect of Surface Reconstruction on the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Properties of LaMnO3

Vasiliki Tileli, Reinis Ignatans

Perovskites have been widely studied for electrocatalysis due to the exceptional activity they exhibit for surface-mediated redox reactions. To date, descriptors based on density functional theory calculations or experimental measurements have assumed a bu ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Technical Note: Development of chemoinformatic tools to enumerate functional groups in molecules for organic aerosol characterization

Satoshi Takahama, Giulia Ruggeri

Functional groups (FGs) can be used as a reduced representation of organic aerosol composition in both ambient and controlled chamber studies, as they retain a certain chemical specificity. Furthermore, FG composition has been informative for source apport ...

Copernicus GmbH2016

Designing interactions across interfaces in ionic liquids

Valentin Michael Manzanares

Ionic liquids (ILs) have attracted much attention because of their unusual charac- teristics (vapor pressure, condictivity, etc.). Furthermore, they can be designed to display desired properties specific to an application (task-specific ionic liquid, TSILs ...

EPFL2016

Conversion of chitin derived N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (NAG) into polyols over transition metal catalysts and hydrogen in water

Ning Yan, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Xi Chen

N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine (NAG), the monomer of the world's second most abundant biopolymer chitin, has been for the first time converted to its corresponding amide/amino substituted sugar alcohols, smaller C2-4 polyols and N-acetylmonoethanolamine (NMEA), ov ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Defect levels of carbon-related defects at the SiC/SiO2 interface from hybrid functionals

Alfredo Pasquarello, Peter Broqvist, Audrius Alkauskas, Fabien Devynck

We investigate carbon single-atom and pair defects at the SiC/SiO2 interface as candidate defects for the density of defect states in the SiC band gap. In order to accurately describe the electronic defect levels with respect to the SiC band edges, we use ...

2011

In vitro uptake of amphiphilic, hydrogel nanoparticles by J774A.1 cells

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

We here report improved synthesis and in vitro interactions of amphiphilic hydrogel nanoparticles with the macrophage cell line J774A.1. Nanoparticles comprising dispersed hydrophobic nanodomains of poly(propylene glycol) within a continuous phase of hydro ...

2010

Aggregation Behavior of Poly(ethylene glycol-bl-propylene sulfide) Di- and Triblock Copolymers in Aqueous Solution

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

Block copolymers of poly(ethylene glycol)-bl-poly(propylene sulfide) (PEG-PPS) have recently emerged as a new macromolecular amphiphile capable of forming a wide range of morphologies when dispersed in water. To understand better the relationship between s ...

2009

Extracellular matrix binding mixed micelles for drug delivery applications

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Jutta Christine Wandrey, Davide Demurtas

Received 5 January 2009 Accepted 22 March 2009 Available online 27 March 2009 Keywords: Mixed micelles Drug delivery Block copolymers Sirolimus Extracellular matrix We present the formation of collagen-binding mixed micelles and their potential suitability ...

2009

Surface characterization of MnxGe1-x and CryMnxGe1-x-y dilute magnetic semiconductors

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Pietro Gambardella, Laurent Claude

We have used x-ray photoemission electron microscopy (XPEEM) and x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) to characterize MnxGe1-x and CryMnxGe1-x-y films grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The surface layers of the as-grown films probed by XPEEM present segregat ...

2007

Dynamic properties of sandwich structures with integrated shear-thickening fluids

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Véronique Michaud, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, John Christopher Plummer, Christian Fischer

The integration of shear-thickening fluids (STFs) into composite structures has been investigated with the aim of tuning part stiffness and damping capacity under dynamic deformation. Results from oscillatory rheological measurements for a STF based on con ...

2006

Development of a novel drug delivery system based on polymeric, thermoresponsive, hydrogel nanoparticles

Carrier-mediated drug delivery has emerged as a powerful methodology for the treatment of various pathologies. The therapeutic index of traditional and novel drugs is enhanced via the increase of specificity due to targeting of drugs to a particular tissue ...

EPFL2005