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Well-Defined Copper-Based Nanocatalysts for Selective Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Ethylene and Ethanol

Raffaella Buonsanti, Kevin Rossi, Ludovic Emile Frédy Zaza

The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) holds the promise to revolutionize the chemical industry by producing value-added chemicals and fuels from CO2 and water while storing renewable energy. However, catalyst design still remains one of the ma ...

2022

Method for the preparation of a sample comprising highly polarized nuclear spins and uses and devices for such a method

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Christophe Roussel, Jonas Milani, Mika Antero Tamski

Method for the preparation of a sample comprising highly polarized nuclear spins, comprising at least the following steps: a) bringing a polarization system, which using an electrochemical reaction can be converted into an EPR-active radical form thereof, ...

2021

Tribocorrosion behaviour of pure titanium in bovine serum albumin solution: A multiscale study

Anna Neus Igual Muñoz

Tribocorrosion behaviour of pure titanium in phosphate buffer saline (PBS) solution has been investigated systematically as a function of surface chemistry and bovine serum albumin (BSA) content in the solution. A ball-on-disk tribometer coupled with an el ...

ELSEVIER2020

Oxygen evolution reaction: Bifunctional mechanism breaking the linear scaling relationship

Alfredo Pasquarello, Patrick Gono

The bifunctional mechanism for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) involving two distinct reaction sites is studied through the computational hydrogen electrode method for a set of catalyst materials including rutile TiO2(110), anatase TiO2(101), SnO2(110) ...

2020

Synergistic Cu/CeO2 carbon nanofiber catalysts for efficient CO2 electroreduction

Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo, Jie Zhang

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR) has attracted enormous interest because of the energy crisis and climate change; however, more efficient catalysts are required for practical applications. Herein, we present electrospinning as a faci ...

Elsevier2020

Formal Aza-Wacker Cyclization by Tandem Electrochemical Oxidation and Copper Catalysis

Xile Hu, Xiangli Yi

In oxidative electrochemical organic synthesis, radical intermediates are often oxidized to cations on the way to final product formation. Herein, we describe an approach to transform electrochemically generated organic radical intermediates into neutral p ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Pyrazolium Ionic Liquid Co-catalysts for the Electroreduction of CO2

Paul Joseph Dyson, Dmitry Vasilyev, Erfan Shirzadi

Pyrazolium ionic liquids (Pz ILs) were employed as co-catalysts for electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO on a silver disk electrode, leading to a significant decrease in the onset potential for the reduction (ca. 500 mV). The electrochemical conversion ...

2018

Decarboxylative C(sp3)–N cross-coupling via synergetic photoredox and copper catalysis

Xile Hu, Runze Mao

Amines are a quintessential moiety in bioactive molecules, pharmaceuticals and organic materials. Transition-metal-catalysed C–N coupling of aryl electrophiles has been established as a powerful and reliable method for amine synthesis. However, the analogo ...

2018

Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Redox-Active Esters with Benzophenone Imines: Tandem Photoredox and Copper Catalysis

Xile Hu, Runze Mao

Alkyl amines are an important class of organic compounds in medicinal and materials chemistry. Until now very have been very few methods for the synthesis of alkyl amines by metal‐catalyzed cross‐coupling of alkyl electrophiles with nitrogen nucleophiles. ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Efficient Electrochemical Production of Peroxodicarbonate Applying DIACHEM (R) Diamond Electrodes

Christos Comninellis

The electrochemical synthesis of peroxodicarbonate was performed on boron-doped DIACHEM((R)) diamond anodes (BDD). The influence of various parameters was studied and promising conditions were determined in an undivided cell design by CONDIAS GmbH. The bes ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Comparison of methylisoborneol and geosmin abatement in surface water by conventional ozonation and an electro-peroxone process

Urs von Gunten, Gang Yu

In this study methylisoborneol (MIB) and geosmin abatement in a surface water by conventional ozonation and the electro-peroxone (E-peroxone) process was compared. Batch tests with addition of ozone (03) stock solutions and semi-batch tests with continuous ...

Elsevier2017

A rational synthesis of hierarchically porous, N-doped carbon from Mg-based MOFs: understanding the link between nitrogen content and oxygen reduction electrocatalysis

Ning Yan, Pierre Mettraux

Controlled mixtures of novel Mg-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) were prepared, with H+ or K+ as counterions. A linear relation was found between synthesis pH and K/H ratio in the resultant mixture, establishing the tunability of the synthesis. Upon p ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy study of cathodic reactions in Bovine Serum Albumin containing solutions on a Physical Vapour Deposition-CoCrMo biomedical alloy

Stefano Mischler

Protein adsorption on biomedical CoCrMo alloys plays a crucial role in biocompatibility, corrosion and wear properties of implants. So far, protein adsorption was studied only on passive CoCrMo alloys above the open circuit potential. In this work the adso ...

Elsevier2015

Efficient and selective carbon dioxide reduction on low cost protected Cu2O photocathodes using a molecular catalyst

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao, Thomas Moehl, Jingshan Luo, Peng Gao, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Marcel Roland Schreier, Stanley David Tilley

Photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO was driven by a TiO2-protected Cu2O photocathode paired with a rhenium bipyridyl catalyst. Efficient and selective CO evolution was shown to be stable over several hours. The use of protic solution additives to o ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Synthesis of Functionalized Epoxides by Copper-Catalyzed Alkylative Epoxidation of Allylic Alcohols with Alkyl Nitriles

Jieping Zhu, Qian Wang, Ala Bunescu

A copper-catalyzed oxyalkylation of allylic alcohols using nonactivated alkyl nitriles as reaction partners was developed. A sequence involving generation of an alkyl nitrile radical followed by its addition to a double bond and a copper-mediated formation ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

REDOX FLOW BATTERY FOR HYDROGEN GENERATION

Hubert Girault, Christos Comninellis, Véronique Amstutz, Kathryn Ellen Toghill

The present invention combines the storage capacity of redox flow batteries and the production of hydrogen and other products of chemical redox reactions. The redox couple of each electrolyte is chemically regenerated on a specific catalyst bed 11, replaci ...

2013

Electrochemical behavior of ammonia at Ni/Ni(OH)2 electrode

Christos Comninellis, Agnieszka Kapalka

The electrochemical oxidation of ammonia was investigated on a Ni/Ni(OH)(2) electrode prepared by potential cycling of a Ni electrode in 1 M NaClO4. It was found that oxidation of ammonia is strongly pH dependent and proceeds mainly at pH values above 7. T ...

Elsevier2010

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry : electrochemistry and on-chip reactions for bioinorganic analyses

Michel Prudent

Metal ions are essential elements in all living systems. Their detections and identifications in biological processes require different methodologies. Mass spectrometry is one of the commonly used techniques in bioinorganic analyses to fulfill these requir ...

EPFL2009

The role of copper in cysteine oxidation: study of intra- and inter-molecular reactions in mass spectrometry

Hubert Girault, Michel Prudent

Cysteine-containing peptide oxidation was studied both by using an inert platinum electrode and a sacrificial electrode (copper or zinc) generating metallic ions in electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Using peptides containing one, two and ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2009

Electrochemical generation of Cu(I) complexes in aqueous solutions studied by on-line mass spectrometry

Hubert Girault, Christophe Roussel, Michel Prudent

Taking advantage of the electrochemical aspects of electrospray ionization (ESI) sources in positive ionization mode mass spectrometry (MS), aqueous copper complexes are electrogenerated using sacrificial copper electrodes. When using 8-hydroxyquinoline or ...

Elsevier2007