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Surface Charge Boundary Condition Often Misused in CO2 Reduction Models

Sophia Haussener, Etienne Boutin, Evan Fair Johnson

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations have been used to model species transport in electrochemical CO2 reduction, where the surface charge boundary condition accounts for the potential drop across the Stern layer. A direct comparison of the published models ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Additive Fabrication of Microsupercapacitors

Amin Hodaei

Microsupercapacitors (with footprints from -mm up to -cm scale) have attracted attention for use as electrochemical energy storage devices to power wearables, IoT, and other small microsystems due to their high power density, excellent charge/discharge rev ...

EPFL2023

A Cation Concentration Gradient Approach to Tune the Selectivity and Activity of CO2 Electroreduction

Xile Hu, Wenhao Ren

The linear scaling relationship of the binding energies of different intermediates limits the catalyst performance in CO 2 electroreduction. Here we demonstrate a cation concentration gradient strategy to promote the activity and tune the selectivity of CO ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Impact of Anion Asymmetry on Local Structure and Supercooling Behavior of Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Corsin Battaglia, David Reber

Salts with asymmetric (fluorosulfonyl)(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (FTFSI) anions have recently been shown to suppress crystallization of water-in-salt electrolytes, enabling low-temperature operation of high-voltage aqueous rechargeable batteries. To c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Perspective-Electrochemical Stability of Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Corsin Battaglia, David Reber

The water-in-salt approach has expanded the electrochemical stability window of aqueous electrolytes, enabling novel aqueous batteries with relatively high cell voltages and energy densities. However, the stability of these electrolytes tends to be overest ...

2020

Stainless steel-like FeCrNi nanostructures via electrodeposition into AAO templates using a mixed-solvent Cr(III)-based electrolyte

Enrico Bertero

Electrodeposition of stainless steel-like materials such as FeCrNi alloy into micro- and nanotemplates provides a sustainable framework for creating biomedical-oriented micro- and nanocomponents with outstanding characteristics. While Cr(III)-based electro ...

2020

Anion Selection Criteria for Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Corsin Battaglia, David Reber, Maximilian Becker

Water-in-salt electrolytes have enabled the development of novel high-voltage aqueous lithium-ion batteries. This study explores the reasons why analogous sodium electrolytes have struggled to reach the same level of electrochemical stability. Solution str ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Electrochemical reactor

Demetri Psaltis, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi

In an electrochemical reactor (R) for producing oxygen and hydrogen by means of electrolysis of an electrolyte (16), wherein the electrochemical reactor (R) comprises a first electrode set (S) and wherein the first electrode set (S) comprises a first elect ...

2020

Stability of aqueous electrolytes based on LiFSI and NaFSI

Corsin Battaglia, David Reber

Through a combination of bulk, interface, and interphase effects, water-in-salt electrolytes, employing a high salt concentration, offer a wider electrochemical stability window than traditional dilute aqueous electrolytes. Here we explore chemical stabili ...

2019

Suppressing Crystallization of Water-in-Salt Electrolytes by Asymmetric Anions Enables Low-Temperature Operation of High-Voltage Aqueous Batteries

Corsin Battaglia, David Reber

The discovery of enhanced electrochemical stability for aqueous electrolytes with very high salt concentration has stimulated the development of high-voltage aqueous batteries. We show that a key factor limiting the applicability of these batteries is the ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Short term exposure to fine particulate matter and hospital admission risks and costs in the Medicare population: time stratified, case crossover study

Christine Choirat

OBJECTIVE To assess risks and costs of hospital admission associated with short term exposure to fine particulate matter with diameter less than 2.5 mu m (PM2.5) for 214 mutually exclusive disease groups. DESIGN Time stratified, case crossover analyses wit ...

BMJ2019

Highly stable enzyme-mimicking nanocomposite of antioxidant activity

Bálint Náfrádi

A highly stable nanocomposite of antioxidant activity was developed by immobilization of a superoxide dismutase-mimicking metal complex on copolymer-functionalized nanoclay. The layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanoclays were synthesized and surface modifica ...

2019

Membrane-less electrolyzer

Demetri Psaltis, Jae-Woo Choi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino

The present invention concerns a membrane-less electrolyzer comprising a fluidic channel for receiving an electrolyte fluid; a first electrode and a second electrode located inside the fluidic channel, the first and second electrode permitting to extract a ...

2016

An Ohmic model for electrokinetic flows of binary asymmetric electrolytes

Alexandre Louis André Persat

The transport of electrolytes in electric fields is a ubiquitous phenomenon commonly harnessed in microfluidics. A classic leaky dielectric model for flow generated by electric fields accurately predicts electrohydrodynamic transport phenomenon but is vali ...

Elsevier Science London2016

The electronic, chemical and electrocatalytic processes and intermediates on iron oxide surfaces during photoelectrochemical water splitting

Michael Graetzel, Yelin Hu, Florent Alexandre Boudoire

We re-assess experimental soft X-ray absorption spectra of the oxygen K-shell which we recorded operando from iron oxide during photoelectrochemical water splitting in KOH electrolyte. In particular, we refer to recently reported transitional electron hole ...

Elsevier2016

Bi-directional AC electrothermal micropump for on-chip biological applications

Jürgen Brugger, Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel

The ability to control and pump high ionic strength fluids inside microchannels forms a major advantage for clinical diagnostics and drug screening processes, where high conductive biological and physiological buffers are used. Despite the known potential ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Temperature Sensitivity of Nanochannel Electrical Conductance

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Mojtaba Taghipoor

Electrical measurement is a widely used technique for the characterization of nanofluidic devices. The electrical conductivity of electrolytes is known to be dependent on temperature. However, the similarity of the temperature sensitivity of the electrical ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 Catalyzed by Metal Oxides

Yeonji Oh

A rapidly growing population and industrialization have caused the exploitation of natural resources in keeping with fossil fuels shortage. Due to the combustion of fossil fuels, the concentration of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere, which is a potent greenho ...

EPFL2015

Thermal stability of the DSC ruthenium dye C106 in robust electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Péter Kalman Péchy

We have investigated the thermal stability of the heteroleptic ruthenium complex C106 employed as a sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells. The C106 was adsorbed on TiO2 particles and exposed to 2 different iodide/triidode based redox electrolytes A and ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Influence of 4-tert-Butylpyridine in DSCs with Co-II/III Redox Mediator

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura

The effect of TBP on Co(II/III) redox electrolyte was examined. Photocurrent of the device can be limited in electrolyte with high TBP concentration due to its viscous nature. The higher amount of TBP in electrolyte increases the viscosity of electrolyte a ...

American Chemical Society2013