Publications by Hubert Girault

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Hydrogen production on demand by redox-mediated electrocatalysis: A kinetic study

Hubert Girault, Danick Reynard, Sunny Isaïe Maye

Producing hydrogen from water using a redox mediator on solid electrocatalyst particles in a reactor offers several advantages over classical electrolysis in terms of safety, membrane degradation, purity and flexibility. Herein, vanadium-mediated hydrogen ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Electrochemical oxygen reduction at soft interfaces catalyzed by the transfer of hydrated lithium cations

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Haiqiang Deng, Thomas James Stockmann

The oxygen reduction reaction by decamethylferrocene (DMFc), triggered by hydrophilic metallic cations behaving as Lewis acids towards water molecules in a homogeneous organic phase reaction, was investigated using cyclic voltammetry at the water|1,2-dichl ...

Elsevier2014

Ionosomes: Observation of Ionic Bilayer Water Clusters

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov, Sunny Isaïe Maye

Emulsification of immiscible two-phase fluids, i.e., one condensed phase dispersed homogeneously as tiny droplets in an outer continuous medium, plays a key role in medicine, food, chemical separations, cosmetics, fabrication of micro- and nanoparticles an ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Improved Conversion Rates in Drug Screening Applications Using Miniaturized Electrochemical Cells with Frit Channels

Hubert Girault, Liang Qiao

This paper reports a novel design of a miniaturized three-electrode electrochemical cell, the purpose of which is aimed at generating drug metabolites with a high conversion efficiency. The working electrode and the counter electrode are placed in two sepa ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Hot Adsorbate-Induced Retardation of the Internal Thermalization of Nonequilibrium Electrons in Adsorbate-Covered Metal Nanoparticles

Hubert Girault, Jean-Pierre Abid, Christophe Bauer

Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy has been used to investigate the electron-electron scattering dynamics in sulfate-covered gold nanoparticles of 2.5 and 9.2 nm in diameter. We observe an unexpected retardation of the absolute internal thermali ...

2006

Discrete Helmholtz charge distribution at liquid-liquid interfaces: Electrocapillarity, capacitance and non-linear spectroscopy studies

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

The structure of the polarised interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) has usually been deduced from electrocapillarity and capacitance measurements. However, these two methods only offer an indirect access to the surface change dens ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Heterogeneous versus homogeneous electron transfer reactions at liquid–liquid interfaces: The wrong question?

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov

Functionalization of a soft or liquid-liquid interface by a one gold nanoparticle thick “nanofilm” provides a conductive pathway to facilitate interfacial electron transfer from a lipophilic electron donor to a hydrophilic electron acceptor in a process kn ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Gold Nanofilm Redox Catalysis for Oxygen Reduction at Soft Interfaces

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Evgeny Smirnov

Functionalization of a soft or liquid-liquid interface by a one gold nanoparticle thick “nanofilm” provides a conductive pathway to facilitate interfacial electron transfer from a lipophilic electron donor to a hydrophilic electron acceptor in a process kn ...

Elsevier2016

Water Electrolysis Technologies: the Importance of New Cell Designs and Fundamental Modelling to Guide Industrial-scale Development

Hubert Girault

Large-scale, sustainable, low-cost production of hydrogen can reduce the negative effects of climate change by decarbonising energy infrastructure. Low-carbon hydrogen can be synthesised via water electrolysis. Today, however, this only constitutes a minor ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Mediated water electrolysis in biphasic systems

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Heron Vrubel, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Lucie Josette Renée Rivier

The concept of efficient electrolysis by linking photoelectrochemical biphasic H2 evolution and water oxidation processes in the cathodic and anodic compartments of an H-cell, respectively, is introduced. Overpotentials at the cathode and anode are minimis ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Renewable hydrogen generation from a dual-circuit redox flow battery

Hubert Girault, Christos Comninellis, Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Véronique Amstutz, Kathryn Ellen Toghill

Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are particularly well suited for storing the intermittent excess supply of renewable electricity; so-called “junk” electricity. Conventional RFBs are charged and discharged electrochemically, with electricity stored as chemical ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Mechanistic study of the photo‐generation of hydrogen by decamethylruthenocene

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Heron Vrubel, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Sunny Isaïe Maye, Lucie Josette Renée Rivier

Hydrogen evolution by decamethylruthenocene (Cp*2RuII) was studied in detail highlighting that metallocenes are capable of photo‐reducing hydrogen without the need of an additional sensitizer. Electrochemical, gas chromatographic and spectroscopic (UV/vis, ...

2019

Total serum IgE quantification by microfluidic ELISA using magnetic beads

Hubert Girault, Anne-Laure Gassner

The present work reports on the quantification of total IgE in human serum using a microanalytical device whose fluidics is driven by gravity and capillary forces only. Thanks to the eight parallel microchannels in each microchip, calibration and sample an ...

Springer Verlag2012

Contact potentials, Fermi level equilibration and surface charging

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo

This paper focuses on contact electrification from thermodynamic equilibration of the electron electrochemical potentials of two conductors upon contact. The contact potential difference generated in bimetallic macro- and nanosystems, the Fermi level after ...

American Chemical Society2016

1D Amorphous Tungsten-Based Ternary Refractory Metal Sulfides for Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution at Soft Interfaces

Hubert Girault, Imren Hatay

Transition metals incorporated into molybdenum sulfide and tungsten sulfide matrixes are promising candidates for hydrogen evolution due to the unique chemical and physical properties. Here, we first describe a general strategy for the synthesis of rod-lik ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Discrete Helmholtz model: a single layer of correlated counter-ions. Metal oxides and silica interfaces, ion-exchange and biological membranes

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

The mechanism by which interfaces in solution can be polarised depends on the nature of the charge carriers. In the case of a conductor, the charge carriers are electrons and the polarisation is homogeneous in the plane of the electrode. In the case of an ...

2020

Inkjet-printed microtiter plates for portable electrochemical immunoassays

Hubert Girault, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Alexandra Bondarenko, Frédéric Gumy, Milica Jovic, Yingdi Zhu

Herein, we present the large-scale fabrication of multiplexed three-electrode sensors used in a point-of-care device platform that couples a magnetic bead-based immunoassay strategy with amperometric detection for rapid and highly sensitive analysis. The m ...

Elsevier Science Sa2017

A Simple Liquid-Liquid Biphasic System for Hydrogen Peroxide Generation

Hubert Girault, Gunther Wittstock

Although electron transfer reactions at liquid liquid interfaces have been thoroughly studied in the presence of deliberately added potential determining ions or phase transfer catalysts, little is known about these reactions in the absence of the above sp ...

American Chemical Society2015

Laser pyrolysis of biomass: Comparing cellulose-rich and lignin-rich feedstocks for hydrogen rich-gas production

Hubert Girault

The increasing global demand for sustainable energy solutions necessitates innovative approaches to hydrogen production. This study investigates the use of laser pyrolysis as a rapid and efficient method for converting biomass into hydrogen-rich gas, bioch ...

2025

Proton-Coupled Oxygen Reduction at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces Catalyzed by Cobalt Porphine

Hubert Girault, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Imren Hatay

Cobalt porphine (CoP) dissolved in the organic phase of a biphasic system is used to catalyze O2 reduction by an electron donor, ferrocene (Fc). Using voltammetry at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES), it is possible to driv ...

2009