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Molybdenum Based Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution in Water

Heron Vrubel

The limited fossil fuel resources and the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are the driving forces in the research of alternative ways of energy production and storage. The use of solar energy is expected to grow as our society claims ...

EPFL2013

Hydrogen Evolution at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces

Hubert Girault, Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Bin Su, Imren Hatay

Blowing bubbles: Hydrogen evolution by proton reduction with [(C5Me5)2Fe] occurs at a soft interface between water and 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE). The reaction proceeds by proton transfer assisted by [(C5Me5)2Fe] across the water–DCE interface with subsequen ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2009

On-Site Purification of Copper-Contaminated Vanadium Electrolytes by using a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

Hubert Girault, Heron Vrubel, Danick Reynard, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Alberto Battistel

Corrosion of carbon-based electrodes and bipolar plates is a major hurdle and can be a cause of failure in commercial vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs). Carbon corrosion was found to occur in a commercial VRFB (10 kW/40 kWh), whereby cracks through bip ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Chaotropic Agents Boosting the Performance of Photo-ionic Cells

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Heron Vrubel, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Jelissa Risse

Photo-ionic cells are a simple and scalable concept for direct solar energy storage, where the redox fuels produced by the photoreaction are separated in different phases to prevent recombination. The presence of chaotropic agents such as urea, that break ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide Films as Catalysts for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production in Water

Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Stéphane Fierro, Daniel Andreas Merki

Amorphous molybdenum sulfide films are efficient hydrogen evolution catalysts in water. The films are prepared via simple electro-polymerization procedures and are characterized by XPS, electron microscopy and electronic absorption spectroscopy. Whereas th ...

2011

Photo-Ionic Cells: Two Solutions to Store Solar Energy and Generate Electricity on Demand

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Heron Vrubel, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon

A solar energy conversion concept based on the photo-induced separation of a pair of redox species in a biphasic liquid cell is presented. The redox pair is subsequently discharged in an electrochemical flow cell to generate electricity. To illustrate this ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Biphasic water splitting by osmocene

Hubert Girault, Xile Hu, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Heron Vrubel, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Peiyu Ge, Imren Hatay, Tanya Kumanova Yordanova

The photochemical reactivity of osmocene in a biphasic water-organic solvent system has been investigated to probe its water splitting properties. The photoreduction of aqueous protons to hydrogen under anaerobic conditions induced by osmocene dissolved in ...

National Academy of Sciences2012

Easily-prepared dinickel phosphide (Ni2P) nanoparticles as an efficient and robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution

Xile Hu, Michaël Bensimon, Heron Vrubel, Ligang Feng

Polydispersed dinickel phosphide (Ni2P) nanoparticles were synthesized by a simple and scalable solid-state reaction. These nanoparticles are an excellent and robust catalyst for the electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction, operating in both acidic and ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Low-cost industrially available molybdenum boride and carbide as “platinum-like” catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction in biphasic liquid systems

Hubert Girault, Xile Hu, Kurt Schenk, Heron Vrubel, Véronique Amstutz, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon

Rarely reported low-cost molybdenum boride and carbide microparticles, both of which are available in abundant quantities due to their widespread use in industry, adsorb at aqueous acid–1,2-dichloroethane interfaces and efficiently catalyse the hydrogen ev ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2013

Amorphous transition metal sulphide films or solids as efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen production from water or aqueous solutions

Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Daniel Andreas Merki

The present invention relates to metal electrocatalysts for hydrogen production from water or aqueous solutions and use thereof in electrodes and electrolysers. ...

2011

Revealing and Accelerating Slow Electron Transport in Amorphous Molybdenum Sulphide Particles for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Thomas Moehl, Heron Vrubel

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is used to identify a slow electron transport process in hydrogen evolution catalysed by amorphous molybdenum sulphides on glassy carbon. A new chemical synthesis leads to an amorphous molybdenum sulfide catalyst with ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Electrochemical reduction of CO2 in organic solvents catalyzed by MoO2

Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Yeonji Oh

MoO2 microparticles act as an active catalyst for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 in organic solvents such as acetonitrile and dimethylformamide. The catalytic activity and product selectivity depend on temperature and water content of the solvent. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Evidence from in Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for the Involvement of Terminal Disulfide in the Reduction of Protons by an Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide Electrocatalyst

Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Daniel Andreas Merki

The reduction of protons into dihydrogen is important because of its potential use in a wide range of energy applications. The preparation of efficient and cheap catalysts for this reaction is one of the issues that need to be tackled to allow the widespre ...

American Chemical Society2015

Hydrogen evolution across nano-Schottky junctions at carbon supported MoS2 catalysts in biphasic liquid systems

Hubert Girault, Xile Hu, Marco Cantoni, Pekka Eero Peljo, Heron Vrubel, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Peiyu Ge

The activities of a series of MoS2-based hydrogen evolution catalysts were studied by biphasic reactions monitored by UV/Vis spectroscopy. Carbon supported MoS2 catalysts performed best due to an abundance of catalytic edge sites and strong electronic coup ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Experimental correlations and integration of gas boosters in a hydrogen refueling station

Hubert Girault, Heron Vrubel, Yorick Ligen

2020