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Unraveling metal effects on CO2 uptake in pyrene-based metal-organic frameworks

Berend Smit, Emad Oveisi, Wendy Lee Queen, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Elias Moubarak, Jordi Espin Marti, Fatma Pelin Uran, Nency Patricio Domingues, Miriam Jasmin Pougin, Yutao Li

Pyrene-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have tremendous potential for various applications. With infinite structural possibilities, the MOF community often relies on simulations to identify the most promising candidates for given applications. Among t ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Configuring a Liquid State High-entropy Metal Alloy Electrocatalyst

Anirudh Raju Natarajan

A high-entropy liquid metal alloy (Ga-Fe-Zn-Sn-Bi-Ni) is developed to address the multi-step complexity of green ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate. Guided by molecular dynamics, design of experiments, and density functional theory, this alloy exploits ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Environmental implications of solid oxide fuel cell system for hydrogen sustainability

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Shivom Sharma, Xinyi Wei, Du Wen, Arthur Waeber

Hydrogen, known for its high energy content and clean combustion, is promising in the energy transition. This study explores the environmental impact of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system. 1 kg of hydrogen production at 1 bar serves as the functional un ...

2025

Iron promoted end-on dinitrogen-bridging in heterobimetallic complexes of uranium and lanthanides

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Nadir Jori, Keerthi Shivaraam Rangaraj Ananthakumar

End-on binding of dinitrogen to low valent metal centres is common in transition metal chemistry but remains extremely rare in f-elements chemistry. In particular, heterobimetallic end-on N2 bridged complexes of lanthanides are unprecedented despite their ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Process modeling and integration of hydrogen and synthetic natural gas production in a kraft pulp mill via black liquor gasification

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

The black liquor gasification integrated to chemical plants has shown potential for reducing the process irreversibility and promoting the decarbonization of this industrial sector. In the integrated chemical plants proposed in this work, the purpose is co ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Exergy and exergoeconomic assessment of sustainable light olefins production from an integrated methanol synthesis and methanol-to-olefins system

François Maréchal

Integrated methanol synthesis and methanol-to-olefins systems are considered attractive and promising technologies to produce light olefins from syngas derived from biomass feedstock. In this study, a flowsheet model of a proposed system was developed and ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Assessing Tetrel-Based Neutral Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Catalytic Hydrogenation

Shubhajit Das

Frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry has gained significant attention in the past decade as the main group hydrogenation catalysts. The majority of the reported FLP catalysts utilize either boron-containing Lewis acids (LAs) or alternatively isolobal and ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Defect formation and mitigation during laser powder bed fusion of copper

Carl Tore Viktor Lindström

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a group of processing technologies which has the potential to revolutionize manufacturing by allowing easy manufacturing of complex shapes and small series. One AM-method which is of high interest for processing of metals is ...

EPFL2021

A method for producing an oxide shell around nanocrystals

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice

The present invention relates to a method for producing core-shell nanocrystals consisting of a metal-containing nanocrystal core and a shell layer comprising at least one metal oxide material having variable shell thicknesses, and use of the core-shell na ...

2020

Sustainable Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes to Anilines with Highly Active in-situ Generated Copper Nanoparticles

Berend Smit, Mounir Driss Mensi, Kyriakos Stylianou, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Ngoc Tú Nguyên, Fatma Pelin Uran

Metal nanoparticles (NPs) are usually stabilized by a capping agent, a surfactant, or a support material, to maintain their integrity. However, these strategies can impact their intrinsic catalytic activity. Here, we demonstrate that the in-situ formation ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2020

Mechanisms of the Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reaction of CO2 Hydrogenation on Transition Metal Surfaces

Kun Zhao

Renewable energy supply and energy storage in a closed materials cycle are the urgent global challenges of the 21st century. Carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation over catalysts is a method to produce synthetic fuels from renewable energy in a CO2 neutral cyc ...

EPFL2020

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

Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Molybdenum-Based Ternary Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles

Hubert Girault

The search for highly active earth-abundant elements and nonexpensive catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction is a vital and demanding task to minimize energy consumption. Transition metals incorporated into molybdenum sulfides are promising candidates f ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Magnetic field configurational study on a helicon-based plasma source for future neutral beam systems

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Riccardo Agnello, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

A helicon-based plasma source is under development and exploration at CEA-IRFM to produce an efficient and dense magnetized plasma column. The final objective of this development is the extraction and acceleration of a blade-like negative ion beam in view ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Cavity ring-down spectroscopy to measure negative ion density in a helicon plasma source for fusion neutral beams

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Gennady Plyushchev, Yanis Andrebe, Riccardo Agnello, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) is used to measure the D- absolute density produced in the helicon plasma reactor RAID (Resonant Antenna Ion Device) at the Swiss Plasma Center. The birdcage geometry of the helicon antenna produces a homogeneous, high- ...

2018

Advancing Materials and Methods for Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion

Kevin Sivula

Strategies to convert energy from the sun into chemical fuels and feedstocks for a carbon-neutral economy are under rapid development. A photoelectrochemical route uses a direct semiconductor liquid junction that offers simplicity but places challenging co ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2017

Spectroelectrochemical analysis of the mechanism of (photo)electrochemical hydrogen evolution at a catalytic interface

Michael Graetzel, Florian Le Formal, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley

Multi-electron heterogeneous catalysis is a pivotal element in the ( photo) electrochemical generation of solar fuels. However, mechanistic studies of these systems are difficult to elucidate by means of electrochemical methods alone. Here we report a spec ...

Springer Nature2017

A Functional Model of [Fe]-Hydrogenase

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Matthew Wodrich, Tao Xu, Simona Mazza

[Fe]-Hydrogenase catalyzes the hydrogenation of a biological substrate via the heterolytic splitting of molecular hydrogen. While many synthetic models of [Fe]-hydrogenase have been prepared, none yet are capable of activating H-2 on their own. Here, we re ...

American Chemical Society2016

Artificial Photosynthesis with Semiconductor-Liquid Junctions

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal

Given the urgent need to develop a sustainable, carbon neutral energy storage system on a global scale, intense efforts are currently underway to advance the field of artificial photosynthesis: i.e. solar fuel engineering. In this review we give an overvie ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2015

A membrane-less electrolyzer for hydrogen production across the pH scale

Demetri Psaltis, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi

The development of deployable water-splitting devices is hindered by the cost of electricity and the lack of stable ion conducting membranes that can operate across the pH scale, impose low ionic resistances and avoid product mixing. The membrane-less appr ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015