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In this study, we explored the effect of Cr³⁺ substitution by partially and fully replacing Fe³⁺ in the normal spinel ZnFe₂O₄ crystal structure at electrochemical interfaces. The resulting ZnCrₓFe₂₋ₓO₄ nanomaterials exhibited an average particle size betwe ...

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

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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

Design and Application of Functional Mid-IR Metasurfaces for Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction and Sensing

Felix Ulrich Brikh

Metasurfaces, planar arrays of subwavelength resonators, have emerged as powerful tools for versatile light manipulation in compact formats across different spectral ranges. Among these, the mid-infrared (mid-IR) is uniquely characterized by its interactio ...

EPFL2025

Interior Morphology and Pore Structure in High Surface Area Carbon Catalyst Supports

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In proton exchange membrane fuel cells, the interior porosity of the standard high surface area carbon (HSC) supports anchors and shields catalysts, offering benefits in performance and durability. Yet, these carbons also add mass transport resistance. Thi ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

TiO2/rough surface of woven cotton fabrics prepared by spin coating for antibacterial and self-cleaning processes

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi

TiO2 has been widely used in developing self-cleaning coatings on textiles. Spin coating is widely used to prepare films due to its simplicity and the ability to control the thickness and the characteristics of the deposited layers. However, it has been sp ...

2025

Distinguishing Inner and Outer-Sphere Hot Electron Transfer in Au/p-GaN Photocathodes

Giulia Tagliabue, Alan Richard Bowman, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Milad Sabzehparvar

Exploring nonequilibrium hot carriers from plasmonic metal nanostructures is a dynamic field in optoelectronics, with applications including photochemical reactions for solar fuel generation. The hot carrier injection mechanism and the reaction rate are hi ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Tailoring nanocatalysts and reaction interfaces for water- and CO2-electrolysis

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Renewable energy sources offer a promising solution for mitigating sustainability and CO2 emissions-related issues due to their vast energy generation capacity. They enable hydrogen production via water electrolysis, as well as carbon capture and utilizati ...

EPFL2024

Data and scripts for the RaFSIP scheme

Athanasios Nenes, Paraskevi Georgakaki

This repository contains microphysics routines, scripts, and processed data from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model simulations presented in the paper "RaFSIP: Parameterizing ice multiplication in models using a machine learning approach", by ...

Zenodo2024

Oxidation processes and me

Urs von Gunten

This publication summarizes my journey in the field of chemical oxidation processes for water treatment over the last 30+ years. Initially, the efficiency of the application of chemical oxidants for micropollutant abatement was assessed by the abatement of ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Biobased surfactant

Jeremy Luterbacher, Stefania Bertella, Songlan Sun, Anastasiia Komarova

The present invention relates to a compound of the general formula (I), (II) and (III), more specifically of formula (Ia), (Ib), (Ic)wherein R11 and R12 or R21 and R22 or R31 and R32 are both hydrogen or form together with CHR50 a cyclic moiety or one of R ...

2024

Orchestrating chromosome conformation capture analysis with Bioconductor

Cyril Matthey-Doret

Genome-wide chromatin conformation capture assays provide formidable insights into the spatial organization of genomes. However, due to the complexity of the data structure, their integration in multi-omics workflows remains challenging. We present data st ...

Nature Research2024

Robust machine learning for neuroscientific inference

Steffen Schneider

Modern neuroscience research is generating increasingly large datasets, from recording thousands of neurons over long timescales to behavioral recordings of animals spanning weeks, months, or even years. Despite a great variety in recording setups and expe ...

EPFL2024

Operando identification of a side-on nickel superoxide intermediate and the mechanism of oxygen evolution on nickel oxyhydroxide

Xile Hu, Lichen Bai, Seunghwa Lee

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key electrochemical reac-tion relevant to energy storage. Ni-containing bimetallic oxyhydrox-ides are among the most active OER catalysts in alkaline medium, but the mechanism of OER on pure Ni oxyhydroxide remains ...

ELSEVIER2023

Gas/Surface reactions probed by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy

Harmina Vejayan

In my thesis, I present an investigation of the dissociation reactions of gas phase molecules on single crystal metal surfaces studied by a molecular beam in combination with Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy (RAIRS). Two gas/surface systems were ...

EPFL2023

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Majed Chergui

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense, coherent and tunable. They are enabling a broad range of nonlinear optical and s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Shared metadata for data-centric materials science

Giovanni Pizzi, Gian-Marco Rignanese

The expansive production of data in materials science, their widespread sharing and repurposing requires educated support and stewardship. In order to ensure that this need helps rather than hinders scientific work, the implementation of the FAIR-data prin ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Using Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage and Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells for Electricity Production

Youngdon Ko

Hydrogen storage and utilization are the technologies to achieve carbon-neutral energy systems with renewable energy sources. Among the various materials that have been investigated, complex hydrides are a material exhibiting high gravimetric hydrogen dens ...

EPFL2023

Dataset for "Elastocapillary menisci mediate interaction of neighboring structures at the surface of a compliant solid"

John Martin Kolinski, Lebohang Molefe

This dataset supports the publication 'Elastocapillary menisci mediate interaction of neighboring structures at the surface of a compliant solid' by Lebo Molefe and John M. Kolinski, Physical Review E, (2023). The data are surface profiles of textured surf ...

Zenodo2023

Toward a common standard for data and specimen provenance in life sciences

Marco Mattavelli, Anna Marsano

Open and practical exchange, dissemination, and reuse of specimens and data have become a fundamental requirement for life sciences research. The quality of the data obtained and thus the findings and knowledge derived is thus significantly influenced by t ...

WILEY2023

E-Scan: Consuming Contextual Data with Model Plugins

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca

Extracting value and insights from increasingly heterogeneous data sources involves multiple systems combining and consuming the data. With multi-modal and context-rich data such as strings, text, videos, or images, the problem of standardizing the data mo ...

2023