Publications related to Synthesis of carbonates and related compounds incorporating CO2 using ionic liquid-type catalysts: State-of-the-art and beyond

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

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

Quantification of fresh water consumption and scarcity footprints of hydrogen from water electrolysis: A methodology framework

Xun Liao

Towards decarbonizing the global economy, hydrogen produced through water electrolysis is expected to be one of the key solutions for variable renewable energy storage and sector coupling, in particular, via the transport sector in the next few decades. Ev ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Efficient Base-Metal NiMn/TiO2 Catalyst for CO2 Methanation

Wei Chen, Andreas Züttel, Emanuele Moioli

Energy storage solutions are a vital component of the global transition toward renewable energy sources. The power-to-gas (PtG) concept, which stores surplus renewable energy in the form of methane, has therefore become increasingly relevant in recent year ...

2019

Coupling of electrocatalysts to photoabsorbers for solar fuels production

Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

The direct transformation of sunlight into fuels and chemicals has attracted considerable attention for the potential impact on the storage of solar energies at large scales and the reduction of CO2 emissions. More than 80% of our current global energy con ...

EPFL2016

Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production in Alkaline Solutions Using Cu2O Coated with Earth-Abundant Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Stanley David Tilley, Laurent Liardet, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio, Matthew Thomas Mayer

The splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules using sunlight is an attractive method for solar energy storage. Until now, photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution is mostly studied in acidic solutions, in which the hydrogen evolution is more fac ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Amorphous molybdenum sulfides as hydrogen evolution catalysts

Xile Hu, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Providing energy for a population projected to reach 9 billion people within the middle of this century is one of the most pressing societal issues. Burning fossil fuels at a rate and scale that satisfy our near-term demand will irreversibly damage the liv ...

American Chemical Society2014

Renewable hydrogen generation from a dual-circuit redox flow battery

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

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

Direct, in situ determination of pH and solute concentrations in formic acid dehydrogenation and CO2 hydrogenation in pressurised aqueous solutions using 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy

Gabor Laurenczy, Séverine Joëlle Moret, Paul Joseph Dyson

In water, spin–lattice relaxation times (T1) and calibration curves for chemical shifts have been determined for the 13C and the 1H (C) atoms in HCOOH, HCOONa, CO2, Na2CO3 and NaHCO3 by NMR spectroscopy. These data facilitate kinetic and mechanistic studie ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2013

Hydrogen Storage and Delivery: The Carbon Dioxide – Formic Acid Couple

Gabor Laurenczy

Carbon dioxide and the carbonates, the available natural C-1 sources, can be easily hydrogenated into formic acid and formates in water; the rate of this reduction strongly depends on the pH of the solution. This reaction is catalysed by ruthenium(II) pre- ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2011