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The molecular scale mechanism of deposition ice nucleation on silver iodide

Athanasios Nenes, Mária Lbadaoui-Darvas

Heterogeneous ice nucleation is a ubiquitous process in the natural and built environment. Deposition ice nucleation, i.e. heterogeneous ice nucleation that - according to the traditional view - occurs in a subsaturated water vapor environment and in the a ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Adsorption of Copper by Naturally and Artificially Aged Polystyrene Microplastics and Subsequent Release in Simulated Gastrointestinal Fluid

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Thibault Béranger Masset, Lu Zhou

Microplastics, especially aged microplastics can become vectors of metals from environment to organisms with potential negative effects on food chain. However, a few studies focused on the bioavailability of adsorbed metals and most studies related to aged ...

2024

Method of preparation of ultrathin metal-organic frameworks & uses thereof

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Qi Liu

The invention relates to methods for the preparation of ultrathin metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), in particular Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) and uses thereof and resulting products thereof, in particular useful for the preparation of gas separat ...

2024

Method of preparation of ultrathin metal-organic frameworks & uses thereof

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Qi Liu

2024

Des propositions architecturales aux textures différenciées

Emmanuel Rey, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

Par leur situation aux franges de l’agglomération, les espaces périurbains se confrontent à de multiples enjeux spécifiques : émergence de dynamiques métropolitaines à grande échelle, interaction avec des paysages hétérogènes, reconnais-sance de caractéris ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Tandem electrocatalytic CO2 reduction with Fe-porphyrins and Cu nanocubes enhances ethylene production

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Min Wang

Copper-based tandem schemes have emerged as promising strategies to promote the formation of multi-carbon products in the electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction. In such approaches, the CO-generating component of the tandem catalyst increases the local co ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Particle Size Effects in Ru/CNF Catalysts during Supercritical Water Gasification of Glycerol

Oliver Kröcher, Frédéric Vogel

Ru/CNF catalysts of different Ru nanoparticle (NP) sizes (0.9-2.7 nm) were assessed for their performance in continuous supercritical water gasification (SCWG) of glycerol. A structure sensitivity of Ru was demonstrated, with high initial turnover frequenc ...

2022

Two-dimensional atomically bridged nanoporous silicate-based membranes for gas separation

Mostapha Dakhchoune

The synthesis of molecular-sieving two-dimensional zeolitic membranes by the assembly of crystalline building blocks without resorting to the secondary growth process is highly desirable. The precise pore size for molecular sieving, ultrathin thickness, an ...

EPFL2021

Process-informed adsorbent design guidelines for direct air capture

Berend Smit

Direct air capture using solid adsorbents is a proven technology critical to reducing our net greenhouse gas emissions to zero and beyond. Currently, academic research into the technology mainly focuses on the devel-opment of new adsorbents. However, there ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Oxygen Evolution at the BiVO4-Water Interface: Mechanism of the Water Dehydrogenation Reaction

Alfredo Pasquarello, Julia Anna Wiktor, Sai Lyu

We study the water dehydrogenation reaction at the BiVO4(010)-water interface by combining nudged-elastic-band calculations and electronic structure calculations at the hybrid functional level. We investigate the pathway and the kinetic barrier for the adi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Lamellar carbon-aluminosilicate nanocomposites with macroscopic orientation

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Emad Oveisi, Holger Frauenrath, Yannik Fontana, Enzo Jean Raymond Bomal, Dragana Paripovic

Novel preparative approaches towards lamellar nanocomposites of carbon and inorganic materials are relevant for a broad range of technological applications. Here, we describe how to utilize the co-assembly of a liquid-crystalline hexaphenylene amphiphile a ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Rapid Gas Transport from Block-Copolymer Templated Nanoporous Carbon Films

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Marina Micari, Jing Zhao, Xuekui Duan

Porous carbon films, attributed to their superior thermal and chemical robustness, are attractive for a number of applications. In the context of molecular separation, a major focus has been on films where the effective pore diameter is lower than 1 nm, e. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Super adsorption performance of carboxymethyl cellulose/copper oxide-nickel oxide nanocomposite toward the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

A novel nanocomposite bead based on polymeric matrix of carboxymethyl cellulose and copper oxide-nickel oxide nanoparticles was synthesized, characterized, and applied for adsorptive removal of inorganic and organic contaminants at trace level of part per ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Method of preparation of porous polymeric support layer and uses thereof

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Deepu Joseph Babu

The invention relates to methods for the preparation of polymer supported graphene membrane by non-solvent induced phase separation and resulting products thereof, in particular useful for the preparation of gas separation membranes, in particular for He o ...

2021

Etching nanopores in single-layer graphene with a sub-angstrom resolution in molecular sieving

Shiqi Huang

Single-layer graphene (SLG) membranes, hosting molecular-sieving nanopores have been regarded as the ultimate gas separation membranes, attributing to the fact that they are the thinnest possible molecular barrier. However, the expected attractive performa ...

EPFL2021

Systematic design of millisecond gasification reactor for the incorporation of gas-sieving nanopores in single-layer graphene

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu

Etching an ensemble of vacancy defects (nanopores) in single-layer graphene (SLG) to obtain a high density of nanopores with an effective size that enables high-performance gas sieving is challenging. This is because nanopore nucleation and expansion are u ...

2021

Large-scale synthesis of crystalline g-C3N4 nanosheets and high-temperature H-2 sieving from assembled films

Nicola Marzari, Emad Oveisi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mounir Driss Mensi, Davide Campi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra

Poly(triazine imide) (PTI), a crystalline g-C3N4, hosting two-dimensional nanoporous structure with an electron density gap of 0.34 nm, is highly promising for high-temperature hydrogen sieving because of its high chemical and thermal robustness. Currently ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020

Gas-sieving zeolitic membranes fabricated by condensation of precursor nanosheets

Michele Ceriotti, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Claudia Esther Avalos, Mojtaba Chevalier, Rocio Semino Barbaresi

The synthesis of molecular-sieving zeolitic membranes by the assembly of building blocks, avoiding the hydrothermal treatment, is highly desired to improve reproducibility and scalability. Here we report exfoliation of the sodalite precursor RUB-15 into cr ...

2020

Metal Soap Membranes for Gas Separation

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Davide Campi, Qi Liu, Deepu Joseph Babu, Jian Hao

Metal soaps or metal alkanoates are metal-organic complexes held together with metal cations and the functional groups of hydrocarbon chains. They can be synthesized at a high yield by simply mixing the metal and organic sources, forming crystalline framew ...

2020

Selection of Water-Soluble Chitosan by Microwave-Assisted Degradation and pH-Controlled Precipitation

Sandrine Gerber, Céline Marie Anne Journot, Laura Camille Louise Nicolle, Yann Lavanchy

In the field of gene therapy, chitosan (CS) gained interest for its promise as a non-viral DNA vector. However, commercial sources of CS lack precise characterization and do not generally reach sufficient solubility in aqueous media for in vitro and in viv ...

2020