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Contrasting Views of the Electric Double Layer in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction: Continuum Models vs Molecular Dynamics

In the field of electrochemical CO2 reduction, both continuum models and molecular dynamics (MD) models have been used to understand the electric double layer (EDL). MD often focuses on the region within a few nm of the electrode, while continuum models ca ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Gas generating membrane-less electrolyser

Demetri Psaltis, Pooria Hadikhani, Steven Alexandre Schenk, Sylvain Jacky Reinauer

Electrolyser including a reactor (2) comprising a housing (4), fluidic channels (6a, 6b, 6c) within the housing, and electrodes (16a, 16c) comprising an anode (16a) and a cathode (16c). The fluidic channels include an inter-electrode channel (6b) arranged ...

2023

Raising the temperature on electrodes for anion exchange membrane electrolysis-activity and stability aspects

Jan Van Herle

The membrane electrode assembly is the powerhouse of the anion exchange membrane water electrolyser (AEMWE), thereby placing a great importance on the associated preparation conditions. This paper investigated how annealing temperature and time impacted ac ...

ELSEVIER2023

Voltage-driven Chemical Reactions Enable the Synthesis of Tunable Liquid Ga – Metal Nanoparticles

Raffaella Buonsanti, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Anna Loiudice, Valery Okatenko, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Alexander Nicolas Chen, Krishna Kumar

Nanosized particles of liquid metals are emerging materials which hold promise for applications spanning from microelectronics to catalysis. Yet, the knowledge of their chemical reactivity is largely unknown. Here, we study the reactivity of liquid Ga and ...

2023

Voltage-driven Reactivity of Liquid Ga and CuGa Nanoparticles for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction and Synthesis

Valery Okatenko

The rising atmospheric level of carbon dioxide, CO2, contributes to climate change and poses urgent need to find scalable solutions both to decrease its emissions and to be able to recycle it, if the goals of Paris Agreement to limit the temperature rise a ...

EPFL2023

Electron Emission Regimes of Planar Nano Vacuum Emitters

Yujia Yang, Alberto Nardi

Recent advancements in nanofabrication have enabled the creation of vacuum electronic devices with nanoscale free-space gaps. These nanoelectronic devices promise the benefits of cold-field emission and transport through free space, such as high nonlineari ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Energy Level Alignment at the Cobalt Phosphate/Electrolyte Interface: Intrinsic Stability vs Interfacial Chemical Reactions in 5 V Lithium Ion Batteries

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni

The intrinsic stability of the 5 V LiCoPO4-LiCo2P3O10 thin-film (carbon-free) cathode material coated with MoO3 thin layer is studied using a comprehensive synchrotron electron spectroscopy in situ approach combined with firstprinciple calculations. The at ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Sodium Superionic Conductors (NASICONs) as Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Kangning Zhao, Guangwei He

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have developed rapidly owing to the high natural abundance, wide distribution, and low cost of sodium. Among the various materials used in SIBs, sodium superion conductor (NASICON)-based electrode materials with remarkable struc ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Cu/Metal Oxide Hybrid Nanocrystals as Electrocatalysts for the CO2 Reduction Reaction

Seyedehbehnaz Varandili

The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is envisioned to play a significant role in achieving carbon neutrality while contributing to storing renewable energies. Cu-based materials are among the most promising electrocatalysts. However, 16 diffe ...

EPFL2021

Towards reproducible lithium-ion battery cycling using liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy

Jing Hou

Electric vehicles (EVs) have gained widespread attention in recent years as the dominant strategy for curbing CO2 emissions through transport electrification. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are currently the most suitable and almost exclusively employed ener ...

EPFL2021

Studies of cold chemistry in crossed and merged neutral beams

Silvia Tanteri

In this thesis we present the design of two setups to study low-energy collisions between neutral species: an electron velocity map imaging for chemi-ionisation reactions and a merged electrostatic guide for polar molecules scattering. In the past few yea ...

EPFL2021

On-Chip Fully Integrated Field Emission Arrays for High-Voltage MEMS Applications

Vivek Subramanian

Vacuum-sealed fully integrated diode and triode field emission arrays based on Ti Spindt-type field emitters have been developed in a scalable, CMOS-compatible process directly on Si. Diode characterization in air demonstrates effective vacuum sealing and ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

System and method for ground consolidation

Lyesse Laloui, Dimitrios Terzis, Patrick Gabriel Yihsiu-Ming Hicher

The present invention relates to a method for inducing ground consolidation. The method comprises providing a first chamber (7) in a first hole (3) in the ground (5), and a second chamber (7) in a second hole (3) in the ground (5), the first and second cha ...

2020

Tribocorrosion behaviour of pure titanium in bovine serum albumin solution: A multiscale study

Anna Neus Igual Muñoz

Tribocorrosion behaviour of pure titanium in phosphate buffer saline (PBS) solution has been investigated systematically as a function of surface chemistry and bovine serum albumin (BSA) content in the solution. A ball-on-disk tribometer coupled with an el ...

ELSEVIER2020

Sweat monitoring with CMOS compatible technology: ISFETS and beyond

Francesco Bellando

In recent years, sweat has gained increasing attention from the scientific community as a new analyte for health monitoring. The main advantage with respect to the "Gold Standard" for laboratory analysis, i.e. blood, is of course the possibility of perform ...

EPFL2020

Sodium chromium hexacyanoferrate as a potential cathode material for aqueous sodium-ion batteries

Hubert Girault, Emad Oveisi, Dominika Baster, Pierre Mettraux

Sodium chromium hexacyanoferrate (NaCrHCF) is obtained here using a facile co-precipitation method at room temperature. The powder was investigated in terms of potential use as a cathode material for aqueous sodium-ion batteries under neutral conditions. T ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Measurements of ion velocity and wave propagation in a hollow cathode plume

Christopher Andrew Dodson

The mechanism responsible for the production of energetic ions in the plume of hollow cathodes for electric propulsion is still an open issue. These ions are of concern to cathode and thruster lifetime, particularly for cathodes operating at high (>20 A) d ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Energetics and cathode voltages of LiMPO4 olivines (M = Fe, Mn) from extended Hubbard functionals

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni

Transition-metal compounds pose serious challenges to first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT), due to the inability of most approximate exchange-correlation functionals to capture the localization of valence electrons on thei ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Effect of the electrochemical characteristics of titanium on the adsorption kinetics of albumin

Anna Neus Igual Muñoz

An electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) was used to examine the electrochemical behaviour of pure titanium in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) and PBS-containing bovine serum albumin (BSA) solutions, and the associated adsorption characteristi ...

2019

Oxide versus Nonoxide Cathode Materials for Aqueous Zn Batteries: An Insight into the Charge Storage Mechanism and Consequences Thereof

Alfredo Pasquarello, Assil Bouzid

Aqueous Zn-ion batteries, which are being proposed as large-scale energy storage solutions because of their unparalleled safety and cost advantage, are composed of a positive host (cathode) material, a metallic zinc anode, and a mildly acidic aqueous elect ...

2019