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Membrane electrode assembly simulation of anion exchange membrane water electrolysis

Jan Van Herle, Zoé Mury, Suhas Nuggehalli Sampathkumar, Khaled Lawand

Anion exchange membrane water electrolysis (AEMWE) offers a green hydrogen production method that eliminates the need for platinum group metals (PGM) as electrocatalysts. This study employs a COMSOL (R) 6.0 model to simulate a 1x1 cm(2) Ni fibre - Raney (R ...

Elsevier2024

Highly anisotropic carbon fiber electrodes for DEAs and their dynamic non-monotonic conductive properties

Yves Perriard, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi, Markus Koenigsdorff

A common method for creating compliant electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) and soft sensors is to incorporate electrically conductive carbon particles into a polymer matrix. However, using unidirectional aligned carbon fibers instead not o ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2024

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

Sophia Haussener, Evan Fair Johnson

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

Additively Manufactured Degradable Piezoelectric Microsystems for Sensing and Actuating

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Danick Briand, Morgan Mc Kay Monroe, Nicolas Francis Fumeaux

The global overabundance of electronic waste and ever-increasing concerns regarding the energy-and material-intensive manufacturing processes associated with traditional electronics are driving the development of solution-processed, degradable electronics. ...

Wiley2023

Simultaneous local sensing of two chemical properties with dual soft probe scanning electrochemical microscopy

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Gregorio Bonazza

A new method for the rapid and economic fabrication of dual soft microelectrodes for Soft-Probe-Scanning electrochemical microscopy (Soft-Probe-SECM) and their use for the simultaneous local detection of locally generated species is presented. The process ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

A Needle-Shaped Electrochemical Sensor in Platinum for Robust Monitoring of Anaesthetics

Sandro Carrara, Federica Barbeni

A needle-shaped electrochemical sensor based on platinum electrodes is proposed in this paper. These platinum electrodes provide improved mechanical properties with respect to previous prototypes proposed in literature. This makes them suitable for inserti ...

IEEE2022

Portable Multi-Frequency Impedance-Sensing Device for Bacteria Classification in a Flowing Liquid

Sandro Carrara, Karim Bouzid

This paper presents a novel impedance-sensing device and its related microfluidics system developed to characterize the macroscopical properties of bacteria and microparticles. The system is based on a phase-sensitive detector with square-waves excitation ...

IEEE2022

Development of a Transient Neural Interface for Minimally Invasive Recording and Stimulation

Adele Fanelli

Transient electronics enabling devices to safely disappear in the environment can be applied not only in green electronics, but also in bioelectronic medicine. Neural implants able to degrade harmlessly inside the body eliminate the need for removal surger ...

EPFL2022

Adsorption Behavior of the Coenzyme NADH at the Carbon/ Electrolyte Interface Determined by Neutron Reflectometry

The adsorption behavior of beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) at the carbon/electrolyte interface has been studied using a combination of neutron reflectometry (NR) and solution depletion isotherms. Coupling the NR technique with an electrochemi ...

2022

Electrostatic particle collector

Satoshi Takahama, Nikunj Dudani

ESP particle collector (1) for collecting particles in a particle containing gas stream, comprising an inlet section (4), a collector section (6), and an electrode arrangement (8), the inlet section comprising a flow tube (10) defining a gas flow channel ( ...

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Monitoring and understanding Cu catalyst dissolution during CO2 electroreduction

Jan Vávra

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide is a promising approach to decrease the amount of anthropogenic CO2 being released into the atmosphere, provided that a surplus of renewable electrical energy is available. Copper based materials are at the cente ...

EPFL2022

Extended-gate field-effect transistor with aptamer functionalisation layer for measuring hormone concentration in biofluids and corresponding fabrication method

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Shokoofeh Sheibani

The present invention concerns a biosensor (1) for sensing stress hormone cortisol concentration in a biofluid (27). The biosensor (1) comprises: an electrical transistor transducer (3) comprising a transistor gate electrode (17); a sensing electrode eleme ...

2022

Modeling the electrical characteristic of InGaN/GaN blue-violet LED structure under electrical stress

Jean-François Carlin, Nicolas Grandjean, Camille Haller

The role of deep defects and their physical origin in InGaN/GaN LED are still widely investigated and debated, in particular their impact on the electrical and optical characteristics and on the reliability of the device. In this paper we evaluate the elec ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Dimensional scaling of thin-film stimulation electrode systems in translational research

Giuseppe Schiavone, Nicolas Vachicouras, Stéphanie Lacour

Objective. Electrical stimulation of biological tissue is an established technique in research and clinical practice that uses implanted electrodes to deliver electrical pulses for a variety of therapies. Significant research currently explores new electro ...

2021

Capacitive sensor to monitor the level of drug inside an injector pen

Sylvain Paul Fernand Joly

Diabete is a disease which is spreading faster than ever, impacting now a larger population. Patients suffering from this disease need the injection of insulin to control extracellular sugar levels. Pharmaceutical companies developed injector pens to allow ...

EPFL2021

Beware of your electrodes! How electrode materials and application processes impact the lifetime of slide-ring-material-based DEAs

Herbert Shea

For dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) to find more widespread adoption in commercial products, a better understanding of their durability is needed. By determining the different mechanisms contributing to ageing and breakdown in DEAs, new methods for i ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Effect of electrode composition and patterning method on the lifetime of silicone-based dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) under different environmental conditions

Herbert Shea, Fabio Beco Albuquerque

We report an experimental investigation of the lifetime of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) under constant DC actuation, with a characterization setup which allows the monitoring of strain and resistance over time for 6 DEAs in parallel. We show how t ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Transient Neurovascular Interface for Minimally Invasive Neural Recording and Stimulation

Philippe Reymond, Diego Ghezzi, Laura Ferlauto, Adele Fanelli, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger

Neural interfaces are used to mitigate the burden of traumatic injuries, neurodegenerative diseases, and mental disorders. However, the transient or permanent placement of an interface in close contact with the neural tissue requires invasive surgery, pote ...

Wiley2021

Transient Electronics for Smart Biodegradable Medical Implants

Matthieu Jean Michel Rüegg

Bioresorbable implantable medical devices show great potential for applications requiring medical care over well-defined periods of time. Such implants naturally degrade and resorb in the body, which eliminates adverse long-term effects or the need for a s ...

EPFL2020

The Upper Bound of the Speed of Propagation of Waves along a Transmission Line

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

According to theory, once certain conditions are fulfilled, current and voltage pulses propagate along ideal transmission lines with the speed of light. One can reach such a conclusion only when the conductors are assumed to be perfectly conducting, which ...

2020