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Ca2Fe2O5 is a p-type semiconductor with properties suitable for potential application as a photocathode in photoelectrochemical water splitting. However, it suffers from poor stability under working conditions that is still not completely understood. In th ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Surface chemistry of supported Ru nanoparticles investigated during CO2 hydrogenation by NAP-XPS

Guillaume Bérenger Rod, Andreas Züttel, Mounir Driss Mensi, Yasemen Kuddusi

In situ investigation of the surface composition of catalyst particles improves the understanding of the active species in heterogeneous catalysis. This study analyzed the surface chemistry of ruthenium nanoparticles supported on alumina during CO2 methana ...

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Water Management in Zero-Gap CO2 Electrolyzer with Forward Bias Bipolar Membranes

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CO2 electrolysis is a promising process to produce synthetic and carbon-neutral chemicals. Zero-gap CO2 electrolyzers featuring a forward bias bipolar membrane (BPM) solve problems like salt precipitation and CO2 crossover but still suffer from limited per ...

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Effect of imidazole-based additives on the voltage of dye sensitized solar cells with Cu(II/I) redox mediators

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Acetonitrile solutions of Cu(tmby)22+ exhibit aging-dependent changes of UV–Vis spectra, which were attributed to partial reduction to Cu(tmby)2+. This effect is boosted by the addition of imidazole bases, i.e., N-methyl-benzimidazole (NMB) or 5‑chloro-1-e ...

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Dielectric Properties of Aqueous Electrolytes at the Nanoscale

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Despite the ubiquity of aqueous electrolytes, the effect of salt on water organization remains controversial. We introduce a nonlocal and nonlinear field theory for the nanoscale polarization of ions and water and derive the electrolyte dielectric response ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025

Recycling rare earth metals from luminescent fibers by solvent extraction

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Rare earth elements (REEs) are known for their specialized optical and electronic properties that have led to their use in a wide range of applications, such as luminescent fibers employed in security papers (e.g., bank notes). Most of the security documen ...

Elsevier BV2025

Ligand-modified nanoparticle surfaces influence CO electroreduction selectivity

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Improving the kinetics and selectivity of CO2/CO electroreduction to valuable multi-carbon products is a challenge for science and is a requirement for practical relevance. Here we develop a thiol-modified surface ligand strategy that promotes electrochemi ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Preserving High Porosity of Covalent Organic Frameworks via Functional Polymer Guest Introduction

Wendy Lee Queen

Due to their high structural tunability, remarkable internal surface areas, readily accessible pore space, and host of possible applications, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) remain at the forefront of materials science research. Unfortunately, many COFs ...

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Manipulation of the Electronic Structure of Ruthenium Nanoclusters by Ni-N4 Sites Enhances the Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

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Designing electrocatalysts that are both highly efficient and durable is crucial for the industrial implementation of alkaline electrocatalytic hydrogen production technologies. A limitation of the current Ru-based catalysts is that the water dissociation ...

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The redox aspects of lithium-ion batteries

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This article aims to present the redox aspects of lithium-ion batteries both from a thermodynamic and from a conductivity viewpoint. We first recall the basic definitions of the electrochemical potential of the electron, and of the Fermi level for a redox ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2024

Dataset to accompany publication "Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films"

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This dataset accompanies the publication "Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films" published in Light: Science & Applications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01408-2). The data can be used to reproduce plots 1-4 ...

Zenodo2024

Towards Mimicking Brain Mechanical Loads: Stretchable Microelectrode Arrays for Brain Spheroid Electrophysiology

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Human neural spheroids, 3D cellular aggregates of neurons and glial cells, are a compelling biological model for studying neuronal communication in physiological and pathological conditions, such as neurodevelopment and traumatic brain injury (TBI), respec ...

FUNDACIO DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA SCITO2024

Role of Na2CO3 as Nucleation Seeds to Accelerate the CO2 Uptake Kinetics of MgO-Based Sorbents

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There is an urgent need for inexpensive, functional materials that can capture and release CO2 under industrial conditions. In this context, MgO is a highly promising, earth-abundant CO2 sorbent. However, despite its favorable carbonation thermodynamics an ...

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Naphthalene-Based Polymers as Catalytic Supports for Suzuki Cross-Coupling

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In this work, for the first time, naphthalene (NA)-based polymers were synthesized by one-stage Friedel-Crafts crosslinking. The influence of NA functionalization by -OH, -SO3H, and -NO2 groups on the polymers' porosity and distribution of the catalyticall ...

MDPI2023

Carbonized wood impregnated with bimetallic nanoparticles as a monolithic continuous-flow microreactor for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol

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Porous monolithic microreactors show great promise in catalytic applications, but are usually based on non-renewable materials. Herein, we demonstrate a Ni/Au nanoparticle-decorated carbonized wood (Ni/Au-CW) monolithic membrane microreactor for the effici ...

ELSEVIER2023

Atomic doping & coating for Electrocatalysis & Li-ion batteries

Albert Claude Jean-Pierre Daubry

Molybdenum atomic-doping on bio-waste derived nitrogen-doped conductive carbon electrocatalyst was synthesized and investigated for the dinitrogen reduction to ammonia in alkaline media. The assessment of the catalytic activity was found to be non-trivial ...

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High Performance Semiconducting Nanosheets via a Scalable Powder-Based Electrochemical Exfoliation Technique

Kevin Sivula, Aleksandra Radenovic, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Miao Zhang, Tzu-Heng Chen

The liquid-phase exfoliation of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) powders into 2D nanosheets represents a promising route toward the scalable production of ultrathin high-performance optoelectronic devices. However, the harsh conditions ...

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A Machine Learning Model of Chemical Shifts for Chemically and Structurally Diverse Molecular Solids

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) chemical shifts are a direct probe of local atomic environments and can be used to determine the structure of solid materials. However, the substantial computational cost required to predict accurate chemical shifts is a ke ...

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