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In vivo electrochemical corrosion study of a CoCrMo biomedical alloy in human synovial fluids

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Role of OH Intermediates during the Au Oxide Electro-Reduction at Low pH Elucidated by Electrochemical Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Implicit Solvent Density Functional Theory

Molecular understanding of the electrochemical oxidation of metals and the electro-reduction of metal oxides is of pivotal importance for the rational design of catalyst-based devices where metal(oxide) electrodes play a crucial role. Operando monitoring a ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Mapping of Chemical Heterogeneity at Surfaces with High-Throughput Wide-Field Second Harmonic Microscopy

Igor Nahálka

Many industrial processes are based on electrochemical reactions using engineered electrocatalysts. However, the current lack of theoretical knowledge obscures efforts to maximize catalysts' efficiency, and the optimization process is mostly empirical. To ...

EPFL2020

Mechanism of Oxygen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobalt Oxyhydroxide: Cobalt Superoxide Species as a Key Intermediate and Dioxygen Release as a Rate-Determining Step

Xile Hu, Aliki Moysiadou, Seunghwa Lee

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the performance-limiting half reaction of water splitting, which can be used to produce hydrogen fuel using renewable energies. Whereas a number of transition metal oxides and oxyhydroxides have been developed as prom ...

2020

Direct currents stimulate carbonate mineralization for soil improvement under various chemical conditions

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

The present study integrates direct electric currents into traditional calcium carbonate mineralization to investigate electrochemical interactions and the subsequent crystalline growth of CaCO3 bonds in sand. A specific line of focus refers to the effect ...

Nature Research2020

Inkjet printing and electrocatalysis

Victor Costa Bassetto

The transition in energy matrix, from fossil to renewable energy sources, will require the utilization of grid levelling alternatives to cope with the intermittent characteristic of renewable energy. Advanced electrochemical energy conversion and storage d ...

EPFL2019

Photocatalytic Performance of CuxO/TiO2 Deposited by HiPIMS on Polyester under Visible Light LEDs: Oxidants, Ions Effect, and Reactive Oxygen Species Investigation

Sami Rtimi

In the present study, we propose a new photocatalytic interface prepared by high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS), and investigated for the degradation of Reactive Green 12 (RG12) as target contaminant under visible light light-emitting diodes ( ...

2019

Gas-Phase Ozone Reactions with a Structurally Diverse Set of Molecules: Barrier Heights and Reaction Energies Evaluated by Coupled Cluster and Density Functional Theory Calculations

Jeremy Samuel Arey, Peter Rudolf Tentscher, Daniela Trogolo

Reactions with ozone transform organic and inorganic molecules in water treatment systems as well as in atmospheric chemistry, either in the aqueous phase, at gas/particle interfaces, or in the gas phase. Computed thermokinetic data can be used to estimate ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Anticancer Potential of Diiron Vinyliminium Complexes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor, Silvia Schoch

Although ferrocene derivatives have attracted considerable attention as possible anticancer agents, the medicinal potential of diiron complexes has remained largely unexplored. Herein, we describe the straightforward multigram-scale synthesis and the antip ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Ni3N as an Active Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction Catalyst in Alkaline Medium

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Xile Hu, Anna Krammer, Weiyan Ni

Hydroxide-exchange membrane fuel cells can potentially utilize platinum-group-metal (PGM)-free electrocatalysts, offering cost and scalability advantages over more developed proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. However, there is a lack of non-precious elec ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Electrochemical Behavior of Carbon Electrodes for In Situ Redox Studies in a Transmission Electron Microscope

Nikolaos Nianias, Vasiliki Tileli, Robin Pierre Alain Girod

Electrochemical liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a unique technique for probing nanocatalyst behavior during operation for a range of different electrocatalytic processes, including hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution r ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2019

Development of New Strategies of Umpolung with Cyclic Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Paola Caramenti

Organic chemistry is essential for the development of a modern society and technical progress requires the continuous development of synthetic methodologies Novel, efficient, selective and flexible protocols are employed to access complex frameworks from s ...

EPFL2019