Publications related to Electroanalytical methods

Vanadium‐manganese redox flow battery: Study of Mn(III) disproportionation in the presence of other metallic ions

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Sunny Isaïe Maye, Danick Reynard, Solène Cindy Gentil, Vimanshu Chanda

The Mn(III)/Mn(II) redox couple with a standard potential of +1.51 V vs . SHE has drawn interest for the design of V/Mn redox flow battery (RFB). However, Mn(III) disproportionation leads to a loss of capacity, an increase of pressure drop and electrode pa ...

Wiley2020

Inkjet-Printed Carbon Nanotube Electrodes Modified with Dimer-captosuccinic Acid-Capped Fe3O4 Nanoparticles on Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Single-Drop Determination of Trifluoperazine

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic

Here we report the design of a disposable single-drop voltammetric sensor for the quantitative determination of antipsy-chotic drug trifluoperazine (TFP). The sensor was build using inkjet-printed carbon nanotube (CNT) electrodes which were modified with d ...

2020

New Measurement Method in Drug Sensing by Direct Total-Charge Detection in Voltammetry

Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Simone Aiassa, José David González Martínez

Electrochemical biosensors are promoting point-of-care and wearable instrumentation due to their high versatility in measuring human metabolites. There is a considerable number of biological compounds that can be detected and measured through voltammetry b ...

IEEE2020

A wearable electrochemical sensing system for non-invasive monitoring of lithium drug in bipolar disorder

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Francesca Criscuolo

Lithium represents the main drug for the treatment of Bipolar Disorder (BD) as it acts as a mood stabilizer. However, because of its narrow therapeutic window, psychiatric patients are obliged to frequent tests in hospital to control their lithium blood co ...

2021

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

Imaging the Heterogeneity of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Gold Electrodes Operando: Activity is Highly Local

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Igor Nahálka

Understanding the mechanism of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the oxidative half of electrolytic water splitting, has proven challenging. Perhaps the largest hurdle has been gaining experimental insight into the active site of the electrocatalyst use ...

2020

Design of Optimized PEDOT‐Based Electrodes for Enhancing Performance of Living Photovoltaics Based on Phototropic Bacteria

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Alessandra Antonucci, Melania Reggente, Sara Politi

Living photovoltaics represent a growing class of microbial devices that are based on whole cell–electrode interactions. The limited charge transfer at the cell–electrode interface represents a significant bottleneck in realizing an efficient technology. T ...

Wiley2020

3D-Integration Of Printed Electrochemical Sensors In Pet Microfluidics For Biochemical Sensing

Danick Briand, Peter Van der Wal, Silvia Demuru, Angélique Martine Bionaz, Marc Olivier Joho

This paper presents a novel process for screen printed electrode fabrication, functionalization and integration in a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fluidics system for electrochemical analysis. The innovative components utilized are: 1. 3D Through-Foil V ...

IEEE2019

Bacterial adhesion and inactivation on Ag decorated TiO2-nanotubes under visible light: Effect of the nanotubes geometry on the photocatalytic activity

Sami Rtimi

This study investigates the effect of the diameter of TiO2 nanotubes and silver decorated nanotubes on optical properties and photocatalytic inactivation of Escherichia coli under visible light. The TiO2 nanotubes (TiO2 -NTs) were prepared using the electr ...

2018

SECM study of hydrogen photogeneration in a 1,2-dichloroethane | water biphasic system with decamethylruthenocene electron donor regeneration

Hubert Girault

This paper reports light driven hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) at 1,2-dichloroethane | water (DCE | W) interface using photoexcited decamethylruthenocene (DMRc) as electron donor. DMRc is in situ regenerated by electroreduction of its oxidized form (DMR ...

2018

Microengineered Electrochemical Tools for in-situ Monitoring of Marine Environment

Marianna Fighera

Measuring the concentration of different compounds in aquatic ecosystem and understanding their impact on the environment are some of the main objectives in the environmental monitoring field. Trace metals, nutrients, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), bio ...

EPFL2017

Applicability of a recently proposed tribocorrosion model to CoCr alloys with different carbides content

Stefano Mischler, Marco Cantoni, Shoufan Cao

Existing sliding tribocorrosion models have been developed for homogeneous passive metals such as stainless steel and pure metals. Many technical alloys contains however second phases, usually much harder than the metallic matrix, intended to provide bette ...

Elsevier Science Sa2017

Boosting Water Oxidation Layer-by-Layer

Hubert Girault, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Heron Vrubel, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Véronique Amstutz, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta

Electrocatalysis of water oxidation was achieved using fluorinated tin oxide (FTO) electrodes modified with layer-by-layer deposited films consisting of bilayers of negatively charged citrate-stabilized IrO2 NPs and positively charged poly(diallyldimethyla ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Fabrication process of silicone-based dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Samuel Schlatter, Oluwaseun Adelowo Araromi

This contribution demonstrates the fabrication process of dielectric elastomer transducers (DETs). DETs are stretchable capacitors consisting of an elastomeric dielectric membrane sandwiched between two compliant electrodes. The large actuation strains of ...

Journal of Visualized Experiments2016

Heterogeneous versus homogeneous electron transfer reactions at liquid–liquid interfaces: The wrong question?

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov

Functionalization of a soft or liquid-liquid interface by a one gold nanoparticle thick “nanofilm” provides a conductive pathway to facilitate interfacial electron transfer from a lipophilic electron donor to a hydrophilic electron acceptor in a process kn ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Gold Nanofilm Redox Catalysis for Oxygen Reduction at Soft Interfaces

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Evgeny Smirnov

Functionalization of a soft or liquid-liquid interface by a one gold nanoparticle thick “nanofilm” provides a conductive pathway to facilitate interfacial electron transfer from a lipophilic electron donor to a hydrophilic electron acceptor in a process kn ...

Elsevier2016

Molecular Origin and Electrochemical Influence of Capacitive Surface States on Iron Oxide Photoanodes

Michael Graetzel, Yelin Hu, Artur Braun, Florent Alexandre Boudoire

The origin, the nature, and the electronic structure of surface defects causing surface states on metal oxides and their role in solar water splitting have been under scrutiny for several decades. In the present study, the surface of hematite films is trea ...

American Chemical Society2016

Faradic Peaks Enhanced by Carbon Nanotubes in Microsomal Cytochrome P450 Electrodes

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Christian Müller

In this work we present an investigation on the behavior of microsomes containing human cytochrome P450 in cyclic voltammetry for drug detection. The microsomes are adsorbed on the surface of multi-walled carbon nanotubes by drop-casting. We demonstrate th ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Interplay between the potential waveform and diffusion layer dynamics determines the time-response of voltammetric detection in microchannels

Martinus Gijs, Raphaël Etienne Jean Trouillon

The diffusion layer is a critical factor affecting the temporal response of electrochemical devices. In this article, we have investigated the effect of the relaxation of the diffusion layer during the potentiodynamic sensing of ferrocenemethanol (FcMeOH) ...

Elsevier2015

Optimized Electrochemical Detection of Anti-Cancer Drug by Carbon Nanotubes or Gold Nanoparticles

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Nima Aliakbarinodehi

Nanostructured biosensors with the aim of electroactive cancer-drug detection were investigated. The aim of this work is improvement of the sensitivity and limit of detection of two differently nanostructured biosensors to find out the best choice for quan ...

2015