Publications related to Hybrid sulfur cycle

Tailoring nanocatalysts and reaction interfaces for water- and CO2-electrolysis

Renewable energy sources offer a promising solution for mitigating sustainability and CO2 emissions-related issues due to their vast energy generation capacity. They enable hydrogen production via water electrolysis, as well as carbon capture and utilizati ...

EPFL2024

Activation of stainless steel 316L anode for anion exchange membrane water electrolysis

Jan Van Herle, Suhas Nuggehalli Sampathkumar, Peter Hugh Middleton, Thomas Benjamin Ferriday

The increased emphasis on renewable energy has resulted in a surge of R&D efforts into hydrogen and battery research. The intensive electrochemical environment surrounding the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has plagued both the activity and stabili ...

Elsevier2022

Universal Strategy of Bimetal Heterostructures as Superior Bifunctional Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting

Pengzuo Chen, Yun Tong

Utilizing earth-abundant metals to design economical and efficient electrocatalysts for cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical for acquiring clean hydrogen energy by the electrochemical overall wat ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Atomic Level Insights of Non-Noble Metal Catalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Lichen Bai

The conversion of intermittent renewable energy resources in the form of chemical bond, such as hydrogen production from electrochemical water splitting, is a promising way to satisfy the future global energy demand and address the environmental issues. Th ...

EPFL2021

Trace Iridium Engineering on Nickel Hydroxide Nanosheets as High-active Catalyst for Overall Water Splitting

Pengzuo Chen, Yun Tong

Designing cost-effective electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting to generate the hydrogen energy as a future energy source is pivotal. An excellent catalyst should show high catalytic activity for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxy ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2020

Enhancing Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Au(111) in Alkaline Media through Molecular Engineering of a 2D Polymer

Klaus Kern, Patrick Eduard Alexa

The electrochemical splitting of water holds promise for the storage of energy produced intermittently by renewable energy sources. The evolution of hydrogen currently relies on the use of platinum as a catalyst-which is scarce and expensive-and ongoing re ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Stability profiles of transition metal oxides in the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline medium

Xile Hu, Aliki Moysiadou

The electrochemical water splitting reaction can convert renewable electricity into clean hydrogen fuel. The efficiency of water splitting is limited to a large extent by the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Numerous transition metal oxides have b ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Solar-Driven High-Temperature Electrolysis Reactor for Fuel Processing : Modeling, Optimization, and Experimentation

Meng Lin

Solar-driven high-temperature electrolysis (HTE) and thermochemical cycles (TCC) are two promising pathways for fuel processing and energy storage, which are considered in this thesis. The goals of this thesis are: i) offering engineering guidelines at sys ...

EPFL2018

Potential-sensing electrochemical atomic force microscopy for in operando analysis of water-splitting catalysts and interfaces

Kevin Sivula

Heterogeneous electrochemical phenomena, such as (photo)electrochemical water splitting to generate hydrogen using semiconductors and/or electrocatalysts, are driven by the accumulated charge carriers and thus the interfacial electrochemical potential grad ...

2018

An integrated concentrated solar fuel generator utilizing a tubular solid oxide electrolysis cell as solar absorber

Sophia Haussener, Meng Lin

We numerically assessed the potential of a solar reactor concept for efficient fuel processing under concentrated solar irradiation. This design integrates a cavity receiver, a tubular solid oxide electrolyzer, and the concentrated photovoltaic cells into ...

2018

Understanding Digestive Ripening of Ligand-Stabilized, Charged Metal Nanoparticles

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo

Most syntheses of thiolate-protected metal nanoparticles (NPs) include a thermochemical step in which the as-prepared, polydisperse NPs are transformed to a narrower size distribution in a poorly understood process known as digestive ripening (DR). Previou ...

American Chemical Society2017

Dealloying-directed synthesis of efficient mesoporous CoFe-based catalysts towards the oxygen evolution reaction and overall water splitting

Jie Zhang, Chaoqun Dong, Yiping Wang, Zheyu Zhang

It is a great challenge to design highly active, stable and low-cost catalysts for electrochemically splitting water to realize the clean energy generation and renewable energy storage. Herein, a facile one-step dealloying strategy was proposed to synthesi ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Modelling of Solar Thermochemical Reaction Systems

Sophia Haussener

This article reviews the progress, challenges and opportunities in numerical modelling of thermal transport, thermochemical reactions and thermomechanics in high-temperature solar thermochemical systems. Continuum-scale models are presented in mathematical ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Mediated water electrolysis in biphasic systems

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Heron Vrubel, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Lucie Josette Renée Rivier

The concept of efficient electrolysis by linking photoelectrochemical biphasic H2 evolution and water oxidation processes in the cathodic and anodic compartments of an H-cell, respectively, is introduced. Overpotentials at the cathode and anode are minimis ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Investigations into the Effects of Biofuel Contaminants on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Hossein Madi

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) have gathered considerable attention as a clean, highly efficient conversion device for the production of both electricity and heat from fuels. Due to their high operating temperatures, SOFCs do not require pure hydrogen as f ...

EPFL2016

Vapor-fed microfluidic hydrogen generator

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Sophia Haussener, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Mikaël Dumortier

Water-splitting devices that operate with humid air feeds are an attractive alternative for hydrogen production as the required water input can be obtained directly from ambient air. This article presents a novel proof-of-concept microfluidic platform that ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Ni2P as a Janus catalyst for water splitting: the oxygen evolution activity of Ni2P nanoparticles

Xile Hu, Fang Song, Lucas-Alexandre Stern, Ligang Feng

Electrochemical water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen is a promising method for solar energy storage. The development of efficient electrocatalysts for water splitting has drawn much attention. However, catalysts that are active for both the hydrogen ev ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production in Alkaline Solutions Using Cu2O Coated with Earth-Abundant Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Laurent Liardet, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley

The splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules using sunlight is an attractive method for solar energy storage. Until now, photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution is mostly studied in acidic solutions, in which the hydrogen evolution is more fac ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Easily-prepared dinickel phosphide (Ni2P) nanoparticles as an efficient and robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution

Xile Hu, Michaël Bensimon, Heron Vrubel, Ligang Feng

Polydispersed dinickel phosphide (Ni2P) nanoparticles were synthesized by a simple and scalable solid-state reaction. These nanoparticles are an excellent and robust catalyst for the electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction, operating in both acidic and ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Nanostructured hydrotreating catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen evolution

Xile Hu, Lucas-Alexandre Stern, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Progress in catalysis is driven by society's needs. The development of new electrocatalysts to make renewable and clean fuels from abundant and easily accessible resources is among the most challenging and demanding tasks for today's scientists and enginee ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014