Publications related to Isopropyl alcohol

Co-Adsorption of Alcohols and Water in JUK-8 Studied Using Quasi-Equilibrated Thermodesorption

JUK-8 ([Zn(oba)(pip)]n, oba2- = 4,4 '-oxybis(benzenedicarboxylate), pip = 4-pyridyl-functionalized benzene-1,3-dicarbohydrazide) is a hydrolytically stable flexible metal-organic framework. Owing to its unusual adsorptive properties, JUK-8 can be considere ...

MDPI2024

Propelling the hydrogen economy: from chemical storage and delivery to utilization in biomass conversion

Lu Chen

Since H2 is a non-polluting, inexhaustible, efficient, and sustainable energy carrier, it has been forecast to become one of the major carriers of energy in the future and is also essential in the production of feedstock chemicals derived from renewable ca ...

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

A Highly Water-Stable meta-Carborane-Based Copper Metal-Organic Framework for Efficient High-Temperature Butanol Separation

Kyriakos Stylianou, Arunraj Chidambaram

Biofuels are considered sustainable and renewable alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. Biobutanol has recently emerged as an attractive option compared to bioethanol and biodiesel, but a significant challenge in its production lies in the separation ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Modular interface and experimental setup for in-vacuum operation of microfluidic devices

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Annalisa De Pastina, Damien Maillard, Tom Larsen

We report on the design and operation of a world-to-chip microfluidic interface and experimental setup for fluidic micro- and nano-electromechanical systems. The central component of the interface is an engineered polyether ether ketone connector that brin ...

2019

Learning from droplet flows in microfluidic channels using deep neural networks

Demetri Psaltis, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Pooria Hadikhani

A non-intrusive method is presented for measuring different fluidic properties in a microfluidic chip by optically monitoring the flow of droplets. A neural network is used to extract the desired information from the images of the droplets. We demonstrate ...

Nature Research2019

Quantum Dynamics of H-2 and D-2 Confined in Hydrate Structures as a Function of Pressure and Temperature

Philippe Gillet, Richard Gaal, Livia Eleonora Bove Kado, Umbertoluca Ranieri

We present an extensive study of the quantum dynamics of molecular hydrogen trapped within the nanocavities of two hydrate structures at low temperatures, namely, clathrate structure II and filled ice structure Cl. By inelastic neutron scattering measureme ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

PZE-transduced Suspended Microchannel Resonators for sensing applications

Annalisa De Pastina

This PhD thesis aims at developing a system which can measure the mechanical properties of fluidic samples in the picoliter range. The ultimate goal is the characterization of cancer cells and viscoelastic fluids (i.e. biological fluids), in order to study ...

EPFL2018

Comparison of liquid hot water (LHW) and high boiling alcohol/water (HBAW) pretreatments for improving enzymatic saccharification of cellulose in bamboo

Li Chen, Li Shuai, Jing Liu, Meng Li, Yubo Zhao

Liquid hot water (LHW) and high-boiling point alcohol/water (HBAW) pretreatments were compared to improve enzymatic saccharification of cellulose in moso bamboo. When pretreatments were conducted at 200 degrees C for 40 min, HBAW (20% (v/v) 1,4- butanediol ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Alcohol-Induced C-N Bond Cleavage of Cyclometalated N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands with a Methylene-Linked Pendant Imidazolium Ring

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Zhaofu Fei, Wei Zhong

Reaction of the pentamethylcyclopentadienyl rhodium iodide dimer Cp*RhI2 with 1,1'-diphenyl-3,3'-methylenediimidazolium diiodide in non-alcohol solvents, in the presence of base, led to the formation of bis-carbene complex [Cp*Rh(bis-NHC)I] I (bis-NHC ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Molecular thermodynamics of metabolism: hydration quantities and the equation-of-state approach

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi

The present work is part of a series of papers aiming at a thorough understanding of the thermodynamics of metabolism over a broad range of external conditions. The focus here is on the systematic study of solvation/hydration of a variety of fluids via an ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Influence of the Sparger Type and Added Alcohol on the Gas Holdup of an External-Loop Airlift Reactor

The influences of alcohol adding and three different gas spargers (single orifice, perforated plate, and sinter plate) on the gas holdup in an external-loop airlift reactor were studied. The experimental results show that the gas holdup can be increased by ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2015

Hydrophobic hydration of poly-N-isopropyl acrylamide: a matter of the mean energetic state of water

Paolo De Los Rios

The enthalpically favoured hydration of hydrophobic entities, termed hydrophobic hydration, impacts the phase behaviour of numerous amphiphiles in water. Here, we show experimental evidence that hydrophobic hydration is strongly determined by the mean ener ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Asymmetric Synthesis of 2,4,6-Trideoxy-4-(dimethylamino)-3-C-methyl-Llyxohexopyranose (Lemonose)

Jieping Zhu, Nicolas George

L-Lemonose, the glycosidic part of (–)-lemonomycin, has been synthesized in ten steps with 18% overall yield from Dthreonine. The key steps are a double, highly diastereoselective Grignard addition to a Weinreb amide and a chemoselective oxidation of a pri ...

Georg Thieme Verlag2011

A Novel Method for the Encapsulation of Biomolecules into Polymersomes via Direct Hydration

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Davide Demurtas, Conlin O'Neil, Andrija Finka

One of the major engineering challenges for the implementation of block copolymer vesicles, or polymersomes, as therapeutic drug carriers is obtaining high encapsulation efficiencies for biomolecules. Here we present it novel method for encapsulation of pr ...

2009

The Choice of Polar Stationary Phases for Gas-Liquid Chromatography by Statistical Analysis of Retention Data

Stephan Morgenthaler

We have studied the retention indices of 127 volatile substances on a C-78-paraffin and on its seven nearly isochor and isomorphous polar derivatives over a temperature range of 90-210 A degrees C. The retention index of a substance on the C-78 paraffin ha ...

Springer Verlag2009

Quantitative distribution patterns of additives in self-leveling flooring compounds (underlayments) as function of application, formulation and climatic conditions

Karen Scrivener

The distributions of organic additives in self-leveling flooring compounds (SLCs) were investigated using laser-scanning microscopy for the selective visualization of the additives, which had been previously stained by a fluorescent dye. The distributions ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2009

Preparation and characterization of SU8-carbon nanotube composites

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Sébastien Jiguet, Marijana Mionic Ebersold, Moshe Judelewicz

SU8-carbon nanotube composites have been produced to enhance the mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties of SU8 photoresists. Homogeneous composites materials have been obtained when multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) functionalized with COOH gro ...

2009

Investigation of platinum-based nanoparticles on boron-doped diamond substrate for applications in electrocatalysis

Guillaume Siné

The search of new energy sources has motivated during the last few years numerous research projects due to environmental, economical and political reasons. One of the main subjects of these works is the development of fuel cells. Within this framework the ...

EPFL2006

Palladium nanoparticles stabilized in block-copolymer micelles for highly selective 2-butyne-1,4-diol partial hydrogenation

Albert Renken, Lioubov Kiwi, Sandra Parra Cardona, Eric Joannet

Pd nanoparticles (2 nm) stabilized in the micelle core of poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(2-vinylpyridine) were studied in partial hydrogenation of 2-butyne-1,4-diol. Both unsupported micelles (0.6 kg Pd/m3) and supported ones on g-Al2O3 (0.042% Pd) showed ...

2005