Publications related to Ion transport number

Surface Charge Boundary Condition Often Misused in CO2 Reduction Models

Sophia Haussener, Etienne Boutin, Evan Fair Johnson

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations have been used to model species transport in electrochemical CO2 reduction, where the surface charge boundary condition accounts for the potential drop across the Stern layer. A direct comparison of the published models ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Deriving Major Ion Concentrations at High Resolution from Continuous Electrical Conductivity Measurements in Karst Systems

Paolo Benettin

Time series of hydrochemical parameters support the investigation of dominant karst hydrological processes and conceptual model structures. Nevertheless, high costs for sample collection and analyses cause hydrochemical data to be rarely available at a suf ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2023

Operando Electrochemical Liquid Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Investigation of the Growth and Evolution of the Mosaic Solid Electrolyte Interphase for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Corsin Battaglia, Rolf Erni

The solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) is a key component of a lithium-ion battery forming during the first few dischage/charge cycles at the interface between the anode and the electrolyte. The SEI passivates the anode-electrolyte interface by inhibiting ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Stabilizing Interface pH by Mixing Electrolytes for High-Performance Aqueous Zn Metal Batteries

Kangning Zhao

Aqueous zinc metal batteries with mild acidic electrolytes are considered promising candidates for large-scale energy storage. However, the Zn anode suffers from severe Zn dendrite growth and side reactions due to the unstable interfacial pH and the absenc ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Cluster Catalysis with Lattice Oxygen: Tracing Oxygen Transport from a Magnetite (001) Support onto Small Pt Clusters

Wolfgang Harbich, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni, Ke Zhang

Oxidation catalysis on reducible oxide-supported small metal clusters often involves lattice oxygen. The present work aims at differentiating whether the reaction takes place at the cluster/support interface or on the cluster. To that purpose, we trace the ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Ion and Trap Induced Dynamic Phenomena in Salt Semiconductor Devices

Matthias Diethelm

State-of-the-art organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) used in commercial display technology are complex multilayer structures. In contrast, the light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) can be built from a single emissive layer sandwiched between two elec ...

EPFL2021

High Li-ion conductivity in tetragonal LGPO: A comparative first-principles study against known LISICON and LGPS phases

Nicola Marzari, Giuliana Materzanini, Aris Marcolongo, Leonid Kahle

We highlight fast Li-ion diffusion in hypothetical tetragonal Li10GeP2O12 (LGPO), as a counterpart to the well-known phases of orthorhombic (LISICON) LGPO, thio-LISICON, and tetragonal Li10GeP2S12 (LGPS). We use extended Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics i ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

'Green' Cr(III)-based electrodeposition of stainless steel-like FeCrNi: synthesis, mechanisms, material properties of films and micro-nanocomponents for bio-medical applications

Enrico Bertero

The electrodeposition (ED) of stainless steel (SS) -like FeCrNi alloys for miniaturised devices is appealing for bio-medicine as it would allow combining excellent material properties (e.g. corrosion resistance, hardness, bio-compatibility) at low-cost. Ho ...

EPFL2020

Linking Morphology and Multi-Physical Transport in Structured Electrodes

Silvan Suter

Motivated to advance the renewable energy production and diversify the technologies for storable energy carriers, my work is concentrated on the characterization and the optimization of electrode morphologies applicable in photoelectrochemical water-splitt ...

EPFL2019

Large-scale fabrication of flexible solid-state reference electrodes

Hubert Girault, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Milica Jovic, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra

A new approach for large-scale fabrication of miniaturized, reliable and planar solid-state reference electrodes on flexible substrates is presented. Inkjet printing technique was used for the fabrication of conductive path and silver patterns that were ch ...

2019

Slow CH3NH3+ Diffusion in CH3NH3PbI3 under Light Measured by Solid-State NMR and Tracer Diffusion

Michael Graetzel, Joachim Maier, Alessandro Senocrate

We investigate methylammonium (MA) transport in MA lead iodide under illumination and show this, as in the dark, to be measurable but negligible when compared with the major carriers. H-1 and C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra show constant line ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

The Nature of Ion Conduction in Methylammonium Lead Iodide: A Multimethod Approach

Michael Graetzel, Joachim Maier, Alessandro Senocrate

By applying a multitude of experimental techniques including H-1, N-14, Pb-207 NMR and I-127 NMR/NQR, tracer diffusion, reaction cell and doping experiments, as well as stoichiometric variation, conductivity, and polarization experiments, iodine ions are u ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Synthesis of Cyanine Polyelectrolytes and Anions for Organic Electronic Devices

Lei Wang

Many practical applications among organic electronic devices have been demonstrated over the last decades. They are considered as promising alternatives to inorganic semiconductor technologies due to the potential of cost-effective fabrication, excellent p ...

EPFL2017

Contact potentials, Fermi level equilibration and surface charging

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo

This paper focuses on contact electrification from thermodynamic equilibration of the electron electrochemical potentials of two conductors upon contact. The contact potential difference generated in bimetallic macro- and nanosystems, the Fermi level after ...

American Chemical Society2016

Investigation of the thermal effects in nanofluidic transport and their application in gating

Mojtaba Taghipoor

Scaling down to nanometer size fluidic conduits has opened a new window into the world of sensing and manipulation of nanoscale species. Thousands of publications and hundreds of patents in this field are only a starting point for exploring and manipulatin ...

EPFL2015

Al2O3/W hetero-structured nanopore membranes: From native to tunable nanofluidic diodes

Jürgen Brugger, Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Songmei Wu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber

We present here Al2O3/W hetero-structured nanopore membranes which function as native and electrical field tunable nanofluidic diodes. A typical membrane is 100×100 μm2 in size with pore density of ∼ 20/μm2. The nanopores are 26 nm in diameter and 400 nm i ...

IEEE2013

An analysis of the optimal band gaps of light absorbers in integrated tandem photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems

Sophia Haussener

The solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency limits, along with the maximum efficiency values and the corresponding optimal band gap combinations, have been evaluated for various combinations of light absorbers arranged in a tandem configuration in realistic, op ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Statistical Analysis of Ion Mobility Spectrometry. II. Adaptively Biased Methods and Shape Correlations

Yury Tsybin

Following a recent effort [J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 23, 386-396 (2012)], we continue to explore computational methodologies for generating molecular conformations to support collisional cross sections suggested by ion mobility measurements. Here, adaptiv ...

2012

Ion current rectification and rectification inversion in conical nanopores: a perm-selective view

Hubert Girault, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Dmitry Momotenko

Ionic transport in charged conical nanopores is known to give rise to ion current rectification. The present study shows that the rectification direction can be inverted when using electrolyte solutions at very low ionic strengths. To elucidate these pheno ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2011

Effect of the environment on wear ranking and corrosion of biomedical CoCrMo alloys

Stefano Mischler

The corrosion behaviour and the wear ranking of biomedical high carbon (HC) and low carbon (LC) CoCrMo alloys sliding against an alumina ball in four different simulated body fluids [NaCl and phosphate buffered solutions (PBS) with and without albumin] has ...

2011