Publications related to Electro-galvanic oxygen sensor

Understanding the role of surface oxygen-containing functional groups on carbon-supported cobalt catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Kangning Zhao, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong, Manhui Wei

Supported Co-based catalysts exhibit promising catalytic activities in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during alkaline water electrolysis. Surface functionalization of the support modulates the dispersion of the catalysts and their interaction with the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Local electrochemical and thermal investigation of a segmented reversible solid oxide fuel cell and electrolyzer

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Audrey Désirée Wesoly, Zacharie Wuillemin, Hamza Moussaoui

A novel setup has been designed and mounted to investigate the local electrochemical and thermal behavior of a cell from a 4-cell short stack under reversible operation solid oxide fuel cell/solid oxide electrolyzer (SOFC/SOE). It consists in the partition ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Defect engineered nanostructured LaFeO3 photoanodes for improved activity in solar water oxidation

Kevin Sivula, Mounir Driss Mensi, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Xavier Pereira Da Costa

LaFeO3 (LFO) is recognized as a candidate material for solar water oxidation, but its photoelectrochemical response remains modest and stagnant. With the aim of advancing LFO photoanodes for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), here, a nanorod array-type e ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Tailoring the redox-active transition metal content to enhance cycling stability in cation-disordered rock-salt oxides

Corsin Battaglia, Chunyang Zhang, Yong Yang, Yining Li

Lithium-excess cation-disordered rock-salt oxides (DRXs) are investigated intensively as cathode materials for future lithium-ion batteries combining cationic and anionic redox reactions. However, the lattice oxygen redox can cause severe oxygen release re ...

ELSEVIER2021

Impedance-Based Single-Cell Pipetting

Philippe Renaud, Yann Barrandon, David Vincent Bonzon, Jean-Baptiste Bureau, Georges Muller, Nicolas Jean Bernard Beuchat, Nicolas Uffer

Many biological methods are based on single-cell isolation. In single-cell line development, the gold standard involves the dilution of cells by means of a pipet. This process is time-consuming as it is repeated over several weeks to ensure clonality. Here ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020

Impact of oxygen content in powders on the morphology of the laser molten tracks in preparation for additive manufacturing of silicon

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Lucas Güniat, Marc Leparoux

Powder additive pulsed Nd:YAG laser (wavelength 1064 nm), with the aim of preparing AM of such material. The influence of oxygen content in the initial silicon powders on the continuous tracks morphology was investigated. It was found that the initial oxyg ...

ELSEVIER2020

Cascaded amplifying circuits enable ultrasensitive cellular sensors for toxic metals

Sebastian Maerkl, Francesca Volpetti, Ekaterina Emilova Petrova

Cell-based biosensors have great potential to detect various toxic and pathogenic contaminants in aqueous environments. However, frequently they cannot meet practical requirements due to insufficient sensing performance. To address this issue, we investiga ...

2019

Sequestered Chloroplasts In The Benthic Foraminifer Haynesina Germanica: Cellular Organization, Oxygen Fluxes And Potential Ecological Implications

Charlotte Madeleine Nicole Lekieffre, Emmanuelle Geslin

Haynesina germanica is a coastal benthic foraminifer known to sequester chloroplasts from benthic pennate diatoms. This study investigates its cellular organization, as well as the oxygen consumption and production rates under dark and light conditions. Th ...

2017

Modulation of the endogenous production of protoporphyrin IX in a yeast - based model organism

Georges Wagnières, Emmanuel Louis Arthur Gerelli, Jaroslava Joniová

The main aim of this study was to assess conditions at which simple yeast-based model organism produces maximal levels of protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) after an exogenous administration of its precursor, 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), and the ferrous-ion chelator ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

In vivo measurement of the tissue oxygenation by time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy of protoporphyrin IX: Strategies to minimize artefacts associated with photoproducts

Georges Wagnières, Emmanuel Louis Arthur Gerelli, Veronika Huntosova

The determination of the oxygen partial pressure (pO(2)) in real time in living biological tissues is of high interest for numerous therapeutics, including photodynamic therapy (PDT) and radiotherapy. The minimally invasive and real-time measurement of the ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

Measurement of pO2 by luminescence lifetime spectroscopy: A comparative study of the phototoxicity and sensitivity of [Ru(Phen)3]2+ and PdTCPP in vivo

Georges Wagnières, Emmanuel Louis Arthur Gerelli, Veronika Huntosova

Dysfunctions in tissue metabolism can be detected at early stages by oxygen partial pressure (pO(2)) measurement. The measurement of emission lifetimes offers very promising and non-invasive approach to estimate pO(2) in vivo. This study compares two exten ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Effect of PpIX photoproducts formation on pO2 measurement by time-resolved delayed fluorescence spectroscopy of PpIX in solution and in vivo

Georges Wagnières, Emmanuel Louis Arthur Gerelli, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Veronika Huntosova

The measurement of Protoporphyrin IX delayed fluorescence lifetime is a minimally invasive method for monitoring the levels of oxygen in cells and tissues. The excitation of Protoporphyrin IX during this measurement can lead to the formation of photoproduc ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Development of Adsorbents for Selective Volatile Organic Compounds Removal from Diluted Gas Streams

Guillaume Bastien Baur

Contamination of the environment by anthropogenic volatile organic compounds (VOC) became of major concern during the last decades. Present in gas streams of many industrial exhausts, they are harmful and detrimental for both human health and environment e ...

EPFL2015

Sediment oxygen uptake in Lake Geneva

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Robert Vincent Schwefel

Between 1960 and 1980, the trophic state of Lake Geneva (situated between France and Switzerland) has changed from oligotrophic to eutrophic. Since then, the areal hypolimnetic oxygen demand of 1.31 gm-2 d-1 is now the highest measured in Switzerland and l ...

2014

Distributed sensor failure detection in sensor networks

Pascal Frossard, Tamara Tosic, Nikolaos Thomos

We investigate the problem of distributed sensors' failure detection in networks with a small number of defective sensors, whose measurements differ significantly from neighbouring sensor measurements. We build on the sparse nature of the binary sensor fai ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Comparative Performance of Different Nanostructured Electrochemical Sensors on Insulin Detection

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Lucia Grassi

New advancements in the management of type I diabetic patients (T1DM) call for a new generation of monitoring systems based upon an array of metabolic biosensors including sensors for insulin detection. Blood insulin values are always less than 270 pM; the ...

2013

Assessment of bacterial and structural dynamics in aerobic granular sludge biofilms

Christof Holliger, David Gregory Weissbrodt, Yoan Rappaz

Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is based on self-granulated flocs forming mobile biofilms with a gel-like consistence. Bacterial and structural dynamics from flocs to granules were followed in anaerobic-aerobic sequencing batch reactors (SBR) fed with synthe ...

Frontiers Media SA2013

Macrophage skewing by Phd2 haplodeficiency prevents ischaemia by inducing arteriogenesis

Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Francine Jordan

PHD2 serves as an oxygen sensor that rescues blood supply by regulating vessel formation and shape in case of oxygen shortage. However, it is unknown whether PHD2 can influence arteriogenesis. Here we studied the role of PHD2 in collateral artery growth by ...

2011

Microstructure of Al95.5Cr2.5Si2(N1-xOx) thin films covering from nitrides to oxides

Alireza Karimi, Hossein Najafi

Al95.5Cr2.5Si2(N1-xOx) thin films were prepared using pulsed DC-magnetron sputtering at 650 degrees C by changing the oxygen to nitrogen ratio (O-2/(O-2 + N-2)) in the reactive gas. The obtained films were characterized by various techniques including XRD, ...

2011

Influence of oxygen content on structure and properties of multi-element AlCrSiON oxynitride thin films

Alireza Karimi

Multi-element oxynitrides of type Al-Cr-Si-O-N were prepared using r.f. magnetron sputtering from Al80Cr2.5Si17.5 (at.%) target composition and O-2/(O-2+N-2) gas flow ratio between 0 and 100%. Two series of samples varying from pure nitrides to pure oxides ...

2010