Publications by Hubert Girault

Print-light-synthesis of electrocatalytically active gas diffusion electrodes for fuel cell applications

Hubert Girault, Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Kumar Varoon Agrawal

The present work reports a simple approach to manufacture electrocatalytically active gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) in two steps: (i) inkjet printing and (ii) flash light irradiation from a xenon flash lamp, a process called Print-light-synthesis (PLS). ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2025

Laser pyrolysis of biomass: Comparing cellulose-rich and lignin-rich feedstocks for hydrogen rich-gas production

Hubert Girault

The increasing global demand for sustainable energy solutions necessitates innovative approaches to hydrogen production. This study investigates the use of laser pyrolysis as a rapid and efficient method for converting biomass into hydrogen-rich gas, bioch ...

2025

Water Electrolysis Technologies: the Importance of New Cell Designs and Fundamental Modelling to Guide Industrial-scale Development

Hubert Girault

Large-scale, sustainable, low-cost production of hydrogen can reduce the negative effects of climate change by decarbonising energy infrastructure. Low-carbon hydrogen can be synthesised via water electrolysis. Today, however, this only constitutes a minor ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Ionic Transport Aspects of Water Electrolysis in Alkaline Media

Hubert Girault

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025

Biomass screening for syngas production by flash photopyrolysis

Hubert Girault, Mathieu Soutrenon, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva

A few seconds flash photopyrolysis is used as efficient screening tool for the investigation of selected biomass in producing syngas, hydrogen and biochar. This innovative approach allowed rapid pyrolysis of the biomass, which was followed by a precise gas ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Gold Nanoparticles at a Liquid Interface: Towards a Soft Nonlinear Metasurface

Hubert Girault, Frédéric Gumy

Optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) is achieved using adsorbed gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with an average diameter of 16 nm at the aqueous solution–air interface in reflection. A detailed analysis of the depth profile of the SHG intensity detected sho ...

2024

Electroanalytical applications of ITIES – A review

Hubert Girault

Over the last decades, the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) attracted considerable attention of the scientific community due to their vast applications, such as extraction, catalysis, partition studies and sensing. The aim of ...

2024

Perspective Alkaline electrolyzers: Powering industries and overcoming fundamental challenges

Hubert Girault

For the sustainable development of the renewable hydrogen sector, alkaline electrolysis appears to be a technology of choice. Nevertheless, despite its long history that showed its reliability in the industrial field and despite the traditional belief from ...

Cell Press2024

The redox aspects of lithium-ion batteries

Hubert Girault

This article aims to present the redox aspects of lithium-ion batteries both from a thermodynamic and from a conductivity viewpoint. We first recall the basic definitions of the electrochemical potential of the electron, and of the Fermi level for a redox ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2024

Hydrogen production by waste tire recycling by photo-pyrolysis

Hubert Girault, Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Bhawna Nagar, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva, Jordi Espin Marti

Waste tires are a major environmental concern due to their non-degradable nature and the large area occupied by them in landfills worldwide. Several recycling processes have been applied to minimize the high amount of waste tire disposal; in particular, py ...

2023

Simultaneous local sensing of two chemical properties with dual soft probe scanning electrochemical microscopy

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Gregorio Bonazza

A new method for the rapid and economic fabrication of dual soft microelectrodes for Soft-Probe-Scanning electrochemical microscopy (Soft-Probe-SECM) and their use for the simultaneous local detection of locally generated species is presented. The process ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Revealing the Effects of Three Different Antimicrobial Agents on E. coli Biofilms by Using Soft-Probe Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

Hubert Girault

This paper evaluated the use of soft-probe scanning electrochemical microscopy complementarily with confocal laser scanning microscopy to study the effects of different antimicrobial agents and treatments on E. coli DH5α biofilm. The antimicrobial agents w ...

2023

A spatially multiplexed voltammetric magneto-sandwich assay involving Fe3O4/Fe-based metal-organic framework for dual liver cancer biomarkers

Hubert Girault, Milica Jovic

Voltammetric sandwich assays were constructed by integrating capture bioreceptors-conjugated magnetic nanocomposites, namely Fe3O4/MIL-101(Fe)-(NH)(CO)-COOH (FO/MOF) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP)labeled detection antibodies on an eight-well screen-printed ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Algorithms push forward the application of MALDI-TOF mass fingerprinting in rapid precise diagnosis

Hubert Girault, Yingdi Zhu

Macromolecular mass fingerprinting using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry is a quick tool for biochemical analysis. In combination with algorithms for automated data analysis and interpretation, it has wide appli ...

WILEY2023

MALDI-TOF Mass Fingerprinting for Rapid Identification of Bacteria: Experimental Procedures

Hubert Girault, Yingdi Zhu

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

A Rapidly Responsive Sensor for Wireless Detection of Early and Mature Microbial Biofilms

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Bhawna Nagar, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva

Biofilm-associated infections, which are able to resist antibiotics, pose a significant challenge in clinical treatments. Such infections have been linked to various medical conditions, including chronic wounds and implant-associated infections, making the ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Advances in the Sensing and Treatment of Wound Biofilms

Hubert Girault, Sorour Darvishi

Wound biofilms represent a particularly challenging problem in modern medicine. They are increasingly antibiotic resistant and can prevent the healing of chronic wounds. However, current treatment and diagnostic options are hampered by the complexity of th ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Banana split: biomass splitting with flash light irradiation

Hubert Girault, Bhawna Nagar, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva

Biomass splitting into gases and solids using flash light irradiation is introduced as an efficient photo-thermal process to photo-pyrolyze dried natural biomass powders to valuable syngas and conductive porous carbon (biochar). The photo-thermal reactions ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Visible-light driven water oxidation and oxygen production at soft interfaces

Hubert Girault, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Jorge Gustavo Uranga, Julieta Soledad Riva, Sara Natalia Moya Betancourt

The visible light driven water oxidation reaction (WOR) by the organic electron acceptor 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyano-quinodimethane (TCNQF(4)) was studied at the water|butyronitrile interface. The WOR was performed at neutral pH, and without any ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

AI-Assisted Fusion of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Images Using Novel Soft Probe

Hubert Girault, Sorour Darvishi

Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) is one of the scanning probe techniques that has attracted considerable attention because of its ability to interrogate surface morphology or electrochemical reactivity. However, the quality of SECM images general ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022