Publications by Grégoire Clément Gschwend

How to polarise an interface with ions: the discrete Helmholtz model

Hubert Girault, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

The distribution of electrolytes in an electric field usually relies on theories based on the Poisson-Boltzmann formalism. These models predict that, in the case of a metallic electrode, ionic charges screen the electrode potential, leading to concentratio ...

2020

Discrete Helmholtz charge distribution at liquid-liquid interfaces: Electrocapillarity, capacitance and non-linear spectroscopy studies

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

The structure of the polarised interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) has usually been deduced from electrocapillarity and capacitance measurements. However, these two methods only offer an indirect access to the surface change dens ...

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Discrete Helmholtz model: a single layer of correlated counter-ions. Metal oxides and silica interfaces, ion-exchange and biological membranes

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

The mechanism by which interfaces in solution can be polarised depends on the nature of the charge carriers. In the case of a conductor, the charge carriers are electrons and the polarisation is homogeneous in the plane of the electrode. In the case of an ...

2020

Structure and reactivity of the polarised liquid–liquid interface: what we know and what we do not

Hubert Girault, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Pekka Eero Peljo

Charge transfer phenomena at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) are electrochemical reactions taking place in soft media. Owing to their liquid nature, the ITIES shows a large panel of electrochemical reactions including ele ...

2020

Two dimensional diffusion-controlled triplet–triplet annihilation kinetics

Pierre-François Marie Brevet, Hubert Girault, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Morgan Kazmierczak

Diffusion controlled chemical reactions are usually observed in three dimensionalmedia. In contrast, planar bimolecular reactions taking place between reagents adsorbed at a soft interface are two-dimensional and therefore cannot be studied within the same ...

2019

Solid electrochemical energy storage for aqueous redox flow batteries: The case of copper hexacyanoferrate

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Pekka Eero Peljo, Danick Reynard, Evgeny Smirnov, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Elena Zanzola, Solène Cindy Gentil

All redox flow batteries suffer from low energy storage density in comparison with conventional Li-ion batteries. However, this issue can be mitigated by utilization of solid energy storage materials to enhance the energy storage capacity. In this paper we ...

2019

Bimolecular charge transfer reactions at and through the liquid-liquid interface

Grégoire Clément Gschwend

Interfaces are ubiquitous in Nature. Among them, soft interfaces are essential constituents of biological tissues. Indeed, many electrochemical reactions and phenomena take place at these interfaces. In this respect, ITIES are an interesting model to study ...

EPFL2019

Effect of Chaotropes on the Transfer of Ions and Dyes across the Liquid–Liquid Interface

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov, Lucie Josette Renée Rivier, Elena Vladimirova

Chaotropes such as urea can break the structure of water, weakening the hydrophobic effect and reducing aggregation. Here, we investigated how the addition of urea affects the transfer of ions and cationic dyes across the interface between immiscible elect ...

2018

Picosecond Capture of Photoexcited Electrons Improves Photovoltaic Conversion in MAPbI3 :C70 -Doped Planar and Mesoporous Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Giulia Grancini, Saba Gharibzadeh

Wiley2018

Electrovariable gold nanoparticle films at liquid–liquid interfaces: from redox electrocatalysis to Marangoni-shutters

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov

Control over the physical properties of nanoparticle assemblies at a liquid–liquid interface is a key technological advancement to realize the dream of smart electrovariable nanosystems. Electrified interfaces, such as the interface between two immiscible ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Photoproduction of Hydrogen by Decamethylruthenocene Combined with Electrochemical Recycling

Hubert Girault, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Pekka Eero Peljo, Lucie Josette Renée Rivier

The photoinduced hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) by decamethylruthenocene, Cp2RuII (Cp=C5Me5), is reported. The use of a metallocene to photoproduce hydrogen is presented as an alternative strategy to reduce protons without involving an additional phot ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017