Publications by Felix Daniel Bobbink

Mechanistic classification and benchmarking of polyolefin depolymerization over silica-alumina-based catalysts

Mounir Driss Mensi, Paul Joseph Dyson, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Wei-Tse Lee, Jed Russell Carullo

Carbon-carbon bond cleavage mechanisms play a key role in the selective deconstruction of alkanes and polyolefins. Here, we show that the product distribution, which encompasses carbon range and formation of unsaturated and isomerization products, serves a ...

Nature Research2022

Catalytic hydrocracking of synthetic polymers into grid-compatible gas streams

Paul Joseph Dyson, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Reza Zamani, Kun-Han Lin

The use of methane as one of the cleanest energy sources has attracted significant public awareness, and methane production processes with less environmental impact than fracking are receiving considerable attention. Catalytic hydrocracking of plastic mate ...

2021

Aggregation of Halloysite Nanotubes in the Presence of Multivalent Ions and Ionic Liquids

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink

Colloidal stability was investigated in two types of particle systems, namely, with bare (h-HNT) and polyimidazolium-functionalized (h-HNT-IP-2) alkali-treated halloysite nanotubes in solutions of metal salts and ionic liquids (ILs). The valence of the met ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Cycloaddition of Biogas-Contained CO2 into Epoxides via Ionic Polymer Catalysis: An Experimental and Process Simulation Study

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, François Maréchal, Paul Joseph Dyson, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Alexy Robert Bonnin

Biogas upgrading technologies are crucial for the production of high-purity biomethane. Efficient CO2 removal methods that are currently commercialized rely on "catch-and-release" mechanisms, and the CO2 stream is usually discharged into the atmosphere wit ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Direct conversion of plastic materials into methane and liquid fuels

Paul Joseph Dyson, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Wei-Tse Lee

The invention relates to a method for direct conversion of plastic materials into methane and/or liquid fuel and use of ruthenium-modified zeolite to catalyse this conversion. ...

2020

Anhydrous Conditions Enable the Catalyst-Free Carboxylation of Aromatic Alkynes with CO2 under Mild Conditions

Paul Joseph Dyson, Marinella Mazzanti, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Davide Toniolo

The direct carboxylation of aromatic alkynes with CO2, a cheap and widely available C1 source, is the most attractive method for the synthesis of carboxylic acids. Here we show that direct carboxylation of terminal alkynes can be simply performed in near-q ...

2020

Masking specific effects of ionic liquid constituents at the solid-liquid interface by surface functionalization

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink

Ion specific effects of ionic liquid (IL) constituents on the surface charge and aggregation properties of two types of particles (positively charged amidine (AL) and polyimidazolium-functionalized sulfate (SL-IP-2) latexes) were investigated in IL solutio ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Leather-Promoted Transformation of Glucose into 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural and Levoglucosenone

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Florent Menoud, Zhangjun Huang

The search for efficient catalysts frequently leads to new homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts of increasing complexity, and sometimes common, natural, or hybrid natural/synthetic materials that could be used in catalysis are overlooked. For example, t ...

2019

Retarding Thermal Degradation in Hybrid Perovskites by Ionic Liquid Additives

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Marius Franckevicius, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Nikita Drigo, Zhangjun Huang, Rui Xia

Recent years have witnessed considerable progress in the development of solar cells based on lead halide perovskite materials. However, their intrinsic instability remains a limitation. In this context, the interplay between the thermal degradation and the ...

2019

Towards Light-Activated Ruthenium-Arene (RAPTA-Type) Prodrug Candidates

Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Anna Katherine Renfrew, Felix Daniel Bobbink

Cancer is currently one of the deadliest diseases worldwide. Based on the high incidence of this disease, the side effects associated with current chemotherapies and the appearance of drug resistance, considerable efforts have been directed towards the dev ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

En route to CO2-containing renewable materials: catalytic synthesis of polycarbonates and non-isocyanate polyhydroxyurethanes derived from cyclic carbonates

Paul Joseph Dyson, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Felix Daniel Bobbink

Combining CO2-chemistry with biomass conversion allows renewable polymeric materials including polycarbonates and polyhydroxyurethanes (PHUs) to be generated. The demand for robust materials with modular properties that can be prepared on an industrial sca ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Indirect CO2 Methanation: Hydrogenolysis of Cyclic Carbonates Catalyzed by Ru-Modified Zeolite Produces Methane and Diols

Paul Joseph Dyson, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Wei-Tse Lee, Zhangjun Huang

We report a ruthenium‐modified zeolite which efficiently transforms propylene carbonate to propylene glycol and methane, under solvent‐free conditions. The catalyst achieved high product selectivity and no significant ageing effect was observed after multi ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Intricacies of Cation-Anion Combinations in Imidazolium Salt-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of CO2 Into Epoxides

Gabor Laurenczy, Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Sami Manoubi Armand Chamam, Dmitry Vasilyev, Martin Hulla, Florent Menoud

The cycloaddition of CO2 into epoxides catalyzed by imidazolium and related salts continues to attract attention due to the industrial importance of the cyclic carbonate products. The mechanism of the imidazolium-catalyzed transformation has been proposed ...

2018

Catalytic Ionic-Liquid Membranes: The Convergence of Ionic-Liquid Catalysis and Ionic-Liquid Membrane Separation Technologies

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Martin Hulla

Membrane technologies enable the facile separation of complex mixtures of gases, vapours, liquids and/or solids under mild conditions. Simultaneous chemical transformations can also be achieved in membranes by using catalytically active membrane materials ...

2018

Influence of the Anion on the Oxidation of 5-Hydroxy-methylfurfural by Using Ionic-Polymer-Supported Platinum Nanoparticle Catalysts

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Simone Mozzettini, Sviatlana Siankevich

Platinum nanoparticles stabilized by an imidazolium-based cross-linked polymer (with chloride as the counteranion) efficiently catalyzed the oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to form 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid in water under mild conditions with oxygen ...

2018

Ionic liquid containing electron-rich, porous polyphosphazene nanoreactors catalyze the transformation of CO2 to carbonates

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Yefeng Wang, Zhangjun Huang, Jorge Gustavo Uranga, Haiyan Jia

We show that ionic liquids (ILs) interact with electron-rich, porous polyphosphazene (PPZ), to form hybrid PPZ-IL nanoreactors able to simultaneously capture and transform CO2 into carbonates. The PPZ nanospheres swell in organic solvents and effectively a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2018

Synthesis of Methanol and Diols from CO2 via Cyclic Carbonates under Metal-Free, Ambient Pressure, and Solvent-Free Conditions

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Florent Menoud

2018

Towards a frustrated Lewis pair-ionic liquid system

Gabor Laurenczy, Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Florian Gérald Abela, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Emilia Paunescu

An ionic liquid encompassing a bulky tertiary amine was synthesized and used as a dual solvent-reactant for the formation of a frustrated Lewis pair with tris(pentafluorophenyl) borane, forming a pseudo-frustrated Lewis pair-ionic liquid system. The ionic ...

Elsevier2018

Catalyst design for the transformation of CO2 into value-added products

Felix Daniel Bobbink

The mass-utilization of fossil resources has led to a dramatic increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) production, most of which is released directly into the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in global warming. Efforts to contain CO2 emissions and to capture, store ...

EPFL2018

Design of ionic polymer catalysts for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates from CO2 and epoxides

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink

ACS2018