Publications by Miguel Antonio Modestino

Practical challenges in the development of photoelectrochemical solar fuels production

Sophia Haussener, Miguel Antonio Modestino

This article addresses the challenges presented by photoelectrochemical solar fuels technology in a discussion that begins with a functioning device and proceeds to the more fundamental science of its component parts. In this flow of discussion issues are ...

2020

A comparative performance analysis of stand-alone, off-grid solar-powered sodium hypochlorite generators

Antonin Faes, Demetri Psaltis, Laurent Coulot, Christophe Moser, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Enrico Chinello

Sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) is a chemical commodity widely employed as a disinfection agent in water treatment applications. Its production commonly follows electrochemical routes in an undivided reactor. Powering the process with photovoltaic (PV) electri ...

2019

Inertial manipulation of bubbles in rectangular microfluidic channels

Demetri Psaltis, Gioele Mariano Nicolò Balestra, François Gallaire, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Lailai Zhu, Pooria Hadikhani

Inertial microfluidics is an active field of research that deals with crossflow positioning of the suspended entities in microflows. Until now, the majority of the studies have focused on the behavior of rigid particles in order to provide guidelines for m ...

2018

Pathways to Electrochemical Solar-Hydrogen Technologies

Corsin Battaglia, Esther Alarcon Llado, Sophia Haussener, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Jan-Willem Alexander Schüttauf, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Enrico Chinello, Vincent Artero

2018

Efficient Solar-vapor Generation in Hollow-mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Thomas La Grange, Demetri Psaltis, Jae-Woo Choi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Ye Pu, Marcin Stefan Zielinski, Miguel Antonio Modestino

Plasmonic nanostructures have shown great promise in solar thermal applications. Here we report highly efficient solar vapor generation using hollow-mesoporous plasmonic nanoshells, where the steam production is significantly enhanced by the extended activ ...

IEEE2018

Solar production of nylon polymers and prescursors for nylon polymer production

Sophia Haussener, Miguel Antonio Modestino

The present invention relates to process intensification, and renewable processing routes for polymer production, for example the solar production of Nylon 6,6 and precursors relevant for the Nylon 6,6 production (such as hydrogen, adiponitrile and hexaned ...

2018

Membrane-less micro fuel cell based on two-phase flow

Demetri Psaltis, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Pooria Hadikhani

Most microfluidic fuel cells use highly soluble fuels and oxidants in streams of liquid electrolytes to overcome the mass transport limitations that result from the low solubility of gaseous reactants such as hydrogen and oxygen. In this work, we address t ...

2017

Laser-assisted inkjet printing of highly viscous fluids with sub-nozzle resolution

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Paul Delrot

Drop-on-demand inkjet printing is mostly based on thermal and piezo-actuation, allowing for densely packed nozzles in inkjet printers. However, the droplet diameter is typically defined by the nozzle diameter, thus limiting the range of viscosity that can ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Hollow Mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells for Enhanced Solar Vapor Generation

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Thomas La Grange, Demetri Psaltis, Jae-Woo Choi, Ye Pu, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Ye Pu, Marcin Stefan Zielinski, Miguel Antonio Modestino

In the past decade, nanomaterials have made their way into a variety of technologies in solar energy, enhancing the performance by taking advantage of the phenomena inherent to the nanoscale. Recent examples exploit plasmonic core/shell nanoparticles to ac ...

American Chemical Society2016

Solar-to-Hydrogen Production at 14.2% Efficiency with Silicon Photovoltaics and Earth-Abundant Electrocatalysts

Christophe Ballif, Antonio Delfino, Antonin Faes, Demetri Psaltis, David Lambelet, Matthieu Despeisse, Christophe Moser, Jan-Willem Alexander Schüttauf, Julien Claude Bailat, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Enrico Chinello

Affordable, stable and earth-abundant photo-electrochemical materials are indispensable for the large-scale implementation of sunlight-driven hydrogen production. Here we present an intrinsically stable and scalable solar water splitting device that is ful ...

Electrochemical Society2016

Complex light in 3D printing

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Edgar Emilio Morales Delgado, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Paul Delrot

3D printing as a tool to generate complicated shapes from CAD files, on demand, with different materials from plastics to metals, is shortening product development cycles, enabling new design possibilities and can provide a mean to manufacture small volume ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

The potential for microfluidics in electrochemical energy systems

Demetri Psaltis, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino

Flow based electrochemical energy conversion devices have the potential to become a prominent energy storage technology in a world driven by renewable energy sources. The optimal design of these devices depends strongly on the tradeoffs between the losses ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Inkjet Printing of Viscous Monodisperse Microdroplets by Laser-Induced Flow Focusing

Demetri Psaltis, François Gallaire, Christophe Moser, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Paul Delrot

The on-demand generation of viscous microdroplets to print functional or biological materials remains challenging using conventional inkjet-printing methods, mainly due to aggregation and clogging issues. In an effort to overcome these limitations, we impl ...

American Physical Society (APS)2016

Mass transport aspects of electrochemical solar-hydrogen generation

Sophia Haussener, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino

The conception of practical solar-hydrogen generators requires the implementation of engineering design principles that allow photo-electrochemical material systems to operate efficiently, continuously and stably over their lifetime. At the heart of these ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Modeling, Simulation, and Implementation of Solar-Driven Water-Splitting Devices

Sophia Haussener, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Rui Liu, Ke Sun

An integrated cell for the solar-driven splitting of water consists of multiple functional components and couples various photoelectrochemical (PEC) processes at different length and time scales. The overall solar-to-hydrogen (STH) conversion efficiency of ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2016

Device and System Having Water Microelectrolyzer Cells and Method of Using the Same

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino

A device having a water vapor microelectrolyzer cell including microstructured parallel electrodes where the water splitting reactions can take place, the microstructured electrodes being covered by a thin layer of solid-state ion conducting material to al ...

2016

Membrane-less electrolyzer

Demetri Psaltis, Jae-Woo Choi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino

The present invention concerns a membrane-less electrolyzer comprising a fluidic channel for receiving an electrolyte fluid; a first electrode and a second electrode located inside the fluidic channel, the first and second electrode permitting to extract a ...

2016

A membrane-less electrolyzer for hydrogen production across the pH scale

Demetri Psaltis, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino

The development of deployable water-splitting devices is hindered by the cost of electricity and the lack of stable ion conducting membranes that can operate across the pH scale, impose low ionic resistances and avoid product mixing. The membrane-less appr ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

An Integrated Device View on Photoelectrochemical Solar-Hydrogen Generation

Sophia Haussener, Miguel Antonio Modestino

Devices that directly capture and store solar energy have the potential to significantly increase the share of energy from intermittent renewable sources. Photo-electrochemical solar-hydrogen generators could become an important contributor, as these devic ...

Annual Reviews2015

Vapor-fed microfluidic hydrogen generator

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Sophia Haussener, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Mikaël Dumortier, Miguel Antonio Modestino

Water-splitting devices that operate with humid air feeds are an attractive alternative for hydrogen production as the required water input can be obtained directly from ambient air. This article presents a novel proof-of-concept microfluidic platform that ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015