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Increasing the activity of the Cu/CuAl2O4/Al2O3 catalyst for the RWGS through preserving the Cu2+ ions

Jeremy Luterbacher, Oliver Kröcher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Benjamin Pierre Le Monnier, Yuan-Peng Du, Alimohammad Bahmanpour

Cu-Al spinet oxide is a highly active catalyst for CO2 conversion to CO. However, it suffers from low surface area. By depositing a silica layer, we protected the catalyst surface and preserved the Cu2+ ions during the calcination process. These ions form ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Continuous hydrogenolysis of acetal-stabilized lignin in flow

Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Yuan-Peng Du, Jean Thierry C Behaghel de Bueren, Wu Lan, Songlan Sun

Using acetal-stabilized lignin we performed a truly steady state continuous high-yielding lignin depolymerization (45% monophenolics using Ni/C), which offered a window into challenges and opportunities that will be faced when processing this feedstock. Wi ...

2021

Synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts with metal oxide overcoat for renewable catalysis applications

Yuan-Peng Du

Metal oxide deposition is an emerging synthetic technique for designing heterogeneous catalysts. Depositing a nanoscale overcoat of metal oxide on heterogeneous catalysts can modify their structural and chemical characteristics. Many deposition approaches, ...

EPFL2020

Engineering the ZrO2–Pd Interface for Selective CO2 Hydrogenation by Overcoating an Atomically Dispersed Pd Precatalyst

Mounir Driss Mensi, Jeremy Luterbacher, Oliver Kröcher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Yuan-Peng Du, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Luka Milosevic

Tailoring the interfacial sites between metals and metal oxides can be an essential tool in designing heterogeneous catalysts. These interfacial sites play a vital role in many renewable applications, for instance, catalytic CO2 reduction. Postsynthesis de ...

2020

Post-synthesis deposition of mesoporous niobic acid with improved thermal stability by kinetically controlled sol–gel overcoating

Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Yuan-Peng Du

Niobia is a well-known solid acid catalyst owing to its intrinsic Brønsted and Lewis acidity. However, catalyst development with this oxide has been limited by our ability to control its pore structure and thermal stability. Here we report a novel post-syn ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts for Renewable Catalysis Applications Using Metal Oxide Deposition

Jeremy Luterbacher, Yuan-Peng Du

Heterogeneous catalysis has long been a workhorse for the chemical industry and will likely play a key role in the emerging area of renewable chemistry. However, renewable molecule streams pose unique challenges for heterogeneous catalysis due to their hig ...

2019

Post-synthesis deposition of mesoporous niobic acid with improved thermal stability by kinetically controlled sol-gel overcoating

Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Yuan-Peng Du

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Mathematical modeling and numerical investigation of carbon capture by adsorption: Literature review and case study

Meng Lin, Yuan-Peng Du, Sunan Deng

2018

Slowing the Kinetics of Alumina Sol-Gel Chemistry for Controlled Catalyst Overcoating and Improved Catalyst Stability and Selectivity

Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Yuan-Peng Du

Catalyst overcoating is an emerging approach to engineer surface functionalities on supported metal catalyst and improve catalyst selectivity and durability. Alumina deposition on high surface area material by sol–gel chemistry is traditionally difficult t ...

2018

Controlled deposition of titanium oxide overcoats by non-hydrolytic sol gel for improved catalyst selectivity and stability

Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Luca Silvioli, Yuan-Peng Du

Advances in the synthetic control of surface nanostructures could improve the activity, selectivity and stability of heterogeneous catalysts. Here, we present a technique for the controlled deposition of TiO2 overcoats based on non-hydrolytic sol-gel chemi ...

Elsevier2018