Publications related to Ion transport through nanoslits dominated by the effective surface charge

Quantitative electronic structure and work-function changes of liquid water induced by solute

Recent advancement in quantitative liquid-jet photoelectron spectroscopy enables the accurate determination of the absolute-scale electronic energetics of liquids and species in solution. The major objective of the present work is the determination of the ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Size-resolved aerosol pH over Europe during summer

Athanasios Nenes, Spyros Pandis

The dependence of aerosol acidity on particle size, location, and altitude over Europe during a summertime period is investigated using the hybrid version of aerosol dynamics in the chemical transport model PMCAMx. The pH changes more with particle size in ...

Copernicus GmbH2021

Aqueous electrolytes for high-voltage batteries and supercapacitors

David Reber

Lithium-ion batteries are widely implemented as energy storage devices due to their high energy density and low cost. They enabled modern portable electronics and electric ve-hicles, and are key to manage the integration of intermittent renewable electrici ...

EPFL2020

Anion Selection Criteria for Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Corsin Battaglia, David Reber, Maximilian Becker

Water-in-salt electrolytes have enabled the development of novel high-voltage aqueous lithium-ion batteries. This study explores the reasons why analogous sodium electrolytes have struggled to reach the same level of electrochemical stability. Solution str ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Suppressing Crystallization of Water-in-Salt Electrolytes by Asymmetric Anions Enables Low-Temperature Operation of High-Voltage Aqueous Batteries

Corsin Battaglia, David Reber

The discovery of enhanced electrochemical stability for aqueous electrolytes with very high salt concentration has stimulated the development of high-voltage aqueous batteries. We show that a key factor limiting the applicability of these batteries is the ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

High-Resolution Data Sets Unravel the Effects of Sources and Meteorological Conditions on Nitrate and Its Gas-Particle Partitioning

Yan Feng, Athanasios Nenes, Qianyu Zhao

Nitrate is one of the most abundant inorganic water-soluble ions in fine particulate matter (PM2.5). However, the formation mechanism of nitrate in the ambient atmosphere, especially the impacts of its semivolatility and the various existing forms of nitro ...

2019

Polycation Interactions with Zwitterionic Phospholipid Monolayers on Oil Nanodroplets Suspensions in Water (D2O) Probed by Sum Frequency Scattering

Sylvie Roke, Nikolay Smolentsev

By combining dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements and infrared (IR) spectroscopy with the interface- and bond-specificity of vibrational sum frequency generation scattering (SFS) spectroscopy, we probe several structural aspects of how zwitterionic ...

2018

Guanidinium can both Cause and Prevent the Hydrophobic Collapse of Biomacromolecules

Halil Ibrahim Okur

A combination of Fourier transform infrared and phase transition measurements as well as molecular computer simulations, and thermodynamic modeling were performed to probe the mechanisms by which guanidinium (Gnd(+)) salts influence the stability of the co ...

2017

Beyond the Hofmeister Series: Ion-Specific Effects on Proteins and Their Biological Functions

Halil Ibrahim Okur

Ions differ in their ability to salt out proteins from solution as expressed in the lyotropic or Hofmeister series of cations and anions. Since its first formulation in 1888, this series has been invoked in a plethora of effects, going beyond the original ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Wind tunnel observations of weak and strong snow saltation dynamics

Michael Lehning, Enrico Paterna, Philip Crivelli

Theoretical considerations suggest that saltation dynamics is dominated by either aerodynamic entrainment or by a combination of ejection and rebound at a given time and location. Calling these two regimes weak and strong saltation, respectively, we have i ...

Amer Geophysical Union2017

Influence of Fluorinated Surfactant Composition on the Stability of Emulsion Drops

Michael David Kessler, Esther Amstad, Gianluca Nicolas Etienne

Aqueous drops of a well-defined size are often used as small containers for conducting chemical and biochemical reactions, cell assays and as templates to produce microparticles. To prevent their coalescence, they must be stabilized, for example, using sur ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Quantum versus classical protons in pure and salty ice under pressure

Richard Gaal, Livia Eleonora Bove Kado

It is generally accepted that nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) trigger the transition to the nonmolecular form of ice under increasing pressure. This picture is challenged in salty ice, where Raman scattering measurements up to 130 GPa of molecular ice VII c ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

How Does Circadian Rhythm Impact Salt Sensitivity of Blood Pressure in Mice? A Study in Two Close C57Bl/6 Substrains

Background Mouse transgenesis has provided the unique opportunity to investigate mechanisms underlying sodium kidney reabsorption as well as end organ damage. However, understanding mouse background and the experimental conditions effects on phenotypic rea ...

Public Library of Science2016

Prolonged river water pollution due to variable-density flow and solute transport in the riverbed

David Andrew Barry

A laboratory experiment and numerical modeling were used to examine effects of density gradients on hyporheic flow and solute transport under the condition of a solute pulse input to a river with regular bed forms. Relatively low-density gradients due to a ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Inactivation by solar photo-Fenton in pet bottles of wild enteric bacteria of natural well water: Absence of re-growth after one week of subsequent storage

César Pulgarin, Juliette Ndounla

Iron photo-assisted inactivation of wild enteric bacteria (total coliforms/E. coil and Salmonella spp.) was carried out in water from the Sahelian wells having different pH (W1:4.9 and W2: 6.3) and a natural iron content of 0.07 mg/L We evaluate the effici ...

Elsevier2013

Characterization of PEI-coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for transfection: Size distribution, colloidal properties and DNA interaction

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink, Benedikt Steitz

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) were coated with polyethylenimine. Here, we briefly describe the synthesis as well as DNA:PEI:SPION complexes and the characterization of the compounds according to their particle size, zeta-potential, mo ...

2007

Cinétique de réaction hétérogène d'importance troposphérique sur des substrats modèles et sur des aérosols

Pascal Pratte

The first part of this study consists in the investigation of the evaporation and the condensation rate of H2O in the presence of different types of ice in a low pressure flow reactor. The second part of the present work reports the study of chlorine activ ...

EPFL2006

Transport phenomena in nanofluidics : form ionic studies to proteomic applications

Reto Bruno Schoch

This thesis explores transport phenomena in nanochannels on a chip. Fundamental nanofluidic ionic studies form the basis for novel separation and preconcentration applications for proteomic purposes. The measurements were performed with 50-nm-high 1D nanoc ...

EPFL2006

Effect of the surface charge on ion transport through nanoslits

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel, Reto Bruno Schoch

A description of ion transport through geometrically defined nanoslits is presented. It is characterized by the effective surface charge density and was obtained by impedance spectroscopy measurements of electrolytes with different physico-chemical propert ...

2005

Off-Gel[TM] electrophoresis : characterisation of a novel isoelectric focusing fractionation method

The Off-Gel™ technology is an isoelectric focusing (IEF) fractionation method which enables the purification of one or several proteins in a solution placed on an immobilised pH gradient (IPG) gel. The present thesis is devoted to its characterisation and ...

EPFL2004