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Raising the temperature on electrodes for anion exchange membrane electrolysis-activity and stability aspects

Jan Van Herle, Peter Hugh Middleton, Thomas Benjamin Ferriday

The membrane electrode assembly is the powerhouse of the anion exchange membrane water electrolyser (AEMWE), thereby placing a great importance on the associated preparation conditions. This paper investigated how annealing temperature and time impacted ac ...

ELSEVIER2023

Development of new volcano-shaped microelectrodes for single cell electrochemistry, electrophysiology and impedance studies

Nicolas Grégoire Maïno

Micro- nano-electrodes have demonstrated superior performances in measuring attenuated intracellular action potentials from electrogenic cell cultures compared to traditional multi-electrode arrays. Yet, the understanding of the critical electrode features ...

EPFL2023

Fluoride-Rich, Organic-Inorganic Gradient Interphase Enabled by Sacrificial Solvation Shells for Reversible Zinc Metal Batteries

Lei Zhang, Kangning Zhao, Jun Lu, Xu Zhang

Zinc metal batteries are strongly hindered by water corrosion, as solvated zinc ions would bring the active water molecules to the electrode/electrolyte interface constantly. Herein, we report a sacrificial solvation shell to repel active water molecules f ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Two-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Heterostructure as a Multifunctional Protective Layer for High Performance Zinc Metal Anode

Kangning Zhao, Xu Zhang

Dendrite growth and side reactions of Zn metal anodes remain unresolved obstacles for practical application of aqueous Zn ion batteries. Herein, a two-dimensional (2D) organic-inorganic heterostructure with controlled thickness was constructed as a protect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Solid-state synthesis of CdFe2O4 binary catalyst for potential application in renewable hydrogen fuel generation

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Clean energy is highly needed at this time when the energy requirements are rapidly increasing. The observed increasing energy requirement are largely due to continued industrialization and global population explosion. The current means of energy source is ...

Nature Portfolio2022

New metric for carrier selective contacts for silicon heterojunction solar cells

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jakub Holovsky

Heterojunction carrier selective contacts for solar cells have gained great attention because of the ability of these contacts to efficiently collect majority carriers while hindering the recombination of minority carriers, thus resulting in the highest re ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Predicting hot-electron free energies from ground-state data

Michele Ceriotti, Federico Grasselli, Chiheb Ben Mahmoud

Machine-learning potentials are usually trained on the ground-state, Born-Oppenheimer energy surface, which depends exclusively on the atomic positions and not on the simulation temperature. This disregards the effect of thermally excited electrons, that i ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Ablation in Externally Applied Electric and Magnetic Fields

Yves Bellouard, Tao Yang

To harness light-matter interactions at the nano-/micro-scale, better tools for control must be developed. Here, it is shown that by applying an external electric and/or magnetic field, ablation of Si and glass under ultra-short (sub-1 ps) laser pulse irra ...

2020

Illumination-Dependent Requirements for Heterojunctions and Carrier-Selective Contacts on Silicon

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jakub Holovsky, Luca Massimiliano Antognini

High efficiency silicon solar cells generally feature heterojunction or carrier-selective contact architectures, for which there is current interest in developing structures using a wide range of materials. The electrical and optical requirements that thes ...

2020

Hydrogen storage and electrochemical properties of LaNi5-xCux hydride-forming alloys

Andreas Züttel, Natalia Gasilova, Mariana Spodaryk

LaNi5-type alloys are commercial materials for the negative electrode in Ni-MH rechargeable batteries. Partial substitution of La by mischmetal (Mm) and of Ni by elements like Co, Al, and Mn significantly improve the cycle stability and high-rate discharge ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Electronic and structural characterization of barrier-type amorphous aluminium oxide

Alfredo Pasquarello, Patrik Schmutz, Francesco Ambrosio, Claudia Cancellieri, Raheleh Partovi Nia, Roland Hauert, Fabio Evangelisti

The structural, electronic, and dielectric properties of barrier -type anodic Al oxides prepared with various thicknesses have been investigated. The planar and cross morphologies as well as the surface charge distribution were investigated as a function o ...

Elsevier2017

Battery

Pekka Eero Peljo

In a battery system, an electrochemical cell has a first compartment containing a positive electrolyte with an electrode 2 at least partially immersed in the positive electrolyte containing the first redox active material, forming a positive half cell. A s ...

2017

Post-test Analysis on a Solid Oxide Cell Stack Operated for 10,700 Hours in Steam Electrolysis Mode

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Emad Oveisi, Pierre Burdet, Giorgio Rinaldi

A solid oxide short stack composed of 6 Ni-YSZ supported cells, YSZ electrolyte and GDC-LSC oxygen electrode has been tested for 10,700 hours in steam electrolysis. Initial degradation was followed by a global stabilization of the performance after lowerin ...

2017

Advancing Materials and Methods for Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion

Kevin Sivula

Strategies to convert energy from the sun into chemical fuels and feedstocks for a carbon-neutral economy are under rapid development. A photoelectrochemical route uses a direct semiconductor liquid junction that offers simplicity but places challenging co ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2017

Simple processing of back-contacted silicon heterojunction solar cells using selective-area crystalline growth

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Antoine Descoeudres, Gabriel Christmann, Matthieu Despeisse, Sylvain Nicolay, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Jan Haschke, Stefaan De Wolf, Johannes Peter Seif, Andrea Tomasi, Loris Barraud

For crystalline-silicon solar cells, voltages close to the theoretical limit are nowadays readily achievable when using passivating contacts. Conversely, maximal current generation requires the integration of the electron and hole contacts at the back of t ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

High Piezoelectric Longitudinal Coefficients in Sol-gel PZT Thin Film Multilayers

Paul Muralt, Andrea Mazzalai, Antonia Neels, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Nachiappan Chidambaram, Alex Dommann, Davide Balma

A five-layer stack of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin films with Pt electrodes was fabricated for potential applications in nanoactuator systems. The 1 mu m thick PZT films were deposited by a sol-gel technique, the platinum electrodes by sputtering. Th ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Sensing hydrogen peroxide by carbon nanotube/horseradish peroxidase bio-nanocomposite

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Endre Horvath, Klara Hernadi

H2O2 is a product of reactions catalysed by several oxidase enzymes and it is essential in environmental and pharmaceutical analyses. The most commonly used enzyme in understanding the biological behaviour of catalysed oxidation of H2O2 is horseradish pero ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2013

Materials for neural interfaces

Philippe Renaud

The treatment of disorders of the nervous system poses a major clinical challenge. Development of neuromodulation (i.e., interfacing electronics to nervous tissue to modulate its function) has provided patients with neuronal-related deficits a new tool to ...

2012

Improved electrode

Michael Graetzel, Nicolas Tétreault, Jérémie Minh-Châu Brillet

The present invention provides a generic electrode for photovoltaics, water splitting cells or any electro-chemical device where a three-dimensional transparent conductive backbone provides efficient charge extraction and can support an active guest materi ...

2011

Multiwalled Carbon-Nanotube-Functionalized Microelectrode Arrays Fabricated by Microcontact Printing: Platform for Studying Chemical and Electrical Neuronal Signaling

Michele Giugliano, Luca Gambazzi

A facile method is proposed for the deposition of multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) layers onto microelectrode arrays by means of a microcontact printing technique, leading to the fabrication of MEAs characterized by well defined electrical and morpholog ...

2011