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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

Chemical characterization of organic aerosols with a focus on biomass burning and mid-infrared spectroscopy

Amir Yazdani

Aerosols play a significant role in the atmosphere through affecting the radiative budget, cloud condensation nuclei activity, and visibility. They also cause adverse health effects leading to premature deaths. A major fraction of aerosols is organic matte ...

EPFL2022

Modelling and process optimization for biodiesel production from Nannochloropsis salina using artificial neural network

Edgard Gnansounou

In the present investigation, calcium oxide solid nanocatalyst derived from the egg shell and Nannochloropsis salina were used for the production of biodiesel. The morphological characteristics and functional groups of synthesized nanocatalyst was characte ...

Elsevier2021

Transformation of Glucose to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Over Regenerated Cellulose Supported Nb2O5 center dot nH(2)O in Aqueous Solution

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Lu Chen, Fangmin Huang

Niobic acid (Nb2O5 center dot nH(2)O) was immobilized on regenerated cellulose (Re-Cellulose) to afford a heterogeneous catalyst, termed Nb2O5 center dot nH(2)O@Re-Cellulose, that was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, microscopy (SEM and TEM) and ...

SPRINGER2020

Parietal Structures of Escherichia coli Can Impact the D-Cateslytin Antibacterial Activity

Georg Fantner, Oliver Peric

Bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics is of major concern. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are considered excellent alternatives. Among them, D-cateslytin (D-Ctl, derivative of a host defense peptide) has shown high efficiency against a broad spec ...

2020

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

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

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

Combining ultra-high resolution ion-mobility spectrometry with cryogenic IR spectroscopy for the study of biomolecular ions

Thomas Rizzo, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Stephan Warnke, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli, Natalia Yalovenko

Double-resonance spectroscopic schemes in combination with cryogenic ion traps are the go-to techniques when isomer-specific high-resolution spectra are required for analysis of molecular ions. Their limitation lies in the requirement for well-resolved, is ...

2019

Gas spectroscopy using low threshold mid-infrared radiation generated in Si3N4 waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Hairun Guo, Eirini Tagkoudi

We report trace-gas absorption spectroscopy based on the efficient generation of a 3.05μm dispersive wave in a Si3N4 waveguide pumped by a 2.09 μm femtosecond mode-locked fiber laser ...

OSA Publishing2019

Effect of light and oxygen on repetitive bacterial inactivation on uniform, adhesive, robust and stable Cu-polyester surfaces

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines

This study reports new findings on the sputtered Cu-polyester (Cu-PES) bacterial inactivation under low intensity visible light (lambda > 400 nm). Cu-PES samples sputtered for 160 s led to the complete inactivation of E. coli in anaerobic and aerobic media ...

De Gruyter Mouton2017

Experimental and theoretical studies on electropolymerization of polar amino acids on platinum electrode

Christophe Roussel

The anodic oxidation of polar amino acids (L-serine, L-threonine, L-asparagine, and L-glutamine) in aqueous electrolyte on smooth platinum electrode was carried out by cyclic voltammetry coupled to electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM). pH (zw ...

Elsevier2017

Accelerated self-cleaning by Cu promoted semiconductor binary-oxides under low intensity sunlight irradiation

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines

Uniform adhesive TiO2–ZrO2 films co-sputtered on polyester (PES) under low intensity sunlight irradiation discolored methylene blue (MB) within 120 min. The discoloration kinetics was seen to be accelerated by a factor four by TiO2–ZrO2–Cu containing ∼0.01 ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

New evidence for Cu-decorated binary-oxides mediating bacterial inactivation/mineralization in aerobic media

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Michaël Bensimon, Sami Rtimi

Binary oxide semiconductors TiO2-ZrO2 and Cu-decorated TiO2-ZrO2 (TiO2-ZrO2-Cu) uniform films were sputtered on polyester (PES). These films were irradiated under low intensity solar simulated light and led to bacterial inactivation in aerobic and anaerobi ...

Elsevier2016

Biosurfactant production through Bacillus sp MTCC 5877 and its multifarious applications in food industry

Edgard Gnansounou

In this study Bacillus sp. MTCC5877 was explored for the production of biosurfactant (BSs) and various carbon sources 1% (w/v), 0.5% (w/v) nitrogen sources were tested at different pH, and temperature. Yield was measured in terms of Emulsification index (E ...

Elsevier2016

Investigation of a Pt containing washcoat on SiC foam for hydrogen combustion applications

Andreas Züttel

A commercial Pt based washcoat, used for catalytic methane combustion, was studied supported on a commercial SIC foam as catalytic material (Pt/SiC) for catalytic hydrogen combustion (CHC). Structural and chemical characterization was performed using Elect ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Predicting ambient aerosol thermal–optical reflectance (TOR) measurements from infrared spectra: extending the predictions to different years and different sites

Satoshi Takahama, Matteo Reggente

Organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) are major components of atmospheric particulate matter (PM), which has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality, climate change, and reduced visibility. Typically OC and EC concentrations are meas ...

Copernicus GmbH2016

A New Perspective in the Use of FeOx-TiO2 Photocatalytic Films: Indole Degradation in the Absence of Fe-Leaching

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi

The study addresses the degradation of Indole under low intensity solar simulated light. The first evidence is presented for sputtered films degrading Indole at the solid-air interface. The co-sputtering of FeOx-TiO2 on polyethylene (PE) leads to an accele ...

Elsevier2016

Temperature-dependent multiangle FTIR NIR-MIR ellipsometry of thermochromic VO2 and V1-xWxO2 films

Rosendo Sanjines, Andreas Schueler, Antonio Paone

VO2 and W-doped VO2 thin films were prepared by Radio Frequency (RF) reactive magnetron sputtering using V-metal target. The amount of W doping was quantified by Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS). The optical constants of VO2 and V1-xWxO2 films ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Kinetics and mechanism for transparent polyethylene-TiO2 films mediated self-cleaning leading to MB dye discoloration under sunlight irradiation

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines

Polyethylene-TiO2 (from now on PE-TiO2) transparent, non-scattering sputtered films have been found effective in the discoloration of methylene blue (MB) under low intensity solar simulated light. By Fourier transform attenuated infrared spectroscopy (ATR- ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic investigation of silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Jakub Holovsky

Silicon heterojunction solar cells critically depend on the detailed properties of their amorphous/crystalline silicon interfaces. We report here on the use of attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy to gain precise ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Predicting ambient aerosol thermal-optical reflectance (TOR) measurements from infrared spectra: organic carbon

Satoshi Takahama

Organic carbon (OC) can constitute 50% or more of the mass of atmospheric particulate matter. Typically, organic carbon is measured from a quartz fiber filter that has been exposed to a volume of ambient air and analyzed using thermal methods such as therm ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2015