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Contrasting Views of the Electric Double Layer in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction: Continuum Models vs Molecular Dynamics

In the field of electrochemical CO2 reduction, both continuum models and molecular dynamics (MD) models have been used to understand the electric double layer (EDL). MD often focuses on the region within a few nm of the electrode, while continuum models ca ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Additive Fabrication of Microsupercapacitors

Amin Hodaei

Microsupercapacitors (with footprints from -mm up to -cm scale) have attracted attention for use as electrochemical energy storage devices to power wearables, IoT, and other small microsystems due to their high power density, excellent charge/discharge rev ...

EPFL2023

Condition Health Monitoring for Medium-Voltage High-Power Modular Multilevel Converter

Ignacio Alejandro Polanco Lobos

Among the policies to reduce the consequences of GHG emissions, the decarbonization of the electrical, transport, and manufacturing sectors has profoundly changed how the electricity is produced, transmitted, distributed, and consumed, particularly imposin ...

EPFL2022

Development of Lamb wave resonators in thin film X-cut lithium niobate

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Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is among the most revolutionary technologies of 21st century, with the applications ranging from industrial systems to consumer electronics. Using MEMS in battery-powered wireless devices has long been seen as the evol ...

EPFL2021

Reinforced polypyrrole with 2D graphene flakes decorated with interconnected nickel-tungsten metal oxide complex toward superiorly stable supercapacitor

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Seyyed Alireza Hashemi

Prompt development of electronic devices and sensors raised the requirement for design/fabrication of advanced energy sources capable of providing considerable amount of energy for consuming platforms through practical nanotechnological approaches. For thi ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Thin film organic electrochemical transistors based on hybrid PANI/PEDOT:PSS active layers for enhanced pH sensing

Danick Briand, Silvia Demuru, Brince Paul Kunnel

We report on organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) with active channels made of hybrid inkjet-printed poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) and electropolymerized polyaniline (PANI) layers, exhibiting simultaneously impro ...

2021

Integration of Ultra-Low Volume Pneumatic Microfluidics with a Three-Dimensional Electrode Network for On-Chip Biochemical Sensing

Carlotta Guiducci, Saurabh Tomar, Thomas Ernst

This paper reports a novel miniaturized pseudo reference electrode (RE) design for biasing Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors (ISFETs). It eliminates the need for post-CMOS processing and can scale up in numbers with the CMOS scaling. The presented des ...

2021

Switchable wetting of oxygen-evolving oxide catalysts

Vasiliki Tileli, Tzu-Hsien Shen

The surface wettability of catalysts is typically controlled via surface treatments that promote catalytic performance. Here we report on potential-regulated hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity at cobalt-based oxide interfaces with an alkaline solution. The swit ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Electrochemical performance of polymer-derived SiOC and SiTiOC ceramic electrodes for artificial cardiac pacemaker applications

Jürgen Brugger, Lorenz Hagelüken, Fatemeh Navaee, Jongmoon Jang

In an implantable electrode, such as a pacemaker electrode, fibrotic tissue formation due to a foreign body reaction is an important challenge affecting the efficiency to transmit the electrical signal of the device. The chemical inertness, biocompatibilit ...

2020

Electrosorption at metal surfaces from first principles

Nicola Marzari

Electrosorption of solvated species at metal electrodes is a most fundamental class of processes in interfacial electrochemistry. Here, we use its sensitive dependence on the electric double layer to assess the performance of ab initio thermodynamics appro ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

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

Grand canonical simulations of electrochemical interfaces in implicit solvation models

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Nicolas Georg Hörmann

We discuss grand canonical simulations based on density-functional theory to study the thermodynamic properties of electrochemical interfaces of metallic electrodes in aqueous environments. Water is represented using implicit solvation, here via the self-c ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Solid electrochemical energy storage for aqueous redox flow batteries: The case of copper hexacyanoferrate

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Danick Reynard, Solène Cindy Gentil, Elena Zanzola

All redox flow batteries suffer from low energy storage density in comparison with conventional Li-ion batteries. However, this issue can be mitigated by utilization of solid energy storage materials to enhance the energy storage capacity. In this paper we ...

2019

Sequential catalysis enables enhanced C-C coupling towards multi-carbon alkenes and alcohols in carbon dioxide reduction: a study on bifunctional Cu/Au electrocatalysts

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Dan Ren, Jing Gao

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to multi-carbon products such as ethylene, ethanol and n-propanol offers a promising path for utilization of excessive CO2 and energy storage. Oxide-derived Cu electrodes are among the best electrocatalysts ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Electrostatically gated nanofluidic membranes: Technological developments and use of electrochemically polarizable materials

Stefano Silvio Giovanni Varricchio

Solid-state nanoporous membranes able to control ionic flows at the molecular level could have important applications in fields of research such as water filtration, nanomedicine, energy production, drug delivery, and bio-chemical analysis. The ability to ...

EPFL2018

Static negative capacitance of a ferroelectric nano-domain nucleus

Nava Setter, Tomas Sluka, Pavel Mokry

Miniaturization of conventional field effect transistors (FETs) approaches the fundamental limits beyond which opening and closing the transistor channel require higher gate voltage swing and cause higher power dissipation and heating. This problem could b ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Redox Solid Energy Boosters for Flow Batteries: Polyaniline as a Case Study

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Heron Vrubel, Véronique Amstutz, Alberto Battistel, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Elena Zanzola

In this work, the viability of polyaniline as a solid charge storage material in an aqueous redox-mediated flow battery is investigated. Fe(III/II) and V(IV/III) were identified as potential redox mediators to target the emeraldine-pernigraniline and leuco ...

Elsevier2017

Perovskite solar cell - electrochemical double layer capacitor interplay

Michael Graetzel, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

We demonstrate that by a proper design of a system comprising a perovskite solar cell (PSC) coupled to an electrochemical double-layer capacitor (EDLC), it is possible to simultaneously improve both the PSC and EDLC performance and outperform each single u ...

Elsevier2017

Variation of the Fermi level and the Electrostatic Force of a Metallic Nanoparticle upon Colliding with an Electrode

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo

When a metallic nanoparticle (NP) comes in close contact with an electrode, its Fermi level equilibrates with that of the electrode if their separation is less than the cut-off distance for electron tunnelling. In the absence of chemical reactions in solut ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Assessing the degradation of compliant electrodes for soft actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin, Christine Anne de Saint-Aubin

We present an automated system to measure the degradation of compliant electrodes used in dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) over millions of cycles. Electrodes for DEAs generally experience biaxial linear strains of more than 10%. The decrease in elect ...

American Institute of Physics2017