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Artificial Hydrophilic Organic and Dendrite-Suppressed Inorganic Hybrid Solid Electrolyte Interface Layer for Highly Stable Zinc Anodes

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have gained significant attentions for their inherent safety and cost-effectiveness. However, challenges, such as dendrite growth and anodic corrosion at the Zn anode, hinder their commercial viability. In this paper, an ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

A colloidal aqueous electrolyte modulated by oleic acid for durable zinc metal anode

Kangning Zhao, Xu Zhang, Di Yang

Continuous dendrites growth, as well as corrosion and side reactions of Zn metal anode seriously hinder the development of aqueous zinc ion batteries. To address these issues, oleic acid (OA) is dispersed into a 2 M ZnSO4 solution to form a novel colloidal ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Temperature-Dependent Nucleation and Electrochemical Performance of Zn Metal Anodes

Kangning Zhao, Di Yang

A fundamental understanding of the nucleation and growth behaviors of Zn metal anodes over a wide range of temperatures is of great value for suppressing Zn dendrite growth. However, work focused on the early nucleation and growth behavior of Zn metal at v ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

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

Cu/Metal Oxide Hybrid Nanocrystals as Electrocatalysts for the CO2 Reduction Reaction

Seyedehbehnaz Varandili

The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is envisioned to play a significant role in achieving carbon neutrality while contributing to storing renewable energies. Cu-based materials are among the most promising electrocatalysts. However, 16 diffe ...

EPFL2021

Revealing Exciton and Metal–Ligand Conduction Band Charge Transfer Absorption Spectra in Cu-Zn-In-S Nanocrystals

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale

Copper indium sulfide quantum dots (QDs) have attracted substantial attention in recent years due to environmental issues and diverse applications. We report the synthesis and characterization of copper-zinc-indium-sulfide (CZIS) QDs and CZIS treated with ...

2020

Sequential Cascade Electrocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to C-C Coupled Products

Sophia Haussener

Cascade catalytic processes perform multi-step chemical transformations without isolating the intermediates. Here, we demonstrate a sequential cascade pathway to convert CO2 to C2+ hydrocarbons and oxygenates in a two-step electrocatalytic process using CO ...

2019

Boosting the performance of Cu2O photocathodes for unassisted solar water splitting devices

Linfeng Pan, Jinhyun Kim, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Amita Ummadisingu, Minkyu Son

Although large research efforts have been devoted to photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting in the past several decades, the lack of efficient, stable and Earth-abundant photoelectrodes remains a bottleneck for practical application. Here, we report a ...

2018

Extracellular bacterial inactivation proceeding without Cu-ion release: Drastic effects of the applied plasma energy on the performance of the Cu-polyester (PES) samples

Michaël Bensimon, Sami Rtimi

The widely different effects of Cu-polyester (PES) sputtered by high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) compared to the lower energy direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS) leading to bacterial inactivation are addressed during the course of th ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

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

Electrochemical Reduction of Protic Supercritical CO2 on Copper Electrodes

Victor Costa Bassetto, Alberto Battistel, Patrick Voyame, Olga Melchaeva

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide is usually studied in aqueous solutions under ambient conditions. However, the main disadvantages of this method are high hydrogen evolution and low faradaic efficiencies of carbon-based products. Supercritic ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2017

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

Redox Levels through Constant Fermi-Level ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

Alfredo Pasquarello, Assil Bouzid

We develop a method to determine redox levels of half reactions through the use of ab initio molecular dynamics evolving at constant Fermi energy. This scheme models the effect of an electrode by controlling the charge transfer between the single-particle ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

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

Chromium Poisoning : The Needle in the SOFC Stack

Josef Andreas Schuler

This thesis focuses on Cr-poisoning in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), which currently presents a key challenge for the development of this technology. By the implementation of dedicated experimental tools, this work offers a new access to, and comprehensio ...

EPFL2012

RedOx Stability of Anode Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Antonin Faes

The weakness of nickel-based solid oxide fuel cell anodes is their low ability to withstand re-oxidation at working temperature, especially for the anode-supported cell design. The volume expansion coming along with nickel (Ni) oxidation induces stresses i ...

EPFL2011

Curvature and Strength of Ni-YSZ Solid Oxide Half-cells after RedOx Treatments

Antonin Faes, Darlene Goldstein, Andreas Kaiser

One of the main drawbacks of anode-supported solid oxide fuel cell technology is the limited capability to withstand reduction and oxidation (“RedOx”) of the Ni phase. This study compares the effect of RedOx cycles on curvature and strength of half-cells, ...

American Soc Mechanical Engineers, Three Park Avenue, New York, Ny 10016-5990 Usa2010

Hydrogen bubbles and the growth morphology of ramified zinc by electrodeposition

Giorgio Margaritondo

Real-time X-ray microscopy was used to study the influence of hydrogen-bubble formation on the morphology of ramified zinc electrodeposit. The experimental results show that when intense hydrogen bubbling occurs at high potential, the morphology of the ram ...

2008