Publications de Thi Ha My Pham

Deep Eutectic Solvents Formed by Complex Hydrides: A New Class of Hydrogen‐Rich Liquid

Thi Ha My Pham, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are novel mixtures that exhibit a significant depression in melting points compared to their individual components. This work finds that combining tetrabutylammonium borohydride (TBABH) with ammonia borane (AB) yields new, sta ...

Wiley2025

Engineering Ru Nanoparticle Size and Metal-support Interactions for Enhanced Catalytic Hydrogen Combustion

Thi Ha My Pham, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel

Catalytic hydrogen combustion (CHC) plays a crucial role in enhancing the safety and efficiency of fuel cells and electrolysers, thereby promoting the H2 economy. To increase the catalytic activity of supported metal particles for CHC, the active surface a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2025

Low CO2 mass transfer promotes methanol and formaldehyde electrosynthesis on cobalt phthalocyanine

Thi Ha My Pham, Liping Zhong

Cobalt phthalocyanine supported on carbon nanotubes (CoPcCNT) usually catalyzes the electroreduction of CO2 (CO2RR) to CO, although several reports have also indicated methanol formation. Herein, by analyzing the effects of CoPc loading and CO2 partial pre ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

All Platinum Group Metal-Free and Durable Catalysts for Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells

Thi Ha My Pham, Andreas Züttel, Youngdon Ko, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Liping Zhong

Platinum group metal-free catalysts (e.g., Fe-N-C and Co-N-C) are used as hydrogen peroxide reduction reaction (PRR) catalysts in direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs). Fe-N-C is more active in the PRR and demonstrates high performance at the beginning of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Tailoring nanocatalysts and reaction interfaces for water- and CO2-electrolysis

Thi Ha My Pham

Renewable energy sources offer a promising solution for mitigating sustainability and CO2 emissions-related issues due to their vast energy generation capacity. They enable hydrogen production via water electrolysis, as well as carbon capture and utilizati ...

EPFL2024

Understanding the role of surface oxygen-containing functional groups on carbon-supported cobalt catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Thi Ha My Pham, Andreas Züttel, Youngdon Ko, Kangning Zhao, Liping Zhong, Manhui Wei

Supported Co-based catalysts exhibit promising catalytic activities in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during alkaline water electrolysis. Surface functionalization of the support modulates the dispersion of the catalysts and their interaction with the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

A fluoropolymer bifunctional solid membrane interface for improving the discharge duration in aqueous Al-air batteries

Thi Ha My Pham, Andreas Züttel, Liping Zhong, Meixia Zhang, Manhui Wei

Herein, a fluoropolymer bifunctional solid membrane interface (SMI) for an aqueous Al-air battery is proposed, which inhibits anodic self-corrosion, while concurrently reducing the accumulation of undesirable by-products. A battery using the SMI exhibits a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Graphene nanoplatelets promoted CoO-based catalyst for low temperature CO2 methanation reaction

Thi Ha My Pham, Andreas Züttel, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Methanation of CO2 is an important reaction for reducing CO2 emissions in a power-to-gas system. Compared to cobalt supported on gamma-Al2O3, cobalt supported on graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) showed significantly better performance for CO2 methanation. Cob ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Elucidating the Mechanism of Fe Incorporation in In Situ Synthesized Co-Fe Oxygen-Evolving Nanocatalysts

Thi Ha My Pham, Andreas Züttel, Vasiliki Tileli, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Ni- and Co-based catalysts with added Fe demonstrate promising activity in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during alkaline water electrolysis, with the presence of Fe in a certain quantity being crucial for their enhanced performance. The mode of incor ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Zinc carboxylate optimization strategy for extending Al-air battery system's lifetime

Thi Ha My Pham, Andreas Züttel, Liping Zhong, Manhui Wei

Although Al-air batteries are expected to be the candidates for energy conversion systems in renewable energy market due to the higher energy density, richer reserves, and lighter mass of Al metal, the anode self-discharge is seen as a notorious issue that ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Tandem effect of Ag@C@Cu catalysts enhances ethanol selectivity for electrochemical CO2 reduction in flow reactors

Thi Ha My Pham, Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo, Jie Zhang, Mo Li, Youngdon Ko, Cedric David Koolen, Liping Zhong

CO-selective metals (e.g., Ag) on Cu catalysts improve the selec-tivity of multi-carbon (C2+) products in electrochemical CO2 reduc-tion. However, the origin of the improvement remains unclear due to the convolution of tandem and interface effects. Here, A ...

ELSEVIER2022

Selective Borohydride Oxidation Reaction on Nickel Catalyst with Anion and Cation Exchange Ionomer for High-Performance Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells

Thi Ha My Pham, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Heena Yang, Mo Li, Youngdon Ko

Direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs) operate with liquid H2O2 and a high-energy-density NaBH4 solution. A facile, direct synthesis method using a non-noble nickel catalyst for the DBFC anode is shown. The complex anode reaction with an anion-exchange iono ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Support-Dependent Cu-In Bimetallic Catalysts for Tailoring the Activity of Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction

Thi Ha My Pham, Kun Zhao, Wen Luo, Mo Li, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Cu-based bimetallic catalysts have attracted great attention for the reverse water gas shift (RWGS) reaction due to their high activity and selectivity. This work reports the application of Cu-In bimetallic catalysts for the RWGS reaction and demonstrates ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Revealing the Surface Chemistry for CO2 Hydrogenation on Cu/CeO2–x Using Near-Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Emad Oveisi, Young Jun Ko, Thi Ha My Pham, Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo, Mo Li

Catalytic reduction of CO2 to valuable products is an attractive route for CO2 recycling. CeO2-supported Cu catalysts have shown high activity and selectivity for the hydrogenation of CO2 to CO. To uncover the origin of their high performance, we prepared ...

ACS2021

Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta Aided by Intrinsic Co/Fe Spinel-Like Surface

Thi Ha My Pham, Vasiliki Tileli, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Jan Vávra

Among the perovskites used to catalyze the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (BSCF) exhibits excellent activity which is thought to be related to dynamic reconstruction at the flexible perovskite surface due to accommodation of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020