Publications de Loris Giovanni Lombardo

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

Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Hydrogen Storage Properties of an AB3-Based Alloy Synthesized by Disproportionation Reactions of AB2-Based Alloys

Loris Giovanni Lombardo

Hydrogen storage materials store hydrogen in their atomic states, enabling more compact and safer storage methods compared to those for gaseous and liquid hydrogen. Although various types of hydrogen storage materials have been reported, new materials with ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

The Effect of Y Content on Structural and Sorption Properties of A(2)B(7)-Type Phase in the La-Y-Ni-Al-Mn System

Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel

Metal hydrides are an interesting group of chemical compounds, able to store hydrogen in a reversible, compact and safe manner. Among them, A(2)B(7)-type intermetallic alloys based on La-Mg-Ni have attracted particular attention due to their high electroch ...

MDPI2023

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

Effect of Co-Substitution on Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption Reactions of YMgNi4-Based Alloys

Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo, Heena Yang

YMgNi4-based alloys exhibit reversible hydrogen absorption and desorption reactions at near room temperature. Here, we report that Co-substituted YMgNi4-based alloys exhibited higher hydrogen contents and lower hydrogen absorption and desorption reaction p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Direct CO2 Capture and Reduction to High-End Chemicals with Tetraalkylammonium Borohydrides

Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Kun Zhao, Heena Yang, Youngdon Ko

We demonstrate the ability of tetraalkylammonium borohydrides to capture large amounts of CO2, even at low CO2 concentrations, and reduce it to formate under ambient conditions. These materials show CO2 absorption capacities up to 30 mmolCO2 g(-1) at room ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Decreasing the Stability of Borohydride with Ionic Liquids for Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Conversion

Loris Giovanni Lombardo

The world needs to move from a fossil fuel to a renewable energy based society. With the increasing electricity production from wind and PV, short and long term energy storage are becoming one of challenge of the 21st century. While batteries are the prefe ...

EPFL2021

Crystal Structural Investigations for Understanding the Hydrogen Storage Properties of YMgNi4-Based Alloys

Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Heena Yang

The hydrogen storage properties and crystal structures of YMgNi4-based alloys, which were synthesized from (2 - x)YNi2 and xMgNi(2) (0.6

2020

Imaging Catalysis: Operando Investigation of the CO2 Hydrogenation Reaction Dynamics by Means of Infrared Thermography

Emad Oveisi, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Kun Zhao, Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler, Emanuele Moioli

Infrared thermography is a powerful tool to investigate the dynamic evolution of temperature in chemical reactions. The CO2 hydrogenation reaction is an ideal model reaction to assess the presented technique due to its high exothermicity. Various dynamic e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Methanol production from CO(2)via an integrated, formamide-assisted approach

Paul Joseph Dyson, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Aswin Gopakumar, Andreas Züttel, Tim Pfister, Gunay Imanzade, Jorge Gustavo Uranga, Gabriela Gastelu

The synthesis of fuels from CO2 has made tremendous progress in recent years, although practical applications remain limited. Herein, we describe a cyclic process that produces MeOH from CO(2)via formamide intermediates, which are initially reduced using N ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Solvent- and Catalyst-Free Carbon Dioxide Capture and Reduction to Formate with Borohydride Ionic Liquid

Paul Joseph Dyson, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Kun Zhao, Heena Yang

The Cover Feature shows the application of a pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquid with a borohydride anion to simultaneously capture and reduce large amounts of CO2. The ionic liquid cation interacts with CO2, allowing the borohydride to fix and reduce it to t ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Unraveling and optimizing the metal-metal oxide synergistic effect in a highly active Co (CoO)1– catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation

Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Alexandre Borsay, Andreas Züttel, Kun Zhao, Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler, Marco Calizzi, Wen Luo, Emanuele Moioli, Mo Li

The relation between catalytic reactivities and metal/metal oxide ratios, as well as the functions of the metal and the metal oxides were investigated in the CO2 hydrogenation reaction over highly active Cox(CoO)1–x catalysts in operando. The catalytic rea ...

2020

Interfacial Effect between Aluminum-Based Complex Hydrides and Nickel-Containing Porous Carbon Sheets

Emad Oveisi, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Heena Yang, Mo Li, Youngdon Ko

Supported aluminum-based complex hydrides (alanates) were investigated in view of their interaction at the interface. Nickel-containing porous carbon sheets (Ni-PCSs) were combined with various alanates, resulting in a decrease of the decomposition tempera ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Destabilizing sodium borohydride with an ionic liquid

Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Heena Yang

2018

Hydrogen storage properties of various carbon supported NaBH4 prepared via metathesis

Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Wonjong Kim, Wen Luo, Heena Yang

2018