Publications de Mostapha Dakhchoune

Hydrogen-sieving zeolitic films by coating zeolite nanosheets on porous polymeric support

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Xuekui Duan

The synthesis of high-performance gas-sieving zeolitic film is challenging because it involves seeded secondary growth which is complex and difficult to reproduce. Additionally, expensive asymmetric inorganic porous supports are often needed for calcinatio ...

ELSEVIER2023

Scalable Room-Temperature Synthesis of a Hydrogen-Sieving Zeolitic Membrane on a Polymeric Support

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Jian Hao, Xuekui Duan

Thescalable synthesis of high-temperature H-2-sieving membranesfor energy-efficient carbon capture can potentiallyenable the implementation of precombustion carbon capture at a rapidpace. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Enhanced Water Evaporation from A-Scale Graphene Nanopores

Mounir Driss Mensi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Wan-Chi Lee, Kuang-Jung Hsu

Enhancing the kinetics of liquid-vapor transition from nanoscale confinements is an attractive strategy for developing evaporation and separation applications. The ultimate limit of confinement for evaporation is an atom thick interface hosting angstrom-sc ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Rapid Gas Transport from Block-Copolymer Templated Nanoporous Carbon Films

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Jing Zhao, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Marina Micari, Xuekui Duan

Porous carbon films, attributed to their superior thermal and chemical robustness, are attractive for a number of applications. In the context of molecular separation, a major focus has been on films where the effective pore diameter is lower than 1 nm, e. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Multipulsed Millisecond Ozone Gasification for Predictable Tuning of Nucleation and Nucleation-Decoupled Nanopore Expansion in Graphene for Carbon Capture

Mounir Driss Mensi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Guangwei He, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Heng-Yu Chi, Wan-Chi Lee, Kuang-Jung Hsu

Predictable and tunable etching of angstrom-scale nanopores in single-layer graphene (SLG) can allow one to realize high-performance gas separation even from similar-sized molecules. We advance toward this goal by developing two etching regimes for SLG whe ...

2021

Bottom-up synthesis of graphene films hosting atom-thick molecular-sieving apertures

Emad Oveisi, Mina Moradi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Kangning Zhao, Cédric Karel J Van Goethem

Incorporation of a high density of molecular-sieving nanopores in the graphene lattice by the bottom-up synthesis is highly attractive for high-performance membranes. Herein, we achieve this by a controlled synthesis of nanocrystalline graphene where incom ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Millisecond lattice gasification for high-density CO2- and O2-sieving nanopores in single-layer graphene

Mounir Driss Mensi, Emad Oveisi, Deepu Joseph Babu, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shaoxian Li, Marina Micari

Etching single-layer graphene to incorporate a high pore density with sub-angstrom precision in molecular differentiation is critical to realize the promising high-flux separation of similar-sized gas molecules, e.g., CO2 from N2. However, rapid etching ki ...

2021

Techno-economic assessment of postcombustion carbon capture using high-performance nanoporous single-layer graphene membranes

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Marina Micari

High-performance membranes have emerged as an energy-efficient alternative to absorption-based postcombustion carbon capture. So far, the techno-economic analyses have been centered around the polymeric membranes. Recently, nanoporous single-layer graphene ...

2021

Two-dimensional atomically bridged nanoporous silicate-based membranes for gas separation

Mostapha Dakhchoune

The synthesis of molecular-sieving two-dimensional zeolitic membranes by the assembly of crystalline building blocks without resorting to the secondary growth process is highly desirable. The precise pore size for molecular sieving, ultrathin thickness, an ...

EPFL2021

Centimeter-scale gas-sieving nanoporous single-layer graphene membrane

Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Guangwei He, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Wan-Chi Lee

High-permeance, molecular-sieving, nanoporous single-layer graphene (NSLG) membranes are highly promising for gas separation. However, the formation of cracks during the transfer of NSLG to a low-cost porous support is difficult to avoid. These cracks are ...

2020

Polybenzimidazole copolymer derived lacey carbon film for graphene transfer and contamination removal strategies for imaging graphene nanopores

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Guangwei He, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Wan-Chi Lee

The study of the nanometer-scale vacancy defects (nanopores) in graphene by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is severely hindered by the presence of polymeric residues originating from the graphene-transfer-step to the TEM grid. The state-of-the-art ...

2020

Two-dimensional Material Membranes for Gas Separation

Mostapha Dakhchoune

Two-dimensional (2D) materials with atom- or few-atoms-thick layers have emerged as building-blocks in the synthesis of the next-generation membrane-based separations. Generally, 2D material-based membranes display high permeation and high selectivity due ...

2020

Thermal stability of size-selected copper nanoparticles: Effect of size, support and CO2 hydrogenation atmosphere

Alexandre Borsay, Andreas Züttel, Kun Zhao, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Wen Luo, Mo Li

Metal nanoparticles with a precisely controlled particle size distribution are ideal model catalysts for fundamental studies in catalysis. In this work, the thermal stability of size-selected Cu nanoparticles (Cu NPs) were deposited by magnetron sputtering ...

2020

Gas-sieving zeolitic membranes fabricated by condensation of precursor nanosheets

Yu Han, Michele Ceriotti, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Claudia Esther Avalos, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Rocio Semino Barbaresi

The synthesis of molecular-sieving zeolitic membranes by the assembly of building blocks, avoiding the hydrothermal treatment, is highly desired to improve reproducibility and scalability. Here we report exfoliation of the sodalite precursor RUB-15 into cr ...

2020

Hydrogen sieving from intrinsic defects of benzene-derived single-layer graphene

Mina Moradi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Jing Zhao, Majharul Haque Khan

Single-layer graphene films, crystallized by chemical vapor deposition, host a low density of vacancy defects that are attractive for the size-sieving of molecules. The size and the density of such defects are a function of the growth temperature and the c ...

2019

Electrophoretic Nuclei Assembly for Crystallization of High Performance Membranes on Unmodified Supports

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Guangwei He, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Jing Zhao

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) films have recently emerged as highly permselective membranes yielding orders of magnitude higher gas permeance than that from the conventional membranes. However, synthesis of highly-intergrown, ultrathin MOF films on porou ...

2018

Single-layer graphene membranes by crack-free transfer for gas mixture separation

Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Emad Oveisi, Andreas Züttel, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Guangwei He, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Wen Luo, Jing Zhao

The single-layer graphene film, when incorporated with molecular-sized pores, is predicted to be the ultimate membrane. However, the major bottlenecks have been the crack-free transfer of large-area graphene on a porous support, and the incorporation of mo ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Ultrahigh flux gas-selective nanoporous carbon membrane and manufacturing method thereof

Nikunj Dudani, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Guangwei He, Mostapha Dakhchoune

The present relates to a nanoporous carbon membrane manufacturing method comprising coating a block copolymer film with hydrophilic and hydrophobic blocks, on a sacrificial non-porous substrate so as to prepare an block copolymer film coated foil, transfer ...

2018