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Characterisation of a 200 kW/400 kWh Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

The incessant growth in energy demand has resulted in the deployment of renewable energy generators to reduce the impact of fossil fuel dependence. However, these generators often suffer from intermittency and require energy storage when there is over-gene ...

2018

Potential-sensing electrochemical atomic force microscopy for in operando analysis of water-splitting catalysts and interfaces

Kevin Sivula

Heterogeneous electrochemical phenomena, such as (photo)electrochemical water splitting to generate hydrogen using semiconductors and/or electrocatalysts, are driven by the accumulated charge carriers and thus the interfacial electrochemical potential grad ...

2018

Guest dynamics in methane hydrates and hydrogen hydrates under high pressure

Umbertoluca Ranieri

Hydrates of gas are non-stoichiometric inclusion compounds constituted of water and gas. Therein, the water molecules are hydrogen-bonded and form three-dimensional crystalline networks incorporating different kinds of polar or nonpolar guest gas molecules ...

EPFL2018

Formic Acid as a Hydrogen Carrier for Fuel Cells Toward a Sustainable Energy System

Gabor Laurenczy

Formic acid is considered as one of the promising organic liquid hydrogen carriers for the next generation; it can offer a viable method for safe hydrogen transport. In this chapter, we introduce the potential of formic acid in terms of thermodynamics and ...

2017

Method for producing methanol from carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas in homogeneously catalyzed reactions and in an aqueous medium

Gabor Laurenczy, Katerina Stefania Sordakis

The invention relates to a method for producing methanol from hydrogen and carbon dioxide gas in homogeneously catalyzed reactions, composed of the carbon dioxide hydrogenation reaction to formic acid and the formic acid disproportionation reaction into me ...

2017

Atomically Altered Hematite for Highly Efficient Perovskite Tandem Water-Splitting Devices

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi, Nripan Mathews

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells are attractive for storing solar energy in chemical bonds through cleaving of water into oxygen and hydrogen. Although hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) is a promising photoanode material owing to its chemical stability, suitable band ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2017

CO2 as hydrogen vector - Transition metal diamine catalysts for selective HCOOH dehydrogenation

Gabor Laurenczy, Cornel Fink

The homogeneous catalytic dehydrogenation of formic acid in aqueous solution provides an efficient in situ method for hydrogen production, under mild conditions, and at an adjustable rate. We synthesized a series of catalysts with the chemical formula [Cp* ...

2017

Photoelectrochemical deposition of CoP on cuprous oxide photocathodes for solar hydrogen production

Xile Hu, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Laurent Liardet, Lucas-Alexandre Stern, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is an attractive and sustainable energy conversion method. In this work, cobalt phosphide (CoP) is photoelectrochemically deposited on a p-type cuprous oxide (pCu(2)O) photocathode for solar hydrogen production. U ...

Elsevier2017

Materials Genome in Action: Identifying the Performance Limits of Physical Hydrogen Storage

Berend Smit, Cory Matthew Simon, Kathryn Suzanne Deeg

The Materials Genome is in action: the molecular codes for millions of materials have been sequenced, predictive models have been developed, and now the challenge of hydrogen storage is targeted. Renewably generated hydrogen is an attractive transportation ...

American Chemical Society2017

Spectroelectrochemical analysis of the mechanism of (photo)electrochemical hydrogen evolution at a catalytic interface

Florian Le Formal, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley

Multi-electron heterogeneous catalysis is a pivotal element in the ( photo) electrochemical generation of solar fuels. However, mechanistic studies of these systems are difficult to elucidate by means of electrochemical methods alone. Here we report a spec ...

Springer Nature2017

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