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Development of new volcano-shaped microelectrodes for single cell electrochemistry, electrophysiology and impedance studies.

Micro- nano-electrodes have demonstrated superior performances in measuring attenuated intracellular action potentials from electrogenic cell cultures compared to traditional multi-electrode arrays. Yet, the understanding of the critical electrode features ...

EPFL2023

Engineering extracellular electron transfer for enhanced energy harvesting in microbial electrochemical devices

Mohammed Mouhib

Microorganisms known as exoelectrogens evolved the ability of transporting electrons across insulating biological membranes. In a physiological context, this enables respiration on extracellular electron acceptors and electron transfer to other organisms. ...

EPFL2023

In situ spectroelectrochemical probing of CO redox landscape on copper single-crystal surfaces

Jinggang Lan

Electrochemical reduction of CO(2) to value-added chemicals and fuels is a promising strategy to sustain pressing renewable energy demands and to address climate change issues. Direct observation of reaction intermediates during the CO(2) reduction reactio ...

NATL ACAD SCIENCES2022

In-flow electrochemical detection of chemicals in droplets with pyrolysed photoresist electrodes: application as a module for quantification of microsampled dopamine

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Joan Teixidor, Albert René Yvon Leroy

The electrochemical quantification of analytes in droplets of PBS separated by a fluorinated phase was investigated. PDMS-fused silica chips with pyrolysed photoresist electrodes were prepared using a simple fabrication technique and used to analyze drople ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Discrete Helmholtz model: a single layer of correlated counter-ions. Metal oxides and silica interfaces, ion-exchange and biological membranes

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

The mechanism by which interfaces in solution can be polarised depends on the nature of the charge carriers. In the case of a conductor, the charge carriers are electrons and the polarisation is homogeneous in the plane of the electrode. In the case of an ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Real-time Monitoring Reveals Dissolution/Redeposition Mechanism in Copper Nanocatalysts during the Initial Stages of the CO2 Reduction Reaction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Vasiliki Tileli, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Jan Vávra

Size, morphology, and surface sites of electrocatalysts have a major impact on their performance. Understanding how, when, and why these parameters change under operating conditions is of importance for designing stable, active, and selective catalysts. He ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Oxide versus Nonoxide Cathode Materials for Aqueous Zn Batteries: An Insight into the Charge Storage Mechanism and Consequences Thereof

Alfredo Pasquarello, Assil Bouzid

Aqueous Zn-ion batteries, which are being proposed as large-scale energy storage solutions because of their unparalleled safety and cost advantage, are composed of a positive host (cathode) material, a metallic zinc anode, and a mildly acidic aqueous elect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Thermal stress analysis of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Cristiano Garbellini

This study is concerned with the problem of energy piles subjected to constant axial load and temperature variation uniform over the cross-section. In the first part of this article, equations for the analysis of energy piles based on elastic theory and th ...

2019

Pyrazolium Ionic Liquid Co-catalysts for the Electroreduction of CO2

Paul Joseph Dyson, Dmitry Vasilyev, Erfan Shirzadi

Pyrazolium ionic liquids (Pz ILs) were employed as co-catalysts for electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO on a silver disk electrode, leading to a significant decrease in the onset potential for the reduction (ca. 500 mV). The electrochemical conversion ...

2018

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

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