Publications by Andrea Testino

Pt/Ce x Zr1-x O2 Bi-Functional Catalyst for Gas Recombination and Radical Scavenging in PEM Water Electrolysis Cells

Incorporating platinum (Pt) as a gas recombination catalyst in proton exchange membranes (PEMs) effectively addresses the challenge of pronounced hydrogen crossover in PEM water electrolysis cells, particularly when thin membranes are employed. However, th ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Carbon-supported ZnO materials for sulfur capturing in supercritical water

Christian Ludwig, Andrea Testino

Sulfur (S) capturing materials working at supercritical water (SCW) conditions need to be designed and developed to overcome issues related with catalyst poisoning during the hydrothermal gasification of wet biomass, an efficient and sustainable technology ...

2025

Dilution versus fractionation: Separation technologies hyphenated with spICP-MS for characterizing metallic nanoparticles in aerosols

Christian Ludwig, Andrea Testino, Jian Wang, Tianyu Cen

The presence of metal salts has become one of the major limitations for measuring metallic nanoparticles (NPs) in single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICP-MS). Their presence generates a background signal in spICP-MS that can be ...

2024

Cathode Catalyst Layer Design in PEM Water Electrolysis toward Reduced Pt Loading and Hydrogen Crossover

Andrea Testino

Reducing the use of platinum group metals is crucial for the largescale deployment of proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis systems. The optimization of the cathode catalyst layer and decrease of the cathode Pt loading are usually overlooked du ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Approaching Angstrom-Scale Resolution in Lithography Using Low-Molecular-Mass Resists (<500 Da)

Andrea Testino

Resists that enable high-throughput and highresolution patterning are essential in driving the semiconductor technology forward. The ultimate patterning performance of a resist in lithography is limited because of the trade-off between resolution, line-wid ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Airborne metal nanoparticles released by azides detonation: determination and potential public exposure

Christian Ludwig, Andrea Testino, Tianyu Cen

Metal azides are highly energetic materials that release a large amount of gas upon detonation. They also release metal particles, generating an aerosol. The most common azide is sodium azide (NaN3), which is used nowadays in car airbags. If the decomposit ...

Springer Nature2024

Rotating disk diluter hyphenated with single particle ICP-MS as an online dilution and sampling platform for metallic nanoparticles characterization in ambient aerosol

Christian Ludwig, Andrea Testino, Tianyu Cen

The application of single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICP-MS) for online metallic nanoparticles (NPs) characterization in ambient aerosol remains a challenge. In this study, a hyphenated setup consisting of a rotating disk dilu ...

2024

Examination of commercial ceramic coatings for the electrical insulation of Bi-2212 wire

Davide Uglietti, Andrea Testino, Robert Sobota

In the last twenty years, a number of studies have been dedicated to the development of thin ceramic coating for the electrical insulation of Ag-sheathed Bi-2212 wires. Instead of preparing a coating by mixing different compounds in house, this technical n ...

2023

Extraction of Rare Earth Metals: The New Thermodynamic Considerations Toward Process Hydrometallurgy

Christian Ludwig, Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis, Andrea Testino, Ajay Bhagwan Patil

Successful management of secondary waste resources is essential for the viable circular economy. E-waste could serve as the potential urban mining source for the alternative supply chain of critical metals such as rare earth elements (REEs). The hydrometal ...

Springer Nature Switzerland AG2021

Global uncertainty-sensitivity analysis on mechanistic kinetic models: From model assessment to theory-driven design of nanoparticles

Paul Bowen, Andrea Testino, Mohammad Reza Andalibi, Agnese Carino

Recently, we developed a population balance framework describing the precipitation of calcium-silicate-hydrate, a key nanomaterial in the construction industry and with potential applications in biomedicine, environmental remediation, and catalysis. In thi ...

2020