Publications by Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder

Operando evidence on the chirality-enhanced oxygen evolution reaction in intrinsically chiral electrocatalysts

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Yunchang Liang

Electrolytic hydrogen is identified as a crucial component in the desired decarbonisation of the chemical industry, utilizing renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Water electrolysis still requires important scientific advances to impro ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Operando Nanoscale Characterization Reveals Fe Doping of Ni Oxide Enhances Oxygen Evolution Reaction via Fragmentation and Formation of Dual Active Sites

Xile Hu, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Yunchang Liang, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Seunghwa Lee, Karla Banjac

Efficient catalytic water splitting demands advanced catalysts to improve the slow kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Earth-abundant transition metal oxides show promising OER activity in alkaline media. However, most experimental information ...

2025

Synergistic enhancement of photo-assisted water splitting by mesoporous TiO2/NiFe LDH composite nanomaterials

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Yunchang Liang

In the last decade, photo-assisted water splitting to generate hydrogen and oxygen has become a key process in the quest for clean energy technologies. In this context, the sluggish kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is still a limitation. The ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Rational Design of 2D Supramolecular Networks Switchable by External Electric Fields

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Fernando Pablo Cometto

The reversible formation of hydrogen bonds is a ubiquitous mechanism for controlling molecular assembly in biological systems. However, achieving predictable reversibility in artificial two-dimensional (2D) materials remains a significant challenge. Here, ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Hybrid mesoporous electrodes evidence CISS effect on water oxidation

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Yunchang Liang

Controlling product selectivity is essential for improving the efficiency of multi-product reactions. Electrochemical water oxidation is a reaction of main importance in different applications, e.g., renewable energy schemes and environmental protection, w ...

Aip Publishing2024

Enhancement of electrocatalysis through magnetic field effects on mass transport

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Yunchang Liang

Magnetic field effects on electrocatalysis have recently gained attention due to the substantial enhancement of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) on ferromagnetic catalysts. When detecting an enhanced catalytic activity, the effect of magnetic fields on ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Enhancement of electrocatalytic oxygen evolution by chiral molecular functionalization of hybrid 2D electrodes

Xile Hu, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Yunchang Liang, Seunghwa Lee, Karla Banjac

While solar-to-fuel catalysis requires the careful transfer of electrons, there are still challenges understanding how electron spin contributes to reactivity. Here, authors employ chiral fused thiadiazole-helicenes to control spin polarization in oxygen e ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Spin-Control in Electrocatalysis for Clean Energy

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Martina Lihter, Yunchang Liang

A sustainable future demands a successful transition from a carbon energy-dependent economy towards renewable energy schemes, many of which ultimately rely on the development of efficient electrocatalysis that either converts chemical energy into electrici ...

2022

Structural Order of the Molecular Adlayer Impacts the Stability of Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Plasmonic Cavities

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Sachin Suresh Verlekar, Fernando Pablo Cometto, Karla Banjac, Aqeel Ahmed

Immense field enhancement and nanoscale confinement of light are possible within nanoparticle-on-mirror (NPoM) plasmonic resonators, which enable novel optically activated physical and chemical phenomena and render these nanocavities greatly sensitive to m ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Stabilization of high-spin Mn ions in tetra-pyrrolic configuration on copper

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder

By means of Mn-Cu transmetalation, we incorporated Mn atoms in an array of TCNQ (7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane) grown on Cu(100), forming a long range ordered and commensurate metal-organic coordination network (MOCN). Preliminary Sn alloying of the Cu( ...

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