Publications by Antoine Philippe Van Muyden

High-Work-Function 2D Perovskites as Passivation Agents in Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Fatemeh Ansari, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Hiroyuki Kanda, Brian Irving Carlsen

Various approaches have been employed to passivate the defects in perovskite films used in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the passivation mechanism is often unclear at a molecular level, and the reason for enhanced PSC performance often remains el ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Mechanistic classification and benchmarking of polyolefin depolymerization over silica-alumina-based catalysts

Paul Joseph Dyson, Mounir Driss Mensi, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Wei-Tse Lee, Jed Russell Carullo

Carbon-carbon bond cleavage mechanisms play a key role in the selective deconstruction of alkanes and polyolefins. Here, we show that the product distribution, which encompasses carbon range and formation of unsaturated and isomerization products, serves a ...

Nature Research2022

Hydrogenation of the pivotal biorefinery platform molecule levulinic acid into renewable fuel gamma-valerolactone catalyzed by unprecedented highly active and stable ruthenium nanoparticles in aqueous media

Paul Joseph Dyson, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden

gamma-Valerolactone (GVL) is a key downstream product of renewable biomass with enormous potential for the manufacture of advanced biofuels, bio-based chemicals, materials or for its direct use as an additive to gasoline and is obtained by the hydrogenatio ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Lignin First: Confirming the Role of the Metal Catalyst in Reductive Fractionation

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Zhaofu Fei, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Ning Yan, Lu Chen, Xinjiang Cui

Rhodium nanoparticles embedded on the interior of hollow porous carbon nanospheres, able to sieve monomers from polymers, were used to confirm the precise role of metal catalysts in the reductive catalytic fractionation of lignin. The study provides clear ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Catalytic hydrocracking of synthetic polymers into grid-compatible gas streams

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Kun-Han Lin, Reza Zamani

The use of methane as one of the cleanest energy sources has attracted significant public awareness, and methane production processes with less environmental impact than fracking are receiving considerable attention. Catalytic hydrocracking of plastic mate ...

2021

Cycloaddition of Biogas-Contained CO2 into Epoxides via Ionic Polymer Catalysis: An Experimental and Process Simulation Study

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, François Maréchal, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Alexy Robert Bonnin

Biogas upgrading technologies are crucial for the production of high-purity biomethane. Efficient CO2 removal methods that are currently commercialized rely on "catch-and-release" mechanisms, and the CO2 stream is usually discharged into the atmosphere wit ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Towards a Plastic Circular Economy: Bio-derived Plastics and their End-of-life Strategies

Antoine Philippe Van Muyden

Herein, we describe the status of bio-derived plastics as well as the existing and emerging technologies that are available for their post-consumer end-of-life valorization. We first present how bio-derived plastics can be produced from renewable materials ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2021

Anchoring single platinum atoms onto nickel nanoparticles affords highly selective catalysts for lignin conversion

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Zhaofu Fei, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jun Li, Lichen Bai, Linfeng Pan, Lu Chen, Yun Tong

Due to the highly complex polyphenolic structure of lignin, depolymerization without a prior chemical treatment is challenging, and new catalysts are required. Atomically dispersed catalysts are able to maximize the atomic efficiency of noble metals, simul ...

ELSEVIER2021

Direct conversion of plastic materials into methane and liquid fuels

Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Wei-Tse Lee

The invention relates to a method for direct conversion of plastic materials into methane and/or liquid fuel and use of ruthenium-modified zeolite to catalyse this conversion. ...

2020

Acceptorless dehydrogenation and hydrogenation of N- and O-containing compounds on Pd3Au1(111) facets

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Zhangjun Huang, Xinjiang Cui, Tao Wang

Catalytic dehydrogenation and hydrogenation of amines and alcohols are important in the synthesis of fine chemicals. Despite several efficient homogeneous catalysts having been identified, highly active heterogeneous catalysts remain elusive, although they ...

2020