Publications by Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

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

Xile Hu, Laurent Liardet, Matthew Thomas Mayer, 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

Oxidatively Electrodeposited Thin-Film Transition Metal (Oxy)hydroxides as Oxygen Evolution Catalysts

Xile Hu, Laurent Liardet, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

The electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen and oxygen is a simple and attractive approach to store renewable energies in the form of chemical fuels. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a complex four-electron process that constitutes the most energy- ...

American Chemical Society2016

Coupling of electrocatalysts to photoabsorbers for solar fuels production

Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

The direct transformation of sunlight into fuels and chemicals has attracted considerable attention for the potential impact on the storage of solar energies at large scales and the reduction of CO2 emissions. More than 80% of our current global energy con ...

EPFL2016

Solar Hydrogen Production by Amorphous Silicon Photocathodes Coated with a Magnetron Sputter Deposited Mo

Christophe Ballif, Xile Hu, Laurent Liardet, Björn Niesen, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Coupling of Earth-abundant hydrogen evolution catalysts to photoabsorbers is crucial for the production of hydrogen fuel using sunlight. In this work, we demonstrate the use of magnetron sputtering to deposit Mo2C as an efficient hydrogen evolution reactio ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

An Optically Transparent Iron Nickel Oxide Catalyst for Solar Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Aswani Yella, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Sunlight-driven water splitting to produce hydrogen fuel is an attractive method for renewable energy conversion. Tandem photoelectrochemical water splitting devices utilize two photoabsorbers to harvest the sunlight and drive the water splitting reaction. ...

2015

Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production in Alkaline Solutions Using Cu2O Coated with Earth-Abundant Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Laurent Liardet, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley

The splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules using sunlight is an attractive method for solar energy storage. Until now, photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution is mostly studied in acidic solutions, in which the hydrogen evolution is more fac ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Highly Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitro- to Azoarenes under Ambient Conditions

Lioubov Kiwi, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Catalytic system of Au nanoparticles supported on metal oxides has been developed to produce azoarenes in one-step directly from nitroarenes under mild conditions (30 °C, 1 bar of N2) using 2-propanol as solvent and reducing agent. Close to 100 % chemosele ...

Springer/Plenum Publishers2014

Nanostructured hydrotreating catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen evolution

Xile Hu, Lucas-Alexandre Stern, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Progress in catalysis is driven by society's needs. The development of new electrocatalysts to make renewable and clean fuels from abundant and easily accessible resources is among the most challenging and demanding tasks for today's scientists and enginee ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Amorphous molybdenum sulfides as hydrogen evolution catalysts

Xile Hu, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Providing energy for a population projected to reach 9 billion people within the middle of this century is one of the most pressing societal issues. Burning fossil fuels at a rate and scale that satisfy our near-term demand will irreversibly damage the liv ...

American Chemical Society2014

Hydrogen evolution from a copper(I) oxide photocathode coated with an amorphous molybdenum sulphide catalyst

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Stanley David Tilley, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Concerns over climate change resulting from accumulation of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the uncertainty in the amount of recoverable fossil fuel reserves are driving forces for the development of renewable, carbon-neutral energy tech ...

Nature Publishing Group2014