Publications by Pekka Eero Peljo

Ionosomes: Observation of Ionic Bilayer Water Clusters

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov, Sunny Isaïe Maye

Emulsification of immiscible two-phase fluids, i.e., one condensed phase dispersed homogeneously as tiny droplets in an outer continuous medium, plays a key role in medicine, food, chemical separations, cosmetics, fabrication of micro- and nanoparticles an ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Vanadium‐manganese redox flow battery: Study of Mn(III) disproportionation in the presence of other metallic ions

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Sunny Isaïe Maye, Danick Reynard, Solène Cindy Gentil, Vimanshu Chanda

The Mn(III)/Mn(II) redox couple with a standard potential of +1.51 V vs . SHE has drawn interest for the design of V/Mn redox flow battery (RFB). However, Mn(III) disproportionation leads to a loss of capacity, an increase of pressure drop and electrode pa ...

Wiley2020

Structure and reactivity of the polarised liquid–liquid interface: what we know and what we do not

Hubert Girault, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Pekka Eero Peljo, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

Charge transfer phenomena at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) are electrochemical reactions taking place in soft media. Owing to their liquid nature, the ITIES shows a large panel of electrochemical reactions including ele ...

2020

Mechanistic study of the photo‐generation of hydrogen by decamethylruthenocene

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Heron Vrubel, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Sunny Isaïe Maye, Lucie Josette Renée Rivier

Hydrogen evolution by decamethylruthenocene (Cp*2RuII) was studied in detail highlighting that metallocenes are capable of photo‐reducing hydrogen without the need of an additional sensitizer. Electrochemical, gas chromatographic and spectroscopic (UV/vis, ...

2019

Solid electrochemical energy storage for aqueous redox flow batteries: The case of copper hexacyanoferrate

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov, Grégoire Clément Gschwend, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Danick Reynard, Solène Cindy Gentil, Elena Zanzola

All redox flow batteries suffer from low energy storage density in comparison with conventional Li-ion batteries. However, this issue can be mitigated by utilization of solid energy storage materials to enhance the energy storage capacity. In this paper we ...

2019

Electrochemical Dynamics of a Single Platinum Nanoparticle Collision Event for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Pekka Eero Peljo, Haiqiang Deng

Chronoamperometry was used to study the dynamics of Pt nanoparticle (NP) collision with an inert ultramicroelectrode via electrocatalytic amplification (ECA) towards hydrogen evolution reaction. First, ECA and dynamic light scattering (DLS) results reveal ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Semi-analytical modelling of linear scan voltammetric responses for soluble-insoluble system: The case of metal deposition

Hubert Girault, Imene Atek, Pekka Eero Peljo, Sunny Isaïe Maye

The absence of general theoretical models describing linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) or cyclic voltammetry (CV) responses for soluble-insoluble systems such as one-step electrodeposition reactions under quasi-reversible condition makes it difficult to extra ...

2018

Gold Raspberry-Like Colloidosomes Prepared at the Water-Nitromethane Interface

Hubert Girault, Evgeny Smirnov, Pekka Eero Peljo

Here, we propose a simple shake-flask method to produce micron-size colloidosomes from a liquid-liquid interface functionalized with a gold nanoparticle film. A step-by-step extraction process of an organic phase partially miscible with water led to the fo ...

2018

Gold Nanofilms at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces: An Emerging Platform for Redox Electrocatalysis, Nanoplasmonic Sensors, and Electrovariable Optics

Pekka Eero Peljo, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Evgeny Smirnov, Thomas James Stockmann

The functionality of liquid–liquid interfaces formed between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) can be markedly enhanced by modification with supramolecular assemblies or solid nanomaterials. The focus of this Review is recent progress involving ...

2018

Simulations employing finite element method at liquid vertical bar liquid interfaces

Pekka Eero Peljo, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Thomas James Stockmann

2018