Publications by Thi Ha My Pham

Deep Eutectic Solvents Formed by Complex Hydrides: A New Class of Hydrogen‐Rich Liquid

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Loris Giovanni Lombardo

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are novel mixtures that exhibit a significant depression in melting points compared to their individual components. This work finds that combining tetrabutylammonium borohydride (TBABH) with ammonia borane (AB) yields new, sta ...

Wiley2025

Engineering Ru Nanoparticle Size and Metal-support Interactions for Enhanced Catalytic Hydrogen Combustion

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Loris Giovanni Lombardo

Catalytic hydrogen combustion (CHC) plays a crucial role in enhancing the safety and efficiency of fuel cells and electrolysers, thereby promoting the H2 economy. To increase the catalytic activity of supported metal particles for CHC, the active surface a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2025

Low CO2 mass transfer promotes methanol and formaldehyde electrosynthesis on cobalt phthalocyanine

Thi Ha My Pham, Liping Zhong

Cobalt phthalocyanine supported on carbon nanotubes (CoPcCNT) usually catalyzes the electroreduction of CO2 (CO2RR) to CO, although several reports have also indicated methanol formation. Herein, by analyzing the effects of CoPc loading and CO2 partial pre ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

All Platinum Group Metal-Free and Durable Catalysts for Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Platinum group metal-free catalysts (e.g., Fe-N-C and Co-N-C) are used as hydrogen peroxide reduction reaction (PRR) catalysts in direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs). Fe-N-C is more active in the PRR and demonstrates high performance at the beginning of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Tailoring nanocatalysts and reaction interfaces for water- and CO2-electrolysis

Thi Ha My Pham

Renewable energy sources offer a promising solution for mitigating sustainability and CO2 emissions-related issues due to their vast energy generation capacity. They enable hydrogen production via water electrolysis, as well as carbon capture and utilizati ...

EPFL2024

Understanding the role of surface oxygen-containing functional groups on carbon-supported cobalt catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Kangning Zhao, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong, Manhui Wei

Supported Co-based catalysts exhibit promising catalytic activities in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during alkaline water electrolysis. Surface functionalization of the support modulates the dispersion of the catalysts and their interaction with the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

A fluoropolymer bifunctional solid membrane interface for improving the discharge duration in aqueous Al-air batteries

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Liping Zhong, Manhui Wei, Meixia Zhang

Herein, a fluoropolymer bifunctional solid membrane interface (SMI) for an aqueous Al-air battery is proposed, which inhibits anodic self-corrosion, while concurrently reducing the accumulation of undesirable by-products. A battery using the SMI exhibits a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Graphene nanoplatelets promoted CoO-based catalyst for low temperature CO2 methanation reaction

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Methanation of CO2 is an important reaction for reducing CO2 emissions in a power-to-gas system. Compared to cobalt supported on gamma-Al2O3, cobalt supported on graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) showed significantly better performance for CO2 methanation. Cob ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Elucidating the Mechanism of Fe Incorporation in In Situ Synthesized Co-Fe Oxygen-Evolving Nanocatalysts

Andreas Züttel, Vasiliki Tileli, Thi Ha My Pham, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Ni- and Co-based catalysts with added Fe demonstrate promising activity in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during alkaline water electrolysis, with the presence of Fe in a certain quantity being crucial for their enhanced performance. The mode of incor ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Zinc carboxylate optimization strategy for extending Al-air battery system's lifetime

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Liping Zhong, Manhui Wei

Although Al-air batteries are expected to be the candidates for energy conversion systems in renewable energy market due to the higher energy density, richer reserves, and lighter mass of Al metal, the anode self-discharge is seen as a notorious issue that ...

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