Publications by Yannick Thomas Guntern

Synthetic Tunability of Colloidal Covalent Organic Framework/Nanocrystal Hybrids

Raffaella Buonsanti, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili, Jan Vávra, Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Ona Segura Lecina, Yannick Thomas Guntern

The combination of porous reticular frameworks and nanocrystals (NCs) offers a rich playground to design materials with functionalities, which are beneficial for a large variety of applications. Achieving compositional and structural tunability of these hy ...

2021

Exploring Synthetic Strategies for Nanocrystal/Reticular Framework Hybrids and Their Potential as CO2 Reduction Electrocatalysts

Yannick Thomas Guntern

The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) into valuable chemicals has the potential to realize a carbon-neutral energy cycle. Developing catalysts that can achieve high selectivity towards one of the possible reduction products is one of the bigge ...

EPFL2021

Elucidating the structure-dependent selectivity of CuZn towards methane and ethanol in CO2 electroreduction using tailored Cu/ZnO precatalysts

Raffaella Buonsanti, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili, Kevin Rossi, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Jan Vávra, James Richard Pankhurst, Yannick Thomas Guntern

Understanding the catalyst compositional and structural features that control selectivity is of uttermost importance to target desired products in chemical reactions. In this joint experimental-computational work, we leverage tailored Cu/ZnO precatalysts a ...

2021

Molecular tunability of surface-functionalized metal nanocrystals for selective electrochemical CO2 reduction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Mounir Driss Mensi, James Richard Pankhurst, Yannick Thomas Guntern

Organic ligands are used in homogeneous catalysis to tune the metal center reactivity; in contrast, clean surfaces are usually preferred in heterogeneous catalysis. Herein, we demonstrate the potential of a molecular chemistry approach to develop efficient ...

2019

Nanocrystal/Metal–Organic Framework Hybrids as Electrocatalytic Platforms for CO2 Conversion

Raffaella Buonsanti, Mounir Driss Mensi, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jan Vávra, James Richard Pankhurst, Valeria Mantella, Yannick Thomas Guntern

The tunable chemistry linked to the organic/inorganic components in colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) offers a rich playground to advance the fundamental understanding of materials design for various applications. Herein, we ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019