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Hydrogen production by waste tire recycling by photo-pyrolysis

Hubert Girault, Jordi Espin Marti, Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Bhawna Nagar, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva

Waste tires are a major environmental concern due to their non-degradable nature and the large area occupied by them in landfills worldwide. Several recycling processes have been applied to minimize the high amount of waste tire disposal; in particular, py ...

2023

A Rapidly Responsive Sensor for Wireless Detection of Early and Mature Microbial Biofilms

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Bhawna Nagar, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva

Biofilm-associated infections, which are able to resist antibiotics, pose a significant challenge in clinical treatments. Such infections have been linked to various medical conditions, including chronic wounds and implant-associated infections, making the ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Banana split: biomass splitting with flash light irradiation

Hubert Girault, Bhawna Nagar, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva

Biomass splitting into gases and solids using flash light irradiation is introduced as an efficient photo-thermal process to photo-pyrolyze dried natural biomass powders to valuable syngas and conductive porous carbon (biochar). The photo-thermal reactions ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

An innovative autonomous robotic system for on-site detection of heavy metal pollution plumes in surface water

Bhawna Nagar, Alexander Haider, Qiuyue Yang

Smart monitoring has been studied and developed in recent years to create faster, cheaper, and more user-friendly on-site methods. The present study describes an innovative technology for investigative monitoring of heavy metal pollution (Cu and Pb) in sur ...

SPRINGER2022

Voltammetry in Two-Electrode Mode for Rapid Electrochemical Screening Using a Fully Printed and Flexible Multiplexer Sensor

Hubert Girault, Bhawna Nagar

A multiplexed electrochemical platform has been designed for electrochemical screening applications, such as bacteria detection. It includes 16x16 electrochemical cell array in a two-electrode mode fabricated by a combination of screen printing, inkjet pri ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Photonic Flash Synthesis of Mo2C/Graphene Electrocatalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Hubert Girault, Danick Reynard, Bhawna Nagar

Nowadays, molybdenum carbides (Mo2C) represent alternative electrocatalysts to noble metal for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Here, a fast and simple process is proposed for the fabrication of Mo2C-based electrocatalysts on a carbon cloth substrate ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Development of a Heavy Metal Sensing Boat for Automatic Analysis in Natural Waters Utilizing Anodic Stripping Voltammetry

Bhawna Nagar, Qiuyue Yang

Determination of the levels of heavy metal ions would support assessment of sources and pathways of water pollution. However, traditional spatial assessment by manual sampling and off-site detection in the laboratory is expensive and time-consuming and req ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Highly Loaded Mildly Edge‐Oxidized Graphene Nanosheet Dispersions for Large‐Scale Inkjet Printing of Electrochemical Sensors

Hubert Girault, Horst Pick, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic, Victor Costa Bassetto, Yingdi Zhu, Bhawna Nagar

Inkjet printing of electrochemical sensors using a highly loaded mildly edge‐oxidized graphene nanosheet (EOGN) ink is presented. An ink with 30 mg/mL EOGNs is formulated in a mixture of N‐methyl pyrrolidone and propylene glycol with only 30 min of sonicat ...

2020