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In this project we develop hydrogen sensors based on nanoscaled discontinuities (nanogaps) in palladium (Pb). These nanogaps reversibly close and open upon hydrogen/air cycling due to an increased lattice constant in the hydrated state. Therewith, an elect ...
We demonstrate that the giant spin contrast observed by scanning tunneling microscopy for double-layer Coislands on Pt(111) is caused by adsorbates at the apex of the Cr-coated W tip. The most likely candidate, in ab initio simulations, is hydrogen. Here, ...
The use of formic acid as a hydrogen-storage material has become more feasible thanks to the development of a homogeneous catalytic system of ruthenium water-soluble complexes (Ru/TPPTS; TPPTS=meta-trisulfonated triphenylphosphine) that selectively decompo ...
In the production of acetate by Clostridium thermolacticum growing on lactose, considerable amounts of hydrogen were generated. Lactose available in large amounts from milk permeate, a wastestream of the dairy industry, appears to be a valuable substrate f ...
Dehydrohalogenation of haloaromatics in ionic liquids derived from ethylmethylimidazolium or similar salts has been performed using Pd-C, Pd(OAc)2 and other catalysts using formate salts as a hydrogen source. In the ionic liquid [emim][BF4< ...
Hydrogen production by non-thermal plasma (NTP) assisted direct decomposition of hydrogen sulfide was carried out in a novel dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor with the inner electrode made of sintered metal fibers (SMF) also functioning as catalys ...
In a water/chlorobenzene biphasic reaction, the hydrogenation of trans-cinnamaldehyde, catalyzed by water-soluble Ru(II)-phosphane complexes at pH 3.04 (phosphate buffer), produces a 61:39 mixture of cinnamyl alcohol and dihydrocinnamaldehyde at 1 bar H-2; ...
A review with 62 refs. The appropriate choice of a metalating reagent is the key to the optional deprotonation of benzylamine derivs. at a position adjacent to the substituent or the nitrogen bearing side chain or even at the benzylic a-position of the lat ...
As part of a collaborative, NSF-supported initiative to help develop the basic chem. needed for producing solar fuels, our group has been studying relatively inexpensive, first row transition metals that mediate electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution at unusu ...
N-Protected o- and p-anisidines (2- and 4-methoxyanilines) undergo a hydrogen/metal exchange at the position adjacent to either the oxygen or nitrogen atom depending on what organometallic base is employed. These synthetically useful findings support previ ...