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EPFL2023

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Paul Joseph Dyson, Mingyang Liu, Xiang Li, Yelin Hu, Matthias Beller

Catalytic hydrogenation and oxidative dehydrogenation of N-heterocycles to produce tetrahydroquinoline and quinoline derivatives are important reactions of particular importance in the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Herein, we report earth-abu ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2023

Towards implementing new isotopes for environmental research:Redetermination of the 32Si half-life

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The predicted climate changes on Earth will significantly impact the environment and human society. The climate patterns observed during the past centuries led to a better understanding of the driving forces for such changes. However, more studies using ne ...

EPFL2022

ISORROPIA-Lite: A Comprehensive Atmospheric Aerosol Thermodynamics Module for Earth System Models

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Aerosol simulations especially for Earth System Models require a thermodynamics module with a good compromise between rigor and computational efficiency. We present and evaluate ISORROPIA-lite, an accelerated and simplified version of the widely used ISORR ...

STOCKHOLM UNIV PRESS2022

Electrospun nanofibers for electrochemical reduction of CO2: A mini review

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The electrochemical reduction of CO2 (CO2RR) into valuable products represents a step towards alleviating global warming and the energy crisis. However, the sluggish kinetics of the CO2RR and the competitive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) still limit th ...

Elsevier2021

Computer Simulation of the Surface of Aqueous Ionic and Surfactant Solutions

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The surface of aqueous solutions of simple salts was not the main focus of scientific attention for a long while. Considerable interest in studying such systems has only emerged in the past two decades, following the pioneering finding that large halide io ...

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The Role of Organic Promoters in the Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide

Paul Joseph Dyson, Dmitry Vasilyev

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR) currently attracts considerable attention as a way to make fuels and value-added products from CO2 using renewable energy. Much effort has been devoted to developing efficient electrode materials for ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

The design and synthesis of nanostructured hydrogen oxidation reaction electrocatalysts for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

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Hydrogen fuel cell is a promising green technology that transforms the chemical energy in hydrogen into electricity. Currently, most of the efforts are focused on developing proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), however they are heavily dependent o ...

EPFL2021

Probing Substrate Scope with Molecular Volcanoes

Matthew Wodrich, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Boodsarin Sawatlon

Molecular volcano plots, a tool generally used to identify ideal catalysts for a given chemical transformation, are employed in an alternative fashion to examine the substrate scope by revealing the range of substrates that can be accommodated by a single ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Rational strain engineering in delafossite oxides for highly efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis in acidic media

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Esther Alarcon Llado, Filip Mateusz Podjaski

The rational design of catalysts is crucial to make power-to-X technologies viable. Here the authors introduce the delafossite PdCoO2 as a highly active hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst due to the growth of a tensile-strained Pd-rich capping layer unde ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020