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Hydrogen storage: beyond conventional methods

Gabor Laurenczy, Martin Grasemann, Weijia Gan, Séverine Joëlle Moret, Andrew Francis Dalebrook

The efficient storage of hydrogen is one of three major hurdles towards a potential hydrogen economy. This report begins with conventional storage methods for hydrogen and broadly covers new technology, ranging from physical media involving solid adsorbent ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Heterogeneous Silica-Supported Ruthenium Phosphine Catalysts for Selective Formic Acid Decomposition

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Weijia Gan

The water-soluble ruthenium(II)–mTPPTS complex (mTPPTS= meta-trisulfonated triphenylphosphine) efficiently catalyzes the generation of hydrogen from formic acid in aqueous solution. This catalyst has been immobilized in a hydrophilic silica sup- port to fa ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2013

Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Hydrogen Generation from Formic Acid using Cationic, Ammoniomethyl-Substituted Triarylphosphine Ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Weijia Gan, Dennis Snelders

The selective catalytic decomposition of formic acid into hydrogen and carbon dioxide has been achieved in water under mild conditions. For the first time, a ruthenium ion in combination with series of oligocationic, ammoniomethyl-substituted triarylphosph ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2013

Kinetics and Mechanism of Formic Acid Decomposition in Aqueous Solution using Ruthenium Pre-catalysts with Hydrophilic Phosphine Ligands

Weijia Gan

Hydrogen holds the potential to be an alternative to replace fossil fuels in the future. The tremendous research effort dedicated to the issue of hydrogen storage has led to considerable advancements in the development of both adsorption materials and chem ...

EPFL2012

Tuning the Chemoselectivity of Rh Nanoparticle Catalysts by Site-Selective Poisoning with Phosphine Ligands: The Hydrogenation of Functionalized Aromatic Compounds

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Ning Yan, Weijia Gan, Dennis Snelders

The hydrogenation of phenylacetone to cyclohexylacetone, in which the aromatic ring is selectively reduced in preference to the carbonyl group, has been achieved with chemoselectivities exceeding 90%. The catalyst (precatalyst) used to achieve this transfo ...

2012

Influence of water-soluble sulfonated phosphine ligands on ruthenium catalyzed generation of hydrogen from formic acid

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Céline Fellay, Weijia Gan

Hydrogen can be generated from formic acid in aq. phase homogeneous catalytic reactions using ruthenium catalysts with water-sol. phosphine ligands. A comparison of tri-, di-, and mono-sulfonato triphenylphosphine, disulfonato diphenyl-alkyl-phosphines (Ph ...

Taylor & Francis2010

Hydrogen storage and delivery: immobilization of a highly active homogeneous catalyst for the decomposition of formic acid to hydrogen and carbon dioxide

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Weijia Gan

The homogeneous catalytic system, based on water-soluble ruthenium(II)– TPPTS catalyst (TPPTS = meta-trisulfonated triphenylphosphine), selectively decomposes HCOOH into H2 and CO2 in aqueous solution. Although this reaction results in only two gas product ...

Springer Netherlands2009

Aqueous-phase biphasic dehydroaromatization of bio-derived limonene into p-cymene by soluble Pd nanocluster catalysts

Paul Joseph Dyson, Weijia Gan, Chenxu Zhao

A biphasic approach to the dehydroaromatization of bioderived limonene into water-insol. p-cymene using sol. Pd nanoparticle catalysts in an aq. phase (³150 °C, 2 bar H2) was successfully achieved with a conversion of 93% and a selectivity of 82%. The Pd n ...

2008