Publications de Miguel Antonio Modestino

Practical challenges in the development of photoelectrochemical solar fuels production

Sophia Haussener, Miguel Antonio Modestino

This article addresses the challenges presented by photoelectrochemical solar fuels technology in a discussion that begins with a functioning device and proceeds to the more fundamental science of its component parts. In this flow of discussion issues are ...

2020

A comparative performance analysis of stand-alone, off-grid solar-powered sodium hypochlorite generators

Demetri Psaltis, Antonin Faes, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Enrico Chinello, Laurent Coulot

Sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) is a chemical commodity widely employed as a disinfection agent in water treatment applications. Its production commonly follows electrochemical routes in an undivided reactor. Powering the process with photovoltaic (PV) electri ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Inertial manipulation of bubbles in rectangular microfluidic channels

Demetri Psaltis, François Gallaire, Gioele Mariano Nicolò Balestra, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Lailai Zhu, Pooria Hadikhani

Inertial microfluidics is an active field of research that deals with crossflow positioning of the suspended entities in microflows. Until now, the majority of the studies have focused on the behavior of rigid particles in order to provide guidelines for m ...

2018

Efficient Solar-vapor Generation in Hollow-mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells

Demetri Psaltis, Thomas La Grange, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Ye Pu, Jae-Woo Choi, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Marcin Stefan Zielinski

Plasmonic nanostructures have shown great promise in solar thermal applications. Here we report highly efficient solar vapor generation using hollow-mesoporous plasmonic nanoshells, where the steam production is significantly enhanced by the extended activ ...

IEEE2018

Solar production of nylon polymers and prescursors for nylon polymer production

Sophia Haussener, Miguel Antonio Modestino

The present invention relates to process intensification, and renewable processing routes for polymer production, for example the solar production of Nylon 6,6 and precursors relevant for the Nylon 6,6 production (such as hydrogen, adiponitrile and hexaned ...

2018

Mass transport aspects of electrochemical solar-hydrogen generation

Sophia Haussener, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi

The conception of practical solar-hydrogen generators requires the implementation of engineering design principles that allow photo-electrochemical material systems to operate efficiently, continuously and stably over their lifetime. At the heart of these ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Complex light in 3D printing

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Edgar Emilio Morales Delgado

3D printing as a tool to generate complicated shapes from CAD files, on demand, with different materials from plastics to metals, is shortening product development cycles, enabling new design possibilities and can provide a mean to manufacture small volume ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

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