Marco Taddei’s Post

🔬 Excited to announce our latest publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters! 🌟 Our team at CPG-KFUPM | College of Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences has tackled the pressing challenge of understanding iron(III) chloride's photocatalytic mechanism using femtosecond time-resolved electronic absorption spectroscopy. Our findings reveal that the long-lived species [Fe(II) ← Cl•]* is the key player in both oxidizing organic substrates and reducing molecular oxygen, rather than the commonly proposed free chloride radicals. This insight could revolutionize the design of efficient, earth-abundant photocatalysts. Dive into our full study here: https://lnkd.in/dbw254kR #Chemistry #Photocatalysis #UltrafastSpectroscopy #ResearchInnovation #SustainableScience #KFUPM

Discover CINT Science — Ionic liquids (ILs) have garnered much attention for their unique and advantageous properties. However, their high cost relative to traditional solvents has led some techno-economic analyses to suggest that it might not be viable to use large quantities of physically absorbing IL for CO2 capture. In this Langmuir article, a CINT User Team co-led by CINT Affiliate Scientist Susan Rempe demonstrates that this drawback can be remedied by the development of novel systems that use considerably less of the expensive IL component, such as thin film and membrane systems. Nanoconfinement of Carbon Dioxide within Interfacial Aqueous/Ionic Liquid Systems. https://lnkd.in/gP2uU4_A

Happy to see this cover I made for the nice work of Raquel Galian and colleagues published in the American Chemical Society Journal #JACS! The article shows how #BODIPY dyes anchored to #perovskite nanocrystals behave differently depending on their structure, showing #HotCarriers extraction and Förster resonance energy transfer (#FRET). ✏ here the link to the paper: https://lnkd.in/gCc65GpB #SciArt #SciComm

Discover a facile mechanochemical synthesis of hypervalent tin(IV)-fused azo/azomethine compounds showing solid-state emission Read the work by Kazuo Tanaka and colleagues for free: https://lnkd.in/eDPAXKfs

🚀 Just Published in #ChemicalEngineeringScience! 📚 Category: Catalysis 📄 Title: Dispersion Characteristics of Slurry Particles in a Gas–Solid Fluidized Bed with Continuous Slurry Injection ✍️ Authors: Peng Zhang, Jianan Cheng, Xinke Li, Jingyuan Sun, Congjing Ren, Zhengliang  Huang, Jingdai Wang, Yongrong Yang 🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/dfKnn2Mh #Continuousslurryinjection #Fluidizedbed #Slurryparticle #Dispersioncharacteristics

Our Latest Publication!! Excited to share our new research titled "Decoding the Zinc Depletion-Mediated Failure in Aqueous Zinc Batteries: on Limiting Parameters and Accurate Assessment," published in ACS Energy Letters. In this work, Yuan explored corrosion-mediated Zn depletion in aqueous Zn-ion batteries (AZIBs), a less discussed issue compared to dendrite-induced short circuits. The study finds that Zn-Ti asymmetric cells offer a more accurate assessment of Zn reversibility than Zn/Zn symmetric cells. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/egeZyA_J Dipan Kundu Laboratory for Battery Research and Innovation (LBRI)

Tuning the Photocatalytic Activity of Bismuth Wolframate: Towards Selective Oxidations for the Biorefinery Driven by Solar-Light. Chemical Communications 53 (2017) 7521-7524. https://lnkd.in/eUmUU87A

🌳 #Lignin, the glue that holds fibres together in trees and plants, is one of the most common yet one of the most complex biocomposites. Complex because there are so many variants and qualities. Its heterogeneous chemical structure makes it difficult to investigate its exact composition. With advanced techniques, however, researchers from Wageningen University & Research were successful. ⚛ Using NMR spectroscopy, they characterised for the first time at molecular level lignin extracted from #Miscanthus (Silvergrass) with a green solvent. This makes it possible to identify applications for which the material is suitable, thus bringing closer the total upgrading of the raw materials in a biorefinery process. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dT585p9A

Happy to announce that our work on “Microstructural evolution and its impact on the mechanical strength of typical alkali activated slag subjected to accelerated carbonation” has been published. https://lnkd.in/gw6viHUQ In this paper, we dive into the alterations in pore structure across various pore size ranges, changes in mechanical strength, and the correlation between porosity and compressive strength of alkali-activated slag materials (AASs) upon carbonation. These AASs are typically formulated for radioactive waste encapsulation. Many thanks to co-authors Dr Quoc Tri Phung, Prof Yiannis Pontikes, Dr Lander Frederickx, Dr Jacques Diederik, Dr Alexandre DAUZERES, Prof jan elsen for their valuable contribution to this work. #alkaliactivatedmaterials #carbonation #lowcarbonconcrete #predis

Protein-based recovery of rare earth elements by our lab at the Columbia University with RTX domain is now in ACS Inorganic Chemistry! Here Farid Khoury and our team who lead the project show the RTX domain can bind rare earth elements (REEs) with higher affinities and selectivity over calcium and d-block transition ions that commonly hinder industrial purification processes for REE recovery from primary (i.e., ores) and secondary (e.g., end-of-life materials, batteries, industrial wastes) resources. Further, this work demonstrates the potential to recover REEs from spent magnet wastes, even under highly acidic conditions. Congratulations Farid and our team! The link to the paper is, https://lnkd.in/etzyNcAv