Our first venture into artificial metalloenzymes, and fortunate to collaborate with Swiss colleague Tom Ward @WardGroupBS. Led by @weijinwan. The first Mn transfer Hydrogenases through chemo-genetic optimizations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @EPFL_CHEM_Tweet @NCCR_Catalysis

Water and hydroxide transport are critical for membrane electrode assembly electrolyzer for CO electroreduction. We report methods to tailor this transport for high efficiency, leading to 1 A/cm2 at 2.4 V, and c2+ yield of > 90%. authors.elsevier.com/a/1hlmf… @EPFL_CHEM_Tweet

Thanks to my coworkers and collaborators, I am grateful to receive the IUPAC’ green chemistry international award 2023. actu.epfl.ch/news/xile-hu-wi… @EPFL_en @NovaMea2023

Fuel cells currently depend on platinum group metals (PGM). We use a nitrogen-doped carbon support to promote the activity of PGMs, resulting in the highest PGM-utilization rate in anion exchange membrane fuel cells. rdcu.be/dkR5G A tour de force study led by @NiWeiyan

Just published: our work in Cu-catalyzed benzylic C-H functionalization of genuine lignin monomers. It is challenging to work with real substrates with no protection! chemistry-europe.onlinelibra… @NCCR_Catalysis

Thrilled to announce the launch of a Startup from our lab, NovaMea (novamea-tech.com). The company aims to develop electrochemical energy devices based on anion exchange membranes, e.g, electrolyzers and fuel cells. #GreenHydrogen #renewableenergy

More postdoc positions in our lab at EPFL to study the chemistry of redox flow batteries. Molecular inorganic chemists are particularly welcome. See details: tinyurl.com/3wz6737p. RT welcome.

Our lab at EPFL is looking to hire a postdoc to develop new, low-cost cation exchange membranes for redox flow batteries. See details: tinyurl.com/7b875b8z #postdocjobs RT welcome.

Creating one enantiomerically enriched C(sp3) centre in cross-coupling is already challenging. Now we report the control of two vicinal C(sp3) centres via Ni-catalyzed hydroalkylation. rdcu.be/c16z8 With @sbera01 and Chao Fan. @NatureCatalysis @EPFL_CHEM_Tweet

In this paper, we report that the binding energies of intermediates in CO2 electroreduction are changed at different electrolyte concentrations, due to a local electrostatic interaction modulated by potassium cations at the electrode surface. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Cations enable CO2 electroreduction in strongly acidic medium by modulating the electric field and suppressing hydrogen evolution. Read it here: rdcu.be/cLlOI Nice collaboration with Sophia Haussener’s group.@NCCR_Catalysis @EPFL_CHEM_Tweet @NatureCatalysis @lrese_epfl

Check out the preliminary program for the 2022 Gordon Research Conference Renewable Energies Solar Fuels: grc.org/renewable-energy-sol…. Cliff Kubiak of UCSD @UCSDChemBiochem and I have the pleasure to chair the conference. @EPFL_CHEM_Tweet @GordonConf

Platinum-group-metal-free alkaline membrane fuel cell was limited by poor catalysts for the hydrogen oxidation. We now report a Ni catalyst that increases the peak power density of such fuel cells by more than 6 fold. 1/n rdcu.be/cKEhp