Serge Palacin

TL;DR: It is shown that the covalent attachment of a nickel bisdiphosphine–based mimic of the active site of hydrogenase enzymes onto multiwalled carbon nanotubes results in a high–surface area cathode material with high catalytic activity under the strongly acidic conditions required in proton exchange membrane technology.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of ORR catalysts with regard to their classification, mechanism, activity and performances is presented, from conventional Pt-based catalysts to non-noble metal or bio-inspired catalysts.

TL;DR: It is found that a robust nanoparticulate electrocatalytic material, H(2-CoCat, can be electrochemically prepared from cobalt salts in a phosphate buffer and can be converted on anodic equilibration into the previously described amorphous cobalt oxide film (O(2)-CoCat or CoPi) catalysing O(2) evolution.

TL;DR: In this article, bisthiolterthiophene has been adsorbed on the two facing gold electrodes of a mechanically controllable break junction in order to form metal-molecule(s)-metal junctions.

TL;DR: It is shown that a diimine-dioxime cobalt catalyst can be grafted to the surface of a carbon nanotube electrode and mediates H(2) generation (55,000 turnovers in seven hours) from fully aqueous solutions at low-to-medium overpotentials.