Publications by authors named "Michael B Rooney"
We report here the direct hydrogenation of O gas to form hydrogen peroxide (HO) using a membrane reactor without H gas. Hydrogen is sourced from water, and the reactor is driven by electricity. Hydrogenation chemistry is achieved using a hydrogen-permeable Pd foil that separates an electrolysis chamber that generates reactive H atoms, from a hydrogenation chamber where H atoms react with O to form HO.
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- The optimization of materials often involves trade-offs between conflicting objectives, which can be represented by the Pareto front.
- The self-driving laboratory, Ada, identifies conditions for creating palladium films with lower processing temperatures (below 200 °C) compared to previous methods (250 °C), expanding the potential for different substrate coatings.
- Ada’s findings lead to the spray coating of palladium films with moderate conductivity (1.1 × 10 S m at 191 °C) and improved conductivity (2.0 × 10 S m at 226 °C), demonstrating the effectiveness of automated exploration in material discovery.