Jakob Ege Friis, Guruprakash Subbiahdoss, Gorm Gerved, Allan Hjarbæk Holm, Olga Santos, Anders Bank Blichfeld, Saeed Zajforoushan Moghaddam, Esben Thormann, Kim Daasbjerg, Joseph Iruthayaraj, Rikke Louise Meyer https://doi.org/10.1016/j.porgcoat.2019.06.042 Inorganic fouling is one of the challenging problems in heat exchanger applications. One approach to mitigate fouling is to employ surface coatings. In this study, we evaluated…

Xin-Ming Hu, Kim Daasbjerg 10.1038/d41586-019-03563-8 A molecular catalyst dispersed on carbon nanotubes has been found to catalyse the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol — a liquid fuel and industrially useful bulk chemical.

Monica Rohde Madsen, Line Koefoed, Henrik Jensen, Kim Daasbjerg, Steen U Pedersen https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2019.04.186 Bipolar electrochemistry is a wireless technique by which surface modifications at the extremities of a conducting object can be accomplished. In this study a new methodology for doing simultaneous electrografting of two different organic films at each end of a gold substrate…

Aske S Donslund, Karoline T Neumann, Nicklas P Corneliussen, Ebbe K Grove, Domenique Herbstritt, Kim Daasbjerg, Troels Skrydstrup https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201902206 Herein, we report a nickel‐catalyzed carbonylative coupling of α‐bromonitriles and alkylzinc reagents with near stoichiometric carbon monoxide to give β‐ketonitriles in good yields. The reaction is catalyzed by a readily available and stable nickel(II) pincer complex.…

Anne K Ravn, Maria BT Vilstrup, Peter Noerby, Dennis U Nielsen, Kim Daasbjerg, Troels Skrydstrup https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b05934 A series of 4-membered azametallacycles have been prepared by the oxidative addition of Ni(0) with aziridines. Stoichiometric 13C-labeled carbon monoxide could be efficiently incorporated via Ni–C bond insertion to generate air stable and isolable cyclic Ni-acyl complexes. Upon subjection to…

Stefan Urth Nielsen, Mark Holm Olsen, Mikkel Skorkjær Kongsfelt, Steen Uttrup Pedersen, Kim Daasbjerg https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b01282 Leaching of chemicals from adhesion promoters is, in particular, problematic for the food, water, pharmaceutical, and MedTech industries where any chemical contamination is unacceptable. A solution to this issue is to employ covalently attached nanoscale polymer brushes as adhesive layers…

Xin-Ming Hu, Steen U Pedersen, Kim Daasbjerg https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coelec.2019.05.006 The thorough understanding of homogeneous catalysis has triggered intense research activities on the immobilization of molecular catalysts for the heterogeneous CO2 electroreduction. Herein, we discuss recent advances in the heterogeneous field with focus on the intrinsic effect coming from the catalyst structure and the extrinsic effect exerted by…

Xin-Ming Hu, Kim Daasbjerg   A molecular catalyst dispersed on carbon nanotubes has been found to catalyse the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol — a liquid fuel and industrially useful bulk chemical.

Dennis U Nielsen, Xin-Ming Hu, Kim Daasbjerg, Troels Skrydstrup https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-018-0051-3 Carbon dioxide is ubiquitous and a vital molecule for maintaining life on our planet. However, the ever-increasing emission of anthropogenic CO2 into our atmosphere has provoked dramatic climate changes. In principle, CO2 could represent an important one-carbon building block for the chemical industry, yet its high thermodynamic…