POMs in Orsay

Electrochemistry and photo-electrochemistry (EPEC) – Institut de Chimie Physique (ICP)

The Electrochemistry and Photo-electrochemistry (EPEC) team of the ICP in Orsay has an established expertise on the targeted and designed synthesis of POMs and on unravelling their redox properties. Their research interests include the study of the electrochemistry and electro-catalysis of POMs and POM-based hybrids, namely with carbon nanomaterials and metallic nano-objects, for energy and environmental applications. Examples of the latter are the hydrogen and the oxygen evolution reactions (HER and OER), the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and redox catalytic processes involving nitrogen oxides (NOx) and molecules of biological relevance. The team has also been involved in the setting up of networks of POM-
based nanowires confined inside uniformly-distributed, vertically-oriented mesoporous silica films for the development of molecular electronic devices.

Contacts

Contact Persons:
 Pedro de Oliveira, pedro.almeida-de-oliveira@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Israël Mbomekallé, israel.mbomekalle@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Contact Address: Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR 8000 CNRS, bâtiment 349, Faculté des
Sciences d’Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Institute Website: https://www.icp.universite-paris-saclay.fr/

Available techniques

Electrochemistry, UV-Vis spectro-electrochemistry, quartz crystal microbalance, UV-Vis-NIR

Publications

Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 5941-5949
Electrochim. Acta 2020, 353, 136577
Chem. Sci. 2021, 12(25), 8755-8766
Magnetochemistry 2021, 7(12), 157
Carbon 2022, 188, 523-532
Catalysts 2022, 12(4), 440