Université de Fribourg

Synthesis of a new bowl-shaped polyarene aiming

Azzali, Aaron ; Jenny, A. Titus (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2014.

Efficient hydrogen storage is one of the major hurdles towards a potential hydrogen economy. Curved molecules are very interesting for this purpose because of their permanent electrical dipole moment, which can induce a dipole moment on H2 molecules increasing therefore the dipole-dipole interaction and so their adsorption. This work presents the synthesis of a new bowl-shaped polyarene based on...

Université de Fribourg

Dehydroxylation kinetics of the serpentine group mine

Trittschack, Roy ; Grobéty, Bernard (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2013 ; Nr. 1795.

Chemical reactions in general and solid-state reactions in particular are controlled by thermodynamics and kinetics. Whereas thermodynamic rules are used to state whether a phase is stable under a specific set of intensive and extensive parameters or not, kinetics applied to an underlain reaction of interest decipher the time-scale of such a reaction by offering the chance to determine associated...