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van Koppen, L.M. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Leendert Bezemer, G. (author), Hensen, Emiel J.M. (author)The study of titania-supported cobalt nanoparticles is relevant for industrial Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS). Herein, we report about various deactivation pathways of cobalt supported on P25 titania (cobalt loading 2–8 wt%) under simulated high conversion conditions using in situ Mössbauer spectroscopy. A fraction of metallic cobalt was...journal article 2023
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Shen, Q. (author), Zhang, F. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author), Brück, E.H. (author)In this work, the magnetocaloric effect and negative thermal expansion in melt-spun Fe<sub>2</sub>Hf<sub>0.83</sub>Ta<sub>0.17</sub> Laves phase alloys were studied. Compared to arc-melted alloys, which undergo a first-order magnetoelastic transition from the ferromagnetic to the antiferromagnetic phase, melt-spun alloys exhibit a second...journal article 2023
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Izelaar, B. (author), Ripepi, D. (author), Asperti, S. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Hendrikx, R.W.A. (author), Bottger, A.J. (author), Mulder, F.M. (author), Kortlever, R. (author)The electrochemical dinitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) has recently gained much interest as it can potentially produce ammonia from renewable intermittent electricity and replace the Haber-Bosch process. Previous literature studies report Fe- and Mo-carbides as promising electrocatalysts for the NRR with activities higher than other metals....journal article 2023
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Kang, Li (author), Haasler, Sina (author), Mucci, Maíra (author), Korving, Leon (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Prot, T.J.F. (author), Waajen, Guido (author), Lürling, Miquel (author)The eutrophic Bouvigne pond (Breda, The Netherlands) regularly suffers from cyanobacterial blooms. To improve the water quality, the external nutrient loading and the nutrient release from the pond sediment have to be reduced. An enclosure experiment was performed in the pond between March 9 and July 29, 2020 to compare the efficiency of...journal article 2023
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Zhou, Yong (author), Sadia Traore, Aliou (author), Peron, Deizi V. (author), Barrios, Alan J. (author), Chernyak, Sergei A. (author), Corda, Massimo (author), Safonova, Olga V. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Ersen, Ovidiu (author)CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation is an attractive way to store and utilize carbon dioxide generated by industrial processes, as well as to produce valuable chemicals from renewable and abundant resources. Iron catalysts are commonly used for the hydrogenation of carbon oxides to hydrocarbons. Iron-molybdenum catalysts have found numerous...journal article 2023
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Shen, Q. (author), Batashev, I. (author), Zhang, F. (author), Ojiyed, Hamutu (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author), Brück, E.H. (author)The transition-metal based Laves phase materials represent an extended family of alloys with rich and fascinating physical properties. In this work, we have investigated the negative thermal expansion and magnetocaloric effect in arc-melted and melt-spun Fe<sub>2</sub>Hf<sub>1-</sub><sub>x</sub>Ti<sub>x</sub> (x = 0.15, 0.27, 0.30, 0.33, 0.36...journal article 2023
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Belloni, C. (author), Korving, L. (author), Witkamp, G.J. (author), Brück, E.H. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author)Phosphorus (P) removal from freshwater bodies to ultra-low concentrations is fundamental to prevent eutrophication, while its recovery is necessary to close the P usage cycle. Iron oxide-based adsorbents seem promising candidates, being abundant, cheap, and easy to synthesize compounds, with good affinity for P. Affinity is the key parameter...journal article 2023
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Belloni, C. (author), Korving, L. (author), Witkamp, G. J. (author), Brück, E.H. (author), de Jager, P. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author)Hybrid anion exchange adsorbents (HAIX) seem promising to prevent eutrophication and recover phosphate (P). HAIX consist of an anion exchange resin (AIX) backbone, promoting anion physisorption (outer-sphere complex), impregnated with iron (hydr)oxide nanoparticles (NPs), for selective P chemisorption (inner-sphere complex). In this work, for...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Hao (author), Bolshakov, Aleksei (author), Meena, Raghavendra (author), Garcia, Gustavo A. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Parastaev, Alexander (author), Li, Guanna (author), Hensen, Emiel J.M. (author), Kosinov, Nikolay (author)Non-oxidative coupling of methane is a promising route to obtain ethylene directly from natural gas. We synthesized siliceous [Fe]zeolites with MFI and CHA topologies and found that they display high selectivity (>90 % for MFI and >99 % for CHA) to ethylene and ethane among gas-phase products. Deactivated [Fe]zeolites can be regenerated...journal article 2023
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van Koppen, L.M. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Leendert Bezemer, G. (author), Hensen, Emiel J.M. (author)Understanding the deactivation mechanism of cobalt-based Fischer-Tropsch catalysts is of significant practical importance. Herein, we explored the role of manganese as a structural promoter on silica-supported cobalt nanoparticles under simulated high CO conversion conditions, i.e., high relative humidity. The structural changes in cobalt...journal article 2023
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Ariëns, M.I. (author), van de Water, L. G.A. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Brück, E.H. (author), Hensen, E. J.M. (author)Copper promotion of chromium-doped iron oxide prepared via co-precipitation for high-temperature water–gas shift (WGS) catalysis is investigated. Low-temperature Mössbauer spectra demonstrate that copper doping delays hematite (α-Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) formation in the fresh catalyst, favoring the formation of small crystallites of...journal article 2022
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Zhang, F. (author), Taake, Chris (author), Huang, B. (author), You, X. (author), Ojiyed, Hamutu (author), Shen, Q. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Caron, Luana (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author), Brück, E.H. (author)In the field of nanoscale magnetocaloric materials, novel concepts like micro-refrigerators, thermal switches, microfluidic pumps, energy harvesting devices and biomedical applications have been proposed. However, reports on nanoscale (Mn,Fe)<sub>2</sub>(P,Si)-based materials, which are one of the most promising bulk materials for solid-state...journal article 2022
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Kerry, T.J. (author), Peters, A.G.A. (author), Georgakopoulos, E. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Meijer, Koen (author), Hage, Johannes (author), Offerman, S.E. (author), Yang, Y. (author)Within the steelmaking industry, a large amount of zinc-bearing waste is produced which cannot be effectively treated through integrated steel mills. Concurrently, zinc smelters generate waste residues containing significant amounts of iron and zinc which are stored or landfilled. The zinc concentration of iron and steelmaking residues...journal article 2022
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van Koppen, L.M. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Hensen, Emiel J.M. (author), Bezemer, G. Leendert (author)The commercial application of cobalt-based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) suffers from catalyst deactivation. One of the main deactivation mechanisms under industrial conditions is sintering. In this work, we explored the role of manganese oxide as a structural promoter against sintering in a carbon nanofiber supported cobalt model catalyst....journal article 2022
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Kiecana, A. (author), Batashev, I. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Kwakernaak, C. (author), Pieter, L. (author), Zhang, F. (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author), Brück, E.H. (author)The effect of Co and Ni doping on the structure, magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of Fe-rich (Mn,Fe)<sub>2</sub>(P,Si) compounds was studied. With increasing Co and Ni content, both the Curie temperature (T<sub>c</sub>) and the thermal hysteresis (ΔT<sub>hys</sub>) decreased, whereas the hexagonal P-62 m crystal structure was maintained...journal article 2022
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Tafjord, Joakim (author), Regli, Samuel K. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Rønning, Magnus (author), Rytter, Erling (author), Holmen, Anders (author), Myrstad, Rune (author), Yang, J. (author)Transition metals supported on carbons play an important role in catalysis and energy storage. By pyrolysis of metal alginate, highly active catalysts for the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) can be produced. However, the evolution of the carbon (alginate) and transition metal (Fe<sup>3+</sup>) during pyrolysis remains largely unknown and was...journal article 2022
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Maier, A. (author), van Oossanen, R. (author), van Rhoon, G.C. (author), Pignol, J.P.M. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Denkova, A.G. (author), Djanashvili, K. (author)Heterostructured magnetic nanoparticles show great potential for numerous applications in biomedicine due to their ability to express multiple functionalities in a single structure. Magnetic properties are generally determined by the morphological characteristics of nanoparticles, such as the size/shape, and composition of the nanocrystals....journal article 2022
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Ariëns, M.I. (author), Van De Water, L. G.A. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Brück, E.H. (author), Hensen, E. J.M. (author)A set of doped iron oxides (chromium, aluminum, gallium, indium, manganese, zinc, niobium) were prepared by a one-step coprecipitation/calcination approach evaluated for their WGS activity under industrially relevant conditions and characterized in detail. The WGS activity after ageing the doped catalyst for 4 days at 25 bar follows the order...journal article 2022
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Barrios, Alan J. (author), Peron, Deizi V. (author), Chakkingal, Anoop (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Moldovan, Simona (author), Nakouri, Kalthoum (author), Thuriot-Roukos, Joëlle (author), Wojcieszak, Robert (author), Thybaut, Joris W. (author)Hydrogenation into light olefins is an attractive strategy for CO<sub>2</sub>fixation into chemicals. In this article, high throughput experimentation and extended characterization were employed to identify the most efficient promoters and to elucidate structure-performance correlations and reaction paths in the CO<sub>2</sub>hydrogenation to...journal article 2022
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Prot, T.J.F. (author), Pannekoek, W. (author), Belloni, C. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Hendrikx, R.W.A. (author), Korving, L. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)It was recently discovered that vivianite (Fe<sub>3</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>.8H<sub>2</sub>O) could be magnetically extracted from digested activated sludge which opened a new route for phosphorus recovery (Wijdeveld et al. 2022). While its formation in digested sludge is regularly reported, it is not yet studied for fresh,...journal article 2022