Hubert Girault

Full Professor
hubert.girault@epfl.ch +41 21 693 31 51 http://lepa.epfl.ch
Citizenship : Swiss
Birth date : 13.02.1957
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Fields of expertise
Redox flow batteries
Analytical Chemistry
Fuel cell cars
Mission
Teaching and Research in Analytical and Physical ElectrochemistryBiography
Education:1979 - Engineering diploma from Grenoble Institute of Technology. FRANCE.
1982 - PhD- Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton.
Thesis entitled : Interfacial studies using drop image processing techniques.
Positions :
1982 - 1984 SERC Research Fellow. University of Southampton.
1984 - 1985 CNRS Research Fellow. University of Southampton.
1985 - 1992 Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
1992 - Professor of Physical Chemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
2011 - 2014 Dean of Bachelor and Master studies
Hubert Girault is the author of 2 textbooks, the co-author of about 500 scientific publications with more than 15'000 citations and the co-inventor of more than 15 patents.
During his academic career, he has supervised more than 60 PhD students. 25 alumni of his laboratory are now Professors.
Honours: Faraday medal 2006, Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry 2007, Reilley Award 2015.
Associate editor of Chemical Science
Memberships
1994 - 1998 Division Officer of the International Society of Electrochemistry1994 - 1998 Member of the International Advisory Board of Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions
1995 - VP & Editor for chemistry, Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes
1996 2001: Associate Editor of Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
1998 - Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
1999 - Member of the International Advisory Board of Journal of the Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry..
1999 - Member of the Editorial Board of Electrochemical Communications.
1999 2000: Président de la Société Suisse dElectrophorèse
2001 - 2002: Member of the Advisory board of the A-pages of Analytical Chemistry.
2002 - Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry.
2003 - Member of the Editorial Board of Electrophoresis.
2003 - Member of the International Academic Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2003 - Member of the jury of the Carnot Fundation (Paris, France)
2005 - Member of the Editorial Board of Analytical Sciences (Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry)
Publications
Infoscience publications
Infoscience
A Review: Electrochemical Biosensors for Oral Cancer
Chemosensors. 2020-07-13. DOI : 10.3390/chemosensors8030054.Experimental correlations and integration of gas boosters in a hydrogen refueling station
2020-06-24. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.04.162.Thermally regenerative copper nanoslurry flow batteries for heat-to-power conversion with low-grade thermal energy
Energy & Environmental Science. 2020-06-09. DOI : 10.1039/D0EE01590C.Inkjet-Printed Carbon Nanotube Electrodes Modified with Dimer-captosuccinic Acid-Capped Fe3O4 Nanoparticles on Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Single-Drop Determination of Trifluoperazine
ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2020-04-22. DOI : 10.1021/acsanm.0c00661.Vanadium‐manganese redox flow battery: Study of Mn(III) disproportionation in the presence of other metallic ions.
Chemistry A European Journal. 2020-04-08. DOI : 10.1002/chem.202000340.Oxidative Print Light Synthesis Thin Film Deposition of Prussian Blue
ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 2020-03-11. DOI : 10.1021/acsaelm.9b00854.Energy efficient hydrogen drying and purification for fuel cell vehicles
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2020-03-02. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.02.035.Montmorillonite clay-modified disposable ink-jet-printed graphene electrode as a sensitive voltammetric sensor for the determination of cadmium(II) and lead(II)
SN Applied Sciences. 2020-02-24. DOI : 10.1007/s42452-020-2283-5.Oxygen Plasma/Bismuth Modified Inkjet Printed Graphene Electrode for the Sensitive Simultaneous Detection of Lead and Cadmium
American Journal of Analytical Chemistry. 2020-01-14. DOI : 10.4236/ajac.2020.111001.Aqueous organic and redox-mediated redox flow batteries : A Review
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 2020-01-07. DOI : 10.1016/j.coelec.2019.12.006.Electrochemical systems for hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric vehicle infrastructure
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7916.Liquid phase in situ spectroscopic investigations of heterogeneous catalysts
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8561.Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Enhanced by Solid Boosters
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7898.Skin cell analysis
WO2020035707 ; GB2576374 ; GB201813449 . 2020.Highly Loaded Mildly Edge‐Oxidized Graphene Nanosheet Dispersions for Large‐Scale Inkjet Printing of Electrochemical Sensors
ChemElectroChem. 2020. DOI : 10.1002/celc.201901697.Copper battery for heat to power conversion and energy storage
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7341.Structure and reactivity of the polarised liquid–liquid interface: what we know and what we do not
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.coelec.2019.12.002.Novel Analytical Methods for Allergy-Related Studies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7271.Sodium chromium hexacyanoferrate as a potential cathode material for aqueous sodium-ion batteries
Chemical Communications. 2019-12-18. DOI : 10.1039/c9cc06350a.1D Amorphous Tungsten-Based Ternary Refractory Metal Sulfides for Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution at Soft Interfaces
Chemnanomat. 2019-11-07. DOI : 10.1002/cnma.201900536.Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Molybdenum-Based Ternary Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles
Acs Applied Nano Materials. 2019-11-01. DOI : 10.1021/acsanm.9b01694.Tape-Stripping Electrochemical Detection of Melanoma
Analytical Chemistry. 2019-10-15. DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02819.Print-Light-Synthesis of Ni and NiFe-nanoscale catalysts for oxygen evolution
ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2019-08-06. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.9b00957.Two dimensional diffusion-controlled triplet–triplet annihilation kinetics
Chemical Science. 2019-07-04. DOI : 10.1039/C9SC00957D.MALDI Detection of Exosomes: A Potential Tool for Cancer Studies
Chem. 2019-05-09. DOI : 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.04.007.Local Study on Hydrogen and Hydrogen Gas Bubble Formation on a Platinum Electrode
Journal Of Physical Chemistry C. 2019-05-02. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10920.A Self-Assembled Organic/Metal Junction for Water Photo-Oxidation
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019-04-09. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.9b02693.On-Site Purification of Copper-Contaminated Vanadium Electrolytes by using a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
Chemsuschem. 2019-03-21. DOI : 10.1002/cssc.201802895.Inkjet-Printed Mesoporous TiO2 and Perovskite Layers for High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells
Energy Technology. 2019-02-01. DOI : 10.1002/ente.201800905.Standard ion transfer potential at the water|butyronitrile interface
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2019-01-16. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2019.01.041.Detection of bacteria
EP3781701 ; WO2019201986 ; GB201806361 . 2019.Bimolecular charge transfer reactions at and through the liquid-liquid interface
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9658.Inkjet printing and electrocatalysis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9795.Scattering HCl Molecules from Au(111) and Ag(111) Surfaces
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9742.Solid electrochemical energy storage for aqueous redox flow batteries: The case of copper hexacyanoferrate
Electrochimica Acta. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.134704.Vanadium-oxygen cell for positive electrolyte discharge in dual-circuit vanadium redox flow battery
Journal of Power Sources. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.227075.Large-scale fabrication of flexible solid-state reference electrodes
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2019.113241.Point-of-care amperometric determination of L-dopa using an inkjet-printed carbon nanotube electrode modified with dandelion-like MnO2 microspheres
Microchimica Acta. 2019. DOI : 10.1007/s00604-019-3644-x.Mechanistic study of the photo‐generation of hydrogen by decamethylruthenocene
Chemistry – A European Journal. 2019. DOI : 10.1002/chem.201902353.Inkjet Printed Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Measuring Pyocyaninand Uric Acid in a Wound Fluid Simulant and Culture Media
Analytical Chemistry. 2019. DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b05591.Disposable Biosensor Based on Amidase/CeO2/GNR Modified Inkjet‐printed CNT Electrodes‐droplet Based Paracetamol Detection in Biological Fluids for “Point‐of‐care” Applications
Electroanalysis. 2019. DOI : 10.1002/elan.201900129.Non-Precious Electrodes for Practical Alkaline Water Electrolysis
Materials. 2019. DOI : 10.3390/ma12081336.Local Energy Storage and Stochastic Modeling for Ultrafast Charging Stations
Energies. 2019. DOI : 10.3390/en12101986.Mass Spectrometry Methods for Bacterial Infection Diagnosis and Cancer Analysis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9322.Alterations of Brain Energy Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetic Goto-Kakizaki Rats Measured In Vivo by (13)C Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Neurotoxicity research. 2019. DOI : 10.1007/s12640-017-9821-y.Frictional Heating Processes and Energy Budget During Laboratory Earthquakes
Geophysical Research Letters. 2018-11-05. DOI : 10.1029/2018GL079263.Immuno-affinity Amperometric Detection of Bacterial Infections
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition. 2018-11-05. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201808666.Characterisation of a 200 kW/400 kWh Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
Batteries. 2018-11-01. DOI : 10.3390/batteries4040054.Inkjet-printed mesoporous TiO2 and perovskite layers for high efficiency perovskite solar cells
ChemRxiv. 2018-10-29. DOI : 10.26434/chemrxiv.7127066.v1.Photosensitized Hydrogen Evolution on a Floating Electrocatalyst Coupled to Electrochemical Recycling
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2018-08-01. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.8b06729.Electrochemical potential window of battery electrolytes: the HOMO-LUMO misconception
Energy & Environmental Science. 2018-07-28. DOI : 10.1039/C8EE01286E.Effect of Chaotropes on the Transfer of Ions and Dyes across the Liquid–Liquid Interface
The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 2018-07-22. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b04490.Rapid inkjet printing of high catalytic activity Co3O4 /N-rGO layers for oxygen reduction reaction
Applied Catalysis A: General. 2018-06-20. DOI : 10.1016/j.apcata.2018.06.026.Semi-analytical modelling of linear scan voltammetric responses for soluble-insoluble system: The case of metal deposition
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2018-06-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.04.021.Monotonic Prefix Consistency in Distributed Systems
2018-05-30. 38th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems, Madrid, Spain, June 18-20, 2018. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-92612-4_3.Mobility from Renewable Electricity: Infrastructure Comparison for Battery and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
World Electric Vehicle Journal. 2018-05-24. DOI : 10.3390/wevj9010003.Efficiency improvement of an all-vanadium redox flow battery by harvesting low-grade heat
Journal of Power Sources. 2018-04-13. DOI : 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.03.074.On-Chip Spyhole Nanoelectrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Sensitive Biomarker Detection in Small Volumes
Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 2018-03-05. DOI : 10.1007/s13361-018-1937-7.Solvent effect in photo-ionic cells
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2018-02-26. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.02.045.Gold Raspberry-Like Colloidosomes Prepared at the Water-Nitromethane Interface
Langmuir. 2018-01-27. DOI : 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03532.Maldi device and methods of preparation and use thereof
WO2018134232 ; GB201700908 . 2018.Personalized and rapid test for food-related allergy
JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.11.065.Electrochemical Imaging of Cells and Tissues
Chemical Science. 2018. DOI : 10.1039/C8SC01035H.Detection of antimicrobial resistance-associated proteins by titanium dioxide-facilitated intact bacteria mass spectrometry
Chemical Science. 2018. DOI : 10.1039/C7SC04089J.Molecularly Engineered Hole Transporting Materials for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8264.SECM study of hydrogen photogeneration in a 1,2-dichloroethane | water biphasic system with decamethylruthenocene electron donor regeneration
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.09.026.Large-scale layer-by-layer inkjet printing of flexible iridium-oxide based pH sensors
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.11.032.Electrotunable wetting, and micro- and nanofluidics: general discussion
2017. p. 195-237. DOI : 10.1039/C7FD90028G.Electrovariable nanoplasmonics: general discussion
2017. p. 565-583. DOI : 10.1039/C7FD90029E.Why You Can't Beat Blockchains: Consistency and High Availability in Distributed Systems
2017Bacterial Whole Cell Typing by Mass Spectra Pattern Matching with Bootstrapping Assessment
Analytical Chemistry. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03820.Weiche elektrochemische Sonden zum Abbilden der Verteilung von Biomarkern und injizierten Nanomaterialien in tierischem und menschlichem Gewebe
Angewandte Chemie. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/ange.201709271.New ionization and tagging methods for mass spectrometry
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8273.Battery
WO2017186836 ; GB201607461 . 2017.Alterations of brain energy metabolism in insulin-resistant Goto-Kakizaki rats measured in vivo by C-13 magnetic resonance spectroscopy
2017. 53rd Annual Meeting of the European-Association-for-the-Study-of-Diabetes (EASD), Lisbon, PORTUGAL, SEP 11-15, 2017. p. S579-S579.Compact and General Strategy for Solving Current and Potential Distribution in Electrochemical Cells Composed of Massive Monopolar and Bipolar Electrodes
Journal Of The Electrochemical Society. 2017. DOI : 10.1149/2.0471711jes.Soft Electrochemical Probes for Mapping the Distribution of Biomarkers and Injected Nanomaterials in Animal and Human Tissues
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201709271.Soft probes for bio-electrochemical imaging
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8024.Personalized and rapid food allergy test using natural allergenic extracts
2017. Congress of the European-Academy-of-Allergy-and-Clinical-Immunology, Helsinki, FINLAND, JUN 17-21, 2017. p. 344-344.Redox Electrocatalysis of Floating Nanoparticles: Determining Electrocatalytic Properties without the Influence of Solid Supports
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00685.The antioxidant capacity of erythrocyte concentrates is increased during the first week of storage and correlated with the uric acid level
Vox Sanguinis. 2017. DOI : 10.1111/vox.12563.Variation of the Fermi level and the electrostatic force of a metallic nanoparticle upon colliding with an electrode (vol 8, pg 4795, 2017)
Chemical Science. 2017. DOI : 10.1039/c7sc90040f.Mediated water electrolysis in biphasic systems
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.. 2017. DOI : 10.1039/C7CP04601D.Understanding Digestive Ripening of Ligand-Stabilized, Charged Metal Nanoparticles
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04234.Soft Probe Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy with Spider Array for Visualizing Biomarkers and Redox Active Proteins in Animal Tissues
2017. p. 85-90. DOI : 10.1149/07707.0085ecst.(Invited) Point-of-Care Diagnostics with Inkjet-Printed Microchips
2017. p. 73-81. DOI : 10.1149/07707.0073ecst.Variation of the Fermi level and the Electrostatic Force of a Metallic Nanoparticle upon Colliding with an Electrode
Chem. Sci.. 2017. DOI : 10.1039/C7SC00848A.Redox Solid Energy Boosters for Flow Batteries: Polyaniline as a Case Study
Electrochimica Acta. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.03.084.Electrostatic spray ionization from 384-well microtiter plates for mass spectrometry analysis based enzyme assay and drug metabolism screening
Analytical Chemistry. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b00536.Photoproduction of Hydrogen by Decamethylruthenocene
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7690.Self-assembly and redox induced phase transfer of gold nanoparticles at the water-propylene carbonate interface
Chemical Communications. 2017. DOI : 10.1039/C6CC09638G.Forced Electrocodeposition of Silica Particles into Nickel Matrix by Horizontal Impinging Jet Cell
Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. 2017. DOI : 10.4236/msce.2017.52006.Photoproduction of Hydrogen by Decamethylruthenocene Combined with Electrochemical Recycling
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201610240.Assemblies of gold nanoparticles at liquid-liquid interfaces
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7477.Mapping the antioxidant activity of apple peels with soft probe scanning electrochemical microscopy
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.01.015.Inkjet-printed microtiter plates for portable electrochemical immunoassays
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2016.12.051.Electrovariable gold nanoparticle films at liquid–liquid interfaces: from redox electrocatalysis to Marangoni-shutters
Faraday Discuss.. 2017. DOI : 10.1039/C6FD00238B.Solar photo-Fenton and UV/H2O2 processes against the antidepressant Venlafaxine in urban wastewaters and human urine. Intermediates formation and biodegradability assessment
Chemical Engineering Journal. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.cej.2016.09.084.Iohexol degradation in wastewater and urine by UV-based Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs): Process modeling and by-products identification
Journal of Environmental Management. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.07.004.The Antioxidant Defense System of Erythrocyte Concentrates is Increased during the First Week of Storage
2016. AABB Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, OCT 22-25, 2016. p. 56A-57A.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering