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Cyrille Costentin

Cyrille Costentin

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Overview

Cyrille Costentin is a researcher affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their primary research spans the fields of Energy, Engineering, and Chemistry, with a strong focus on renewable energy technologies and electrochemical processes.

Their work concentrates on several subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electrochemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Catalysis. These areas reflect ongoing investigations into energy conversion and storage mechanisms.

Key topics covered in their research include:

  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Metalloenzymes and Iron-Sulfur Proteins
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors

They have contributed to numerous research articles, with frequent publications appearing in prominent venues such as:

  • ACS Catalysis
  • ChemElectroChem
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Enhanced activity for the oxygen reduction reaction in microporous water," 2023, Nature Catalysis
  • "Electrochemical Energy Storage: Questioning the Popular v/v1/2 Scan Rate Diagnosis in Cyclic Voltammetry," 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Electrochemical Mechanistic Analysis from Cyclic Voltammograms Based on Deep Learning," 2022, ACS Measurement Science Au
  • "Impactful Role of Cocatalysts on Molecular Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production," 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • "Autonomous closed-loop mechanistic investigation of molecular electrochemistry via automation," 2024, Nature Communications

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Sylvie Chardon-Noblat, Rana Deeba, Daniel G. Nocera, Marc Robert, and Vincent Artero. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary teamwork across related research topics.

Cyrille Costentin has also contributed to book literature, such as a publication with the Royal Society of Chemistry titled "Carbon Dioxide Electrochemistry" in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Catalysis of the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide

    Cyrille Costentin;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • A local proton source enhances CO2 electroreduction to CO by a molecular Fe catalyst.

    Cyrille Costentin;Samuel Drouet;Marc Robert;Jean Michel Savéant

  • Turnover Numbers, Turnover Frequencies, and Overpotential in Molecular Catalysis of Electrochemical Reactions. Cyclic Voltammetry and Preparative-Scale Electrolysis

    Cyrille Costentin;Samuel Drouet;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Through-Space Charge Interaction Substituent Effects in Molecular Catalysis Leading to the Design of the Most Efficient Catalyst of CO2-to-CO Electrochemical Conversion.

    Iban Azcarate;Cyrille Costentin;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Electrochemical Approach to the Mechanistic Study of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer

    Cyrille Costentin

  • Multielectron, Multistep Molecular Catalysis of Electrochemical Reactions: Benchmarking of Homogeneous Catalysts

    Cyrille Costentin;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • How Do Pseudocapacitors Store Energy? Theoretical Analysis and Experimental Illustration

    Cyrille Costentin;Thomas R. Porter;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Current Issues in Molecular Catalysis Illustrated by Iron Porphyrins as Catalysts of the CO2-to-CO Electrochemical Conversion

    Cyrille Costentin;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Efficient and selective molecular catalyst for the CO2-to-CO electrochemical conversion in water.

    Cyrille Costentin;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant;Arnaud Tatin

  • Pendant acid-base groups in molecular catalysts: H-bond promoters or proton relays? Mechanisms of the conversion of CO2 to CO by electrogenerated iron(0)porphyrins bearing prepositioned phenol functionalities.

    Cyrille Costentin;Guillaume Passard;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Ultraefficient homogeneous catalyst for the CO2-to-CO electrochemical conversion.

    Cyrille Costentin;Guillaume Passard;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Concerted proton-electron transfers: electrochemical and related approaches.

    Cyrille Costentin;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Cleavage of Heavy-Atom Bonds in Electrocatalytic Processes. Cleavage of a C–O Bond in the Catalyzed Electrochemical Reduction of CO2

    Cyrille Costentin;Samuel Drouet;Guillaume Passard;Marc Robert

  • Elements of Molecular and Biomolecular Electrochemistry

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  • Update 1 of: Electrochemical approach to the mechanistic study of proton-coupled electron transfer.

    Cyrille Costentin;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Towards an intelligent design of molecular electrocatalysts

    Cyrille Costentin;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Boron-capped tris(glyoximato) cobalt clathrochelate as a precursor for the electrodeposition of nanoparticles catalyzing H2 evolution in water.

    Elodie Anxolabéhère-Mallart;Cyrille Costentin;Maxime Fournier;Sophie Nowak

  • Fragmentation of Aryl Halide π Anion Radicals. Bending of the Cleaving Bond and Activation vs Driving Force Relationships

    Cyrille Costentin;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Proton–Electron Transport and Transfer in Electrocatalytic Films. Application to a Cobalt-Based O2-Evolution Catalyst

    D. Kwabena Bediako;Cyrille Costentin;Evan C. Jones;Daniel G. Nocera

  • Electrochemical Approach to Concerted Proton and Electron Transfers. Reduction of the Water−Superoxide Ion Complex

    Cyrille Costentin;Dennis H Evans;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Electrochemical and homogeneous proton-coupled electron transfers: concerted pathways in the one-electron oxidation of a phenol coupled with an intramolecular amine-driven proton transfer.

    Cyrille Costentin;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Elucidation of a Redox-Mediated Reaction Cycle for Nickel-Catalyzed Cross Coupling.

    Rui Sun;Yangzhong Qin;Serge Ruccolo;Christoph Schnedermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Michel Savéant
Jean-Michel Savéant Université Paris Cité
Marc Robert
Marc Robert Université Paris Cité
Daniel G. Nocera
Daniel G. Nocera Harvard University
Christel Laberty-Robert
Christel Laberty-Robert Université Paris Cité
Régis Guillot
Régis Guillot University of Paris-Saclay
Kenneth D. M. Harris
Kenneth D. M. Harris Cardiff University
Claude P. Andrieux
Claude P. Andrieux Université Paris Cité
Jean-Marc Latour
Jean-Marc Latour Grenoble Alpes University
Alexis Grimaud
Alexis Grimaud Collège de France
Clément Sanchez
Clément Sanchez Collège de France

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