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Marc Robert is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Energy and Chemical Engineering with significant contributions to Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, Process Chemistry and Technology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Marc Robert has co-authored papers frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Julien Bonin
  • Tai-Chu Lau
  • Gui Chen
  • Lingjing Chen
  • Etienne Boutin

They have published extensively in key scientific venues such as:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Science

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Highlights and challenges in the selective reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol, 2021, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Photocatalytic CO2 reduction, 2023, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Molecular catalysis of CO2 reduction: recent advances and perspectives in electrochemical and light-driven processes with selected Fe, Ni and Co aza macrocyclic and polypyridine complexes, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Strain enhances the activity of molecular electrocatalysts via carbon nanotube supports, 2023, Nature Catalysis
  • Efficient Visible-Light-Driven CO2 Reduction by a Cobalt Molecular Catalyst Covalently Linked to Mesoporous Carbon Nitride, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

In addition to journal articles, Marc Robert has contributed to book publications, including a title published by the Royal Society of Chemistry:

  • Carbon Dioxide Electrochemistry, 2020

The scope of their work addresses challenges in catalysis and the development of sustainable energy technologies. The topics cover fundamental and applied aspects of carbon dioxide reduction, photocatalytic methods, and the molecular design of catalysts, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach that integrates chemical engineering, materials science, and energy research.

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

  • Visible-light-driven methane formation from CO 2 with a molecular iron catalyst

    Heng Rao;Luciana C. Schmidt;Luciana C. Schmidt;Julien Bonin;Marc Robert

  • 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

  • Molecular electrocatalysts can mediate fast, selective CO 2 reduction in a flow cell.

    Shaoxuan Ren;Dorian Joulié;Dorian Joulié;Danielle Salvatore;Kristian Torbensen

  • 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

  • Electrons, Photons, Protons and Earth-Abundant Metal Complexes for Molecular Catalysis of CO2 Reduction

    Hiroyuki Takeda;Claudio Cometto;Osamu Ishitani;Marc Robert

  • Highlights and challenges in the selective reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol

    Sara Navarro-Jaén;Mirella Virginie;Julien Bonin;Marc Robert;Marc Robert

  • CO 2 electrochemical catalytic reduction with a highly active cobalt phthalocyanine

    Min Wang;Kristian Torbensen;Danielle Salvatore;Shaoxuan Ren

  • Molecular Catalysis of the Electrochemical and Photochemical Reduction of CO2 with Earth-Abundant Metal Complexes. Selective Production of CO vs HCOOH by Switching of the Metal Center

    Lingjing Chen;Zhenguo Guo;Xi-Guang Wei;Charlotte Gallenkamp

  • Molecular catalysis of CO2 reduction: recent advances and perspectives in electrochemical and light-driven processes with selected Fe, Ni and Co aza macrocyclic and polypyridine complexes

    E Boutin;L Merakeb;B Ma;B Boudy

  • 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

  • Highly Efficient and Selective Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction by Iron and Cobalt Quaterpyridine Complexes.

    Zhenguo Guo;Siwei Cheng;Siwei Cheng;Claudio Cometto;Elodie Anxolabéhère-Mallart

  • 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

  • Selective and Efficient Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CO Using Visible Light and an Iron-Based Homogeneous Catalyst

    Julien Bonin;Marc Robert;Mathilde Routier

  • Can Single-Electron Transfer Break an Aromatic Carbon−Heteroatom Bond in One Step? A Novel Example of Transition between Stepwise and Concerted Mechanisms in the Reduction of Aromatic Iodides

    Laurence Pause;Marc Robert;Jean-Michel Savéant

  • Noncovalent Immobilization of a Molecular Iron-Based Electrocatalyst on Carbon Electrodes for Selective, Efficient CO2-to-CO Conversion in Water

    Antoine Maurin;Marc Robert

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Cyrille Costentin
Cyrille Costentin Grenoble Alpes University
Jean-Michel Savéant
Jean-Michel Savéant Université Paris Cité
Tai-Chu Lau
Tai-Chu Lau City University of Hong Kong
Emmanuel Lacôte
Emmanuel Lacôte Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Claude P. Andrieux
Claude P. Andrieux Université Paris Cité
Roberto Gobetto
Roberto Gobetto University of Turin
Curtis P. Berlinguette
Curtis P. Berlinguette University of British Columbia
Louis Fensterbank
Louis Fensterbank Sorbonne University
Max Malacria
Max Malacria Sorbonne University
Jan Fiedler
Jan Fiedler Czech Academy of Sciences

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