Publications

WP1: Postcombustion Capture

• Scalable Synthesis of CO₂-Selective Porous Single-Layer Graphene Membranes. Nature Chemical Engineering 2025, 2 (4), 241–251.
• Gated CO₂ Permeation across Dynamic Graphene Pores. Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 6252. 
• Modulation of Graphene Oxidation Using Substrate‐Induced Electron‐Hole Puddles for Advancing Molecular Separation. Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, 2503121.
• Scalable Room Temperature Incorporation of CO₂ -Selective Ångström-Scale Pores in Graphene for Carbon Capture. ChemRxiv. 2025. doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-0n9bf
• Review paper on tilting pad bearings, In Progress.

WP2: CO2 to renewable CH4 in gas grid

• Master thesis: Augereau S., “Scaling a 2-10 kW methanation reactor for a 10-30 kW power-to-methane system”, EPFL, 2025

WP3: CO2 Storage

• Stavropoulou, E., Sciandra, D., & Laloui, L., 2025. Introducing a novel scale for studying geological CO2 storage. Proceedings: 8th International Conference on Coupled THMC Processes, GeoProc (p. 26-27). https://cyprusconferences.org/geoproc2025/papers/
• Stavropoulou, E., Sciandra, D., & Laloui, L., 2026. A new metre-scale testbed for simulating geological CO2 storage. Proceedings: 2nd Caprock Integrity & Gas Storage Symposium 2026 (p. 20-23). https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/2nd-caprock-integrity-and-gas-storage-symposium-2026-proceedings
• Sciandra, D., Laloui, L., & Stavropoulou, E., 2026.  Proceedings: Hydro-mechanical simulation of caprock-reservoir interaction for a meter-scale CO2 injection experiment. Proceedings: 2nd Caprock Integrity & Gas Storage Symposium 2026 (p. 61-64). https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/2nd-caprock-integrity-and-gas-storage-symposium-2026-proceedings
• Stavropoulou, E., Sciandra, D., Laloui, L., 2026.  A novel methodology for bridging the gap between lab and field scales in geological CO2 storage, Geotechnique Letters (Accepted for publication)
• Sciandra, D., Laloui, L., & Stavropoulou, E., 2026. Caprock sealing capacity under CO2 injection: insights from hydro-mechanical simulations at meter-scale (Under submission).
• Hydromecanical behaviour of crushed and intact Opalinus Clay shale: application for CO₂ storage, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 2025.

WP4: Direct Air Capture

• Human interpretable structure-property relationships in chemistry using explainable machine learning and large language models. Communication Chemistry 8, 11 (2025)
• ChemLit-QA: a human evaluated dataset for chemistry RAG tasks. Machine Learning Science & Technology, 2025, 6, 020601.
• Spotlight talk (top-15%) at NeurIPS 2024 AI for Materials Workshop.

WP5: CO2 Refinery

WP6: Process Modeling and Integration

• Wen, D., Kuo, P.C., Saeidi, S., Özdemir, F. and Maréchal, F., 2024. Renewable synthesis fuels for a circular economy: A life cycle assessment. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 211, p.107851.
• Wen, D. and Maréchal, F., 2025. Modeling and optimization of a membrane-assisted hybrid gas grid for methane and carbon dioxide transport, storage, and sector coupling. Applied Energy, 401, p.126667.
• Dardor, D., Flórez-Orrego, D., Domingos, M. E. G. R., Germanier, R., Margni, M. , Maréchal, F., 2025. Carbon Capture and Management Strategies for Decarbonizing Secondary Aluminium Production. Submitted (Carbon Capture Science & Technology journal).
• Boztaş, O., Flórez-Orrego, D., Domingos, M. E. G. R., Maréchal, F. Municipal Solid Waste Valorization into Chemical Solvents for Industrial Symbiosis: Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment. ESCAPE 36 - European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering Sheffield, UK. 21-24 June 2026
• Energy-Efficient and Cost-Effective Carbon Capture from Dilute Emissions Using Pyridinic-Graphene Membranes. Under revision. 
• Renewable synthesis fuels for a circular economy: A life cycle assessment, Resources, Conservation & Recycling.
• Environmental Impact Reduction of Integrating Large-scale Energy Storage for the 2050 Decarbonization Landscape. Submitted.
• Waste sector decarbonization through chemical looping: a global and future perspective. Submitted.

WP7: Economics, Financing, Governance, and Policy

• Nick, S., 2025. Expanding Swiss net-zero scenarios to prepare for an uncertain future. S4S CCUS Issue Brief. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/252375
• Nick, S., 2025. Broadening the scenario space for Swiss CCUS: integrating deep uncertainty, sufficiency, and societal transformation. S4S CCUS Working Paper. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/252121

WP8: Dissemination, Student Involvement, and Outreach

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