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An autonomous photosynthetic device in which all charge carriers derive from surface plasmons by Mubeen, Syed, Lee, Joun, Singh, Nirala, Krämer, Stephan, Stucky, Galen D., Moskovits, Martin

“…Solar conversion to electricity or to fuels based on electron–hole pair production in semiconductors is a highly evolved scientific and commercial enterprise 1…”
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Activity and Selectivity Trends in Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction on Transition Metals by Liu, Jin-Xun, Richards, Danielle, Singh, Nirala, Goldsmith, Bryan R

“…Electrocatalytic reduction is a promising approach to remediate nitrate (NO3 –), one of the world’s most widespread water pollutants. In the present work, we…”
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Role of Electrocatalysis in the Remediation of Water Pollutants by Singh, Nirala, Goldsmith, Bryan R

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Temperature dependence of aqueous-phase phenol adsorption on Pt and Rh by Akinola, James, Singh, Nirala

“…Condensed/aqueous phase surface reactions such as electrocatalytic hydrogenation of bio-oil often involve reactant adsorption and displacement of adsorbed…”
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Effects of Solvents on Adsorption Energies: A General Bond-Additivity Model by Akinola, James, Campbell, Charles T, Singh, Nirala

“…While a vast body of knowledge exists about adsorption energies of catalytic reaction intermediates on solid surfaces in gas or vacuum conditions based on…”
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Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Biomass-Derived Organics: A Review by Akhade, Sneha A, Singh, Nirala, Gutiérrez, Oliver Y, Lopez-Ruiz, Juan, Wang, Huamin, Holladay, Jamie D, Liu, Yue, Karkamkar, Abhijeet, Weber, Robert S, Padmaperuma, Asanga B, Lee, Mal-Soon, Whyatt, Greg A, Elliott, Michael, Holladay, Johnathan E, Male, Jonathan L, Lercher, Johannes A, Rousseau, Roger, Glezakou, Vassiliki-Alexandra

“…Sustainable energy generation calls for a shift away from centralized, high-temperature, energy-intensive processes to decentralized, low-temperature…”
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Adsorption Energies of Oxygenated Aromatics and Organics on Rhodium and Platinum in Aqueous Phase by Akinola, James, Barth, Isaiah, Goldsmith, Bryan R, Singh, Nirala

“…Accurately predicting adsorption energies of oxygenated aromatic and organic molecules on metal catalysts in the aqueous phase is challenging despite its…”
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Aqueous phase catalytic and electrocatalytic hydrogenation of phenol and benzaldehyde over platinum group metals by Singh, Nirala, Sanyal, Udishnu, Ruehl, Griffin, Stoerzinger, Kelsey A., Gutiérrez, Oliver Y., Camaioni, Donald M., Fulton, John L., Lercher, Johannes A., Campbell, Charles T.

“…[Display omitted] •Langmuir-Hinshelwood model describes the hydrogenation activity on Pd, Pt and Rh.•Kinetic model adsorption energy matches adsorption…”
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Quantifying Adsorption of Organic Molecules on Platinum in Aqueous Phase by Hydrogen Site Blocking and in Situ X‑ray Absorption Spectroscopy by Singh, Nirala, Sanyal, Udishnu, Fulton, John L, Gutiérrez, Oliver Y, Lercher, Johannes A, Campbell, Charles T

“…The adsorption equilibrium constants of phenol, benzaldehyde, cyclohexanol, and benzyl alcohol on Pt in aqueous phase have been determined via cyclic…”
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Structure Sensitivity in Hydrogenation Reactions on Pt/C in Aqueous‐phase by Sanyal, Udishnu, Song, Yang, Singh, Nirala, Fulton, John L., Herranz, Juan, Jentys, Andreas, Gutiérrez, Oliver Y., Lercher, Johannes A.

“…Hydrogenation of phenol and of the benzaldehyde carbonyl group catalyzed by Pt are structure sensitive in aqueous phase. The intrinsic reaction rates are…”
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Electrochemically Deposited Sb and In Doped Tin Sulfide (SnS) Photoelectrodes by Seal, Mark, Singh, Nirala, McFarland, Eric W, Baltrusaitis, Jonas

“…Semiconducting tin sulfide (SnS) was deposited electrochemically from electrolytes containing Sn and S precursors and conditions optimized to maximize its…”
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Electrode Treatments for Redox Flow Batteries: Translating Our Understanding from Vanadium to Aqueous-Organic by Agarwal, Harsh, Roy, Esha, Singh, Nirala, Klusener, Peter A A, Stephens, Ryan M, Zhou, Qin Tracy

“…Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are a promising technology for long-duration energy storage; but they suffer from inefficiencies in part due to the overvoltages at…”
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Earth‐Abundant Tin Sulfide‐Based Photocathodes for Solar Hydrogen Production by Cheng, Wei, Singh, Nirala, Elliott, Will, Lee, Joun, Rassoolkhani, Alan, Jin, Xuejun, McFarland, Eric W., Mubeen, Syed

“…Tin‐based chalcogenide semiconductors, though attractive materials for photovoltaics, have to date exhibited poor performance and stability for…”
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The Effect of Anion Bridging on Heterogeneous Charge Transfer for V2+/V3 by Agarwal, Harsh, Florian, Jacob, Goldsmith, Bryan R., Singh, Nirala

“…Vanadium redox flow batteries suffer from inefficiencies partly due to the kinetics of the V2+/V3+ reaction, for which lack of mechanistic understanding…”
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Doped rhodium sulfide and thiospinels hydrogen evolution and oxidation electrocatalysts in strong acid electrolytes by Singh, Nirala, Gordon, Michael, Metiu, Horia, McFarland, Eric

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Levelized cost of electricity and greenhouse gas emissions of Ce- and V-based redox flow batteries by Buchanan, Cailin, Singh, Nirala

“…Inexpensive energy storage technologies are critical to meeting rising renewable electricity demand and maintaining grid stability, but there is insufficient…”
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Increasing electrocatalytic nitrate reduction activity by controlling adsorption through PtRu alloying by Wang, Zixuan, Young, Samuel D., Goldsmith, Bryan R., Singh, Nirala

“…[Display omitted] •Pt78Ru22/C is six times more active than Pt/C at 0.1 V vs. RHE.•PtxRuy have 93–98% faradaic efficiencies towards NH3 production at 0.1 V vs…”
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A Simple Bond-Additivity Model Explains Large Decreases in Heats of Adsorption in Solvents Versus Gas Phase: A Case Study with Phenol on Pt(111) in Water by Singh, Nirala, Campbell, Charles T

“…We recently reported the low-coverage heat of adsorption of phenol on Pt(111) facets of a Pt wire in aqueous phase to be approximately 21 kJ/mol (relative to…”
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Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of phenol on platinum-cobalt alloys by Akinola, James, Barth, Isaiah, Goldsmith, Bryan R., Singh, Nirala

“…[Display omitted] •PtxCoy have higher electrocatalytic hydrogenation activity than Pt at certain potentials.•PtxCoy forms a surface with both Co and Pt rather…”
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Levelized cost of energy and sensitivity analysis for the hydrogen–bromine flow battery by Singh, Nirala, McFarland, Eric W.

“…The technoeconomics of the hydrogen–bromine flow battery are investigated. Using existing performance data the operating conditions were optimized to minimize…”
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