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Combined EC-NMR and In Situ FTIR Spectroscopic Studies of Glycerol Electrooxidation on Pt/C, PtRu/C, and PtRh/C by Huang, Long, Sun, Jia-Yu, Cao, Shuo-Hui, Zhan, Mei, Ni, Zu-Rong, Sun, Hui-Jun, Chen, Zhong, Zhou, Zhi-You, Sorte, Eric G, Tong, YuYe J, Sun, Shi-Gang

“…Glycerol, a byproduct of biodiesel production, is an industrial waste because of its excess yield. Electrooxidation of glycerol is a promising way to utilize…”
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Assessing children’s potential exposures to harmful metals in tire crumb rubber by accelerated photodegradation weathering by Winz, Robyn, Yu, Lee L., Sung, Li-Piin, Tong, YuYe J., Chen, Dejun

“…Whether a tire crumb rubber (TCR) playground would expose children to potentially harmful chemicals such as heavy metals is an open question. The released…”
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Critical Role of Water and the Structure of Inverse Micelles in the Brust–Schiffrin Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles by Li, Ying, Zaluzhna, Oksana, Tong, YuYe J

“…Although Brust–Schiffrin two-phase synthesis is a popular method for synthesizing ligand-protected metal nanoparticles with an average size of less than 5 nm,…”
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Application of the condensed Fukui function to predict reactivity in core–shell transition metal nanoparticles by Allison, Thomas C., Tong, YuYe J.

“…Chemical reactivity descriptors are a powerful means for understanding reactivity in a wide variety of chemical compounds. These descriptors, rooted in density…”
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Inverse-Micelle-Encapsulated Water-Enabled Bond Breaking of Dialkyl Diselenide/Disulfide: A Critical Step for Synthesizing High-Quality Gold Nanoparticles by Zaluzhna, Oksana, Li, Ying, Allison, Thomas C, Tong, YuYe J

“…Inverse-micelle-encapsulated water formed in the two-phase Brust–Schiffrin method (BSM) synthesis of Au nanoparticles (NPs) is identified as essential for…”
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Different Mechanisms Govern the Two-Phase Brust–Schiffrin Dialkylditelluride Syntheses of Ag and Au Nanoparticles by Li, Ying, Zaluzhna, Oksana, Zangmeister, Christopher D, Allison, Thomas C, Tong, YuYe J

“…Here we report the first unambiguous identification of the chemical structures of the precursor species involving metal (Au and Ag) ions and Te-containing…”
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Irrelevance of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the Methanol Oxidation Reaction on a PtRu Electrocatalyst by Chen, De-Jun, Tong, YuYe J.

“…Based on detailed in situ attenuated total‐reflection–surface‐enhanced IR reflection absorption spectroscopy (ATR‐SEIRAS) studies of the methanol oxidation…”
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A self-promoting growth of Na microstructures by Tong, YuYe J.

“…In situ NMR and magnetic resonance imaging unravel new chemistries for the formation and growth of metal microstructures, with consequences on the…”
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Dual‐IR Window/Electrode Operando Attenuated Total Reflection‐IR Absorption Spectroscopy for Battery Research by Ataee‐Esfahani, Hamed, Chen, De‐Jun, Tong, YuYe J.

“…We report a novel dual‐IR window/electrode operando infrared (IR) spectroscopy method for battery research. In addition to keeping all the features of the…”
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Ternary CoPtAu Nanoparticles as a General Catalyst for Highly Efficient Electro‐oxidation of Liquid Fuels by Li, Junrui, Jilani, Safia Z., Lin, Honghong, Liu, Xiaoming, Wei, Kecheng, Jia, Yukai, Zhang, Peng, Chi, Miaofang, Tong, YuYe J., Xi, Zheng, Sun, Shouheng

“…Efficient electro‐oxidation of formic acid, methanol, and ethanol is challenging owing to the multiple chemical reaction steps required to accomplish full…”
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Origin of the Drastic Current Decay during Potentiostatic Alkaline Methanol Oxidation by Haisch, Theresa, Kubannek, Fabian, Chen, Dejun, Tong, YuYe J, Krewer, Ulrike

“…The current production from the alkaline methanol electro-oxidation reaction does not reach a steady state on a smooth platinum catalyst under potentiostatic…”
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Mechanistic Insights into the Brust−Schiffrin Two-Phase Synthesis of Organo-chalcogenate-Protected Metal Nanoparticles by Li, Ying, Zaluzhna, Oksana, Xu, Bolian, Gao, Yuan, Modest, Jacob M, Tong, YuYe J

“…New insights into the formation chemistry of chalcogenate-protected metal nanoparticles (NPs) synthesized via the well-known Brust−Schiffrin two-phase method…”
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An in-situ electrochemical IR investigation of solution CO electro-oxidation on a polycrystalline Au surface in an alkaline electrolyte: Identification of active reaction intermediates by Chen, De-Jun, Tong, YuYe J.

“…We report an in-situ electrochemical surface enhanced IR reflection absorption spectroscopic (SEIRAS) study of carbon monoxide electro-oxidation reaction (COR)…”
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Site-Dependent Spin Delocalization and Evidence of Ferrimagnetism in Atomically Precise Au25(SR)180 Clusters as Seen by Solution 13C NMR Spectroscopy by Zheng, Rongfeng, Bevacqua, Gianna M, Young, Nicholas R, Allison, Thomas C, Tong, YuYe J

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A versatile and robust surface-poison-resisting Scanning Amperometric Proton Microscopy by Chen, De-Jun, Penhallurick, Ryan W., Tong, YuYe J.

“…A sensitive and accurate measurement of localized pH with improving spatial resolution is highly desirable to the scientific understanding of many processes…”
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Surfactant-Free One-Pot Synthesis of Homogeneous Trimetallic PtNiCu Nanoparticles with Size Control by Using Glycine by Jilani, Safia Z, Cohen, Carter P, Iyanobor, Esther E, Zager, Daniel, Zheng, Rongfeng, Frankenfield, Kaitlyn M, Tong, YuYe J

“…Homogeneous platinum alloy nanoparticles (NPs) are of great interest to the electrocatalytic community for potential use in various fuel cell electrodes…”
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Mechanistic Insight into Sulfide-Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity and Stability of Commercial Pt Black: An in Situ Raman Spectroscopic Study by Wang, Yan-Yan, Chen, De-Jun, Tong, YuYe J

“…Adsorption of sulfur-containing species on a catalyst surface has long been treated as an unwelcoming process in catalysis because it is frequently related to…”
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Mechanistic Insights into Electro-Oxidation of Solution CO on the Polycrystalline Gold Surface as Seen by in Situ IR Spectroscopy by Chen, De-Jun, Allison, Thomas C, Tong, YuYe J

“…Carbon monoxide (CO) adsorption and electro-oxidation on a gold (Au) ultrathin film deposited onto a silicon prism infrared (IR) window in a CO-saturated (≈1…”
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Electroless deposition of ultrathin Au film for surface enhanced in situ spectroelectrochemisrty and reaction-driven surface reconstruction for oxygen reduction reaction by Chen, De-Jun, Xu, Bolian, Sun, Shi-Gang, Tong, YuYe J.

“…[Display omitted] ► Formation mechanism of electroless deposition of Au ultrathin film was studied. ► Sulfur-containing species on the freshly deposited Au…”
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Measuring level alignment at the metal-molecule interface by in situ electrochemical (13) C NMR by Li, Ying, Zelakiewicz, Brian S, Allison, Thomas C, Tong, YuYe J

“…A new technique to measure energy-level alignment at a metal-molecule interface between the Fermi level of the metal and the frontier orbitals of the molecule…”
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