Search Results - "Yang, Judith C"
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Highly selective plasma-activated copper catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene
Published in Nature communications (30-06-2016)“…There is an urgent need to develop technologies that use renewable energy to convert waste products such as carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels. Carbon…”
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Gold Nanoclusters Promote Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation at the Nanocluster/CoSe2 Interface
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (25-01-2017)“…Electrocatalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen comprises the hydrogen and oxygen evolution half reactions (HER and OER), with the latter as the…”
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Dislocation-induced stop-and-go kinetics of interfacial transformations
Published in Nature (London) (28-07-2022)“…Most engineering materials are based on multiphase microstructures produced either through the control of phase equilibria or by the fabrication of different…”
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Atomically Precise Gold Nanoclusters Accelerate Hydrogen Evolution over MoS2 Nanosheets: The Dual Interfacial Effect
Published in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (20-11-2017)“…Hydrogen generation via electrocatalytic water splitting holds great promise for future energy revolution. It is desirable to design abundant and efficient…”
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Influence of Atomic-Level Morphology on Catalysis: The Case of Sphere and Rod-Like Gold Nanoclusters for CO2 Electroreduction
Published in ACS catalysis (01-06-2018)“…Gold-based materials hold promise in electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to fuels. However, the polydispersity of conventional gold nanostructures limits…”
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Dislocation nucleation facilitated by atomic segregation
Published in Nature materials (01-01-2018)“…Surface segregation—the enrichment of one element at the surface, relative to the bulk—is ubiquitous to multi-component materials. Using the example of a Cu–Au…”
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Interface Engineering of Gold Nanoclusters for CO Oxidation Catalysis
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (05-09-2018)“…Catalysts based on atomically precise gold nanoclusters serve as an ideal model to relate the catalytic activity to the geometrical and electronic structures…”
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Unusual layer-by-layer growth of epitaxial oxide islands during Cu oxidation
Published in Nature communications (13-05-2021)“…Elucidating metal oxide growth mechanisms is essential for precisely designing and fabricating nanostructured oxides with broad applications in energy and…”
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Thermal Stability of Core–Shell Nanoparticles: A Combined in Situ Study by XPS and TEM
Published in Chemistry of materials (27-10-2015)“…In situ techniques of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were used to investigate the thermal stability of Ni–Co…”
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Step-edge-induced oxide growth during the oxidation of Cu surfaces
Published in Physical review letters (05-12-2012)“…Using in situ atomic-resolution electron microscopy observations, we report observations of the oxide growth during the oxidation of stepped Cu surfaces…”
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High-throughput, semi-automated quantitative STEM mass measurement of supported metal nanoparticles using a conventional TEM/STEM
Published in Ultramicroscopy (01-11-2017)“…•A standardless method for measuring numbers of atoms in nanoparticles is presented.•The necessary calibrations and how to perform them are detailed.•Sources…”
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Atomic-scale phase separation induced clustering of solute atoms
Published in Nature communications (07-08-2020)“…Dealloying typically occurs via the chemical dissolution of an alloy component through a corrosion process. In contrast, here we report an…”
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Noncrystalline-to-Crystalline Transformations in Pt Nanoparticles
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (04-09-2013)“…We show that the noncrystalline-to-crystalline transition of supported Pt nanoparticles (NPs) in the subnanometer to nanometer size range is statistical in…”
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Effect of oxygen gas pressure on orientations of Cu2O nuclei during the initial oxidation of Cu(100), (110) and (111)
Published in Surface science (01-12-2012)“…The orientations of oxide nuclei during the oxidation of Cu(100), (110) and (111) surfaces have been examined by in situ transmission electron microscopy. Our…”
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Solving the Structure of Size-Selected Pt Nanocatalysts Synthesized by Inverse Micelle Encapsulation
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (30-06-2010)“…The structure, size, and shape of γ-Al2O3-supported Pt nanoparticles (NPs) synthesized by inverse micelle encapsulation have been resolved via a synergistic…”
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In situ ultra-high vacuum transmission electron microscopy studies of the transient oxidation stage of Cu and Cu alloy thin films
Published in Micron (Oxford, England : 1993) (01-11-2012)“…► We study the oxidation of Cu, Cu–Ni and Cu–Au thin films by in situ transmission electron microscopy. ► Heteroepitaxial concepts are synergistic with the…”
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Ultrasmall Palladium Nanoclusters as Effective Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Published in ChemElectroChem (01-08-2016)“…The recent prosperity of ultrasmall gold nanoclusters makes it desirable to expand the family of clusters to other metals. Here, we present a one‐phase…”
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Comparative study of the alloying effect on the initial oxidation of Cu-Au(100) and Cu-Pt(100)
Published in Applied physics letters (24-03-2014)“…Using in situ transmission electron microscopy, we show that the oxidation of the Cu-Au(100) results in the formation of Cu2O islands that deeply embed into…”
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Structure, Chemical Composition, And Reactivity Correlations during the In Situ Oxidation of 2-Propanol
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (04-05-2011)“…Unraveling the complex interaction between catalysts and reactants under operando conditions is a key step toward gaining fundamental insight in catalysis. We…”
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Initial Oxidation Kinetics of Cu(100), (110), and (111) Thin Films Investigated by in Situ Ultra-high-vacuum Transmission Electron Microscopy
Published in Journal of materials research (01-07-2005)“…The initial oxidation stages of Cu(100), (110), and (111) surfaces have been investigated by using in situ ultra-high-vacuum transmission electron microscopy…”
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