Search Results - "van Spronsen, Matthijs A."
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Hydrogen migration at restructuring palladium–silver oxide boundaries dramatically enhances reduction rate of silver oxide
Published in Nature communications (15-04-2020)“…Heterogeneous catalysts are complex materials with multiple interfaces. A critical proposition in exploiting bifunctionality in alloy catalysts is to achieve…”
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High-Performance Pt–Co Nanoframes for Fuel-Cell Electrocatalysis
Published in Nano letters (11-03-2020)“…Pt-based alloy catalysts are promising candidates for fuel-cell applications, especially for cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and anodic methanol…”
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An electrochemical flow cell for operando XPS and NEXAFS investigation of solid–liquid interfaces
Published in JPhys Energy (01-07-2024)“…Abstract Suitable reaction cells are critical for operando near ambient pressure (NAP) soft x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and near-edge x-ray…”
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Observing the oxidation of platinum
Published in Nature communications (05-09-2017)“…Despite its importance in oxidation catalysis, the active phase of Pt remains uncertain, even for the Pt(111) single-crystal surface. Here, using a ReactorSTM,…”
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In situ observation of self-assembled hydrocarbon Fischer–Tropsch products on a cobalt catalyst
Published in Nature chemistry (01-10-2016)“…Fischer–Tropsch synthesis is a heterogeneous catalytic reaction that creates approximately 2% of the world's fuel. It involves the synthesis of linear…”
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Evolution of Metastable Structures at Bimetallic Surfaces from Microscopy and Machine-Learning Molecular Dynamics
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (16-09-2020)“…The restructuring of interfaces plays a crucial role in materials science and heterogeneous catalysis. Bimetallic systems, in particular, often adopt very…”
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Facilitating hydrogen atom migration via a dense phase on palladium islands to a surrounding silver surface
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-09-2020)“…The migration of species across interfaces can crucially affect the performance of heterogeneous catalysts. A key concept in using bimetallic catalysts for…”
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VerSoX B07-B: a high-throughput XPS and ambient pressure NEXAFS beamline at Diamond Light Source
Published in Journal of synchrotron radiation (01-05-2024)“…The beamline optics and endstations at branch B of the Versatile Soft X-ray (VerSoX) beamline B07 at Diamond Light Source are described. B07-B provides…”
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O2 Activation by Metal Surfaces: Implications for Bonding and Reactivity on Heterogeneous Catalysts
Published in Chemical reviews (14-03-2018)“…The activation of O2 on metal surfaces is a critical process for heterogeneous catalysis and materials oxidation. Fundamental studies of well-defined metal…”
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O 2 Activation by Metal Surfaces: Implications for Bonding and Reactivity on Heterogeneous Catalysts
Published in Chemical reviews (14-03-2018)“…The activation of O on metal surfaces is a critical process for heterogeneous catalysis and materials oxidation. Fundamental studies of well-defined metal…”
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Plasma jet printing induced high-capacity graphite anodes for sustainable recycling of lithium-ion batteries
Published in Carbon (New York) (15-10-2022)“…Graphite is an integral part of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, due to limited resources and high production cost, producing battery grade graphite to…”
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Dynamics of Surface Alloys: Rearrangement of Pd/Ag(111) Induced by CO and O2
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (04-04-2019)“…Alloys of Ag and small amounts of Pd are promising as bifunctional catalysts, potentially combining the inherent selectivity of the noble Ag with that of the…”
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Nanostructured Silicon Matrix for Materials Engineering
Published in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (01-03-2023)“…Tin‐containing layers with different degrees of oxidation are uniformly distributed along the length of silicon nanowires formed by a top‐down method by…”
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Predicting X‑ray Photoelectron Peak Shapes: the Effect of Electronic Structure
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (20-05-2021)“…X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is a widely used tool for quantitative analysis of surfaces, providing critical information about elemental composition…”
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Revealing the Role of CO during CO2 Hydrogenation on Cu Surfaces with In Situ Soft X‑Ray Spectroscopy
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (29-03-2023)“…The reactions of H2, CO2, and CO gas mixtures on the surface of Cu at 200 °C, relevant for industrial methanol synthesis, are investigated using a combination…”
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Studying Surface Chemistry of Mixed Conducting Perovskite Oxide Electrodes with Synchrotron-Based Soft X‑rays
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (19-10-2023)“…A fundamental understanding of the electrochemical reactions and surface chemistry at the solid–gas interface in situ and operando is critical for electrode…”
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Interface Sensitivity in Electron/Ion Yield X‑ray Absorption Spectroscopy: The TiO2–H2O Interface
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (21-10-2021)“…To understand corrosion, energy storage, (electro)catalysis, etc., obtaining chemical information on the solid–liquid interface is crucial but remains…”
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Ultrathin Free-Standing Oxide Membranes for Electron and Photon Spectroscopy Studies of Solid–Gas and Solid–Liquid Interfaces
Published in Nano letters (09-09-2020)“…Free-standing ultrathin (∼2 nm) films of several oxides (Al2O3,TiO2, and others) have been developed, which are mechanically robust and transparent to…”
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Subsurface Single‐Atom Catalyst Enabled by Mechanochemical Synthesis for Oxidation Chemistry
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (14-10-2024)“…Single‐atom catalysts have garnered significant attention due to their exceptional atom utilization and unique properties. However, the practical application…”
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Oxygen-Promoted Methane Activation on Copper
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (18-01-2018)“…The role of oxygen in the activation of C–H bonds in methane on clean and oxygen-precovered Cu(111) and Cu2O(111) surfaces was studied with combined in situ…”
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