Electrocatalysis on oxide surfaces: Fundamental challenges and opportunities

AR Akbashev - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Oxides are often perceived as relatively simple materials that can provide exceptional
electrocatalytic activities. However, the assumed simplicity of oxides bears little relation to …

Resolving the intrinsic short-range ordering of K+ ions on cleaved muscovite mica

G Franceschi, P Kocán, A Conti, S Brandstetter… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Muscovite mica, KAl2 (Si3Al) O10 (OH) 2, is a common layered phyllosilicate with
perfect cleavage planes. The atomically flat surfaces obtained through cleaving lend …

Ru-based catalysts for proton exchange membrane water electrolysers: The need to look beyond just another catalyst

SK Sharma, C Wu, N Malone, LJ Titheridge… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Ruthenium (Ru-) based electrocatalysts have historically shown the highest activity for the
oxygen evolution reaction in green H 2 production by PEM-based water electrolysis …

Space charge governs the kinetics of metal exsolution

ML Weber, B Šmíd, U Breuer, MA Rose, NH Menzler… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Nanostructured composite electrode materials play a major role in the fields of catalysis and
electrochemistry. The self-assembly of metallic nanoparticles on oxide supports via metal …

Machine learning for exploring small polaron configurational space

VC Birschitzky, F Ellinger, U Diebold… - npj Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Polaron defects are ubiquitous in materials and play an important role in many processes
involving carrier mobility, charge transfer and surface reactivity. Determining small polarons' …

Universal Structural Influence on the 2D Electron Gas at SrTiO3 Surfaces

EB Guedes, S Muff, WH Brito, M Caputo, H Li… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2‐dimensional electron gas (2DEG) found at the surface of SrTiO3 and related
interfaces has attracted significant attention as a promising basis for oxide electronics. In …

Ferroelectric-enabled significant carbon dioxide molecular adsorption on BaTiO 3 (001)

AC Iancu, GA Lungu, CA Tache, CM Teodorescu - Materials Advances, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is reversibly adsorbed and desorbed from ferroelectric (001) oriented,
BaO-terminated barium titanate, as revealed in real time by high resolution and ultrafast …

Small polaron formation on the Nb-doped (001) surface

F Ellinger, M Shafiq, I Ahmad, M Reticcioli… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The cubic perovskite strontium titanate SrTiO 3 (STO) is one of the most studied, polarizable
transition metal oxides. When excess charge is introduced into this material through do** …

Ultrafast Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Electrochemical Transformations on a Metal-Oxide Surface during Oxygen Evolution Catalysis

T Cuk, M Paolino, S Singh, J Stewart, X Chen… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Oxygen evolution catalysis fuels the planet through photosynthesis and is a primary means
for hydrogen storage in energy technologies. Yet the detection of intermediates of the …

Identification of OH groups on SrTiO3 (100)-(13× 13)-R33. 7° reconstructed surface by non-contact atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy

D Katsube, R Shimizu, Y Sugimoto, T Hitosugi… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Atomic resolution imaging of a SrTiO 3 (100)-(⁠ 13× 13⁠)-R33. 7 reconstructed surface
using non-contact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM) and its simultaneous measurement …