In recent years, silica films have emerged as a novel class of two-dimensional (2D)
materials. Several groups succeeded in epitaxial growth of ultrathin SiO 2 layers using …

Two-dimensional (2D) ultrathin silica films have the potential to reach technological
importance in electronics and catalysis. Several well-defined 2D-silica structures have been …

Ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AP-XPS) supported by density
functional theory (DFT) calculations was used to characterize the interaction of water with …

Using low‐energy electron microscopy and local photoelectron spectroscopy, water
formation from adsorbed O and H2 on a Ru (0001) surface covered with a vitreous SiO2 …

Practical catalysts with a porous framework, such as zeolites, host catalytic reactions at
active sites engrained in the pores and channels of the scaffold. The mechanism of …

We review the screening nature and many-body physics foundation of the van der Waals
density functional (vdW-DF) method [Berland K et al 2015 Rep. Prog. Phys. 78 066501], a …

Density functional theory was used to assess the viability of approaches to controlling the
structure of a recently discovered two-dimensional form of SiO2. In accord with prior work, a …

We offer a comprehensive approach to determine how physical confinement can affect the
water formation reaction. By using free-standing crystalline SiO2 bilayer supported on Ru …

The confinement of noble gases on nanostructured surfaces, in contrast to bulk materials, at
non-cryogenic temperatures represents a formidable challenge. In this work, individual Ar …

The nanoscale confinement of noble gases at noncryogenic temperatures is crucial for many
applications including noble gas separations, nuclear waste remediation, and the removal of …