Structures and processes at water/metal interfaces play an important technological role in
electrochemical energy conversion and storage, photoconversion, sensors, and corrosion …

The catalytic conversion of biomass and derivatives to chemicals has been the subject of
intense research efforts during the past decade resulting in a 20% annual increase in the …

The most efficient electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is a Pt‐based
catalyst, but its high cost and nonperfect efficiency hinder wide‐ranging industrial …

The molecular structure of the electrical double layer determines the chemistry in all
electrochemical processes. Using x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), we probed the …

Solid catalysts are very useful functional materials, which are used in 90% of industrial
processes. The most important are the supported ones. In these catalysts, nanoparticles of …

The kinetics of the hydrogen oxidation and evolution reactions (HOR/HER) of platinum in
aqueous solutions remains elusive, partly because of the lack of means to explore the …

Water adsorption at metal surfaces is governed by a subtle balance between water–water
hydrogen bonding and water–metal interactions, which together determine the stability of …

Oxygen vacancies (OVs)-rich α-Ni 0.2 Fe 1.8 O 3 with dual metal sites was synthesized by Ni
2+ isomorphously substituted α-Fe 2 O 3 to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for …

The exponential increase in computational processor speed, the development of novel
computational architectures, together with the tremendous advances in ab initio theoretical …

The structure of water at the interface with other materials is thought to determine their
wetting properties and underlies the vast array of phenomena known under the names of …