The interfaces of neat water and aqueous solutions play a prominent role in many
technological processes and in the environment. Examples of aqueous interfaces are …

Contemporary aspects of corrosion science are reviewed to show how insightful a surface
science approach is to understand the mechanisms of corrosion initiation at the atomic and …

Designing highly efficient Pt-free electrocatalysts with low overpotential for the alkaline
hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we …

Ruthenium (Ru)-based catalysts exhibited great potential for the alkaline hydrogen evolution
reaction. However, the strong adsorption of H on the Ru surface and the undesirable …

Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in alkaline media is a promising
electrochemical energy conversion strategy. Ruthenium (Ru) is an efficient catalyst with a …

Supported or unsupported ruthenium catalysts were seldom employed in the past to carry
out hydrogenation reactions in petrochemistry and chemical synthesis. Instead, these …

Water-solid interfaces play important roles across a broad range of scientific and application
fields. In the past decades, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has significantly deepened our …

Conspectus The adsorption and reactions of water on surfaces has attracted great interest,
as water is involved in many physical and chemical processes at interfaces. On metal …

Crystal nucleation is one of the most fundamental processes in the physical sciences and
almost always occurs heterogeneously with the aid of a nucleating substrate. No example of …

Scanning tunneling microscopy was used to probe the structure and growth of the first few
layers of water on Ru (0001) and Pt (111) at the molecular level. The surface-bound first …