The activation of O2 on metal surfaces is a critical process for heterogeneous catalysis and
materials oxidation. Fundamental studies of well-defined metal surfaces using a variety of …

Ruthenium is a chemical element that can easily adopt various formal oxidation states from−
II to+ VIII in chemical bonds,(1, 2) thus giving rise to many compounds with interesting and …

Platinum and palladium are frequently used as catalytic materials, for example for the
oxidation of CO. This is one of the most widely studied reactions in the field of surface …

The discovery of graphene has stimulated dramatic research interest on other 2D materials
including transition metal oxide (TMO) monolayers in order to realize novel functionalization …

More than five years have passed since the first edition of this book was published. Surface
science is still a very active field of research, and the fact that the Nobel Prize 2007 in …

Ab initio thermodynamics and first-principles microkinetic simulations have become
standard tools in research on model catalysts. Complementing dedicated in situ experiments …

Machine learning (ML) is used to derive local stability information for density functional
theory calculations of systems in relation to the recently discovered SnO 2 (110)-(4× 1) …

Palladium-based catalysts are attractive for methane combustion on natural gas vehicles at
low temperature. By means of ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, we …

Heterogeneous catalysts are highly complex materials with respect to both their composition
and structure. The reaction kinetics on their surfaces is known to depend sensitively on …

Late-transition-metal oxides have emerged as promising materials for enabling direct
catalytic conversions of light alkanes to value-added products due to the ability of certain …