Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

In this Review, we discuss the state-of-the-art understanding of non-precious transition metal
oxides that catalyze the oxygen reduction and evolution reactions. Understanding and …

Increasing the energy density of layered oxide battery electrodes is challenging as
accessing high states of delithiation often triggers voltage degradation and oxygen release …

Lithium-rich layered transition metal oxide positive electrodes offer access to anion redox at
high potentials, thereby promising high energy densities for lithium-ion batteries. However …

The kinetics and uniformity of ion insertion reactions at the solid-liquid interface govern the
rate capability and lifetime, respectively, of electrochemical devices such as Li-ion batteries …

The structure of the electrical double layer has been debated for well over a century, since it
mediates colloidal interactions, regulates surface structure, controls reactivity, sets …

X-ray microscopy is powerful in that it can probe large volumes of material at high spatial
resolution with exquisite chemical, electronic and bond orientation contrast,,,,. The …

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 …

Exciting new opportunities are emerging in the field of catalysis based on nanotechnology
approaches. A new understanding and mastery of catalysis could have broad societal …

Many battery electrodes contain ensembles of nanoparticles that phase-separate on (de)
intercalation. In such electrodes, the fraction of actively intercalating particles directly …