Surface engineering for stable electrocatalysis

VH Do, JM Lee - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent decades, significant progress has been achieved in rational developments of
electrocatalysts through constructing novel atomistic structures and modulating catalytic …

X-ray-based techniques to study the nano–bio interface

C Sanchez-Cano, RA Alvarez-Puebla, JM Abendroth… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
X-ray-based analytics are routinely applied in many fields, including physics, chemistry,
materials science, and engineering. The full potential of such techniques in the life sciences …

[HTML][HTML] Novel X-ray and optical diagnostics for studying energetic materials: a review

Y Zhang, S Chen, Y Cai, L Lu, D Fan, J Shi, J Huang… - Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermomechanical, physical, and chemical processes in energetic materials (EMs) during
manufacturing and processing or under external stimuli such as shock compression, involve …

Operando nanoscale imaging of electrochemically induced strain in a locally polarized Pt grain

D Sheyfer, RG Mariano, T Kawaguchi, W Cha… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Developing new methods that reveal the structure of electrode materials under polarization
is key to constructing robust structure–property relationships. However, many existing …

Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging for In Situ Studies in Electrocatalysis

RA Vicente, IT Neckel, SKRS Sankaranarayanan… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysis is at the heart of a broad range of physicochemical applications that play an
important role in the present and future of a sustainable economy. Among the myriad of …

Dynamic Surface Reconstruction of Single-Atom Bimetallic Alloy under Operando Electrochemical Conditions

X Liu, C Ao, X Shen, L Wang, S Wang, L Cao… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
The atomic-level understanding of the dynamic evolution of the surface structure of
bimetallic nanoparticles under industrially relevant operando conditions provides a key …

Electrochemically induced strain evolution in Pt–Ni alloy nanoparticles observed by bragg coherent diffraction imaging

T Kawaguchi, V Komanicky, V Latyshev, W Cha… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Strain is known to enhance the activity of the oxygen reduction reaction in catalytic platinum
alloy nanoparticles, whose inactivity is the primary impediment to efficient fuel cells and …

Variable temperature in situ TEM mapping of the thermodynamically stable element distribution in bimetallic Pt–Rh nanoparticles

M Jensen, W Kierulf-Vieira, PJ Kooyman… - Nanoscale …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We report here the first variable temperature in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
study on smaller Pt–Rh nanoparticles (≤ 24 nm) under vacuum conditions. Well-defined 50 …

Concurrent multi-peak Bragg coherent x-ray diffraction imaging of 3D nanocrystal lattice displacement via global optimization

S Maddali, TD Frazer, N Delegan, KJ Harmon… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
In this paper we demonstrated a method to reconstruct vector-valued lattice distortion fields
within nanoscale crystals by optimization of a forward model of multi-reflection Bragg …

Single alloy nanoparticle x-ray imaging during a catalytic reaction

YY Kim, TF Keller, TJ Goncalves, M Abuin, H Runge… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The imaging of active nanoparticles represents a milestone in decoding heterogeneous
catalysts' dynamics. We report the facet-resolved, surface strain state of a single PtRh alloy …