It is vitally important to develop highly active, robust and low‐cost transition metal‐based
electrocatalysts for overall water splitting in neutral solution especially at large current …

Various kinds of amorphous materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, metal
oxides, and metal phosphates, have demonstrated superior electrocatalytic performance …

Hydrogen generation by electrolysis of water in an alkaline solution is a promising
technology for clean hydrogen energy. Amorphous materials show much better performance …

Bio-oil, produced by the destructive distillation of cheap and renewable lignocellulosic
biomass, contains high energy density oligomers in the water-insoluble fraction that can be …

Electric energy storage systems such as batteries can significantly impact society in a variety
of ways, including facilitating the widespread deployment of portable electronic devices …

In a number of hydrogenation reactions, palladium nanoparticles may undergo a transition
to the hydride or the carbide phase, which affects the catalytic properties. In the current work …

An efficient approach for high-quality X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurements is
proposed and exemplified by monitoring the nucleation of palladium nanoparticles from Pd …

The utilization of operando spectroscopy has allowed us to watch the dynamic nature of
supported metal nanoparticles. However, the realization that subtle changes to …

We report an in situ, temperature and H2 pressure-dependent, characterization of (2.6±0.4)
nm palladium nanoparticles supported on active carbon during the process of hydride phase …

Hydride formation in palladium nanoparticles was studied by Pd K-edge X-ray absorption
spectroscopy in both the near-edge (XANES) and the extended (EXAFS) regions and by X …