Defects at transition metal (TM) and rare earth (RE) oxide surfaces, neutral oxygen
vacancies in particular, play a major role in a variety of technological applications. This is the …

Renewable fatty esters are a class of clean feedstock to produce high value-added fatty
alcohols. Herein, the hydrogenation of methyl palmitate (MP) to hexadecanol over defect …

γ-Al2O3, ZrO2, and TiO2 gold supported model catalysts have been synthesized by laser
vaporization. Structural characterization using Transmission Electron Microscopy and X-ray …

Using ab initio density-functional total energy and molecular-dynamics simulations, we study
the effects of various forms of nitrogen postdeposition anneal (PDA) on the electric …

The performance of thin film metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diodes is investigated for a variety
of large and small electron affinity insulators using ultrasmooth amorphous metal as the …

As one of the key aspects in the reliability of redox-based resistive switching memories
(ReRAMs), maximizing their endurance is of high relevance for industrial applications. The …

Here we exquisitely fabricated Cu/ZrO 2-dp catalysts with plentiful Cu-ZrO 2 interfaces by
depositing amorphous ZrO 2 onto Cu nanoparticles for the hydrogenation of levulinic acid …

Different types of interband transitions as well as the microstructures and O/Zr ratios in sol−
gel-derived ZrO2 films calcined at elevated temperatures in air or N2 were systematically …

ZrO2 is known in chemistry to be a stable material. However, some technological
applications point to specific redox reactivity related to surface oxygen composition. In this …

It has been experimentally observed that Ti doping of bulk ZrO2 induces a large red-shift of
the optical absorption edge of the material from 5.3 to 4.0 eV [Livraghi et al., J. Phys. Chem …