Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale

A Sood, AD Poletayev, DA Cogswell… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Electrochemical ion insertion involves coupled ion–electron transfer reactions, transport of
guest species and redox of the host. The hosts are typically anisotropic solids with 2D …

Recommended strategies for quantifying oxygen vacancies with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

J Wang, DN Mueller, EJ Crumlin - Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Oxygen vacancies play a crucial role in shaping the properties of metal oxides for diverse
applications such as catalysis, ferroelectricity, magnetism, and superconductivity. Although X …

Defect chemistry in heterogeneous catalysis: recognition, understanding, and utilization

C Xie, D Yan, H Li, S Du, W Chen, Y Wang, Y Zou… - Acs …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysis plays an important role in modern industry. Exploring catalysts with
high efficiency, low-cost, and high stability is an important issue for the research of …

In situ characterization of catalysis and electrocatalysis using APXPS

Y Han, H Zhang, Y Yu, Z Liu - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Taking 50 years of effort, ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS) has
become a useful characterization tool for studies in heterogeneous catalysis and …

Acidity of surface-infiltrated binary oxides as a sensitive descriptor of oxygen exchange kinetics in mixed conducting oxides

C Nicollet, C Toparli, GF Harrington, T Defferriere… - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Improving the kinetics of O2 reduction on oxide surfaces is critical in many energy and fuel
conversion technologies. Here we show that the acidity scale for binary oxides is a powerful …

TiO2-induced electronic change in traditional La0.5Sr0.5MnO3−δ cathode allows high performance of proton-conducting solid oxide fuel cells

Y Li, S Yu, H Dai, Y Xu, L Bi - Science China Materials, 2023 - Springer
Sr-doped LaMnO3, as one of the most successful cathodes for solid oxide fuel cells
(SOFCs), can effectively function at high temperatures. However, its cathode kinetics …

Defect engineering of ceria nanocrystals for enhanced catalysis via a high-entropy oxide strategy

Y Sun, T Wu, Z Bao, J Moon, Z Huang, Z Chen… - ACS Central …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Introducing transition-metal components to ceria (CeO2) is important to tailor the surface
redox properties for a broad scope of applications. The emergence of high-entropy oxides …

In situ techniques reveal the true capabilities of SOFC cathode materials and their sudden degradation due to omnipresent sulfur trace impurities

C Riedl, M Siebenhofer, A Nenning… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, five different mixed conducting cathode materials were grown as dense thin
films by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and characterized via in situ impedance spectroscopy …

Understanding electrochemical switchability of perovskite-type exsolution catalysts

AK Opitz, A Nenning, V Vonk, S Volkov… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Exsolution of metal nanoparticles from perovskite-type oxides is a very promising approach
to obtain catalysts with superior properties. One particularly interesting property of exsolution …

Operando surface studies on metal-oxide interfaces of bimetal and mixed catalysts

J Kim, H Choi, D Kim, JY Park - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
The formation of metal-oxide interfaces in catalytic systems exhibits a synergistic
phenomenon between metal and reducible oxides, often referred to as the strong metal …