Ceria and its solid solutions play a vital role in several industrial processes and devices.
These include solar energy-to-fuel conversion, solid oxide fuel and electrolyzer cells …

Gaining insight into the mode of operation of heterogeneous catalysts is of great scientific
and economic interest. Raman spectroscopy has proven its potential as a powerful …

The direct discharge of industrial wastewater into the environment results in serious
contamination. Photocatalytic treatment with the application of sunlight and its enhancement …

With abundant crystal defects, cerium oxide (CeO2), widely used in heterogeneous
catalysis, has attracted extensive attention. In recent years, researchers have investigated …

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged in recent years as a special group
of two-dimensional materials and have attracted tremendous attention. Among these TMD …

Ceria is an interesting component for a variety of catalytic and fuel cell applications. In the
study described here, ten different commercial ceria samples as well as synthesized ceria …

Polarizable shell-model potentials are widely used for atomic-scale modeling of charged
defects in solids using the Mott–Littleton approach and hybrid Quantum …

Materials with high oxygen ion conductivity and low electronic conductivity are required for
electrolytes in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) and high-temperature electrolysis (SOEC). A …

The use of a density functional theory methodology with on-site corrections (DFT+ U) has
been repeatedly shown to give an improved description of localised d and f states over …

Exsolution has emerged as an outstanding route for producing oxide-supported metal
nanoparticles. For AB O3-perovskite oxides, various late transition-metal cations can be …