Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has emerged as a powerful and versatile tool for
probing nanoscale phenomena in ferroelectric materials on the nanometer and micrometer …

The preparation of thin oxide films on metal supports is a versatile approach to explore the
properties of oxide materials that are otherwise inaccessible to most surface science …

Light-driven photothermocatalysis can provide enough energy to reach light-off temperature
of VOCs on the surface of catalyst without auxiliary heat source. Herein, we synthesized …

Uncovering how hydrogen transfers and what factors control hydrogen conductivity on solid
surface is essential for enhancing catalytic performance of H-involving reactions, which is …

The concept of coupling a nanometer or subnanometer scale oxide phase to a metal surface
to form a metal–oxide hybrid material with novel properties is an attractive approach in the …

Polar surfaces of compound materials have been the subject of intense activity in the past.
Electrostatic arguments, based on a model of rigid charges, predict that they should have an …

Oxide nanostructures in low dimensions on well-defined metal surfaces form novel hybrid
systems with tremendous potential and impact in fundamental research and for the …

Identifying the active sites and reaction kinetics for a catalytic reaction can provide significant
insight into the catalytic systems. By use of DFT calculations, the catalytic activity of FeO/Pt …

Well-defined manganese oxide (MnO x) overlayers with a controlled chemical state and
coverage were deposited on Au (111), and CO activation at the model MnO x/Au (111) …

Hydroxyl groups (OH) and oxygen vacancies (VO) have proven to be vital in numerous
oxide catalytic systems for catalytic conversion of C1 molecules. In the present work …