Publications

W. Tahir, E. Liberra, I.E. Khalil, P. Das, C. Prinz, F. Emmerling, J. Schmidt, A. Bergmann, B. Roldan Cuenya and A. Thomas: Cu₂O@COF core-shell catalyst for electrochemical CO₂ reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, in press.

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M.C.O. Monteiro, L. Jacobse, A.M.V. Hagopian, V. Vonk, S. Chung, S. Louisia, A. Meinhardt, E.Ö. Alagöz, X. Deng, B. Roldan Cuenya, M.T.M. Koper and A. Stierle: Cation-Surface Interactions During Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Probed by Surface X-ray Diffraction. ACS Physical Chemistry Au, in press.

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Y. Zhou, E. Ibáñez-Alé, N. López, B. Roldan Cuenya and C. Kley: Carbonate anions and radicals induce interfacial water ordering in CO₂ electroreduction on gold. Nature Chemistry 18 (3), 473–481 (2026).

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B. Fickl, W. Artner, D. Matulka, J. Rath, M. Nastran, M. Hofer, R. Blume, M. Hävecker, A. Kirnbauer, F. Fahrnberger, H. Hutter, D. Zhang, P.H. Mayrhofer, A. Knop-Gericke, B. Roldan Cuenya, R. Schlögl, C. Dipolt, D. Eder and B.C. Bayer: Realizing Scalable Chemical Vapor Deposition of Monolayer Graphene Films on Iron with Concurrent Surface Hardening by In Situ Observations. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 18 (5), 8567–8579 (2026).

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E. Liberra, L. Bai, T. Wagner, A. Etxebarria, L. Jacobse, M. Rüscher, E. Ortega, J. Timoshenko, A. Bergmann and B. Roldan Cuenya: Selectivity and Active State Formation During Pulsed CO₂ Electroreduction in Cation-Modified Electrolyte. ChemElectroChem 13 (3), e202500459 (2026).

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E. Öztuna, T. Götsch, D. Cruz, P. Zeller, O.V. Vinogradova, Z. Li, C. Rohner, F. Schmidt, Z. Gheisari, A. Steigert, M. Muske, M. Hävecker, E. Stotz, I. Antonyshyn, F. Girgsdies, O. Timpe, T. Lunkenbein, V.J. Bukas, K. Reuter, R. Schlögl, K. Skorupska, A. Knop-Gericke and B. Roldan Cuenya: Operando X-ray Spectroscopy Study of Pd and Pd-Au Laterally Condensed Catalysts during Selective Acetylene Hydrogenation: The Role of Carbon. Advanced Materials, in press.

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P. Grosse, J.L. Gembus, F. Landwehr, A.R. Silva Olaya, D. Escalera Lopez, N. Bibinov, A.R. Gibson, S. Oener and B. Roldan Cuenya: In-Liquid Plasma Catalysis for Nitrogen Reduction. ACS Energy Letters 11 (1), 378–388 (2026).

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pre-print

S. Spyroglou, A. Rottensteiner, J. Timoshenko, C. Schroeder, N. Müller, A. Loxha, S. Mößlacher, C. Marini, M. Reissner, B. Roldan Cuenya, N. Barrabes and M. Sanchez-Sanchez: Strategies to Stabilize Inductively Heating Fe Nanoparticles for Catalyzing the CO₂ Conversion to Syngas via Reverse Water Gas Shift. ACS Catalysis 16 (1), 344–355 (2026).

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2025

M. Lizée, A.R. Silva Olaya, J. Druce, B. Roldan Cuenya and S. Oener: Disentangling multistep kinetics by combining electrochemical Arrhenius analysis with micro-kinetic modelling. Faraday Discussions, in press.

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J. Wei, Z. Zhang, W. Gee, Y. Wei, Y. Zhou, M. Herran, P. Sautet, A. Alexandrova, B. Roldan Cuenya and C. Kley: The role of surface hydroxyls in atomic-scale copper restructuring during CO electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (49), 45178–45188 (2025).

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A.R. Silva Olaya, J. Druce, J.M. Gisbert Gonzalez, E. Ortega, B. Roldan Cuenya and S. Oener: Pressure and bias dependence of the rate-limiting steps of the oxygen reduction reaction. Nature Communications 16, 11170 (2025).

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A. Rabe, F. Schmidt, S. Rafiezadeh, S. Salamon, J. Landers, M. Eckhardt, C. Pratsch, B. Beckmann, F. Haase, D. Kordus, M. Lopez-Luna, C. Rettenmaier, T. Götsch, A. Knop-Gericke, A. Bergmann, J. Timoshenko, B. Roldan Cuenya, O. Gutfleisch, M. Zobel, R. Pentcheva, H. Wende, T. Lunkenbein and M. Behrens: Metastable Crystalline Cobalt Iron Oxide Nano-Flakes with Antiferromagnetic/Ferrimagnetic Composition Mosaicity. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (48), e202504171 (2025).

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L. Kampermann, J. Klein, T. Wagner, A. Kotova, C. Placke-Yan, A. Yasar, L. Jacobse, S. Lasagna, C. Leppin, S. Schulz, J. Linnemann, A. Bergmann, B. Roldan Cuenya and G. Bacher: Operando Analysis of the Pre-OER Activation of Metal-Doped Co₃O₄ Nanoparticle Catalysts. ACS Catalysis 15 (21), 18391–18403 (2025).

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V.C. Nguyen, E. Ortega, D. Cruz, J. Zhu, W. Frandsen, S.K. Shaikhutdinov and B. Roldan Cuenya: Structure and Reactivity of Cu₂O Nanocubes in Ethanol Dehydrogenation. ACS Catalysis 15 (21), 18333–18347 (2025).

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J. Yang, E. Ortega, J.B. Jang, A. Martini, J. Zhu, J. Timoshenko, J.D. Bellis, F. Schüth, S.K. Shaikhutdinov and B. Roldan Cuenya: Plasma Pretreatment of Pt Single-Atom Precursors Supported on Mechanically Activated Al₂O₃: Enhanced Performance in Propane Dehydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (44), 40481–40495 (2025).

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D. Kordus, J. Timoshenko, N.J. Divins, S.W. Chee, E. Ortega, M. Lopez-Luna, U. Hejral, A. Etxebarria and B. Roldan Cuenya: Cu-Ga Interactions and Support Effects in CO₂ Hydrogenation to Methanol Catalyzed by Size-Controlled CuGa Nanoparticles Deposited on SiO₂ and ZnO. ACS Catalysis 15 (20), 17241–17254 (2025).

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M. Rüscher, J.B. Jang, A. Martini, P. Bischoff, W. Frandsen, J. Timoshenko and B. Roldan Cuenya: Laboratory-Based Time-Resolved In Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy for Tracking Transformations of Working Electrocatalysts. Chemistry Methods 5 (10), e202500016 (2025).

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R. Martínez-Hincapié, J. Timoshenko, T. Wagner, E. Ortega, J. Druce, M.C.O. Monteiro, M. Rüscher, J.B. Jang, E.Ö. Alagöz, S. Lasagna, L. Jacobse, A. Bergmann, B. Roldan Cuenya and S. Oener: Interfacial solvation pre-organizes the transition state of the oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Chemistry, in press.

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K. Dembélé, J. Wang, M. Boniface, J. Folke, L. Sandoval Diaz, F. Girgsdies, A. Hammud, D. Kordus, G. Koch, Z. Gheisari, R. Blume, W. Jiang, A. Knop-Gericke, R. Eckert, S. Reitmeier, A. Reitzmann, R. Schlögl, B. Roldan Cuenya, J. Timoshenko, H. Ruland and T. Lunkenbein: The Haber Bosch Catalyst from Solid state Chemistry to Mesotechnology. Advanced Energy Materials 15 (33), 2500159 (2025).

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L.C. Tanase, M. Prieto, L.de S. Caldas, A. Tiwari, F. Scholten, P. Grosse, A. Martini, J. Timoshenko, T. Schmidt and B. Roldan Cuenya: Morphological and chemical state effects in pulsed CO₂ electroreduction on Cu(100) unveiled by correlated spectro-microscopy. Nature Catalysis 8, 881–890 (2025).

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J. Dwivedi, L.J. Bachmann, A. Jeromin, S. Kulkarni, H. Noei, L.C. Tanase, A. Tiwari, L.de S. Caldas, T. Schmidt, B. Roldan Cuenya, A. Stierle and T.F. Keller: Spectro-Microscopy of Individual Pt-Rh Core-Shell Nanoparticles during Competing Oxidation and Alloying. ACS Nano 19 (31), 28516–28529 (2025).

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T. Schroeder Rossi, A.A. Papaderakis, M. Jaugstetter, Z. Jlailati, M. Knoke, P. Hosseini, P. Cignoni, F. Yang, M. Gerwin, O. Trost, M. Spallek, E. Ortega, B. Roldan Cuenya, D.C. Crans, N.E. Levinger and K. Tschulik: Bimetallic Ag-Au nanoparticles from nanoconfinement: adjusting properties by electrochemical synthesis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 13 (29), 24014–24027 (2025).

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F. Landwehr, A. Das, S. Tosoni, J.J. Navarro, M. Das, F. Glorius, M. Heyde and B. Roldan Cuenya: Writing with Molecules: Tip-Induced Local Chemisorption of N-Heterocyclic Olefins on Cu(111). Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (31), 27676–27684 (2025).

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L. Sandoval-Diaz, R. Blume, K. Dembélé, J. Folke, M. Boniface, F. Girgsdies, A. Hammud, Z. Gheisari, D. Ivanov, R. Eckert, S. Reitmeier, A. Reitzmann, R. Schlögl, B. Roldan Cuenya, H. Ruland, A. Knop-Gericke and T. Lunkenbein: Decoding technical multi-promoted ammonia synthesis catalysts. Nature Communications 16, 7820 (2025).

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S.W. Chee and B. Roldan Cuenya: Revealing the Structure and Chemistry of Electrocatalysts during Reaction with Correlated Electrochemical Liquid Cell Electron and X-ray Microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis 31 (Suppl. 1), 1430–1430 (2025).

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