2024 Publications of the
Interface Science Department

Avila-Bolivar, B., M. Lopez Luna, F. Yang, A. Yoon, V. Montiel, J. Solla-Gullón, S.W. Chee and B. Roldan Cuenya: Revealing the Intrinsic Restructuring of Bi₂O₃ Nanoparticles into Bi Nanosheets during Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 16 (9), 11552–11560 (2024).

Bai, L., F. Franco, J. Timoshenko, C. Rettenmaier, F. Scholten, H. Jeon, A. Yoon, M. Rüscher, A. Herzog, F. Haase, S. Kühl, S.W. Chee, A. Bergmann and B. Roldan Cuenya: Electrocatalytic Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction toward Ammonia using Cu₂O Nanocubes: Active Species and Reaction Mechanisms. Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (14), 9665–9678 (2024).

Caldas, L.de S., M. Prieto, L.C. Tanase, A. Tiwari, T. Schmidt and B. Roldan Cuenya: Correlative In Situ Spectro-Microscopy of Supported Single CuO Nanoparticles: Unveiling the Relationships between Morphology and Chemical State during Thermal Reduction. ACS Nano 18 (21), 13714–13725 (2024).

Davis, E., A. Bergmann, H. Kuhlenbeck and B. Roldan Cuenya: Facet Dependence of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Co₃O₄, CoFe₂O₄, and Fe₃O₄ epitaxial film electrocatalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (20), 13770–13782 (2024).

Ebert, F., P. Ingale, S. Vogl, S. Praetz, C. Schlesiger, N. Pfister, R. Naumann d'Alnoncourt, B. Roldan Cuenya, A. Thomas, E. Gioria and F. Rosowski: Cobalt(II) Nanoclusters Incorporated in Ordered Mesoporous Al₂O₃ for Stable and Coke-Resistant Propane Dehydrogenation. ACS Catalysis 14 (13), 9993–10008 (2024).

Etxebarria, A., M. Lopez-Luna, A. Martini, U. Hejral, M. Rüscher, C. Zhan, A. Herzog, A. Jamshaid, D. Kordus, A. Bergmann, H. Kuhlenbeck and B. Roldan Cuenya: Effect of Iron Doping in Ordered Nickel Oxide Thin Film Catalyst for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS Catalysis 14 (18), 14219–14232 (2024).

Haase, F., E. Ortega, S. Saddeler, F. Schmidt, D. Cruz, F. Scholten, M. Rüscher, A. Martini, H. Jeon, A. Herzog, U. Hejral, E. Davis, J. Timoshenko, A. Knop-Gericke, T. Lunkenbein, S. Schulz, A. Bergmann and B. Roldan Cuenya: Role of Fe Decoration on the Oxygen Evolving State of Co₃O₄ Nanocatalysts. Energy & Environmental Science 17 (5), 2046–2058 (2024).

Hannappel, T., S. Shekarabi, W. Jaegermann, E. Runge, J.P. Hofmann, R. van de Krol, M.M. May, A. Bergmann, A. Bund, C. Cierpka, C. Dreßler, F. Dionigi, D. Friedrich, M. Favaro, F. Hess, S. Krischok, M. Kurniawan, K. Lüdge, Y. Lei, A. Paszuk, B. Roldan Cuenya, P. Schaaf, R. Schmidt-Grund, W.G. Schmidt, P. Strasser, E. Unger, M.F. Vasquez Montoya, D. Wang and H. Zhang: Integration of Multijunction Absorbers and Catalysts for Efficient Solar-Driven Artificial Leaf Structures: A Physical and Materials Science Perspective. Solar RRL 8 (11), 2301047 (2024).

Herzog, A., M. Lopez-Luna, H. Jeon, C. Rettenmaier, P. Grosse, A. Bergmann and B. Roldan Cuenya: Operando Raman spectroscopy uncovers hydroxide and CO species enhance ethanol selectivity during pulsed CO₂ electroreduction. Nature Communications 15, 3986 (2024).

Herzog, A., M. Rüscher, H. Jeon, J. Timoshenko, C. Rettenmaier, U. Hejral, E. Davis, F. Haase, D. Kordus, S. Kühl, W. Frandsen, A. Bergmann and B. Roldan Cuenya: Time-resolved operando insights into the tunable selectivity of Cu-Zn nanocubes during pulsed CO₂ electroreduction. Energy & Environmental Science 17 (19), 7081–7096 (2024).

Hursán, D., J. Timoshenko, E. Ortega, H. Jeon, M. Rüscher, A. Herzog, C. Rettenmaier, S.W. Chee, A. Martini, D. Koshy and B. Roldan Cuenya: Reversible Structural Evolution of Metal-Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Catalysts During CO₂ Electroreduction: An Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study. Advanced Materials 36 (4), 2307809 (2024).

Kley, C.: In situ nanoscale mapping of electrical and catalytic properties. National Science Review 11, nwae202 (2024).

Kordus, D., S. Widrinna, J. Timoshenko, M. Lopez-Luna, C. Rettenmaier, S.W. Chee, E. Ortega, O. Karslıoğlu, S. Kühl and B. Roldan Cuenya: Enhanced Methanol Synthesis from CO₂ Hydrogenation Achieved by Tuning the Cu-ZnO Interaction in ZnO/Cu₂O Nanocube Catalysts Supported on ZrO₂ and SiO₂. Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (12), 8677–8687 (2024).

Landwehr, F., M. Das, S. Tosoni, J.J. Navarro, A. Das, M. Koy, M. Heyde, G. Pacchioni, F. Glorius and B. Roldan Cuenya: N-Heterocyclic Olefins on a Metallic Surface - Adsorption, Orientation and Electronic Influence. Advanced Materials Interfaces 11 (31), 2400378 (2024).

Li, Z., E. Öztuna, K. Skorupska, O. Vinogradova, A. Jamshaid, A. Steigert, C. Rohner, M. Dimitrakopoulou, M. Prieto, C. Kunkel, M. Stredansky, P. Kube, M. Götte, A. Dudzinski, F. Girgsdies, S. Wrabetz, W. Frandsen, R. Blume, P. Zeller, M. Muske, D. Delgado Muñoz, S. Jiang, F. Schmidt, T. Köchler, M. Arztmann, A. Efimenko, J. Frisch, T. Kokumai, R. Garcia-Diez, M. Bär, A. Hammud, J. Kröhnert, A. Trunschke, C. Scheurer, T. Schmidt, T. Lunkenbein, D. Amkreutz, H. Kuhlenbeck, V.J. Bukas, A. Knop-Gericke, R. Schlatmann, K. Reuter, B. Roldan Cuenya and R. Schlögl: Rationally Designed Laterally-Condensed-Catalysts Deliver Robust Activity and Selectivity for Ethylene Production in Acetylene Hydrogenation. Nature Communications 15, 10660 (2024).

Liu, H., L. Bai, A. Bergmann, B. Roldan Cuenya and J. Luo: Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrogen oxide species to ammonia. Chem 10 (10), 2963–2986 (2024).

Martini, A., J. Timoshenko, P. Grosse, C. Rettenmaier, D. Hursán, G. Deplano, H. Jeon, A. Bergmann and B. Roldan Cuenya: Adsorbate Configurations in Ni Single-Atom Catalysts during CO₂ Electrocatalytic Reduction Unveiled by Operando XAS, XES, and Machine Learning. Physical Review Letters 133 (22), 228001 (2024).

Martini, A., J. Timoshenko, M. Rüscher, D. Hursán, M.C.O. Monteiro, E. Liberra and B. Roldan Cuenya: Revealing the structure of the active sites for the electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction to Co over Co single atom catalysts using operando XANES and machine learning. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 31 (4), 741–750 (2024).

Melle, G., F. Scholten, J.M. Feliu, E. Herrero, B. Roldan Cuenya and R.M. Arán-Ais: Elucidating interfacial parameters of platinum-palladium bulk alloy single crystals. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 12 (25), 15321–15333 (2024).

Moshantaf, A., M. Wesemann, S. Beinlich, H. Junkes, J. Schumann, B. Alkan, P. Kube, C.P. Marshall, N. Pfister and A. Trunschke: Advancing catalysis research through FAIR data principles implemented in a local data infrastructure - a case study of an automated test reactor. Catalysis Science & Technology 14 (21), 6186–6197 (2024).

Murphy, E., B. Sun, M. Rüscher, Y. Liu, W. Zang, S. Guo, Y.-H. Chen, U. Hejral, Y. Huang, A. Ly, I.V. Zenyuk, X. Pan, J. Timoshenko, B. Roldan Cuenya, E.D. Spoerke and P. Atanassov: Synergizing Fe₂O₃ nanoparticles on single atom Fe-N-C for nitrate reduction to ammonia at industrial current densities. Advanced Materials 36 (27), 2401133 (2024).

Nguyen, K.-L.C., J.P. Bruce, A. Yoon, J.J. Navarro, F. Scholten, F. Landwehr, C. Rettenmaier, M. Heyde and B. Roldan Cuenya: The Influence of Mesoscopic Surface Structure on the Electrocatalytic Selectivity of CO₂ Reduction with UHV-Prepared Cu(111) Single Crystals. ACS Energy Letters 9 (2), 644–652 (2024).

Parlinska-Wojtan, M., T.R. Tarnawski, J. Depciuch, M.L. De Marco, K. Sobczak, K. Matlak, M. Pawlyta, R.E. Schaeublin and S.W. Chee: Understanding the Growth of Electrodeposited PtNi Nanoparticle Films Using Correlated In Situ Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy and Synchrotron Radiation. Nano Letters 24 (40), 12361–12367 (2024).

Peng, Y., C. Zhan, H. Jeon, W. Frandsen, B. Roldan Cuenya and C. Kley: Organic Thin Films Enable Retaining the Oxidation State of Copper Catalysts during CO₂ Electroreduction. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 16 (5), 6562–6568 (2024).

Prieto, M., L.de S. Caldas, L.C. Tanase, T. Schmidt and O.R. de la Fuente: Spectromicroscopic study of the transformation with low energy ions of a hematite thin film into a magnetite/hematite epitaxial bilayer. Ultramicroscopy 255, 113855 (2024).

Rettenmaier, C., A. Herzog, D. Casari, M. Rüscher, H. Jeon, D. Kordus, M. Lopez-Luna, S. Kühl, U. Hejral, E. Davis, S.W. Chee, J. Timoshenko, D.T.L. Alexander, A. Bergmann and B. Roldan Cuenya: Operando insights into correlating CO coverage and Cu-Au alloying with the selectivity of Au NP-decorated Cu₂O nanocubes during the electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction. EES Catalysis 2 (1), 311–323 (2024).

Rodellar, C.G., J.M. Gisbert Gonzalez, F.J. Sarabia, B. Roldan Cuenya and S. Oener: Ion solvation kinetics in bipolar membranes and at electrolyte-metal interfaces. Nature Energy 9 (5), 548–558 (2024).

Sarabia, F.J., C.G. Rodellar, B. Roldan Cuenya and S. Oener: Exploring dynamic solvation kinetics at electrocatalyst surfaces. Nature Communications 15, 8204 (2024).

Schlögl, R.: Ammonia Iron: An Epistemic Challenge with Practical Consequences. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128 (46), 19601–19620 (2024).

Schneider, P.M., K.L. Kollmannsberger, C. Cesari, R. Khare, M. Boniface, B. Roldan Cuenya, T. Lunkenbein, M. Elsner, S. Zacchini, A.S. Bandarenka, J. Warnan and R.A. Fischer: Engineering ORR Electrocatalysts from Co₈Pt₄ Carbonyl Clusters via ZIF-8 Templating. ChemElectroChem 11 (5), e202300476 (2024).

Timoshenko, J., C. Rettenmaier, D. Hursán, M. Rüscher, E. Ortega, A. Herzog, T. Wagner, A. Bergmann, U. Hejral, A. Yoon, A. Martini, E. Liberra, M.C.O. Monteiro and B. Roldan Cuenya: Reversible metal cluster formation on Nitrogen-doped carbon controlling electrocatalyst particle size with subnanometer accuracy. Nature Communications 15, 6111 (2024).

Tran, H.P., H.N. Nong, M. Zlatar, A. Yoon, U. Hejral, M. Rüscher, J. Timoshenko, S. Selve, D. Berger, M. Kroschel, M. Klingenhof, B. Paul, S. Möhle, K.N.N. Nasralla, D. Escalera Lopez, A. Bergmann, S. Cherevko, B. Roldan Cuenya and P. Strasser: Reactivity and Stability of Reduced Ir-Weight TiO₂-Supported Oxygen Evolution Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Water Electrolyzer Anodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (46), 31444–31455 (2024).

Velasco Vélez, J., D. Bernsmeier, R. Mom, P. Zeller, Y. Shao-Horn, B. Roldan Cuenya, A. Knop-Gericke, R. Schlögl and T. Jones: Iridium Oxide Coordinatively Unsaturated Active Sites Govern the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Water. Advanced Energy Materials 14 (19), 2303407 (2024).

Velasco Vélez, J., A. Knop-Gericke, B. Roldan Cuenya, R. Schlögl and T. Jones: Pseudocapacitance Facilitates the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. Advanced Energy Materials 14 (31), 2400054 (2024).

Wu, H., L. Huang, J. Timoshenko, K. Qi, W. Wang, J. Liu, Y. Zhang, S. Yang, E. Petit, V. Flaud, J. Li, C. Salameh, P. Miele, L. Lajaunie, B. Roldan Cuenya, D. Rao and D. Voiry: Selective and energy-efficient electrosynthesis of ethylene from CO₂ by tuning the valence of Cu catalysts through aryl diazonium functionalization. Nature Energy 9, 422–433 (2024).

Zhan, C., F. Dattila, C. Rettenmaier, A. Herzog, M. Herran, T. Wagner, F. Scholten, A. Bergmann, N. Lopez and B. Roldan Cuenya: Key intermediates and Cu active sites for CO₂ electroreduction to ethylene and ethanol. Nature Energy 9 (12), 1485–1496 (2024).

Munz, M., B. Roldan Cuenya and C. Kley: In Situ Investigation of Catalytic Interfaces by Scanning Probe Microscopy under Electrochemical Conditions. In: Encyclopedia of Solid-Liquid Interfaces. 1. Ed. (Eds.): K. Wandelt and G. Bussetti. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 656–680 (2024).

Ortega, E. and S.W. Chee: Electron microscopy of liquid-solid interfaces. In: Encyclopedia of Solid-Liquid Interfaces. 1. Ed. (Eds.): K. Wandelt and G. Bussetti. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 368–379 (2024).

Chee, S.W., A. Yoon, S.-Y. Fu and B. Roldan Cuenya: Tracking Morphology and Chemical State of Electrocatalysts during Reaction through Correlated Electron Microscopy, X-ray Microscopy and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Experiments. In: Microscopy and Microanalysis. Cambridge Univ. Pr., New York, NY, ozae044.228 (2024).