A. Bayer

TL;DR: In this paper, the growth and alloying of thin Zn layers on Pd(1.1) was investigated using X-ray and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy as well as low energy electron diffraction and correlated with density functional calculations.

TL;DR: The overall surface reactivity of PdZn alloy was found to be similar to that of metallic Cu, a material recently proposed to be superior to the industrially used Cu based catalysts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the dissociation and oxidation of methanol on the pure and oxygen-precovered Cu(1/1/0) surface using high resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HRXPS) which allows the identification and quantification of reaction intermediates after various annealing steps while they are still on the surface.

TL;DR: In this paper, the low-temperature reactivity of water adsorbed on clean and oxygen pre-covered Cu(1/1/0) was studied using high resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HRXPS) and low energy electron diffraction (LEED).

TL;DR: A model study is performed under ultrahigh-vacuum conditions using single-crystal-based supported model catalysts, and it is shown that the fully oxidized CeO(2) thin films undergo slight reduction upon Pt deposition, indicating facile oxygen release and reverse spillover.