Jens K. Nørskov

TL;DR: This work proposes a decentralized device concept that can utilize sunlight to split water into hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide, and presents a rational design principle for the selectivity in electrochemical water oxidation and identifies new material candidates that could perform H2O2 evolution selectively.

TL;DR: In this article, a micro-kinetic model based on density functional theory calculations of stepwise and concerted methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) conversion was proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report combined scanning tunneling microscopy and electrochemical reactivity measurements on individual palladium nanoparticles supported on a gold surface and show that the catalytic activity towards electrochemical proton reduction is enhanced by more than two orders of magnitude as the diameter of the palladium particles parallel to the support surface decreases from 200 to 6 nm.

TL;DR: It is shown that considering the free energy diagram for the reactions, under typical industrial conditions, provides additional insight into reactivity trends.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the strong interaction between gold and rutile TiO2(1/1/0) surface, claimed to be responsible for the enhanced reactivity of the system, does not exist for defect free supports.