PhD position “From the solid-vacuum interface to the working electrode – Nature, reactivity and functionality of hydrogen-derived electron centers in semiconducting oxides”

Department of Materials Science and Physics, University of Salzburg, Austria

Controlling the physics and chemistry of binary and ternary praseodymium and cerium oxide systems

G. Niu, M. H. Zoellner, T. Schroeder, A. Schaefer, J. H. Jhang, V. Zielasek, M. Bäumer, H. Wilkens, J. Wollschläger, R. Olbrich, C. Lammers, M. Reichling, PCCP 17, 24513 (2015).

When ruthenia met titania: Achieving extraordinary catalytic activity at low temperature by nanostructuring oxides

J. Graciani, F. Yang, J. Evans, A. B. Vidal, D. Stacchiola, J. Rodriguez and J. Fdez Sanz, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 26813 (2015).

Surface-specific visible light luminescence from composite metal oxide nanocrystals

A. Sternig, J. Bernardi, K. McKenna, O. Diwald, J. Mater. Sci. 50, 8153 (2015).

Methane Oxidation over PdO(101) Revealed by First-Principles Kinetic Modeling

M. V. d. Bossche and H. Grönbeck, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 12035 (2015).

Water Oxidation by Ru-Polyoxometalate Catalysts: Overpotential Dependency on the Number and Charge of the Metal Centers

S. Piccinin and S. Fabris, Inorganics 3, 374 (2015).

Structure, Morphology and Reducibility of Epitaxial Cerium Oxide Ultrathin Films and Nanostructures

P. Luches, S. Valeri, Materials 8, 5818 (2015).

Direct Visualization of Soliton CO Overlayers on Supported Pd Nanoparticles

C. M. Yim, C. L. Pang and G. Thornton, J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 22044 (2015).

Effects of Thermal Fluctuations on the Hydroxylation and Reduction of Ceria Surfaces by Molecular H2

F. R. Negreiros, M. Farnesi and S. Fabris, J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 21567 (2015).

Thermal evolution of cobalt deposits on Co3O4(111): atomically dispersed cobalt, two-dimensional CoO islands, and metallic Co nanoparticles

S. Mehl, P. Ferstl, M. Schuler, A. Toghan, O. Brummel, L. Hammer, M. A. Schneider, and J. Libuda, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 23538 (2015).