Publications

Peer-reviewed work

100 Papers
2010-2026 Year range

2026

Neural-network analysis of CO adlayer structures and lateral interactions on transition metal surfaces. details AI for Science 2026, 2 (2), 025001.

Correlating Vibrational Spectra to C1 Surface Species on Nickel-Based Hydrogenation Catalysts Using Density Functional Theory. details Chem. Eur. J. 2026, 4 (4), e202500338.

Microkinetics of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol on In2O3-supported Ni-In clusters. details Appl. Catal. B 2026, 384, 126238.

2025

Catalytic In Situ Acetalization Strategy for High-Yield Synthesis of C4- and C2-Carbohydrate Derivatives from Glucose. details ACS Catal. 2025, 16 (2), 1675-1683.

A hybrid machine learning and DFT-informed microkinetic model for ammonia decomposition on Ru/Al2O3. details Chem. Eng. J. 2025, 525 (1), 169993.

The Intricacies of Computational Electrochemistry. details ACS Energy Lett. 2025, 10 (9), 4277–4288.

The nature of K promotion of χ-Fe5C2 for high chain-growth probability in the Fischer–Tropsch reaction. details Appl. Catal. B 2025, 374, 125403.

A computational study of K promotion of CO dissociation on Hägg carbide. details Catal. Sci. Technol. 2025 (11), 3262–3274.

Unveiling the Au-Mn-Cu synergy in Au/LaMnCuO3 catalysts for selective ethanol oxidation. details Chin. J. Catal. 2025, 75, 34-48.

A Theoretical Study of the Role of K on the Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction on Hägg Carbide. details J. Catal. 2025, 72, 289–300.

2024

Ortho-functionalized pyridinyl-tetrazines break the inverse correlation between click reactivity and cleavage yields in click-to-release chemistry. details Comm. Chem. 2024, 7, 302.

Efficient conversion of syngas to linear α-olefins by phase-pure χ-Fe5C2. details Nature 2024, 635, 102-107.

Multiscale modelling of CO2 hydrogenation of TiO2-supported Ni8 clusters: on the influence of anatase and rutile polymorphs. details Catal. Sci. & Technol. 2024, 14, 6393-6410.

Chirality-Induced Magnetic Polarization by Charge Localization in a Chiral Supramolecular Crystal. details Adv. Mater. 2024, 36 (41), 2403807.

Transferable, Living Data Sets for Predicting Global Minimum Energy Nanocluster Geometries. details JCTC 2024, 20 (15), 6801-6812.

Unravelling CO Activation on Flat and Stepped Co Surfaces: A Molecular Orbital Analysis. details J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128 (22), 8947-8960.

Descriptor for C2N-Supported Single-Cluster Catalysts in Bifunctional Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions. details J. Phys. Lett. 2024, 15 (7), 2066-2074.

2023

Computational study of CO2 methanation on Ru/CeO2 model surfaces: On the impact of Ru doping in CeO2. details ACS Catal. 2023, 13 (23), 15230-15247.

Direct coupling of microkinetic and reactor models using neural networks. details Chem. Eng. J. 2023, 475, 145538.

Elucidation of the Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction Mechanism over an Isolated Ru Atom on CeO2(111). details J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127 (41), 20314-20324.

Bramble: adaptive common neighbor analysis (CNA) for the recognition of surface topologies in nanoparticles. details JOSS 2023, 8 (89), 5710.

Effect of reaction atmosphere on catalytic CO oxidation over Cu-based bimetallic nanoclusters on a CeO2 support. details Phys. Rev. Appl. 2023, 20, 034051.

A Computational Study of Electrochemical CO2 reduction to formic acid on Metal-Doped SnO2. details Chin. J. Catal. 2023, 50, 249-259.

Unravelling the Role of Metal-Support Interactions on the Structure Sensitivity of Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis. details J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127 (31), 15148–15156.

A computational study of CO2 hydrogenation on single atoms of Pt, Pd, Ni and Rh on In2O3(111). details Catal. Sci. Technol. 2023, 13, 4701-4715.

The Promoting Role of Ni on In2O3 for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol. details ACS Catal. 2023, 13 (3), 1875-1892.

2022

Near Unity Electrochemical CO2 to CO Conversion over Sn-doped Copper Oxide Nanoparticles. details ACS Catal. 2022, 12 (24), 15146-15156.

Structure Sensitivity of CO2 Conversion over Nickel Metal Nanoparticles Explained by Micro-Kinetics Simulations. details JACS Au 2022, 2 (12), 2714-2730.

What Happens at Surfaces and Grain Boundaries of Halide Perovskites: Insights from Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations of CsPbI3. details ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14 (36), 40841-40850.

Lateral Interactions of Dynamic Adlayer Structures from Artificial Neural Networks. details J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126 (12), 5529-5540.

On the Potential of Gallium-and Indium-Based Liquid Metal Membranes for Hydrogen Separation. details Membranes 2022, 12 (1), 75.

2021

Ni-In Synergy in CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol. details ACS Catal. 2021, 11 (18), 11371-11384.

Enumerating active sites on metal nanoparticles: Understanding the size dependence of cobalt particles for CO dissociation. details ACS Catal. 2021, 11 (14), 8484-8492.

Atomistic Insights Into the Degradation of Inorganic Halide Perovskite CsPbI3: A Reactive Force Field Molecular Dynamics Study. details J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12 (23), 5519-5525.

Improved Pd/CeO2 Catalysts for Low-Temperature NO Reduction: Activation of CeO2 Lattice Oxygen by Fe Doping. details ACS Catal. 2021, 11 (9), 5614-5627.

2020

Dynamics of gold clusters on ceria during CO oxidation. details J. Catal. 2020, 392, 39-47.

Stability of heterogeneous single-atom catalysts: a scaling law mapping thermodynamics to kinetics. details Npj Comput. Mater. 2020, 6, 144.

A theoretical study of CO oxidation and O2 activation for transition metal overlayers on SrTiO3 perovskite. details J. Catal. 2020, 391, 229-240.

Detailed chemomechanistic sensitivity study on the alkoxylation of fatty amines. details Int. J. Chem. Kinet. 2020, 52 (11), 861-871.

Design of Nonideal Eutectic Mixtures Based on Correlations with Molecular Properties. details J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124 (25), 5209-5219.

Bioorthogonal Tetrazine Carbamate Cleavage by Highly Reactive trans-Cyclooctene. details J. Chem. Am. Soc. 2020, 142 (25), 10955-10963.

A theoretical study of the reverse water-gas shift reaction on Ni(111) and Ni(311) surfaces. details Can. J. Chem. Eng. 2020, 98, 740-748.

First-principles microkinetics simulations of electrochemical reduction of CO2 over Cu catalysts. details Electrochimica Acta. 2020, 335, 135665.

A quantum-chemical study of the CO dissociation mechanism on low-index Miller planes of theta-Fe 3 C. details Catal. Today 2020, 342, 152-160.

First-principles based microkinetic modeling of transient kinetics of CO hydrogenation on cobalt catalysts. details Catal. Today 2020, 342, 131-141.

2019

Linear activation energy-reaction energy relations for LaBO3 (B = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) supported single-atom platinum group metal catalysts for CO oxidation. details J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123 (51), 31130-31141.

Understanding carbon dioxide activation and carbon–carbon coupling over nickel. details Nature Comm. 2019, 10, 5330.

A theoretical study of the reverse water-gas shift reaction on Ni(111) and Ni(311) surfaces. details Can. J. Chem. Eng. 2019, 98 (3), 740-748.

Supramolecular interactions between catalytic species allow rational control over reaction kinetics. details Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 9115-9124.

Efficient Base-Metal NiMn/TiO2 Catalyst for CO2 Methanation. details ACS Catal. 2019, 9 (9), 7823-7839.

Coverage Effects in CO Dissociation on Metallic Cobalt Nanoparticles. details ACS Catal. 2019, 9 (8), 7365-7372.

Understanding the impact of defects on catalytic CO oxidation of LaFeO3Supported Rh, Pd and Pt single atom catalysts. details J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123 (12), 7290-7298.

Theoretical approach to predict stability of supported single-atom catalysts. details ACS Catal. 2019, 9 (4), 3289-3297.

Quantum-chemical-based microkinetics simulations of syngas conversion over MoS2(100) surface. details Chemical Engineering Science 2019, 198, 166-183.

2018

Reversible Restructuring of Silver Particles during Ethylene Epoxidation. details ACS Catal. 2018, 8 (12), 11794-11800.

Highly active and stable CH4 oxidation by substitution of Ce4+ by two Pd2+ ions in CeO2(111). details ACS Catal. 2018, 8 (7), 6552-6559.

Potential enthalpic energy of water in oils exploited to control supramolecular structure. details Nature 2018, 558 (7708), 100-103.

Transition metal doping of Pd(111) for the NO+CO reaction. details J. Catal. 2018, 363, 154-163.

Optimum Particle Size for Gold-Catalyzed CO Oxidation. details J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122 (5), 8327-8340.

Quantum-Chemical DFT Study of Direct and H- and C-Assisted CO Dissociation on the X-Fe5C2 Hägg Carbide. details J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122 (18), 9929-9938.

A Linear Scaling Relation for CO Oxidation on CeO2-Supported Pd. details J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (13), 4580-4587.

An active alkali-exchanged faujasite catalyst for para-xylene production via the one-pot Diels-Alder cycloaddition/dehydration reaction of 2,5-dimethylfuran with ethylene. details ACS Catal. 2018, 8 (2), 760-769.

Stable Pd-Doped Ceria Structures for CH4 Activation and CO Oxidation. details ACS Catal. 2018, 8 (1), 75-80.

Optimum Cu Nanoparticle Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation Towards Methanol. details Nano Energy 2018, 43, 200-209.

Mechanism of Carbon Monoxide Dissociation on a Cobalt Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst. details ChemCatChem 2018, 10 (1), 136-140.

2017

Mechanism of Cobalt-Catalyzed CO Hydrogenation: 2. Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis. details ACS Catal. 2017, 7 (12), 8061-8071.

Mechanism of Cobalt-Catalyzed CO Hydrogenation: 1. Methanation. details ACS Catal. 2017, 7 (12), 8050–8060.

Theoretical Study of Ripening Mechanisms of Pd Clusters on Ceria. details Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (21), 9456–9462.

Unravelling the Pathway Complexity in Conformationally Flexible N-Centered Triarylamine Trisamides. details Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23 (25), 6103-6110.

CO oxidation on Rh-doped hexadecagold clusters. details Catal. Sci. Technol. 2017, 7 (1), 75-78.

Kinetic aspects of chain growth in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. details Faraday Discuss. 2017, 197, 153-164.

2016

Charge Transport over the Defective CeO2(111) Surface. details Chem. Mater. 2016, 28 (16), 5652–5658.

Identification of step-edge sites on Rh nanoparticles for facile CO dissociation. details Catalysis Communications 2016, 77, 5-8.

2015

A quantum-chemical DFT study of CO dissociation on Fe-promoted stepped Rh surfaces. details Catal. Today 2015, 275, 111–118.

First-Principles-Based Microkinetics Simulations of Synthesis Gas Conversion on a Stepped Rhodium Surface. details ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 5453-5467.

Microkinetic Modeling of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction at the Pt(111)/Gas Interface. details Catal. Lett. 2015, 145 (1), 451-457.

2014

The Optimally Performing Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst. details Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53 (47), 12746–12750.

Quantum chemistry of the Fischer–Tropsch reaction catalysed by a stepped ruthenium surface. details Catal. Sci. Technol. 2014, 4, 3129-3140.

Correlating Fischer-Tropsch activity to Ru nanoparticle surface structure as probed by high-energy X-ray diffraction. details Chem. Comm. 2014, 50 (45), 6005-6008.

Reactivity of CO on Carbon-Covered Cobalt Surfaces in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis. details J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118 (10), 5317-5327.

Development of a benzimidazole-derived bidentate P,N-ligand for enantioselective iridium-catalyzed hydrogenations. details Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 2, 350-362.

2013

Conformational Analysis of Chiral Supramolecular Aggregates: Modeling the Subtle Difference between Hydrogen and Deuterium. details J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135 (44), 16497-16506.

Catalytic properties of extraframework iron-containing species in ZSM-5 for N2O decomposition. details J. Catal. 2013, 308, 386-397.

Mechanism and microkinetics of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction. details Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2013, 15 (40), 17038-17063.

Self-healing systems based on disulfide-thiol exchange reactions. details Pol. Chem. 2013, 4 (18), 4955-4965.

Microkinetics of steam methane reforming on platinum and rhodium metal surfaces. details J. Catal. 2013, 297, 227-235.

2012

The origin of isotope-induced helical-sense bias in supramolecular polymers of benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamides. details Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2012, 14, 13997-14002.

2011

Cooperative Two-Component Self-Assembly of Mono- And Ditopic Monomers. details Macromolecules 2011, 44 (16), 6581-6587.

Size and Topological Effects of Rhodium Surfaces, Clusters and Nanoparticles on the Dissociation of CO. details J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115 (29), 14204-14212.

2010

Understanding Cooperativity in Hydrogen-Bond-Induced Supramolecular Polymerization: A Density Functional Theory Study. details J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114 (43), 13667-13674.

Dynamic Supramolecular Polymers Based on Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamides: The Influence of Amide Connectivity on Aggregate Stability and Amplification of Chirality. details Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 810-821.

Tuning the Extent of Chiral Amplification by Temperature in a Dynamic Supramolecular Polymer. details J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132 (2), 611-619.