Vega Paredes, M.; Scheu, C.; Aymerich Armengol, R.: Expanding the Potential of Identical Location Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy for Gas Evolving Reactions: Stability of Rhenium Molybdenum Disulfide Nanocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 15 (40), pp. 46895 - 46901 (2023)
Liang, Y.; Mrovec, M.; Lysogorskiy, Y.; Vega Paredes, M.; Scheu, C.; Drautz, R.: Atomic cluster expansion for Pt–Rh catalysts: From ab initio to the simulation of nanoclusters in few steps. Journal of Materials Research (2023)
Berova, V.; Garzón-Manjón, A.; Vega Paredes, M.; Scheu, C.; Jurzinsky, T.: Influence of Shell Thickness on Durability of Ru@Pt Core-Shell Catalysts for Reformate PEM Fuel Cells. In ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2022-01 (35), p. 1528. The Electrochemical Society (2022)
Vega Paredes, M.; Garzón-Manjón, A.; Rivas Rivas, N. A.; Berova, V.; Hengge, K. A.; Gänsler, T.; Jurinsky, T.; Scheu, C.: Ruthenium-Platinum Core-Shell Nanoparticles as durable, CO tolerant catalyst for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells. 5th International Caparica Symposium on Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials and Applications (ISN2A), Online (accepted)
Vega Paredes, M.: Degradation mechanisms during operation of high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Bachelor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (2020)
In this project we conduct together with Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen and the department of Prof. Neugebauer ab initio calculations for designing new Mg – Li alloys. Ab initio calculations can accurately predict basic structural, mechanical, and functional properties using only the atomic composition as a basis.
The wide tunability of the fundamental electronic bandgap by size control is a key attribute of semiconductor nanocrystals, enabling applications spanning from biomedical imaging to optoelectronic devices. At finite temperature, exciton-phonon interactions are shown to exhibit a strong impact on this fundamental property.
Enabling a ‘hydrogen economy’ requires developing fuel cells satisfying economic constraints, reasonable operating costs and long-term stability. The fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity by recombining water from H2 and O2, allowing to generate environmentally-friendly power for e.g. cars or houses…
In this project we study - together with the department of Prof. Neugebauer and Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen - the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for the improved room-temperature ductility in Mg–Y alloys compared to pure Mg.
Efficient harvesting of sunlight and (photo-)electrochemical conversion into solar fuels is an emerging energy technology with enormous promise. Such emerging technologies depend critically on materials systems, in which the integration of dissimilar components and the internal interfaces that arise between them determine the functionality.
In this project, we work on a generic solution to design advanced high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with enhanced magnetic properties. By overturning the concept of stabilizing solid solutions in HEAs, we propose to render the massive solid solutions metastable and trigger spinodal decomposition. The motivation for starting from the HEA for this approach…