Kwon, S.; Kim, J.; Aymerich Armengol, R.; Lee, C.; Jung, Y. M.; Han, J.-H.; Helveg, S.; Scheu, C.; Lim, J.: Unlocking the potential of MoS2 for efficient hydrogen generation by controlling hydrothermal conditions. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 161, 150671 (2025)
Garzón Manjón, A.; Vega-Paredes, M.; Aymerich Armengol, R.; Esteban, D.; Sanchez, S.; Bals, S.; Scheu, C.: Insights into the degradation of nanocatalysts under fuel cell conditions by 3D identical location STEM. BIO Web of Conferences 129 (2024), 13013 (2024)
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)
Aymerich Armengol, R.: Techniques for the assessment of the stability of (sea) water splitting nanocatalysts. Korean Institute for Energy Research, Jeju, South Korea (2023)
Vega-Paredes, M.; Aymerich Armengol, R.; Scheu, C.: Determining the degradation mechanisms and active species of electrocatalysts by identical location electron microscopy. NRF-DFG meeting “Electrodes for direct sea-water splitting and microstructure based stability analyses”, Korean Institute for Energy Research, Jeju, South Korea (2023)
Aymerich Armengol, R.: Determination of the structural and electrochemical stability of nanocatalysts for electrolyzer applications. Chemistry Department, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, South Korea (2023)
Aymerich Armengol, R.: Understanding the stability of nanomaterials through electron microscopy techniques. Physics Department, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (2023)
International research team shows how hydrogen affects Nickel-base superalloys at elevated temperatures. Latest results published in journal Nature Materials.
Water electrolysis has the potential to become the major technology for the production of the high amount of green hydrogen that is necessary for its widespread application in a decarbonized economy. The bottleneck of this electrochemical reaction is the anodic partial reaction, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which is sluggish and hence…
This project targets to exploit or develop new methodologies to not only visualize the 3D morphology but also measure chemical distribution of as-synthesized nanostructures using atom probe tomography.
The mission of our group is to uncover the fundamental mechanisms of deformation and degradation in battery systems and to leverage mechanical principles to design damage-resilient energy storage systems.
Here the focus lies on investigating the temperature dependent deformation of material interfaces down to the individual microstructural length-scales, such as grain/phase boundaries or hetero-interfaces, to understand brittle-ductile transitions in deformation and the role of chemistry or crystallography on it.
The group aims at unraveling the inner workings of ion batteries, with a focus on probing the microstructural and interfacial character of electrodes and electrolytes that control ionic transport and insertion into the electrode.