Berova, V.; Hengge, K.; Burger, T.; Vega-Paredes, M.; Scheu, C.; Jurzinsky, T.: Accelerated stress test study on CO-tolerant PtRu anode catalysts for reformate PEM fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources 632, 236312 (2025)
Camuti, L.; Kim, S.-H.; Podjaski, F.; Vega-Paredes, M.; Mingers, A. M.; Acartürk, T.; Starke, U.; Lotsch, B. V.; Scheu, C.; Gault, B.et al.; Zhang, S.: Kinetics and direct imaging of electrochemically formed palladium hydride for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction. Physics > Chemical Physics (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)
Cheraparambil, H.; Vega-Paredes, M.; Scheu, C.; Weidenthaler, C.: Unraveling the Evolution of Dynamic Active Sites of LaNixFe1-xO3 Catalysts During OER. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 16 (17), pp. 21997 - 22006 (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)
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 38, pp. 5125 - 5135 (2023)
International research team shows how hydrogen affects Nickel-base superalloys at elevated temperatures. Latest results published in journal Nature Materials.
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.
The full potential of energy materials can only be exploited if the interplay between mechanics and chemistry at the interfaces is well known. This leads to more sustainable and efficient energy solutions.
In order to develop more efficient catalysts for energy conversion, the relationship between the surface composition of MXene-based electrode materials and its behavior has to be understood in operando. Our group will demonstrate how APT combined with scanning photoemission electron microscopy can advance the understanding of complex relationships…