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)
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)
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.; 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)
Vega-Paredes, M.; Arenas Esteban, D.; Garzón-Manjón, A.; Scheu, C.: How can electron tomography be used for studying the catalyst degradation of fuel cells. Advanced Electron Nanoscopy Group – Institut Catala de Nanociencia I Nanotecnologia, Bellaterra, Spain (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)
Max Planck scientists design a process that merges metal extraction, alloying and processing into one single, eco-friendly step. Their results are now published in the journal Nature.
Scientists of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung pioneer new machine learning model for corrosion-resistant alloy design. Their results are now published in the journal Science Advances
It is very challenging to simulate electron-transfer reactions under potential control within high-level electronic structure theory, e. g. to study electrochemical and electrocatalytic reaction mechanisms. We develop a novel method to sample the canonical NVTΦ or NpTΦ ensemble at constant electrode potential in ab initio molecular dynamics…
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