In Situ Microscopy and Spectroscopy Applied to Surfaces at Work

Observing gas-catalyst dynamics at atomic resolution and single-atom sensitivity

(2015) S. Helveg et al.   MICRON

Real-Time Observation of Morphological Transformations in II–VI Semiconducting Nanobelts via Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy

(2015) Rahul Agarwal et al.   NANO LETTERS

Comparative in Operando Studies in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Atomic and Electronic Structural Features in the Hydrogenation of Ethylene over Supported Pd and Pt Catalysts

(2015) Ulrich Jung et al.   ACS Catalysis

Selective Amplification of CO Bond Hydrogenation on Pt/TiO2: Catalytic Reaction and Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Studies of Crotonaldehyde Hydrogenation

(2014) Griffin Kennedy et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

In situ TEM ion irradiation and implantation effects on Au nanoparticle morphologies

(2014) Daniel Bufford et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Time-Resolved (2 s) Study of the Initial Steps of the Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO: From Branched Isomers to Unsaturated Molecules

(2014) Gérôme Melaet et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Evidence of Highly Active Cobalt Oxide Catalyst for the Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis and CO2 Hydrogenation

(2014) Gérôme Melaet et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Environmental TEM Study of Electron Beam Induced Sintering of Ag Nanoparticles

(2014) Yuzi Liu et al.   MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS

Revealing the Atomic Restructuring of Pt–Co Nanoparticles

(2014) Huolin L. Xin et al.   NANO LETTERS

Visualization of oscillatory behaviour of Pt nanoparticles catalysing CO oxidation

(2014) S. B. Vendelbo et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Chemical composition mapping with nanometre resolution by soft X-ray microscopy

(2014) David A. Shapiro et al.   Nature Photonics

An in situ transmission electron microscopy study of sintering and redispersion phenomena over size-selected metal nanoparticles: environmental effects

(2014) Farzad Behafarid et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Highly active copper-ceria and copper-ceria-titania catalysts for methanol synthesis from CO2

(2014) J. Graciani et al.   SCIENCE

Isomerization of n-Hexane Catalyzed by Supported Monodisperse PtRh Bimetallic Nanoparticles

(2013) Nathan Musselwhite et al.   CATALYSIS LETTERS

In Situ Aberration-Corrected Environmental TEM: Reduction of Model Co3O4in H2at the Atomic Level

(2013) Michael R. Ward et al.   ChemCatChem

3D Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of the Distribution of Aluminum Coordination Environments in Zeolites with Soft X-Ray Microscopy

(2013) Luis R. Aramburo et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Exploring surface science and restructuring in reactive atmospheres of colloidally prepared bimetallic CuNi and CuCo nanoparticles on SiO2in situ using ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

(2013) Simon K. Beaumont et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Mapping Molecular Orientation with Phase Sensitive Vibrationally Resonant Sum-Frequency Generation Microscopy

(2013) Yang Han et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Pt-Mediated Reversible Reduction and Expansion of CeO2 in Pt Nanoparticle/Mesoporous CeO2 Catalyst: In Situ X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction Studies under Redox (H2 and O2) Atmospheres

(2013) Selim Alayoglu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Monitoring Localized Initial Atmospheric Corrosion of Alkanethiol-Covered Copper Using Sum Frequency Generation Imaging Microscopy: Relation between Monolayer Properties and Cu2O Formation

(2013) Greggy M. Santos et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Surface Composition Changes of Redox Stabilized Bimetallic CoCu Nanoparticles Supported on Silica under H2 and O2 Atmospheres and During Reaction between CO2 and H2: In Situ X-ray Spectroscopic Characterization

(2013) Selim Alayoglu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

In Situ TEM Study of Catalytic Nanoparticle Reactions in Atmospheric Pressure Gas Environment

(2013) Huolin L. Xin et al.   MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS

Stepwise Displacement of Catalytically Active Gold Nanoparticles on Cerium Oxide

(2013) Yasufumi Kuwauchi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Characterization of Si hybrid CMOS detectors for use in the soft X-ray band

(2013) Zachary Prieskorn et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Nonlinear Light Scattering and Spectroscopy of Particles and Droplets in Liquids

(2012) Sylvie Roke et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Growth Mechanism of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Iron–Copper Catalyst and Chirality Studies by Electron Diffraction

(2012) Maoshuai He et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Direct Detection of 100–5000 eV Electrons With Delta-Doped Silicon CMOS and Electron-Multiplying CCD Imagers

(2012) B. C. Jacquot et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES

Improving the resolution in soft X-ray emission spectrometers through photon-counting using an Electron Multiplying CCD

(2012) D J Hall et al.   Journal of Instrumentation

Geometric Arrangement of Components in Bimetallic PdZn/Pd(111) Surfaces Modified by CO Adsorption: A Combined Study by Density Functional Calculations, Polarization-Modulated Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy, and Temperature-Programmed Desorption

(2012) Christian Weilach et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Structure Sensitivity in Pt Nanoparticle Catalysts for Hydrogenation of 1,3-Butadiene: In Situ Study of Reaction Intermediates Using SFG Vibrational Spectroscopy

(2012) William D. Michalak et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Hydrocarbon Chain Lengthening in Catalytic CO Hydrogenation: Evidence for a CO-Insertion Mechanism

(2012) Julien Schweicher et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy in an Aberration-Corrected Environment

(2012) Thomas W. Hansen et al.   MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS

Intrinsic Relation between Catalytic Activity of CO Oxidation on Ru Nanoparticles and Ru Oxides Uncovered with Ambient Pressure XPS

(2012) Kamran Qadir et al.   NANO LETTERS

Styrene oligomerization as a molecular probe reaction for Brønsted acidity at the nanoscale

(2012) Luis R. Aramburo et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

CO oxidation over ruthenium: identification of the catalytically active phases at near-atmospheric pressures

(2012) Feng Gao et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Visualizing Gas Molecules Interacting with Supported Nanoparticulate Catalysts at Reaction Conditions

(2012) H. Yoshida et al.   SCIENCE

Ptychographic electron microscopy using high-angle dark-field scattering for sub-nanometre resolution imaging

(2012) M.J. Humphry et al.   Nature Communications

High-Pressure Adsorption of Ethylene on Cubic Pt Nanoparticles and Pt(100) Single Crystals Probed by in Situ Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

(2012) S. J. Kweskin et al.   ACS Catalysis

In Situ Surface and Reaction Probe Studies with Model Nanoparticle Catalysts

(2012) Selim Alayoglu et al.   ACS Catalysis

Redox-Controlled Crotyl Alcohol Selective Oxidation: In Situ Oxidation and Reduction Dynamics of Catalytic Pd Nanoparticles via Synchronous XANES/MS

(2012) Christine V. Gaskell et al.   ACS Catalysis

Determination of Molecular Surface Structure, Composition, and Dynamics under Reaction Conditions at High Pressures and at the Solid-Liquid Interface

(2011) Gabor A. Somorjai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

CO Oxidation as a Prototypical Reaction for Heterogeneous Processes

(2011) Hans-Joachim Freund et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Sum Frequency Generation Microscopy Study of Cellulose Fibers

(2011) Hoang Chi Hieu et al.   APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY

Reaction pathways of ethanol electrooxidation on polycrystalline platinum catalysts in acidic electrolytes

(2011) Robert B. Kutz et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Ostwald ripening in a Pt/SiO2 model catalyst studied by in situ TEM

(2011) Søren Bredmose Simonsen et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

High-resolution in situ and ex situ TEM studies on graphene formation and growth on Pt nanoparticles

(2011) Zhenmeng Peng et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Communication: Spectroscopic phase and lineshapes in high-resolution broadband sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy: Resolving interfacial inhomogeneities of “identical” molecular groups

(2011) Luis Velarde et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Chemical Imaging and Distribution Analysis of Mono-, Bi-, and Tridentate Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold by Sum Frequency Generation Imaging Microscopy

(2011) Marjorie Hernandez et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Dynamic Structure of a Working Methanol Steam Reforming Catalyst: In Situ Quick-EXAFS on Pd/ZnO Nanoparticles

(2011) Karin Föttinger et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

UV–Ozone Cleaning of Supported Poly(vinylpyrrolidone)-Stabilized Palladium Nanocubes: Effect of Stabilizer Removal on Morphology and Catalytic Behavior

(2011) Micaela Crespo-Quesada et al.   LANGMUIR

Evaluation of the Role of Au in Improving Catalytic Activity of Ni Nanoparticles for the Formation of One-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures

(2011) Renu Sharma et al.   NANO LETTERS

In-situ X-ray Absorption Study of Evolution of Oxidation States and Structure of Cobalt in Co and CoPt Bimetallic Nanoparticles (4 nm) under Reducing (H2) and Oxidizing (O2) Environments

(2011) Fan Zheng et al.   NANO LETTERS

Rapid vibrational imaging with sum frequency generation microscopy

(2011) Varun Raghunathan et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

CO2 Hydrogenation Studies on Co and CoPt Bimetallic Nanoparticles Under Reaction Conditions Using TEM, XPS and NEXAFS

(2011) Selim Alayoglu et al.   TOPICS IN CATALYSIS

Subsurface-Controlled CO2Selectivity of PdZn Near-Surface Alloys in H2Generation by Methanol Steam Reforming

(2010) Christoph Rameshan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Identifying reaction intermediates and catalytic active sites through in situ characterization techniques

(2010) Andrew J. Foster et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Catalyst and catalyst support morphology evolution in single-walled carbon nanotube supergrowth: Growth deceleration and termination

(2010) Seung Min Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Probing Terrace and Step Sites on Pt Nanoparticles Using CO and Ethylene

(2010) Matthew J. Lundwall et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Furan Hydrogenation over Pt(111) and Pt(100) Single-Crystal Surfaces and Pt Nanoparticles from 1 to 7 nm: A Kinetic and Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Study

(2010) Christopher J. Kliewer et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Evolution of Structure and Chemistry of Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts under Reaction Conditions

(2010) Feng Tao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct Observations of Oxygen-induced Platinum Nanoparticle Ripening Studied by In Situ TEM

(2010) Søren B. Simonsen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Characterisation of a CMOS active pixel sensor for use in the TEAM microscope

(2010) Marco Battaglia et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Infrared imaging of an A549 cultured cell by a vibrational sum-frequency generation detected infrared super-resolution microscope

(2010) Satoshi Kogure et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Selectivity enhancement in functionalization of C–H bonds: A review

(2010) Georgiy B. Shul'pin   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Structural and Architectural Evaluation of Bimetallic Nanoparticles: A Case Study of Pt−Ru Core−Shell and Alloy Nanoparticles

(2009) Selim Alayoglu et al.   ACS Nano

Coherent methods in the X-ray sciences

(2009) Keith A. Nugent   ADVANCES IN PHYSICS

Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Soft Matter Interfaces

(2009) Sylvie Roke   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Sum Frequency Generation and Catalytic Reaction Studies of the Removal of Organic Capping Agents from Pt Nanoparticles by UV−Ozone Treatment

(2009) Cesar Aliaga et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Adsorption of Propylene Carbonate (PC) on the LiCoO2 Surface Investigated by Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy

(2009) Huijin Liu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Ultrafast Vibrational Energy Transfer in the Layers of D2O and CO on Pt(111) Studied with Time-Resolved Sum-Frequency-Generation Spectroscopy

(2009) Masashi Nagao et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Chemical Microscopy of Surfaces by Sum Frequency Generation Imaging

(2009) Katherine A. Cimatu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

CO Oxidation over AuPd(100) from Ultrahigh Vacuum to Near-Atmospheric Pressures: The Critical Role of Contiguous Pd Atoms

(2009) Feng Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

In Situ and Real-Time Monitoring of Oxide Growth in a Few Monolayers at Surfaces of Platinum Nanoparticles in Aqueous Media

(2009) Hideto Imai et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Tuning selectivity in catalysis by controlling particle shape

(2009) Ilkeun Lee et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photoelectron spectroscopy under ambient pressure and temperature conditions

(2009) D. Frank Ogletree et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Nonlinear Mie theory for second-harmonic and sum-frequency scattering

(2009) Alex G. F. de Beer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Watching Nanocrystals Grow

(2009) C. B. Murray   SCIENCE

Preferential Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Metallic Conductivity

(2009) A. R. Harutyunyan et al.   SCIENCE

Observation of Single Colloidal Platinum Nanocrystal Growth Trajectories

(2009) H. Zheng et al.   SCIENCE

Reaction selectivity in heterogeneous catalysis

(2009) Gabor A. Somorjai et al.  

A Reactive Oxide Overlayer on Rhodium Nanoparticles during CO Oxidation and Its Size Dependence Studied by In Situ Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

(2008) Michael E. Grass et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Molecular Factors of Catalytic Selectivity

(2008) Gabor A. Somorjai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Pyrrole Hydrogenation over Rh(111) and Pt(111) Single-Crystal Surfaces and Hydrogenation Promotion Mediated by 1-Methylpyrrole: A Kinetic and Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Study

(2008) Christopher J. Kliewer et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Sum Frequency Generation Imaging Microscopy of Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers with Terminal −CH3, −OCH3, −CF2CF3, −C═C, −Phenyl, and −Cyclopropyl Groups

(2008) Katherine Cimatu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Atomic-Scale In-situ Observation of Carbon Nanotube Growth from Solid State Iron Carbide Nanoparticles

(2008) Hideto Yoshida et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanoscale chemical imaging of a working catalyst by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy

(2008) Emiel de Smit et al.   NATURE

Reaction-Driven Restructuring of Rh-Pd and Pt-Pd Core-Shell Nanoparticles

(2008) F. Tao et al.   SCIENCE