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  • Insights into Active Sites and Mechanisms of Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation on Nickel-Iron Oxyhydroxide Electrodes ACS CATALYSIS Wei, L., Hossain, M., Boyd, M. J., Aviles-Acosta, J., Kreider, M. E., Nielander, A. C., Stevens, M., Jaramillo, T. F., Bajdich, M., Hahn, C. 2023: 4272-4282
  • The kinetics and potential dependence of the hydrogen evolution reaction optimized for the basal-plane Te vacancy site of MoTe2 CHEM CATALYSIS Hossain, M., Liu, Z., Liu, H., Tyagi, A., Rehman, F., Li, J., Amjadian, M., Cai, Y., Iii, W., Luo, Z. 2023; 3 (1)
  • Investigation of the Structure of Atomically Dispersed NiNx Sites in Ni and N-Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts by 61Ni Mossbauer Spectroscopy and Simulations. Journal of the American Chemical Society Koshy, D. M., Hossain, M. D., Masuda, R., Yoda, Y., Gee, L. B., Abiose, K., Gong, H., Davis, R., Seto, M., Gallo, A., Hahn, C., Bajdich, M., Bao, Z., Jaramillo, T. F. 2022

    Abstract

    Ni and nitrogen-doped carbons are selective catalysts for CO2 reduction to CO (CO2R), but the hypothesized NiNx active sites are challenging to probe with traditional characterization methods. Here, we synthesize 61Ni-enriched model catalysts, termed 61NiPACN, in order to apply 61Ni Mossbauer spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation (61Ni-SR-MS) to characterize the structure of these atomically dispersed NiNx sites. First, we demonstrate that the CO2R results and standard characterization techniques (SEM, PXRD, XPS, XANES, EXAFS) point to the existence of dispersed Ni active sites. Then, 61Ni-SR-MS reveal significant internal magnetic fields of 5.4 T, which is characteristic of paramagnetic, high-spin Ni2+, in the 61NiPACN samples. Finally, theoretical calculations for a variety of Ni-Nx moieties confirm that high-spin Ni2+ is stable in non-planar, tetrahedrally distorted geometries, which results in calculated isotropic hyperfine coupling that is consistent with 61Ni-SR-MS measurements.

    View details for DOI 10.1021/jacs.2c09825

    View details for PubMedID 36394993

  • Reaction mechanism and kinetics for N-2 reduction to ammonia on the Fe-Ru based dual-atom catalyst JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A Rehman, F., Kwon, S., Hossain, M., Musgrave, C. B., Goddard, W. A., Luo, Z. 2022

    View details for DOI 10.1039/d2ta06826e

    View details for Web of Science ID 000871588400001

  • Recent Criterion on Stability Enhancement of Perovskite Solar Cells PROCESSES Hasan, M., Alom, J., Asaduzzaman, M., Ahmed, M., Hossain, M., Saem, A., Masud, J., Thakare, J., Hossain, M. 2022; 10 (7)

    View details for DOI 10.3390/pr10071408

    View details for Web of Science ID 000831462600001

  • Laser-Irradiated Holey Graphene-Supported Single-Atom Catalyst towards Hydrogen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS Khan, K., Liu, T., Arif, M., Yan, X., Hossain, M., Rehman, F., Zhou, S., Yang, J., Sun, C., Bae, S., Kim, J., Amine, K., Pan, X., Luo, Z. 2021
  • Highly Reversible Sodiation/Desodiation from a Carbon-Sandwiched SnS2 Nanosheet Anode for Sodium Ion Batteries NANO LETTERS Liu, Z., Daali, A., Xu, G., Zhuang, M., Zuo, X., Sun, C., Liu, Y., Cai, Y., Hossain, M., Liu, H., Amine, K., Luo, Z. 2020; 20 (5): 3844–51

    Abstract

    The further improvement of sodium ion batteries requires the elucidation of the mechanisms pertaining to reversibility, which allows the novel design of the electrode structure. Here, through a hydrogel-embedding method, we are able to confine the growth of few-layer SnS2 nanosheets between a nitrogen- and sulfur-doped carbon nanotube (NS-CNT) and amorphous carbon. The obtained carbon-sandwiched SnS2 nanosheets demonstrate excellent sodium storage properties. In operando small-angle X-ray scattering combined with the ex situ X-ray absorption near edge spectra reveal that the redox reactions between SnS2/NS-CNT and the sodium ion are highly reversible. On the contrary, the nanostructure evolution is found to be irreversible, in which the SnS2 nanosheets collapse, followed by the regeneration of SnS2 nanoparticles. This work provides operando insights into the chemical environment evolution and structure change of SnS2-based anodes, elucidating its reversible reaction mechanism, and illustrates the significance of engineered carbon support in ensuring the electrode structure stability.

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00964

    View details for Web of Science ID 000535255300118

    View details for PubMedID 32283937