Outputs (3)

Timing the escape of a photoexcited electron from a molecular cage (2025)
Journal Article
Fields, C., Foerster, A., Ghaderzadeh, S., Popov, I., Huynh, B., Junqueira, F., James, T., Alonso Perez, S., Duncan, D. A., Lee, T.-L., Wang, Y., Bloodworth, S., Hoffman, G., Walkey, M., Whitby, R. J., Levitt, M. H., Kiraly, B., O’Shea, J. N., Besley, E., & Moriarty, P. (2025). Timing the escape of a photoexcited electron from a molecular cage. Nature Communications, 16, Article 5062. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60260-z

Charge transfer is fundamentally dependent on the overlap of the orbitals comprising the transport pathway. This has key implications for molecular, nanoscale, and quantum technologies, for which delocalization (and decoherence) rates are essential f... Read More about Timing the escape of a photoexcited electron from a molecular cage.

A descriptor guiding the selection of catalyst supports for ammonia synthesis (2025)
Journal Article
Weilhard, A., Popov, I., Kohlrausch, E. C., Aliev, G. N., Blankenship, L. S., Norman, L. T., Ghaderzadeh, S., Smith, L., Isaacs, M., O'Shea, J., Lanterna, A. E., Theis, W., Morgan, D., Hutchings, G. J., Besley, E., Khlobystov, A. N., & Alves Fernandes, J. (2025). A descriptor guiding the selection of catalyst supports for ammonia synthesis. Chemical Science, 16(11), 4851-4859. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sc08253b

The efforts to increase the active surface area of catalysts led to reduction of metal particle size, down to single metal atoms. This results in increasing importance of support-metal interactions. We demonstrate the mechanisms through which the sup... Read More about A descriptor guiding the selection of catalyst supports for ammonia synthesis.

Direct Deposition of Copper Atoms onto Graphitic Step Edges Lowers Overpotential and Improves Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Thangamuthu, M., Burwell, T., Aliev, G., Ghaderzadeh, S., Kohlrausch, E., Chen, Y., Theis, W., Norman, L., Fernandes, J., Besley, E., Licence, P., & Khlobystov, A. Direct Deposition of Copper Atoms onto Graphitic Step Edges Lowers Overpotential and Improves Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Minimizing our reliance on bulk precious metals is to increase the fraction of surface atoms and improve the metal-support interface. In this work, we employ a solvent/ligand/counterion-free method to deposit copper in the atomic form directly onto a... Read More about Direct Deposition of Copper Atoms onto Graphitic Step Edges Lowers Overpotential and Improves Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction.