16.10.2024
Researchers have uncovered the mechanism behind the high efficiency of cobalt-manganese catalysts in hydrogen production via water electrolysis. By combining advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, the team demonstrated that manganese plays a crucial role by dynamically dissolving and reattaching to the cobalt catalyst surface, enhancing its long-term stability and activity.
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20.12.2023
Two million euros for reseaches on processes in batteries
In order to make batteries safer and longer-lasting, the processes inside must be understood with atomic precision. Tong Li wants to create the basis for these processes as part of a Consolidator Grant. Reports of exploding cell phone batteries or electric cars on fire
06.02.2023
Our recent work "Atomic-scale characterisation of (electro-)catalysts and battery materials by atom probe tomography" in Cell Reports Physical Science was selected in collection "Reviewes and Perspectives (Spring 2023).
06.01.2023
Recent work "Atomic-scale characterisation of (electro-)catalysts and battery materials by atom probe tomography" in Cell Reports Physical Science was selected as Editor's Choice Collection 2022.
02.09.2021
The effect of surface orientations on the formation of iridium oxide species during the oxygen revolution reation (OER) remains yet unknown. Herein, we use a needle-shaped iridium atom probe specimen as a nanosized working electrode to ascertain the role of the surface orientations in the formation of oxide species during OER.
07.08.2020
In DNA, information is stored in the sequence of chemical building blocks; in computers, informations consists of sequences of zeros and ones. Researchers want to transfer this concept to artificial molecules.
07.02.2020
As of February 7, 2020, Tong Li is now a professor of Atomic-scale Characterisation of high perfomance materials.
26.03.2018
What happens in the top layer of catalysts for hydrogen production by water splitting has been studied in detail by materials scientists. Using a combination of methods, they observed changes in the uppermost atomic layers during the reaction, which influences the stability and activity of the catalyst.