Publications by Wolfgang Harbich

Cluster Catalysis with Lattice Oxygen: Tracing Oxygen Transport from a Magnetite (001) Support onto Small Pt Clusters

Wolfgang Harbich, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni, Ke Zhang

Oxidation catalysis on reducible oxide-supported small metal clusters often involves lattice oxygen. The present work aims at differentiating whether the reaction takes place at the cluster/support interface or on the cluster. To that purpose, we trace the ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Optical properties of size selected neutral Ag clusters: electronic shell structures and the surface plasmon resonance

Harald Brune, Wolfgang Harbich, Chongqi Yu

We present optical absorption spectra from the ultraviolet to the visible for size selected neutral Ag-n clusters (n = 5-120) embedded in solid Ne. We compare the spectra to time-dependent density functional calculations (TDDFT) that address the influence ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2018

Intense fluorescence of Au-20

Harald Brune, Wolfgang Harbich, Chongqi Yu

Ligand-protected Au clusters are non-bleaching fluorescence markers in bio- and medical applications. Here we show that their fluorescence can be an intrinsic property of the Au cluster itself. We find a very intense and sharp fluorescence peak located at ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Erratum: “Intense fluorescence of Au20”

Harald Brune, Wolfgang Harbich, Chongqi Yu

American Institute of Physics2017

Growth of palladium nanoparticles on nanostructured highly ordered pyrolytic graphite

Wolfgang Harbich

We report on the growth of palladium nanoparticles on the basal plane of as-cleaved highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) samples, and on CO2 ion sputtered nanostructured HOPG surfaces. The morphology of Pd nanostructures grown at room temperature is i ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Reaction-Induced Cluster Ripening and Initial Size-Dependent Reaction Rates for CO Oxidation on Pt-n/TiO2(110)-(1x1)

Harald Brune, Wolfgang Harbich, Simon Bonanni

We determined the CO oxidation rates for size-selected Pt-n (n is an element of {3,7,10}) clusters deposited onto TiO2(110). In addition, we investigated the cluster morphologies and their mean sizes before and after the reaction. While the clusters are fa ...

American Chemical Society2014

Effect of the TiO2 Reduction State on the Catalytic CO Oxidation on Deposited Size-Selected Pt Clusters

Harald Brune, Wolfgang Harbich, Simon Bonanni

The catalytic activity of deposited Pt-7 clusters has been studied as a function of the reduction state of the TiO2(110)-(1 x 1) support for the CO oxidation reaction. While a slightly reduced support gives rise to a high catalytic activity of the adpartic ...

2012

Spectroscopy of 3, 4, 9, 10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) attached to rare gas samples: Clusters vs. bulk matrices. I. Absorption spectroscopy

Wolfgang Harbich, Alexandre Rydlo, Stefan Minniberger, Matthieu Dvorak

The interaction between 3, 4, 9, 10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) and rare gas or para-hydrogen samples is studied by means of laser-induced fluorescence excitation spectroscopy. The comparison between spectra of PTCDA embedded in a neon matr ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Spectroscopy of 3, 4, 9, 10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) attached to rare gas samples: Clusters vs. bulk matrices. II. Fluorescence emission spectroscopy

Wolfgang Harbich, Alexandre Rydlo, Stefan Minniberger, Matthieu Dvorak

The interaction between 3, 4, 9, 10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) molecules and solid rare gas samples is studied by means of fluorescence emission spectroscopy. Laser-excited PTCDA-doped large argon, neon, and para-hydrogen clusters along wi ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Electrochemical promotion of CO combustion over non-percolated Pt particles supported on YSZ using a novel bipolar configuration

Christos Comninellis, Wolfgang Harbich, György Foti, Chun Xia, Michael Hugentobler

The electrochemical promotion of CO combustion over nano-dispersed Platinum particles supported on yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) is investigated at 300 degrees C under high vacuum conditions. By polarizing the nanoparticles, we were able to enhance the ...

Elsevier2011