Publications by Michal Stanislaw Strach

Suitability of Cu-substituted beta-Mn2V2O7 and Mn-substituted beta-Cu2V2O7 for photocatalytic water-splitting

Raffaella Buonsanti, Michal Stanislaw Strach

The pyrovanadates beta -Mn2V2O7 and beta -Cu2V2O7 were previously investigated as photoanode materials for water splitting. Neither of them, however, was found to be sufficiently active. In this work, we predict the properties of these two structurally sim ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Polymer Lamellae as Reaction Intermediates in the Formation of Copper Nanospheres as Evidenced by In Situ X-ray Studies

Raffaella Buonsanti, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Valeria Mantella, James Richard Pankhurst, Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar, Michal Stanislaw Strach, Kilian Frank

The classical nucleation theory (CNT) is the most common theoretical framework used to explain particle formation. However, nucleation is a complex process with reaction pathways which are often not covered by the CNT. Herein, we study the formation mechan ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Insights into Reaction Intermediates to Predict Synthetic Pathways for Shape-Controlled Metal Nanocrystals

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, James Richard Pankhurst, Shubhajit Das, Valeria Mantella, Michal Stanislaw Strach, Pranit Srinivas Iyengar

Understanding nucleation phenomena is crucial across all branches of physical and natural sciences. Colloidal nanocrystals are among the most versatile and tunable synthetic nanomaterials. While huge steps have been made in their synthetic development, syn ...

2019

Synthesis of Cu/CeO2-x Nanocrystalline Heterodimers with Interfacial Active Sites To Promote CO2 Electroreduction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Emad Oveisi, Mounir Driss Mensi, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili, Jan Vávra, Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar, Michal Stanislaw Strach, Jianfeng Huang, Gian Luca De Gregorio

Synergistic effects at metal/metal oxide interfaces often give rise to highly active and selective catalytic motifs. So far, such interactions have been rarely explored to enhance the selectivity in the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR). Herei ...

2019

Universal Oxide Shell Growth Enables in Situ Structural Studies of Perovskite Nanocrystals during the Anion Exchange Reaction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Seryio Saris, Michal Stanislaw Strach

The ability to tune thin oxide coatings by wet-chemistry is desirable for many applications, yet it remains a key synthetic challenge. In this work, we introduce a general colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) synthesis to grow an alumina shell with tu ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Chemical transformations at the nanoscale: nanocrystal-seeded synthesis of beta-Cu2V2O7 with enhanced photoconversion efficiencies

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar, Michal Stanislaw Strach

2018

Assembly of -Cu2V2O7/WO3 heterostructured nanocomposites and the impact of their composition on structure and photoelectrochemical properties

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Mariateresa Scarongella, Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar, Michal Stanislaw Strach, Luca Rimoldi

Multinary metal oxides and their heterostructures play a key role as light absorbers in the production of solar chemicals. Synthetic tunability is crucial to understand the impact of composition and structure on the photoelectrochemical performance. Here, ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2018

Sizable Excitonic Effects Undermining the Photocatalytic Efficiency of beta-Cu2V2O7

Alfredo Pasquarello, Raffaella Buonsanti, Julia Anna Wiktor, Mariateresa Scarongella, Igor Reshetnyak, Michal Stanislaw Strach

Copper vanadates have been proposed as promising photoanodes for water-splitting photoelectrochemical cells, but their performance has recently been shown to be severely limited. To understand this behavior, we study the electronic structure and the optica ...

2018