Confinement dependence of electro-catalysts for hydrogen evolution from water splitting

• Mikaela Lindgren and
• Itai Panas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 195–201, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.21

• descriptor for the electro-catalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). It offers a complementary perspective on a recent study addressing the oxidation of zirconium alloys by water [4][5]. The overall reaction is taken to occur by water utilizing hydrolysis to penetrate the oxide scale along hydroxylated

• -proton recombination channel (see Figure 1b), the correlation between the computed reaction energies for the HER, Equation 6, and the experimental hydrogen pick-up fractions (HPUF), i.e., the fraction of the hydrogen, which does not undergo hydrogen evolution but are instead picked-up by the alloy during

• zirconium oxidation by water, leads to a model as displayed in Figure 1e. It is noteworthy, that the energetics for the chemical reaction step in Equation 6 offers a measure of the confinement-dependent cathodic over-potential for the HER along the reaction channel (Equations 2–6). The relevance of the

Radiation-induced nanostructures: Formation processes and applications

• Michael Huth

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 533–534, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.61

• intended to provide a forum that brings together selected contributions from these fields. It is hoped that the reader originally interested in only one of the presented topics may be willing to digress a bit from his or her usual main path and take a look into the other research areas. Ultimately, the

Nonconservative current-induced forces: A physical interpretation

• Tchavdar N. Todorov,
• Daniel Dundas,
• Anthony T. Paxton and
• Andrew P. Horsfield

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 727–733, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.79

• . Acknowledgements We are grateful for discussions with Claire Buchanan during her MSci work at Queen’s, and for support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grants EP/C006739/1, EP/I00713X/1.

Hierarchically structured superhydrophobic flowers with low hysteresis of the wild pansy (Viola tricolor) – new design principles for biomimetic materials

• Anna J. Schulte,
• Damian M. Droste,
• Kerstin Koch and
• Wilhelm Barthlott

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 228–236, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.27

• attempts have been made to fabricate superhydrophobic surfaces with high adhesion properties inspired by rose petals [20][22][23][24][25]. Bhushan and Her [25], for example, replicated dried and thereby collapsed, micropapillae, and examined the wetting behavior of these structurally changed petals