HERMES Project

We are delighted to have hosted the @HERMESProjectEU consortium meeting last two days at @BernalNews @UL ! Lots of insightful discussions and excited for what's to come.

Isotope effects on Ag and Pd electrodeposition is out:

Paper on Interactions between Hydrogen and Palladium Nanoparticles: Resolving Adsorption and Absorption Contributions by Lilian Moumaneix, Akseli Rautakorpi and Tanja Kallio is out: doi.org/10.1002/celc.2…

Our overview article is online at Topics in Catalysis (@ECS_TUM, @TU_Muenchen, @econversion_de, @TUMCatalysis, @HERMESProjectEU): link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Why do alkali metal cations change the hydrogen evolution reaction mechanisms at Pt? Read more on this challenging topic in Nano Mat. Sci. (@ECS_TUM, @TU_Muenchen, @econversion_de, @TUMCatalysis, @HERMESProjectEU), and many thanks to @AlexandrovLab !: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A successful MSc defence on how to make Pd nanoparticles without surfactants today @ECS_TUM, @TU_Muenchen, @econversion_de, @TUMCatalysis, @HERMESProjectEU . Congratulations to Kais, and very much looking forward to continuing our collaboration soon!

Why the electrical double layer capacitance is so dependent on the electrode surface structure? Check our opinion in "Structure-Dependent Electrical Double-Layer Capacitances of the Basal Plane Pd(hkl)...": pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…. @TU_Muenchen, @econversion_de, @HERMESProjectEU

First of the major publications coming out of HERMES project is out now. We are looking at fundamental aspects of proton electroreduction at Pd surfaces.

First paper associated with the HERMES project is out. This deals with developing the experimental techniques we will further utilize in our project.

Our collaborative paper with Profs. Ifan Stephens and Federico Calle-Vallejo "Monitoring active sites for hydrogen evolution reaction at model carbon surfaces" is now online. For the first time we see them with such a resolution: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

@schneiderleonid @CleanHme About CleanHME, we cannot really say anything. Our expertise is electrochemistry, so we have focused on experimental approaches we can contribute the most, including the co-electrodeposition method, that has been published in peer-reviewed literature.

Recently, our project was criticized here: forbetterscience.com/2020/12/08/col… As a response, we'd like to give a bit of a background for this project. 1/n

@schneiderleonid @CleanHme It's a very high risk research project, so we have planned it so that we will produce other results, even if we fail to find an experiment producing anomalous effects consistently.

@schneiderleonid @CleanHme Our starting point is to investigate, if Fleischmann & Pons could have really seen something. Our approach was inspired by the Google funded team: nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/0…

Reproduction of some anomalous effects in Pd-D system is the goal of the project, and we acknowledge that there is a high likelihood that this goal is not fulfilled. 9/9

We are looking forward to do some interesting science in the fields of electrocatalysis, nanoparticle synthesis, electrodeposition, calorimetry, catalyst stability, etc., utilizing large scale research infrastructure including synchrotron x-ray beamlines etc. 8/n