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Overview

Axel Groß is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Engineering and Materials Science, including significant work in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Catalysis.

The scientist has contributed extensively to advancing knowledge in battery materials and electrochemical systems. Their main research topics include:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Axel Groß are:

  • Mohsen Sotoudeh
  • Sung Sakong
  • Manuel Dillenz
  • Holger Euchner
  • R. Jürgen Behm

Axel Groß's scholarly output includes publications in key venues such as:

  • Batteries & Supercaps
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Selected recent papers by Axel Groß comprise:

  • "Ab Initio Simulations of Water/Metal Interfaces," 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • "A Thin and Uniform Fluoride-Based Artificial Interphase for the Zinc Metal Anode Enabling Reversible Zn/MnO2 Batteries," 2021, ACS Energy Letters
  • "FAIR data enabling new horizons for materials research," 2022, Nature
  • "Operando pH Measurements Decipher H+/Zn2+ Intercalation Chemistry in High-Performance Aqueous Zn/δ-V2O5 Batteries," 2020, ACS Energy Letters
  • "Cation Overcrowding Effect on the Oxygen Evolution Reaction," 2021, JACS Au

Best Publications

  • Six-dimensional quantum dynamics of adsorption and desorption of H2 at Pd(100): Steering and steric effects.

    Axel Gross;Steffen Wilke;Matthias Scheffler

  • Representing high-dimensional potential-energy surfaces for reactions at surfaces by neural networks

    Sönke Lorenz;Axel Groß;Matthias Scheffler

  • Reactions at surfaces studied by ab initio dynamics calculations

    Axel Groß

  • Microscopic properties of lithium, sodium, and magnesium battery anode materials related to possible dendrite growth

    Markus Jäckle;Axel Groß

  • Surface strain versus substrate interaction in heteroepitaxial metal layers: Pt on Ru(0001).

    A. Schlapka;M. Lischka;A. Groß;U. Käsberger

  • Properties of metal–water interfaces studied from first principles

    Sebastian Schnur;Axel Groß

  • Experimental analysis of charge redistribution due to chemical bonding by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy

    Jannik C. Meyer;Jannik C. Meyer;Simon Kurasch;Hye Jin Park;Viera Skakalova

  • Self-diffusion barriers: possible descriptors for dendrite growth in batteries?

    Markus Jäckle;Katharina Helmbrecht;Malte Smits;Daniel Stottmeister

  • Insight into Sodium Insertion and the Storage Mechanism in Hard Carbon

    M. Anji Reddy;M. Helen;Axel Groß;Maximilian Fichtner

  • Fluoride ion batteries: Theoretical performance, safety, toxicity, and a combinatorial screening of new electrodes

    F. Gschwind;G. Rodriguez-Garcia;D.J.S. Sandbeck;A. Gross

  • Adsorption of small aromatic molecules on the (111) surfaces of noble metals: A density functional theory study with semiempirical corrections for dispersion effects

    Katrin Tonigold;Axel Gross

  • Toward an Atomic-Scale Understanding of Electrochemical Interface Structure and Dynamics

    Olaf M. Magnussen;Axel Groß

  • Ab Initio Simulations of Water/Metal Interfaces

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  • Reactivity of bimetallic systems studied from first principles

    Axel Groß

  • Theoretical Surface Science

    Axel Groß

  • A Thin and Uniform Fluoride-Based Artificial Interphase for the Zinc Metal Anode Enabling Reversible Zn/MnO2 Batteries

    Jin Han;Holger Euchner;Matthias Kuenzel;Seyed Milad Hosseini

  • Operando pH Measurements Decipher H+/Zn2+ Intercalation Chemistry in High-Performance Aqueous Zn/δ-V2O5 Batteries

    Xu Liu;Holger Euchner;Maider Zarrabeitia;Xinpei Gao

  • Theoretical surface science : a microscopic perspective

    Axel Gross

  • The electric double layer at metal-water interfaces revisited based on a charge polarization scheme.

    Sung Sakong;Axel Groß

  • Ab initio quantum and molecular dynamics of the dissociative adsorption of hydrogen on Pd(100)

    Axel Gross;Matthias Scheffler

  • Quantum theory of dissociative chemisorption on metal surfaces.

    Geert-Jan Kroes;Axel Gross;Evert-Jan Baerends;Matthias Scheffler

  • Dissociative adsorption of hydrogen on strained Cu surfaces

    Sung Sakong;Axel Groß

  • High-dimensional quantum dynamics of adsorption and desorption of H2 at Cu(111).

    Axel Gross;Bjørk Hammer;Matthias Scheffler;Wilhelm Brenig

  • Reactions at surfaces studied by ab initio dynamics calculations

    Axel Gross

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis Halzen
Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin–Madison
A. Karle
A. Karle University of Wisconsin–Madison
R. G. Stokstad
R. G. Stokstad Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
H. S. Matis
H. S. Matis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
G. B. Yodh
G. B. Yodh University of California, Irvine
S. Westerhoff
S. Westerhoff University of Wisconsin–Madison
J. J. Beatty
J. J. Beatty The Ohio State University
Hermann Kolanoski
Hermann Kolanoski Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
S. W. Barwick
S. W. Barwick University of California, Irvine
G. W. Sullivan
G. W. Sullivan University of Maryland, College Park

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