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David J. Payne is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a significant emphasis on materials chemistry, catalysis, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Payne's work spans various specialized subfields including materials chemistry, catalysis, renewable energy, biomedical engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering. The main topics of their research include catalytic processes in materials science, electronic and structural properties of oxides, catalysis and oxidation reactions, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced photocatalysis techniques, quantum dots synthesis and properties, and semiconductor materials and devices.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the academic literature with multiple recent publications in notable journals. These include:

  • Surface enhanced Raman scattering artificial nose for high dimensionality fingerprinting, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Linking in situ charge accumulation to electronic structure in doped SrTiO3 reveals design principles for hydrogen-evolving photocatalysts, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Real-time insight into the multistage mechanism of nanoparticle exsolution from a perovskite host surface, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Adsorbate-induced structural evolution changes the mechanism of CO oxidation on a Rh/Fe3O4(001) model catalyst, 2020, Nanoscale
  • Low temperature methane conversion with perovskite-supported exo/endo-particles, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Frequently publishing in established journals, Payne's work appears often in Nature Communications and Journal of Materials Chemistry A, with multiple contributions to Physical Review Materials, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, and Faraday Discussions.

Frequent collaborators include Gwilherm Kerherve, William S. J. Skinner, Kalliopi Kousi, Eleonora Calì, and Anna Regoutz, indicating ongoing research partnerships that support a broad investigation into materials chemistry and catalysis-related studies.

Best Publications

  • Stereochemistry of post-transition metal oxides: revision of the classical lone pair model.

    Aron Walsh;David J. Payne;Russell G. Egdell;Graeme W. Watson

  • Nature of the Band Gap of In2O3 Revealed by First-Principles Calculations and X-Ray Spectroscopy

    Aron Walsh;Juarez L.F. Da Silva;Su Huai Wei;C. Körber

  • Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Electronic Structures of MoO3 and MoO2

    David O. Scanlon;Graeme W. Watson;D. J. Payne;G. R. Atkinson

  • Band gap, electronic structure, and surface electron accumulation of cubic and rhombohedral In 2 O 3

    P. D. C. King;T. D. Veal;F. Fuchs;Ch. Y. Wang

  • Copper(I) Thiocyanate (CuSCN) Hole-Transport Layers Processed from Aqueous Precursor Solutions and Their Application in Thin-Film Transistors and Highly Efficient Organic and Organometal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

    Nilushi Wijeyasinghe;Anna Regoutz;Flurin Eisner;Tian Du

  • Electronic structure of the alpha and delta phases of Bi2O3: A combined ab initio and x-ray spectroscopy study

    Aron Walsh;Graeme W. Watson;David J. Payne;Russell G. Edgell

  • Tailoring SOFC Electrode Microstructures for Improved Performance

    Paul A. Connor;Xiangling Yue;Cristian D. Savaniu;Robert Price

  • Electronic origins of structural distortions in post-transition metal oxides: experimental and theoretical evidence for a revision of the lone pair model.

    D J Payne;R G Egdell;Aron Walsh;G W Watson

  • Surface electron accumulation and the charge neutrality level in In2O3.

    Pdc King;TD Veal;DJ Payne;A Bourlange

  • PdIn intermetallic nanoparticles for the Hydrogenation of CO2 to Methanol

    Andrés García-Trenco;Anna Regoutz;Edward R. White;David J. Payne

  • A conducting polymer with enhanced electronic stability applied in cardiac models

    Damia Mawad;Catherine Mansfield;Antonio Lauto;Filippo Perbellini

  • Shallow donor state of hydrogen in In 2 O 3 and SnO 2 : Implications for conductivity in transparent conducting oxides

    Pdc King;RL Lichti;YG Celebi;JM Gil

  • Electronic structure of In 2 O 3 and Sn-doped In 2 O 3 by hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy

    C. Körber;V. Krishnakumar;Andreas Klein;G. Panaccione

  • Surface enhanced Raman scattering artificial nose for high dimensionality fingerprinting

    Nayoung Kim;Michael R. Thomas;Mads S. Bergholt;Isaac J. Pence

  • Linking in-situ charge accumulation to electronic structure in doped SrTiO3 reveals design principles for hydrogen evolving photocatalysts

    Benjamin Moss;Qian Wang;Qian Wang;Keith T. Butler;Ricardo Grau-Crespo

  • Effect of Cr substitution on the electronic structure of CuAl 1 − x Cr x O 2

    David O. Scanlon;Aron Walsh;Benjamin J. Morgan;Graeme W. Watson

  • Understanding the electronic structure of IrO2 using hard-X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and density-functional theory.

    Kahk Jm;Poll Cg;Oropeza Fe;Ablett Jm

  • Experimental and theoretical study of the electronic structures of α-PbO and β-PbO2

    David J. Payne;Russell G. Egdell;Danny S.L. Law;Per Anders Glans

  • Elucidating the deprotonation of polyaniline films by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

    Mohd Muzamir Mahat;Damia Mawad;Geoffrey W. Nelson;Sarah Fearn

  • Growth of In2O3(100) on Y-stabilized ZrO2(100) by O-plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy

    A. Bourlange;D. J. Payne;R. G. Egdell;J. S. Foord

  • Nature of the band gap and origin of the conductivity of PbO2 revealed by theory and experiment.

    David O. Scanlon;Aoife B. Kehoe;Graeme W. Watson;Martin O. Jones

  • Atomic and electronic surface structures of dopants in oxides: STM and XPS of Nb- and La-doped SrTiO 3 (001)

    Matthew S. J. Marshall;David T. Newell;David J. Payne;Russell G. Egdell

  • X-ray spectroscopic study of the electronic structure of CuCrO 2

    T. Arnold;D. J. Payne;A. Bourlange;J. P. Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell G. Egdell
Russell G. Egdell University of Oxford
Graeme W. Watson
Graeme W. Watson Trinity College Dublin
Aron Walsh
Aron Walsh Imperial College London
Robert G. Palgrave
Robert G. Palgrave University College London
David O. Scanlon
David O. Scanlon University College London
Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Thomas D. Anthopoulos University of Manchester
Christopher McConville
Christopher McConville Deakin University
John S. Foord
John S. Foord University of Oxford
Molly M. Stevens
Molly M. Stevens University of Oxford
Martyn A. McLachlan
Martyn A. McLachlan Imperial College London

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