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Giovanni Barcaro is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their work spans multiple aspects of materials science and engineering, with a significant focus on materials chemistry and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their recent research publications include:

  • "Lignin-Supported Heterogeneous Photocatalyst for the Direct Generation of H2O2from Seawater" (2022), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "An Atomically Dispersed Mn-Photocatalyst for Generating Hydrogen Peroxide from Seawater via the Water Oxidation Reaction (WOR)" (2023), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Experimental Sabatier plot for predictive design of active and stable Pt-alloy oxygen reduction reaction catalysts" (2022), published in Nature Catalysis
  • "New Mechanistic Insights into the Lignin β-O-4 Linkage Acidolysis with Ethylene Glycol Stabilization Aided by Multilevel Computational Chemistry" (2021), published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • "Atomic-Level Understanding for the Enhanced Generation of Hydrogen Peroxide by the Introduction of an Aryl Amino Group in Polymeric Carbon Nitrides" (2021), published in ACS Catalysis

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Susanna Monti
  • Aleksander Jaworski
  • Shoubhik Das
  • Alessandro Fortunelli
  • Anna Rokicińska

Their publications have appeared often in the following venues:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Giovanni Barcaro's main fields of study are:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

They work extensively within subfields such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Organic Chemistry

The key topics in their research portfolio include:

  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

Best Publications

  • Au133(SPh-tBu)52 Nanomolecules: X-ray Crystallography, Optical, Electrochemical, and Theoretical Analysis

    Amala Dass;Shevanuja Theivendran;Praneeth Reddy Nimmala;Chanaka Kumara

  • Growth and Surface Structure of Zinc Oxide Layers on a Pd(111) Surface

    Gunther Weirum;G Barcaro;A Fortunelli;Frederik Weber

  • Theoretical Studies of Palladium−Gold Nanoclusters: Pd−Au Clusters with up to 50 Atoms

    Faye Pittaway;Lauro Oliver Paz-Borbón;Roy L. Johnston;Haydar Arslan

  • Au24(SAdm)16 Nanomolecules: X-ray Crystal Structure, Theoretical Analysis, Adaptability of Adamantane Ligands to Form Au23(SAdm)16 and Au25(SAdm)16, and Its Relation to Au25(SR)18

    David Crasto;Giovanni Barcaro;Mauro Stener;Luca Sementa

  • Structural motifs, mixing, and segregation effects in 38-atom binary clusters

    Lauro Oliver Paz-Borbón;Roy L. Johnston;Giovanni Barcaro;Alessandro Fortunelli

  • Size-dependent selectivity and activity of silver nanoclusters in the partial oxidation of propylene to propylene oxide and acrolein: A joint experimental and theoretical study

    Luis M. Molina;Sungsik Lee;Kristian Sell;Giovanni Barcaro

  • Electronic and Structural Shell Closure in AgCu and AuCu Nanoclusters

    Giovanni Barcaro;Alessandro Fortunelli;Giulia Rossi;Florin Nita

  • The Interaction of Coinage Metal Clusters with the MgO(100) Surface.

    Giovanni Barcaro;Alessandro Fortunelli

  • Patchy Multishell Segregation in Pd-Pt Alloy Nanoparticles

    Giovanni Barcaro;Alessandro Fortunelli;Micha Polak;Leonid Rubinovich

  • A mixed structural motif in 34-Atom Pd-Pt clusters

    Lauro Oliver Paz-Borbon;Roy L. Johnston;Giovanni Barcaro;Alessandro Fortunelli

  • Structures and energetics of 98 atom Pd-Pt nanoalloys: potential stability of the Leary tetrahedron for bimetallic nanoparticles.

    Lauro Oliver Paz-Borbón;Thomas V. Mortimer-Jones;Roy L. Johnston;Alvaro Posada-Amarillas

  • Diffusion of palladium clusters on magnesium oxide.

    G. Barcaro;A. Fortunelli;F. Nita;R. Ferrando

  • Structure and diffusion of small Ag and Au clusters on the regular MgO (100) surface

    G Barcaro;A Fortunelli

  • Homogeneous Nucleation of Graphitic Nanostructures from Carbon Chains on Ni(111)

    Daojian Cheng;Daojian Cheng;Giovanni Barcaro;Jean-Christophe Charlier;Marc Hou

  • Structures of metal nanoparticles adsorbed on MgO(001). II. Pt and Pd.

    Jacek Goniakowski;Andrei Jelea;Christine Mottet;Giovanni Barcaro

  • Optimization of chemical ordering in AgAu nanoalloys

    Manuella Cerbelaud;Riccardo Ferrando;Giovanni Barcaro;Alessandro Fortunelli

  • DFT study of the structures and energetics of 98-atom AuPd clusters

    Alina Bruma;Ramli Ismail;Ramli Ismail;L. Oliver Paz-Borbón;L. Oliver Paz-Borbón;Haydar Arslan

  • New Mechanistic Insights into the Lignin β-O-4 Linkage Acidolysis with Ethylene Glycol Stabilization Aided by Multilevel Computational Chemistry

    Alessandra De Santi;Susanna Monti;Giovanni Barcaro;Zhenlei Zhang

  • Alloying Effects on the Optical Properties of Ag–Au Nanoclusters from TDDFT Calculations

    Giovanni Barcaro;Michel Broyer;Nicola Durante;Alessandro Fortunelli

  • Alumina-supported sub-nanometer Pt10 clusters: amorphization and role of the support material in a highly active CO oxidation catalyst

    Chunrong Yin;Fabio R. Negreiros;Giovanni Barcaro;Atsushi Beniya

  • Transformation of Au144(SCH2CH2Ph)60 to Au133(SPh-tBu)52 Nanomolecules: Theoretical and Experimental Study

    Praneeth Reddy Nimmala;Shevanuja Theivendran;Giovanni Barcaro;Luca Sementa

  • Structure of Reduced Ultrathin TiOx Polar Films on Pt(111)

    Giovanni Barcaro;Stefano Agnoli;Francesco Sedona;Gian Andrea Rizzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Fortunelli
Alessandro Fortunelli National Research Council (CNR)
Falko P. Netzer
Falko P. Netzer University of Graz
Riccardo Ferrando
Riccardo Ferrando University of Genoa
Gaetano Granozzi
Gaetano Granozzi University of Padua
Roy L. Johnston
Roy L. Johnston University of Birmingham
Stefan Vajda
Stefan Vajda Czech Academy of Sciences
Mauro Stener
Mauro Stener University of Trieste
Amala Dass
Amala Dass University of Mississippi
Stefano Agnoli
Stefano Agnoli University of Padua
Edoardo Aprà
Edoardo Aprà Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

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