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Heinz Frei is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Energy, Materials Science, and Engineering, with notable contributions to subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electrochemistry, and Catalysis.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Heinz Frei has published research in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Nature Energy
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Nano Letters

Recent papers highlight a range of topics and techniques. Selected publications are:

  • "Selective CO2 electrocatalysis at the pseudocapacitive nanoparticle/ordered-ligand interlayer" (2020, Nature Energy)
  • "Observation of O-O Bond Forming Step of Molecular Co4O4 Cubane Catalyst for Water Oxidation by Rapid-Scan FT-IR Spectroscopy" (2020, ACS Catalysis)
  • "Ultrathin Amorphous Silica Membrane Enhances Proton Transfer across Solid-to-Solid Interfaces of Stacked Metal Oxide Nanolayers while Blocking Oxygen" (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "Precise Colloidal Plasmonic Photocatalysts Constructed by Multistep Photodepositions" (2020, Nano Letters)
  • "Time-Resolved Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy for Understanding How Charges Drive Metal Oxide Catalysts for Water Oxidation" (2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters)

Frequent coauthors of Heinz Frei include:

  • Georgios Katsoukis
  • Won Jun Jo
  • Elena Galoppini
  • Dohyung Kim
  • Sunmoon Yu

Best Publications

  • Nanostructured Cobalt Oxide Clusters in Mesoporous Silica as Efficient Oxygen‐Evolving Catalysts

    Feng Jiao;Heinz Frei

  • Time-resolved observations of water oxidation intermediates on a cobalt oxide nanoparticle catalyst

    Miao Zhang;Moreno de Respinis;Heinz Frei

  • Advancing the frontiers in nanocatalysis, biointerfaces, and renewable energy conversion by innovations of surface techniques.

    Gabor A. Somorjai;Heinz Frei;Jeong Y. Park

  • Probing the Interaction of Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) with Platinum Nanocrystals by UV-Raman and FTIR

    Yuri Borodko;Susan E. Habas;Matthias Koebel;Peidong Yang

  • Nanostructured cobalt and manganese oxide clusters as efficient water oxidation catalysts

    Feng Jiao;Heinz Frei

  • Dual visible light photoredox and gold-catalyzed arylative ring expansion.

    Xing-zhong Shu;Xing-zhong Shu;Miao Zhang;Ying He;Ying He;Ying He;Heinz Frei

  • Nanostructured manganese oxide clusters supported on mesoporous silica as efficient oxygen-evolving catalysts

    Feng Jiao;Heinz Frei

  • The Mechanism of a C-H Bond Activation Reaction in Room-Temperature Alkane Solution

    Steven E. Bromberg;Steven E. Bromberg;Haw Yang;Haw Yang;Matthew C. Asplund;Matthew C. Asplund;T. Lian;T. Lian

  • Photochemical CO2 splitting by metal-to-metal charge-transfer excitation in mesoporous ZrCu(I)-MCM-41 silicate sieve.

    Wenyong Lin;Heinz Frei

  • Photochemical and FT-IR probing of the active site of hydrogen peroxide in Ti silicalite sieve.

    Wenyong Lin;Heinz Frei

  • Efficient and sustained photoelectrochemical water oxidation by cobalt oxide/silicon photoanodes with nanotextured interfaces.

    Jinhui Yang;Karl Walczak;Eitan Anzenberg;Francesca M. Toma

  • Charge-Transfer Interaction of Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) with Platinum and Rhodium Nanoparticles

    Yuri Borodko;Simon M. Humphrey;T. Don Tilley;Heinz Frei

  • Synthetic insertion of gold nanoparticles into mesoporous silica

    Zoltán Kónya;Victor F. Puntes;Imre Kiricsi;Ji Zhu

  • Selective CO2 electrocatalysis at the pseudocapacitive nanoparticle/ordered-ligand interlayer

    Dohyung Kim;Dohyung Kim;Sunmoon Yu;Sunmoon Yu;Fan Zheng;Inwhan Roh;Inwhan Roh

  • Cyclohexanone from Cyclohexane and O2 in a Zeolite under Visible Light with Complete Selectivity

    Hai Sun;Fritz Blatter;Heinz Frei

  • CO2 splitting by H2O to CO and O2 under UV light in TiMCM-41 silicate sieve

    Wenyong Lin;Hongxian Han;Heinz Frei

  • Mechanistic Study of CO2 Photoreduction in Ti Silicalite Molecular Sieve by FT-IR Spectroscopy

    N. Ulagappan;H. Frei

  • Coupling carbon dioxide reduction with water oxidation in nanoscale photocatalytic assemblies

    Wooyul Kim;Beth Anne McClure;Eran Edri;Heinz Frei

  • Direct observation of a hydroperoxide surface intermediate upon visible light-driven water oxidation at an Ir oxide nanocluster catalyst by rapid-scan FT-IR spectroscopy.

    Narayanappa Sivasankar;Walter W. Weare;Heinz Frei

  • Selective photooxidation of small alkenes by O2 with red light in zeolite Y

    Fritz Blatter;Heinz Frei

  • Anchored Metal-to-Metal Charge-Transfer Chromophores in a Mesoporous Silicate Sieve for Visible-Light Activation of Titanium Centers

    Wenyong Lin;Heinz Frei

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley
Charles B. Harris
Charles B. Harris University of California, Berkeley
Wooyul Kim
Wooyul Kim Korea Institute of Energy Technology
Donald Fitzmaurice
Donald Fitzmaurice University College Dublin
Feng Jiao
Feng Jiao Washington University in St. Louis
A. Paul Alivisatos
A. Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago
Lin-Wang Wang
Lin-Wang Wang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Víctor F. Puntes
Víctor F. Puntes Spanish National Research Council
Joel W. Ager
Joel W. Ager Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ian D. Sharp
Ian D. Sharp Technical University of Munich

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