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Núria López is a researcher affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their work primarily focuses on materials science and energy, with a strong emphasis on materials chemistry and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. Their research spans several subfields, including catalysis, electrical and electronic engineering, and organic chemistry.

The main topics of Núria López's research cover catalytic processes in materials science, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, catalysis and oxidation reactions, ionic liquids properties and applications, electrochemical analysis and applications, and machine learning in materials science.

Some of the recent notable papers by Núria López include:

  • Absence of CO2 electroreduction on copper, gold and silver electrodes without metal cations in solution, 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • Revealing the CO Coverage-Driven C-C Coupling Mechanism for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Cu2O Nanocubes via Operando Raman Spectroscopy, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Water electrolysis, 2022, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • The Role of Cation Acidity on the Competition between Hydrogen Evolution and CO2 Reduction on Gold Electrodes, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Water-hydroxide trapping in cobalt tungstate for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis, 2024, Science

Their frequent collaborators include Javier Pérez-Ramírez, Sharon Mitchell, Andrea Ruiz-Ferrando, Frank Krumeich, and Federico Dattila. These coauthor relationships are reflected in numerous joint publications.

Núria López has published extensively in several prominent scientific venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in the following:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ioChem-BD Computational Chemistry Datasets

Best Publications

  • On the origin of the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles for low-temperature CO oxidation

    N Lopez;T.V.W Janssens;B.S Clausen;Y Xu

  • Oxygen vacancies as active sites for water dissociation on rutile TiO(2)(110).

    R. Schaub;P. Thostrup;N. Lopez;E. Lægsgaard

  • A Stable Single-Site Palladium Catalyst for Hydrogenations

    Gianvito Vilé;Davide Albani;Maarten Nachtegaal;Zupeng Chen

  • Absence of CO2 electroreduction on copper, gold and silver electrodes without metal cations in solution

    Mariana C. O. Monteiro;Federico Dattila;Bellenod Hagedoorn;Rodrigo García-Muelas

  • Catalytic CO oxidation by a gold nanoparticle: A density functional study

    Nuria Lopez;Jens Kehlet Nørskov

  • Direct magnetic enhancement of electrocatalytic water oxidation in alkaline media

    Felipe A. Garcés-Pineda;Marta Blasco-Ahicart;David Nieto-Castro;Núria López

  • A heterogeneous single-atom palladium catalyst surpassing homogeneous systems for Suzuki coupling.

    Zupeng Chen;Evgeniya Vorobyeva;Sharon J. Mitchell;Edvin Fako

  • Managing the Computational Chemistry Big Data Problem: The ioChem-BD Platform

    M. Álvarez-Moreno;C. de Graaf;N. López;F. Maseras

  • CO oxidation on rutile-supported au nanoparticles.

    Ioannis Remediakis;Nuria Lopez;Jens Kehlet Nørskov

  • Ein stabiler “Single-site”-Palladiumkatalysator für Hydrierungen

    Gianvito Vilé;Davide Albani;Maarten Nachtegaal;Zupeng Chen

  • Bonding of gold nanoclusters to oxygen vacancies on rutile TiO2(110).

    E. Wahlström;Nuria Lopez;R. schaub;P. Thostrup

  • Strategies to break linear scaling relationships

    Javier Pérez-Ramírez;Núria López

  • Revealing the CO Coverage-Driven C-C Coupling Mechanism for Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction on Cu 2 O Nanocubes via Operando Raman Spectroscopy.

    Chao Zhan;Federico Dattila;Clara Rettenmaier;Arno Bergmann

  • Atomic-scale engineering of indium oxide promotion by palladium for methanol production via CO 2 hydrogenation

    Matthias S. Frei;Cecilia Mondelli;Rodrigo García-Muelas;Klara S. Kley

  • Dynamic charge and oxidation state of Pt/CeO 2 single-atom catalysts

    Nathan Daelman;Marçal Capdevila-Cortada;Núria López

  • Stabilization of Single Metal Atoms on Graphitic Carbon Nitride

    Zupeng Chen;Sharon Mitchell;Evgeniya Vorobyeva;Rowan K. Leary

  • Advances in the Design of Nanostructured Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation

    Gianvito Vilé;Davide Albani;Neyvis Almora‐Barrios;Núria López

  • Mechanism and microkinetics of methanol synthesis via CO2 hydrogenation on indium oxide

    M.S. Frei;M. Capdevila-Cortada;R. García-Muelas;C. Mondelli

  • The adhesion and shape of nanosized Au particles in a Au/TiO2 catalyst

    N. Lopez;N. Lopez;J.K. Nørskov;T.V.W. Janssens;A. Carlsson

  • Nanoparticle shapes by using Wulff constructions and first-principles calculations.

    Georgios D. Barmparis;Zbigniew Lodziana;Nuria Lopez;Ioannis N. Remediakis

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesc Illas
Francesc Illas University of Barcelona
Roland Hauert
Roland Hauert Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Olga V. Safonova
Olga V. Safonova Paul Scherrer Institute
Jens K. Nørskov
Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark
Gianfranco Pacchioni
Gianfranco Pacchioni University of Milano-Bicocca
Detre Teschner
Detre Teschner Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Paul A. Midgley
Paul A. Midgley University of Cambridge

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