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Olga V. Safonova is a researcher affiliated with the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Their work spans primarily the fields of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, with a strong focus on materials chemistry and catalysis.

Their research concentrates on several subfields, including:

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

Key topics in their research portfolio include:

  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalysts for Methane Reforming
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions

Olga V. Safonova has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, notably in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ACS Catalysis
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Safonova include:

  • Following the structure of copper-zinc-alumina across the pressure gap in carbon dioxide hydrogenation, 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • Nanostructuring unlocks high performance of platinum single-atom catalysts for stable vinyl chloride production, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Key activity descriptors of nickel-iron oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in the presence of alkali metal cations, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Nanostructure of nickel-promoted indium oxide catalysts drives selectivity in CO2 hydrogenation, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Flame-made ternary Pd-In2O3-ZrO2 catalyst with enhanced oxygen vacancy generation for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Christophe Copéret
  • Maarten Nachtegaal
  • Javier Pérez-Ramírez
  • Adam H. Clark
  • Sharon Mitchell

Safonova's research integrates advanced catalytic materials with applications in energy conversion and sustainable chemical processes. The scope encompasses the design and understanding of catalysts active in CO2 hydrogenation and oxygen evolution reactions.

Best Publications

  • Stability and Reactivity of ϵ−χ−θ Iron Carbide Catalyst Phases in Fischer−Tropsch Synthesis: Controlling μC

    Emiel de Smit;Fabrizio Cinquini;Andrew M. Beale;Olga V. Safonova

  • 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

  • Single Site Cobalt Substitution in 2D Molybdenum Carbide (MXene) Enhances Catalytic Activity in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.

    Denis Kuznetsov;Zixuan Chen;Priyank V. Kumar;Athanasia Tsoukalou

  • Activation of oxygen on gold/alumina catalysts: in situ high-energy-resolution fluorescence and time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy.

    Jeroen A. van Bokhoven;Catherine Louis;Jeffrey T. Miller;Moniek Tromp

  • Highly Productive Propane Dehydrogenation Catalyst Using Silica-Supported Ga–Pt Nanoparticles Generated from Single-Sites

    Keith Searles;Ka Wing Chan;Jorge Augusto Mendes Burak;Dmitry Zemlyanov

  • Structure and catalytic performance of Pt-promoted alumina-supported cobalt catalysts under realistic conditions of Fischer–Tropsch synthesis

    Héline Karaca;Olga V. Safonova;Stéphane Chambrey;Pascal Fongarland

  • Isolated Zr Surface Sites on Silica Promote Hydrogenation of CO2 to CH3OH in Supported Cu Catalysts

    Erwin Lam;Kim Larmier;Patrick Wolf;Shohei Tada

  • Catalytically Active and Spectator Ce3+ in Ceria-Supported Metal Catalysts

    René Kopelent;Jeroen A. van Bokhoven;Jeroen A. van Bokhoven;Jakub Szlachetko;Jakub Szlachetko;Jacinta Edebeli

  • A Von Hamos X-Ray Spectrometer Based on a Segmented-Type Diffraction Crystal for Single-Shot X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy and Time-Resolved Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Studies

    J. Szlachetko;M. Nachtegaal;E. de Boni;M. Willimann

  • Following the structure of copper-zinc-alumina across the pressure gap in carbon dioxide hydrogenation

    Arik Beck;Maxim Zabilskiy;Mark A. Newton;Olga Safonova

  • Identification of CO adsorption sites in supported Pt catalysts using high-energy-resolution fluorescence detection X-ray spectroscopy.

    Olga V. Safonova;Moniek Tromp;Jeroen A. van Bokhoven;Frank M. F. de Groot

  • Key activity descriptors of nickel-iron oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in the presence of alkali metal cations.

    Mikaela Görlin;Mikaela Görlin;Joakim Halldin Stenlid;Sergey Koroidov;Hsin-Yi Wang

  • Flame-made ternary Pd-In2O3-ZrO2 catalyst with enhanced oxygen vacancy generation for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol

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  • Nanostructuring unlocks high performance of platinum single-atom catalysts for stable vinyl chloride production.

    Selina K. Kaiser;Edvin Fako;Gabriele Manzocchi;Frank Krumeich

  • Nanostructure of nickel-promoted indium oxide catalysts drives selectivity in CO2 hydrogenation.

    Matthias S Frei;Cecilia Mondelli;Rodrigo García-Muelas;Jordi Morales-Vidal

  • Silica-supported isolated gallium sites as highly active, selective and stable propane dehydrogenation catalysts

    Keith Searles;Georges Siddiqi;Olga V. Safonova;Christophe Copéret

  • C–H Activation on Co,O Sites: Isolated Surface Sites versus Molecular Analogs

    Deven P. Estes;Georges Siddiqi;Florian Allouche;Kirill V. Kovtunov

  • Atom-by-Atom Resolution of Structure–Function Relations over Low-Nuclearity Metal Catalysts

    Evgeniya Vorobyeva;Edvin Fako;Zupeng Chen;Sean M. Collins

  • In situ XRD investigation of the evolution of alumina-supported cobalt catalysts under realistic conditions of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

    Héline Karaca;Jingping Hong;Pascal Fongarland;Pascal Roussel

  • Polyhedral CeO2 Nanoparticles: Size-Dependent Geometrical and Electronic Structure

    Cristina Paun;Olga V. Safonova;Jakub Szlachetko;Paula M. Abdala

  • SNBL, a dedicated beamline for combined in situ X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption and Raman scattering experiments

    Wouter van Beek;Olga V. Safonova;Geir Wiker;Hermann Emerich

  • Polymerization of ethylene by silica-supported dinuclear Cr(III) sites through an initiation step involving C-H bond activation.

    Matthew P. Conley;Murielle F. Delley;Georges Siddiqi;Giuseppe Lapadula

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten Nachtegaal
Maarten Nachtegaal Paul Scherrer Institute
Pieter Glatzel
Pieter Glatzel European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Núria López
Núria López University of Barcelona
Frank Krumeich
Frank Krumeich ETH Zurich
Alexander Gaskov
Alexander Gaskov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Roland Hauert
Roland Hauert Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Vitaly V. Ordomsky
Vitaly V. Ordomsky University of Lille

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