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Overview

Thomas Willum Hansen is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with significant contributions to Engineering. The scientist's work spans several subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Biomedical Engineering, Structural Biology, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The main topics addressed in their research include Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques, Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Machine Learning in Materials Science, Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Graphene Research and Applications, and Nanomaterials for Catalytic Reactions.

Frequent collaborators of Thomas Willum Hansen include Jakob Schiøtz, Matthew Helmi Leth Larsen, William Bang Lomholdt, Cuauhtémoc Núñez Valencia, and Pei Liu.

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, with the most frequent outlets being Microscopy and Microanalysis, BIO Web of Conferences, Ultramicroscopy, arXiv (Cornell University), and Science.

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • In situ manipulation of the active Au-TiO2 interface with atomic precision during CO oxidation (2021, Science)
  • Visualizing H2O molecules reacting at TiO2 active sites with transmission electron microscopy (2020, Science)
  • How Much Oxygen Can a MXene Surface Take Before It Breaks? (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • Oxygen-Doped Carbon Supports Modulate the Hydrogenation Activity of Palladium Nanoparticles through Electronic Metal-Support Interactions (2022, ACS Catalysis)
  • Defect anchoring of atomically dispersed Pd on nitrogen-doped holey carbon nanotube for catalytic hydrogenation of nitroarenes (2023, Applied Surface Science)

Best Publications

  • Enabling direct H2O2 production through rational electrocatalyst design

    Samira Siahrostami;Arnau Verdaguer-Casadevall;Mohammadreza Karamad;Davide Deiana

  • Sintering of Catalytic Nanoparticles: Particle Migration or Ostwald Ripening?

    Thomas Willum Hansen;Andrew T. DeLaRiva;Sivakumar R. Challa;Abhaya K. Datye

  • Trends in the Electrochemical Synthesis of H2O2: Enhancing Activity and Selectivity by Electrocatalytic Site Engineering

    Arnau Verdaguer-Casadevall;Davide Deiana;Mohammadreza Karamad;Samira Siahrostami

  • Atomic-Resolution in Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of a Promoter of a Heterogeneous Catalyst

    Thomas W. Hansen;Jakob B. Wagner;Poul L. Hansen;Søren Dahl

  • Analysis of the structure and chemical properties of some commercial carbon nanostructures

    Jean-Philippe Tessonnier;Dirk Rosenthal;Thomas Willum Hansen;Christian Hess

  • Access and in situ growth of phosphorene-precursor black phosphorus

    Marianne Köpf;Nadine Eckstein;Daniela Pfister;Carolin Grotz

  • Mass-selected nanoparticles of PtxY as model catalysts for oxygen electroreduction

    Patricia Hernandez-Fernandez;Federico Masini;David Norman McCarthy;Christian Ejersbo Strebel

  • Oxygen evolution on well-characterized mass-selected Ru and RuO2 nanoparticles

    Elisa Antares Paoli;Federico Masini;Rasmus Frydendal;Davide Deiana

  • Relating rates of catalyst sintering to the disappearance of individual nanoparticles during Ostwald ripening.

    Sivakumar R. Challa;Andrew T. Delariva;Thomas W. Hansen;Thomas W. Hansen;Stig Helveg

  • Structural and morphological characterization of cerium oxide nanocrystals prepared by hydrothermal synthesis.

    Kenji Kaneko;Koji Inoke;Bert Freitag;Ana B. Hungria

  • In situ manipulation of the active Au-TiO2 interface with atomic precision during CO oxidation.

    Wentao Yuan;Beien Zhu;Ke Fang;Xiao Yan Li

  • 2D Transition Metal Carbides (MXenes) for Carbon Capture

    Ingemar Persson;Joseph Halim;Hans Lind;Thomas W. Hansen

  • Visualizing H2O molecules reacting at TiO2 active sites with transmission electron microscopy

    Wentao Yuan;Beien Zhu;Xiao-Yan Li;Thomas W. Hansen

  • Chiral-Selective Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Lattice-Mismatched Epitaxial Cobalt Nanoparticles

    Maoshuai He;Hua Jiang;Bilu Liu;Bilu Liu;Pavel V. Fedotov

  • A Deep Learning Approach to Identify Local Structures in Atomic‐Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Images

    Jacob Madsen;Pei Liu;Jens Kling;Jakob Birkedal Wagner

  • Interfacial charge distributions in carbon-supported palladium catalysts

    Radhika G. Rao;Raoul Blume;Thomas W. Hansen;Erika Fuentes

  • How Much Oxygen Can a MXene Surface Take Before It Breaks

    Ingemar Persson;Joseph Halim;Thomas Willum Hansen;Jakob Birkedal Wagner

  • Reduction of nickel oxide particles by hydrogen studied in an environmental TEM

    Q. Jeangros;Thomas Willum Hansen;Jakob Birkedal Wagner;Christian Danvad Damsgaard

  • High sintering resistance of size-selected platinum cluster catalysts by suppressed ostwald ripening

    Kristina Wettergren;Florian F. Schweinberger;Davide Deiana;Claron J. Ridge

  • Aberration corrected and monochromated environmental transmission electron microscopy: challenges and prospects for materials science

    T. W. Hansen;J. B. Wagner;R. E. Dunin-Borkowski

  • In situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of catalyst sintering

    Andrew T. DeLaRiva;Thomas Willum Hansen;Sivakumar R. Challa;Abhaya K. Datye

  • Intermetallic GaPd2 Nanoparticles on SiO2 for Low-Pressure CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol: Catalytic Performance and In Situ Characterization

    Elisabetta Maria Fiordaliso;Irek Sharafutdinov;Hudson W. P. Carvalho;Jan-D. Grunwaldt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jakob Birkedal Wagner
Jakob Birkedal Wagner Technical University of Denmark
Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski
Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski Forschungszentrum Jülich
Ib Chorkendorff
Ib Chorkendorff Technical University of Denmark
Ifan E. L. Stephens
Ifan E. L. Stephens Imperial College London
Hua Jiang
Hua Jiang Aalto University
Esko I. Kauppinen
Esko I. Kauppinen Aalto University
Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt
Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Søren Dahl
Søren Dahl Technical University of Denmark
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier Iowa State University

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