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List of works by Sanjaya D Senanayake

A New Class of Metal-Cyclam-Based Zirconium Metal-Organic Frameworks for CO2 Adsorption and Chemical Fixation.

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

A Phenomenological Study of the Metal-Oxide Interface: The Role of Catalysis in Hydrogen Production from Renewable Resources

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

A new type of strong metal-support interaction and the production of H2 through the transformation of water on Pt/CeO2(111) and Pt/CeO(x)/TiO2(110) catalysts.

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Ambient pressure XPS and IRRAS investigation of ethanol steam reforming on Ni-CeO2(111) catalysts: an in situ study of C-C and O-H bond scission.

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

Anion-mediated electronic effects in reducible oxides: Tuning the valence band of ceria via fluorine doping

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Assisted deprotonation of formic acid on Cu(111) and self-assembly of 1D chains.

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

Atomic-Level Structural Dynamics of Polyoxoniobates during DMMP Decomposition

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Breaking Simple Scaling Relations through Metal-Oxide Interactions: Understanding Room-Temperature Activation of Methane on M/CeO2 (M = Pt, Ni, or Co) Interfaces

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Capture and Decomposition of the Nerve Agent Simulant, DMCP, Using the Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework (ZIF-8)

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Ceria-based model catalysts: fundamental studies on the importance of the metal-ceria interface in CO oxidation, the water-gas shift, CO2 hydrogenation, and methane and alcohol reforming.

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Cerium oxide as a promoter for the electro-oxidation reaction of ethanol: in situ XAFS characterization of the Pt nanoparticles supported on CeO2 nanoparticles and nanorods

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Correlated Multimodal Approach Reveals Key Details of Nerve-Agent Decomposition by Single-Site Zr-Based Polyoxometalates

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Coupling of carbon monoxide molecules over oxygen-defected UO2(111) single crystal and thin film surfaces

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Cu supported on mesoporous ceria: water gas shift activity at low Cu loadings through metal-support interactions.

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

Determining the Behavior of RuOx Nanoparticles in Mixed-Metal Oxides: Structural and Catalytic Properties of RuO2/TiO2(110) Surfaces

scholarly article by Fan Yang et al published 13 September 2011 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Direct Conversion of Methane to Methanol on Ni-Ceria Surfaces: Metal-Support Interactions and Water-Enabled Catalytic Conversion by Site Blocking

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

Dry Reforming of Methane on a Highly-Active Ni-CeO2 Catalyst: Effects of Metal-Support Interactions on C-H Bond Breaking.

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

EDTA-Ce(III) Modified Pt Vulcan XC-72 Catalyst Synthesis for Methanol Oxidation in Acid Solution

Electronic Metal–Support Interactions and the Production of Hydrogen Through the Water-Gas Shift Reaction and Ethanol Steam Reforming: Fundamental Studies with Well-Defined Model Catalysts

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Enhanced, robust light-driven H2 generation by gallium-doped titania nanoparticles

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Exploring the Structural and Electronic Properties of Pt/Ceria-Modified TiO2 and Its Photocatalytic Activity for Water Splitting under Visible Light

scholarly article by Shankhamala Kundu et al published 22 June 2012 in Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Fundamental studies of well-defined surfaces of mixed-metal oxides: special properties of MO(x)/TiO2(110) {M = V, Ru, Ce, or W}.

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

Gold, copper, and platinum nanoparticles dispersed on CeO(x)/TiO(2)(110) surfaces: high water-gas shift activity and the nature of the mixed-metal oxide at the nanometer level.

scientific article published in January 2010

Growth and characterization of epitaxially stabilized ceria(001) nanostructures on Ru(0001)

scientific article published on 01 May 2016

Growth mode and oxidation state analysis of individual cerium oxide islands on Ru(0001).

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

High activity of Ce(1-x)Ni(x)O(2-y) for H(2) production through ethanol steam reforming: tuning catalytic performance through metal-oxide interactions.

scientific article published on December 2010

Highly Selective Methane to Methanol Conversion on Inverse SnO<sub>2</sub>/Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu(111) Catalysts: Unique Properties of SnO<sub>2</sub> Nanostructures and the Inhibition of the Direct Oxidative Combustion of Methane

scientific article published in 2022

Highly active copper-ceria and copper-ceria-titania catalysts for methanol synthesis from CO2

scientific article published in Science

Hydrogenation of CO2 on ZnO/Cu(100) and ZnO/Cu(111) Catalysts: Role of Copper Structure and Metal-Oxide Interface in Methanol Synthesis.

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Identification of Highly Selective Surface Pathways for Methane Dry Reforming Using Mechanochemical Synthesis of Pd-CeO

scientific article published on 21 October 2022

Imaging the ordering of a weakly adsorbed two-dimensional condensate: ambient-pressure microscopy and spectroscopy of CO molecules on rutile TiO(110)

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Implementation of new TPD analysis techniques in the evaluation of second order desorption kinetics of cyanogen from Cu(001).

scientific article published on 19 November 2010

Importance of the Metal-Oxide Interface in Catalysis: In Situ Studies of the Water-Gas Shift Reaction by Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

scholarly article by Kumudu Mudiyanselage et al published 9 April 2013 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

In Situ Characterization of Mesoporous Co/CeO2 Catalysts for the High-Temperature Water-Gas Shift

In Situ Elucidation of the Active State of Co–CeOx Catalysts in the Dry Reforming of Methane: The Important Role of the Reducible Oxide Support and Interactions with Cobalt

scholarly article by Feng Zhang et al published 12 March 2018 in ACS Catalysis

In Situ Probes of Capture and Decomposition of Chemical Warfare Agent Simulants by Zr-Based Metal Organic Frameworks.

scientific article published on 30 December 2016

In situ and theoretical studies for the dissociation of water on an active Ni/CeO2 catalyst: importance of strong metal-support interactions for the cleavage of O-H bonds

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In situ imaging of Cu2O under reducing conditions: formation of metallic fronts by mass transfer

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In situ investigation of the mechanochemically promoted Pd–Ce interaction under stoichiometric methane oxidation conditions

scientific article published in 2023

In situ oxidation of ultrathin silver films on Ni(111)

In situ studies of CeO2-supported Pt, Ru, and Pt–Ru alloy catalysts for the water–gas shift reaction: Active phases and reaction intermediates

scholarly article by Wenqian Xu et al published July 2012 in Journal of Catalysis

In situ/operando studies for the production of hydrogen through the water-gas shift on metal oxide catalysts.

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Infrared reflectance and photoemission spectroscopy studies across the phase transition boundary in thin film vanadium dioxide

scientific article published on 21 October 2008

Interaction of CO with OH on Au(111): HCOO, CO3, and HOCO as Key Intermediates in the Water-Gas Shift Reaction

Interactions of oxygen and ethylene with submonolayer Ag films supported on Ni(111)

scientific article published on 10 May 2011

Inverse Oxide/Metal Catalysts in Fundamental Studies and Practical Applications: A Perspective of Recent Developments

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Isolation and characterization of formates on CeO x –Cu y O/Cu(1 1 1)

scholarly article by Kumudu Mudiyanselage et al published February 2015 in Catalysis Today

Low Pressure CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol over Gold Nanoparticles Activated on a CeO(x)/TiO2 Interface.

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

Low Temperature Activation of Methane on Metal-Oxides and Complex Interfaces: Insights from Surface Science

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Mechanistic Insights of Ethanol Steam Reforming over Ni–CeOx(111): The Importance of Hydroxyl Groups for Suppressing Coke Formation

Methane oxidation activity and nanoscale characterization of Pd/CeO2 catalysts prepared by dry milling Pd acetate and ceria

scientific article published in March 2021

Morphological effects of the nanostructured ceria support on the activity and stability of CuO/CeO2 catalysts for the water-gas shift reaction

scientific article published on 10 July 2014

Multimodal Characterization of Materials and Decontamination Processes for Chemical Warfare Protection

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Nanopattering in CeOx/Cu(111): A New Type of Surface Reconstruction and Enhancement of Catalytic Activity

New In-Situ and Operando Facilities for Catalysis Science at NSLS-II: The Deployment of Real-Time, Chemical, and Structure-Sensitive X-ray Probes

Nucleation, morphology, and structure of sub-nm thin ceria islands on Rh(111)

Origin of chemical contrast in low-energy electron reflectivity of correlated multivalent oxides: The case of ceria

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 88 no. 23, December 2013

Oxides in Catalysis

scholarly article by Dario Stacchiola et al published February 2015 in Catalysis Today

Potassium and Water Coadsorption on TiO2(110): OH-Induced Anchoring of Potassium and the Generation of Single-Site Catalysts

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Probing adsorption sites for CO on ceria.

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

Probing the reaction intermediates for the water–gas shift over inverse CeOx/Au(111) catalysts

scholarly article by Sanjaya D Senanayake et al published 4 May 2010 in Journal of Catalysis

Pseudocapacitive hausmannite nanoparticles with (101) facets: synthesis, characterization, and charge-transfer mechanism

scientific article published on 3 May 2013

Special Chemical Properties of RuOx Nanowires in RuOx/TiO2(110): Dissociation of Water and Hydrogen Production

Stabilization of Catalytically Active Cu+Surface Sites on Titanium-Copper Mixed-Oxide Films

scientific article published on 09 April 2014

Steam Reforming of Ethanol on Ni/CeO2: Reaction Pathway and Interaction between Ni and the CeO2 Support

Storage of potassium ions in layered vanadium pentoxide nanofiber electrodes for aqueous pseudocapacitors.

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Structural Changes and Thermal Stability of Charged LiNixMnyCozO2 Cathode Materials Studied by Combined In Situ Time-Resolved XRD and Mass Spectroscopy

Structure and special chemical reactivity of interface-stabilized cerium oxide nanolayers on TiO2(110)

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

The Low-Temperature Conversion of Methane to Methanol on CeOx/Cu2O catalysts: Water Controlled Activation of the C-H Bond.

scientific article published on 10 October 2016

The activation of gold and the water-gas shift reaction: insights from studies with model catalysts.

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The reactions of oxygenated molecules on the oxide surfaces of uranium and titanium

2005 doctoral thesis by Sanjaya D. Senanayake at University of Auckland

Thermal stability in the blended lithium manganese oxide – Lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide cathode materials: An in situ time-resolved X-Ray diffraction and mass spectroscopy study

scholarly article by Enyuan Hu et al published March 2015 in Journal of Power Sources

Three-dimensional ruthenium-doped TiO2 sea urchins for enhanced visible-light-responsive H2 production.

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Uniform 2 nm gold nanoparticles supported on iron oxides as active catalysts for CO oxidation reaction: structure-activity relationship

scientific article published in March 2015

Unique properties of ceria nanoparticles supported on metals: novel inverse ceria/copper catalysts for CO oxidation and the water-gas shift reaction

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Unraveling the Dynamic Nanoscale Reducibility (Ce4+→ Ce3+) of CeOx-Ru in Hydrogen Activation

Unravelling the structure of Magnus' pink salt

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Visible Light-Driven H2 Production over Highly Dispersed Ruthenia on Rutile TiO2 Nanorods

scholarly article by Thuy-Duong Nguyen-Phan et al published 16 December 2015 in ACS Catalysis

Water-Gas-Shift over Metal-Free Nanocrystalline Ceria: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

Water-gas shift reaction on a highly active inverse CeOx/Cu111 catalyst: unique role of ceria nanoparticles.

scientific article published in January 2009