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Application and technical notes

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Data analysis code

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Application & technical notes

Technical note #1 

Gas Pulses 

Technical note #2 

Benchmark Measurement 

Technical note #3 

Potentiostat instability 

Technical note #4

Non-aqueous 

Technical note #5

Tuning of the QMS 

Technical note #6 

Air-free transfer from glovebox 

Technical note #7 

Soft ionization 

Data analysis code

We recommend the Spectro Inlets co-developed open-source package ixdat for data analysis. The ixdat package features easy data access and power plotting and analysis tools for combined techniques, such as ECMS. ixdat will get you up to speed on your ECMS data treatment in no time. The documentation for the package can be found here: https://ixdat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Below is an example of how we use the package for the treatment of EC-MS data to generate the figures in our application notes:

Publications

Vollenbroek, J. C., Rodriguez, A. P., Mei, B. T., Mul, G., Verhaar, M. C., Odijk, M., & Gerritsen, K. G. F. (2023). Light-driven urea oxidation for a wearable artificial kidney. In Catalysis Today (p. 114163). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2023.114163

Ashraf, T., Rodriguez, A. P., Mei, B., & Mul, G. (2023). Electrochemical decarboxylation of acetic acid on boron-doped diamond and platinum functionalised electrodes for pyrolysis-oil treatment. Faraday Discuss. doi:10.1039/D3FD00066D

 

Becker, H., Murawski, J., Shinde, D. V., Stephens, I. E. L., Hinds, G., & Smith, G. (2023). Impact of impurities on water electrolysis: a review. Sustainable Energy Fuels7, 1565–1603. doi:10.1039/D2SE01517J

Maselj, N., Jovanovski, V., Ruiz-Zepeda, F., Finšgar, M., Klemenčič, T., Trputec, J., Kamšek, A. R., Bele, M., Hodnik, N., & Jovanovič, P. (2023). Time and Potential‐Resolved Comparison of Copper Disc and Copper Nanoparticles for Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Furfural. In Energy Technology (p. 2201467). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.202201467

Đukić, T., Pavko, L., Jovanovič, P., Maselj, N., Gatalo, M., & Hodnik, N. (2022). Stability challenges of carbon-supported Pt-nanoalloys as fuel cell oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysts. Chem. Commun.58, 13832–13854. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC05377B

Raciti, D., & Moffat, T. P. (2022). Quantification of Hydride Coverage on Cu(111) by Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c06207 

Silvioli, L., Winiwarter, A., Scott, S., Castelli, I., Moses, P., Chorkendorff, I., Seger, B., & Rossmeisl, J. (2022). Rational Catalyst Design for Higher Propene Partial Electro-oxidation Activity by Alloying Pd with Au. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c10095

Krzywda, P. M., Paradelo Rodríguez, A., Benes, N. E., Mei, B. T., & Mul, G. (2022). Carbon-Nitrogen bond formation on Cu electrodes during CO2 reduction in NO3- solution. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 121512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121512

Oates, R. P., Murawski, J., Hor C., Shen, X., Weber, D. J., Oezaslan, M., Shaffer, M. S. P., & Stephens, I. E. L. (2022). How to Minimise Hydrogen Evolution on Carbon Based Materials?. Journal of The Electrochemical Society,169(5), 054516. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/ac67f7/meta

Krempl, K., Hochfilzer, D., Cavalca, F., Saccoccio, M., Kibsgaard, J., Vesborg, P., & Chorkendorff, I. (2022). Quantitative Operando Detection of Electro Synthesized Ammonia Using Mass Spectrometry. ChemElectroChem, 9(6), e202101713. https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202101713

Hochfilzer, Degenhart; Xu, Aoni; Sørensen, Jakob Ejler; Needham, Julius Lucas; Krempl, Kevin; Toudahl, Karl Krøjer; et al. (2022). Transients in Electrochemical CO Reduction Explained by Mass Transport of Buffers. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c00412

Krzywda, P. M., Paradelo Rodríguez, A., Cino, L., Benes, N. E., Mei, B. T., & Mul, G. (2022). Electroreduction of NO3− on tubular porous Ti electrodes. Catal. Sci. Technol. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CY00289B 

Scott, S. B., Sørensen, J. E., Rao, R. R., Moon, C., Kibsgaard, J., Shao-Horn, Y., & Chorkendorff, I. (2022). The low overpotential regime of acidic water oxidation part II: trends in metal and oxygen stability numbers. Energy Environ. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EE03915F 

Scott, S. B., Rao, R., Moon, C., Sørensen, J. E., Kibsgaard, J., Shao-Horn, Y., & Chorkendorff, I. (2022). The low overpotential regime of acidic water oxidation part I: The importance of O2 detection. Energy Environ. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EE03914H 

Tackett, B. M., Raciti, D., Hight Walker, A. R., & Moffat, T. P. (2021). Surface Hydride Formation on Cu(111) and Its Decomposition to Form H2 in Acid Electrolytes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters12(44), 10936–10941. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03131

Zheng, Y.-R., Vernieres, J., Wang, Z., Zhang, K., Hochfilzer, D., Krempl, K., Liao, T.-W., Presel, F., Altantzis, T., Fatermans, J., Scott, S. B., Secher, N. M., Moon, C., Liu, P., Bals, S., van Aert, S., Cao, A., Anand, M., Nørskov, J. K., Kibsgaard, J., Chorkendorff, I. (2021). Monitoring oxygen production on mass-selected iridium–tantalum oxide electrocatalysts. Nature Energyhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00948-w

Moriau, L. J., Hrnjić, A., Pavlišič, A., Kamšek, A. R., Petek, U., Ruiz-Zepeda, F., Šala, M., Pavko, L., Šelih, V. S., Bele, M., Jovanovič, P., Gatalo, M., & Hodnik, N. (2021). Resolving the nanoparticles’ structure-property relationships at the atomic level: a study of Pt-based electrocatalysts. In iScience (Vol. 24, Issue 2, p. 102102). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102102

Huang, J., Scott, S. B., Chorkendorff, I., & Wen, Z. (2021). Online Electrochemistry–Mass Spectrometry Evaluation of the Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction at Supported Catalysts. ACS Catalysis11(20), 12745–12753. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c03430

Krzywda, P. M., Paradelo Rodriguez, A., Benes, N. E., Mei, B., & Mul, G. (2021). Effect of electrolyte and electrode configuration on Cu‐catalyzed nitric oxide reduction to ammonia. ChemElectroChemhttps://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202101273

 
Smiljanić, M., Petek, U., Bele, M., Ruiz-Zepeda, F., Šala, M., Jovanovič, P., Gaberšček, M., & Hodnik, N. (2021). Electrochemical Stability and Degradation Mechanisms of Commercial Carbon-Supported Gold Nanoparticles in Acidic Media. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C125(1). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c10033
 
Stumm, C., Kastenmeier, M., Waidhas, F., Bertram, M., Sandbeck, D. J. S., Bochmann, S., Mayrhofer, K. J. J., Bachmann, J., Cherevko, S., Brummel, O., & Libuda, J. (2021). Model electrocatalysts for the oxidation of rechargeable electrofuels – carbon supported Pt nanoparticles prepared in UHV. Electrochimica Acta389https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2021.138716
 
 
Tanumihardja, E., Paradelo Rodríguez, A., Loessberg-Zahl, J. T., Mei, B., Olthuis, W., & van den Berg, A. (2021). On-chip electrocatalytic NO sensing using ruthenium oxide nanorods. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical334https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2021.129631
 
Moriau, L., Koderman Podboršek, G., Surca, A. K., Semsari Parpari, S., Šala, M., Petek, U., Bele, M., Jovanovič, P., Genorio, B., & Hodnik, N. (2021). Enhancing Iridium Nanoparticles’ Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity and Stability by Adjusting the Coverage of Titanium Oxynitride Flakes on Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanoribbons’ Support. Advanced Materials Interfaces8(17). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202100900
 

Hochfilzer, D., Sørensen, J. E., Clark, E. L., Scott, S. B., Chorkendorff, I., & Kibsgaard, J. (2021). The Importance of Potential Control for Accurate Studies of Electrochemical CO Reduction. ACS Energy Letters6(5). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c00496

Krempl, K., Hochfilzer, D., Scott, S. B., Kibsgaard, J., Vesborg, P. C. K., Hansen, O., & Chorkendorff, I. (2021). Dynamic Interfacial Reaction Rates from Electrochemistry–Mass Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry93(18). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00110
 
Scott, S. B., Kibsgaard, J., Vesborg, P. C. K., & Chorkendorff, I. (2021). Tracking oxygen atoms in electrochemical CO oxidation – Part II: Lattice oxygen reactivity in oxides of Pt and Ir. Electrochimica Acta374https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2021.137844
 
Scott, S. B., Kibsgaard, J., Vesborg, P. C. K., & Chorkendorff, I. (2021). Tracking oxygen atoms in electrochemical CO oxidation – Part I: Oxygen exchange via CO2 hydration. Electrochimica Acta374, 137842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2021.137842
 
 

Winiwarter, A., Boyd, M. J., Scott, S. B., Higgins, D. C., Seger, B., Chorkendorff, I., & Jaramillo, T. F. (2021). CO as a Probe Molecule to Study Surface Adsorbates during Electrochemical Oxidation of Propene. ChemElectroChem8(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202001162

 
 

Scott, S. B., Engstfeld, A. K., Jusys, Z., Hochfilzer, D., Knøsgaard, N., Trimarco, D. B., Vesborg, P. C. K., Behm, R. J., & Chorkendorff, I. (2020). Anodic molecular hydrogen formation on Ru and Cu electrodes. Catalysis Science & Technology10(20). https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CY01213K

Winiwarter, A., Silvioli, L., Scott, S. B., Enemark-Rasmussen, K., Sariç, M., Trimarco, D. B., Vesborg, P. C. K., Moses, P. G., Stephens, I. E. L., Seger, B., Rossmeisl, J., & Chorkendorff, I. (2019). Towards an atomistic understanding of electrocatalytic partial hydrocarbon oxidation: propene on palladium. Energy & Environmental Science12(3). https://doi.org/10.1039/C8EE03426E
 
Roy, C., Sebok, B., Scott, S. B., Fiordaliso, E. M., Sørensen, J. E., Bodin, A., Trimarco, D. B., Damsgaard, C. D., Vesborg, P. C. K., Hansen, O., Stephens, I. E. L., Kibsgaard, J., & Chorkendorff, I. (2018). Impact of nanoparticle size and lattice oxygen on water oxidation on NiFeOxHy. Nature Catalysis1(11). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-018-0162-x
 
Trimarco, D. B., Scott, S. B., Thilsted, A. H., Pan, J. Y., Pedersen, T., Hansen, O., Chorkendorff, I., & Vesborg, P. C. K. (2018). Enabling real-time detection of electrochemical desorption phenomena with sub-monolayer sensitivity. Electrochimica Acta268https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.02.060
D. B. Trimarco, (2017). Real-time detection of sub-monolayer desorption phenomena during electrochemical reactions: Instrument development and applications. PhD thesis, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark. https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/real-time-detection-of-sub-monolayer-desorption-phenomena-during-
 
D. B. Trimarco, P. C. K. Vesborg, T. Pedersen, O. Hansen, I. Chorkendorff, (2016), patent,A device for extracting volatile species from a liquid. http://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/a-device-for-extracting-volatile-species-from-a-liquid(3e58dfe1-948c-4936-bdda-a0d2afe32b41)/export.html
 
Trimarco, D. B., Pedersen, T., Hansen, O., Chorkendorff, I., & Vesborg, P. C. K. (2015). Fast and sensitive method for detecting volatile species in liquids. Review of Scientific Instruments86(7). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4923453
 
 

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