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Electrolyte and gas flow rate balance in flow cell for lithium-mediated ammonia electrosynthesis

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00090H, Paper

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Anna Mangini, Giulia Zagatti, Julia Amici, Sara Garcia-Ballesteros, Federico Bella
Electrochemical lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction (Li-NRR) has emerged as a leading approach for ammonia electrosynthesis under mild conditions, particularly in continuous flow-cell configurations. Despite the rapid progress of this strategy, as...
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Time-Resolved Core-Level Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Glycine Fragmentation: A Case Study on the Capabilities and Limitations of Site-Selective Probes at XFELs

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00069J, Paper

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Antoine Sarracini, Lorenzo Paoloni, Christopher Arrell, Sven Augustin, Loic Bassement, Christoph Bostedt, Sergio Díaz-Tendero, Davide Facciala, Zhaoheng Guo, Gregor Knopp, Suddhasattwa Mandal, Ana Sofia Morillo-Candas, Kevin Charles Prince, Zhibin Sun, Hankai Zhang, Xinhua Xie, Antonio Picon, Kirsten Schnorr, Andre Al-Haddad
This paper presents the time-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (TR-XPS) setup at the Swiss Free-Electron Laser (SwissFEL) Maloja endstation for investigating the ultrafast dynamics of gas-phase molecules with site-specificity. As a...
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Multiscale-Particle Organic Hybrid Materials as Electrolyte Additives for Electrocatalytic Reactive Carbon Capture

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00084C, Paper

Andrew Grorud, Aseel A Almadani, Alex Peng, Weilin Oh, JeoungJae Jang, Ahryeon Lee, Siyang Xing, Feng Jiao, Aaron J. Moment, Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
The integration of CO2 capture and conversion into a single system has been suggested as an efficient and transformative approach for enabling the conversion of CO2 to high-value chemicals and...
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Spiers Memorial Lecture: Spin-mediated promotion of magnetic metal catalysts

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00046K, Paper

Oliver Christensen, Ang Cao, Ib Chorkendorff, Jens K. Nørskov
Spin-mediated promotion on magnetic metal catalysts can break scaling relations, as different adsorbates on different sites feel the quenching of the spin moment differently. This allows for more efficient catalysts for many different reactions.
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Concluding Remarks: Good vibrations at interfaces as probed with spectroscopy

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00105J, Paper

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Bert Weckhuysen
The 2026 Faraday Discussions on the topic of “Vibrations at Interfaces” brought together a group of scientists to address the forefront topics and related challenges and limitations when using different...
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Role of Iron Incorporation in the Structural and Chemical Stability of Spinel Cobalt Oxide under Oxygen Evolution Reaction Conditions in Neutral Media

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00075D, Paper

Etsushi Tsuji, Yuki Shinagawa, Hiroyuki Okada, Satoshi Suganuma, Naonobu Katada
Stable, earth-abundant catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which is a bottleneck in water electrolysis, operating in neutral media, are essential for advancing environmentally friendly water electrolysis and CO2...
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Towards direct dynamics simulation of photochemistry without the Born-Oppenheimer approximation

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00096G, Paper

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Jong-Kwon Ha, Edith Leal-Sánchez, Ryan J MacDonell
The simulation of photochemical reactions requires a quantum mechanical treatment of electronic and nuclear dynamics. Most simulation approaches use the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation and calculations of nonadiabatic couplings to evolve...
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Helium spin-echo as a surface-sensitive probe of vibrational energy dissipation

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5FD00162E, Paper

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Anton Tamtögl, John Ellis, William Allison, Agata Sabik, Grażyna Antczak, A. P. Jardine
Helium spin-echo spectroscopy can directly quantify linewidths and lifetimes of surface vibrational modes, from Rayleigh waves on Ag(001) to vibrations of organic molecules, giving direct access to energy dissipation and coherence at interfaces.
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Glucose electrooxidation reaction on Ni-based nanocatalysts for replacing OER in alkaline electrolyser

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00078A, Paper

Axel Rigoulet, Thibault Rafaïdeen, Teko Wilhelmin Napporn, Christophe Coutanceau
In a backdrop of energy transition and geopolitical tensions, efficient biomass-assisted hydrogen production with non-platinum group metals is sought out. Understanding of the related reaction mechanisms is crucial for the...
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Advances in the Projected Forces and Momenta Decoherence Method for Attosecond Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00086J, Paper

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Gilbert Grell, Joachim Galiana, Stefano M. Cavaletto, Jesus Gonzalez-Vazquez, Alicia Palacios, Fernando Martín
The Projected Forces and Momenta (PFM) decoherence correction has been recently introduced [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2025, 21, 10645] and successfully applied for trajectory surface-hopping (TSH) simulations describing the coupled...
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Understanding Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation in Hydroborate-Based All-Solid-State Batteries

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00022C, Paper

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Hugo Braun, Arndt Remhof, Corsin Battaglia
Hydroborate solid electrolytes are attracting increasing attention as alternatives to argyrodite electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium and sodium batteries. In this work, we first summarize recent progress in mixed‑anion closo‑hydroborate and...
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Near-infrared vibrational second harmonic generation: a new nonlinear interfacial vibrational spectroscopy

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D5FD00124B, Paper

Somaiyeh Dadashi, Ziyad Thekkayil, Eric Borguet
NIR-vSHG, a new nonlinear laser spectroscopy technique, enables determination of interfacial bond anharmonicity and dissociation energies by exciting higher up the vibrational manifold.
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Unified adiabatic and diabatic excited-state description via the ensemble-variational quantum eigensolver

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00064A, Paper

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Christophe Soule, Bruno SENJEAN, Benjamin Lasorne
Within the present noisy intermediate-scale quantum-computing era, hybrid quantum-classical-processor algorithms have emerged as promising avenues for tackling electronic-structure eigenproblems. Among them, the so-called ensemble-variational quantum eigensolver has been designed to...
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Solid-liquid electrolyte interphases in quasi-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries with argyrodite-type solid electrolyte separators

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00058D, Paper

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Mistry Jaimini Jessica, Sramana Kundu, Lechen Yang, Longlong Wang, Mark P Stockham, Ben Spencer, Dominic Spencer-Jolly
Quasi-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries offer a promising route to combine the high energy density of lithium-sulfur chemistry with improved interfacial stability. However, their performance is limited by the formation of resistive...
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Spectrally Resolved X-Ray Scattering

Faraday Discuss., 2026, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D6FD00068A, Paper

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David J Romano, Benjamin H Savitzky, Andres Moreno Carrascosa, Alexander Narkiewicz-Jodko, Joseph D Geiser, Patrick Y Wang, Lisa Huang, Stuart W. Crane, Xinxin Cheng, Mengning Liang, Sandra Mous, Michael P Minitti, Mats Simmermacher, Adam Kirrander, Peter M. Weber
The Bethe surface represents the X-ray scattering cross section as a function of momentum transfer and energy loss, mapping the electronic spectrum of the target via the inelastic transition matrix...
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