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Preface to the JPCM special issue on physical and chemical properties of reducible oxides

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Mixing properties of Al2O3(0001)-supported M 2O3 and MM′O3 monolayers (M, M′ = Ti, V, Cr, Fe)

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Can oxygen vacancies in ceria surfaces be measured by O1s photoemission spectroscopy?

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Summary: This study investigates the influence of oxygen vacancies on the O 1s binding energy in CeO2(111) using density functional theory calculations. Comparisons are made between point vacancies in CeO2(111) and complete reduction to Ce2O3. The results show that the reduction of CeO2 by oxygen vacancies has a minor effect on the O 1s binding energy, while the O 1s binding energy is clearly changed when the chemical bond character of the oxygen atom is modified, such as by the formation of OH-groups or carbonates.

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Redox-mediated C-C bond scission in alcohols adsorbed on CeO2-x thin films

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Kinetics and selectivity of methane oxidation on an IrO2(110) film

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Modeling polarons in density functional theory: lessons learned from TiO2

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Investigation of the structural and electronic differences between silver and copper doped ceria using the density functional theory

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Structure and reactivity of model CeO2 surfaces

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Adsorption of glutamic acid on clean and hydroxylated rutile TiO2(110): an XPS and NEXAFS investigation

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Iso-valent doping of reducible oxides: a comparison of rutile (110) and anatase (101) TiO2 surfaces

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Termination-dependent electronic structure and atomic-scale screening behavior of the Cu2O(111) surface

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Incorporation of Ti in epitaxial Fe2TiO4 thin films

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Facet-dependent stability of near-surface oxygen vacancies and excess charge localization at CeO2 surfaces

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