A Series of Manganese(III) Salen Complexes as a Result of Team-Based Inquiry in a Transnational Education Programme. (2020)
Journal Article
Yuan, D., Cai, N., Xu, J., Miao, D., Zhang, S., Woodfine, S. E., …Watkinson, M. (2020). A Series of Manganese(III) Salen Complexes as a Result of Team-Based Inquiry in a Transnational Education Programme. ChemPlusChem, 85(6), 1210 - 1219. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202000337

The development of a team-based approach to research-led transnational practical chemistry teaching is described in which a team of five Chinese students on an articulated transnational degree programme, supported by a team of academic and technical... Read More about A Series of Manganese(III) Salen Complexes as a Result of Team-Based Inquiry in a Transnational Education Programme..

Chinese Students’ Expectations Versus Reality When Studying on a UK-China Transnational Chemistry Degree Program (2019)
Journal Article
Cranwell, P. B., Edwards, M. G., Jane Haxton, K., Hyde, J., Page, E. M., Plana, D., …Wright, J. S. (2019). Chinese Students’ Expectations Versus Reality When Studying on a UK-China Transnational Chemistry Degree Program. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i14.3325

An extensive study has been conducted into the experiences of Chinese chemistry students studying on transnational education (TNE) programs at four UK institutions partnered with Chinese universities; in particular, student expectations regarding stu... Read More about Chinese Students’ Expectations Versus Reality When Studying on a UK-China Transnational Chemistry Degree Program.

Developing Scientific Reporting Skills of Early Undergraduate Chemistry Students (2019)
Book Chapter
Capel, N. J., Hancock, L. M., Haxton, K. J., Hollamby, M. J., Jones, R. H., Plana, D., & Mcgarvey, D. J. (2019). Developing Scientific Reporting Skills of Early Undergraduate Chemistry Students. In Teaching Chemistry in Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Tina Overton (333 - 333 (348)). Creathach Press

Our aim is to initiate the development of selected generic skills of early undergraduate chemistry students by focussing on scientific reporting skills. To achieve this, we have developed an approach that draws upon chemistry journal articles as para... Read More about Developing Scientific Reporting Skills of Early Undergraduate Chemistry Students.

Photoelectrochemical activity of colloidal TiO2 nanostructures assembled at polarisable liquid/liquid interfaces (2016)
Journal Article
Plana. (2016). Photoelectrochemical activity of colloidal TiO2 nanostructures assembled at polarisable liquid/liquid interfaces. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 373 -378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2015.09.030

Photoelectrochemical responses arising from the heterogeneous hole-transfer from colloidal TiO2 nanoparticles to ferrocene species across the polarizable water/1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) interface are investigated as a function of the formal redox pote... Read More about Photoelectrochemical activity of colloidal TiO2 nanostructures assembled at polarisable liquid/liquid interfaces.

Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at Gold-Palladium Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Product Distribution versus Shell Thickness (2016)
Journal Article
Plana. (2016). Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at Gold-Palladium Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Product Distribution versus Shell Thickness. ChemCatChem, 952 -960. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201501260

The electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 at carbon-supported Au-Pd core–shell nanoparticles is investigated systematically as a function of the Pd shell thickness. Liquid- and gas-phase products were determined by off-line 1H NMR spectroscopy and on-lin... Read More about Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at Gold-Palladium Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Product Distribution versus Shell Thickness.

A Synthetic Route for the Effective Preparation of Metal Alloy Nanoparticles and Their Use as Active Electrocatalysts (2016)
Journal Article
Plana. (2016). A Synthetic Route for the Effective Preparation of Metal Alloy Nanoparticles and Their Use as Active Electrocatalysts. ACS catalysis, 1533 -1539. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5b02598

By taking advantage of the nonequilibrium synthetic conditions, we used the cathodic corrosion method to prepare a selected number of alloys of which solid–solution alloys do not exist under ambient conditions. To illustrate our findings, we present... Read More about A Synthetic Route for the Effective Preparation of Metal Alloy Nanoparticles and Their Use as Active Electrocatalysts.

New insights into the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles for CO oxidation in electrochemical media (2014)
Journal Article
Plana. (2014). New insights into the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles for CO oxidation in electrochemical media. Journal of Catalysis, 182 -189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2013.11.020

This study reports the interaction between metal oxides and gold in acidic media and its effect on the electrochemical oxidation of carbon monoxide. We describe the oxidation of CO in acidic media on Au nanoparticles of 3 and 7 nm on different oxide... Read More about New insights into the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles for CO oxidation in electrochemical media.

Tuning CO2 electroreduction efficiency at Pd shells on Au nanocores (2013)
Journal Article
Plana. (2013). Tuning CO2 electroreduction efficiency at Pd shells on Au nanocores. Chemical Communications, 10962 - 10964. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC46543H

The faradaic efficiency of CO2 electroreduction is significantly affected by the thickness of Pd nanoshells on Au cores. The ratio of hydrogen evolution to CO2 reduction was determined by differential electrochemical mass spectrometry. Decreasing the... Read More about Tuning CO2 electroreduction efficiency at Pd shells on Au nanocores.

Solids at the liquid-liquid interface: Electrocatalysis with pre-formed nanoparticles (2013)
Journal Article
Plana. (2013). Solids at the liquid-liquid interface: Electrocatalysis with pre-formed nanoparticles. Electrochimica Acta, 809 -815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2013.03.185

The catalytic activity of Au and Au–Pd core–shell nanoparticles is investigated at the liquid–liquid interface. The particles are shown to catalyse a process which is attributed to interfacial oxygen reduction. The Au–Pd particles are shown to be mor... Read More about Solids at the liquid-liquid interface: Electrocatalysis with pre-formed nanoparticles.

Electrochemical performance of Pd and Au-Pd core-shell nanoparticles on surface tailored carbon black as catalyst support (2012)
Journal Article
Plana. (2012). Electrochemical performance of Pd and Au-Pd core-shell nanoparticles on surface tailored carbon black as catalyst support. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 7152 -7160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.12.014

The present work studies the influence of the surface chemistry of carbon supports on the electrochemical behaviour of Pd and Au–Pd core–shell (CS) nanoparticles. Vulcan XC-72R was chemically modified by different acid treatments, inducing changes in... Read More about Electrochemical performance of Pd and Au-Pd core-shell nanoparticles on surface tailored carbon black as catalyst support.