Understanding electrified interfaces is crucial to enabling a multitude of applications, including photo(electrocatalysis), supercapacitors, pseudocapacitors and batteries. However, reaching an atomistic understanding of electrified interfaces remains challenging and will require the combination and development of refined computations and experiments.
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This work is supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF-NRF2017-04) and by Région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes through the project Pack Ambition Recherche 2018 MoSHi.
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Steinmann, S.N., Seh, Z.W. Understanding electrified interfaces. Nat Rev Mater 6, 289–291 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-021-00303-1
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