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Zbynek Novotny is a scientist with expertise in surface science, catalysis, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. His key expertise is in ultra-high vacuum surface science and in probing solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces on metal oxides and 2D-based materials using high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy and laboratory- and synchrotron-based X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

• PhD in surface science, Vienna University of Technology
• MS in engineering physics, Brno University of Technology
• BS in physics, Masaryk University

• Loschmidt Prize, Austrian Chemical Physics Society, 2015

2024

• Cancellieri C., S. Gramatte, O. Politano, et al. 23024. “Effect of hydrogen on the chemical state, stoichiometry and density of amorphous Al2O3 films grown by thermal atomic layer deposition.” Surf Interface Anal. 56(5): 293-304. doi:10.1002/sia.7282
• Dey A., A. Mendalz, A. Wach, et al. 2024. “Hydrogen evolution with hot electrons on a plasmonic-molecular catalyst hybrid system.” Nat Commun 15, 445. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-44752-y
• Diulus J.T., Z. Novotny, N. Dongfang, J. Beckord, Y. Al-Hamdani, N. Comini, M. Muntwiler, M. Hengsberger, M. Iannuzzi, and J. Osterwalder. 2024. “h-BN/Metal-Oxide Interface Grown by Intercalation: A Model System for Nano-Confined Catalysis.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128 (12), 5156-5167. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c07828
• Longo F., E. Billeter, S. Kazaz, A. Cesarini, M. Nikolic, A. Chacko, P. Schmutz, Zb. Novotny, A. Borgschulte. 2024. “Hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy reveals self-organized structures of electrocatalytic nickel oxy-hydroxides.” Surface Science, Volume 739, 122397. doi:10.1016/j.susc.2023.122397

2023

• Adams P., F. Creazzo, T. Moehl, R. Crockett, P. Zeng, Z. Novotny, S. Luber, W. Yang, S.D. Tilley. 2023. “Solution phase treatments of Sb₂Se₃ heterojunction photocathodes for improved water splitting performance.” J. Mater. Chem. A, 11, 8277-8284. doi:10.1039/D3TA00554B
• Beckord J, J.T. Diulus, Z. Novotny, J. Osterwalder, and M. Hengsberger. 2023. “Protected ultrathin cuprous oxide film for photocatalysis: Excitation and relaxation dynamics.” Phys. Rev. Mater. 7, 4, 045801, doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.045801
• Brandalise Nunes F., N. Comini, J.T. Diulus, T. Huthwelker, M. Iannuzzi, J. Osterwalder, and Z. Novotny. 2023. “Dynamic Equilibrium at the HCOOH-Saturated TiO₂(110)–Water Interface.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 14 (13), 3132-3138. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03788
• Comini N., J.T. Diulus, G.S. Parkinson, J. Osterwalder, and Z. Novotny. 2023. “Stability of Iridium Single Atoms on Fe3O4(001) in the mbar Pressure Range.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127 (38), 19097-19106. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c03097
• Taskin M., Z. Novotny, N. Comini, J.T. Diulus, M. Hengsberger, P. Kruger, and J. Osterwalder. 2023. “Surface electronic structure of Ni-doped Fe₃O₄(001).” Phys. Rev. B, 108, 15, 155403. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.108.155403
• Taskin M., Z. Novotny, M. Hengsberger, and J. Osterwalder. 2023. “Formation of Ni_𝑥Fe_3−𝑥O₄ on Fe₃O₄(001).” Phys. Rev. Mater. 7,5, 055801. doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.055801

2021

• Comini N., T. Huthwelker, J.T. Diulus, J. Osterwalder, Z. Novotny. 2021. “Factors influencing surface carbon contamination in ambient-pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy experiments.” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 39 (4): 043203. doi:10.1116/6.0001013
• Diulus J.T., B. Tobler, J. Osterwalder, and Z. Novotny. 2021. “Thermal oxidation of Ru(0001) to RuO₂(110) studied with ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 54, 244001. doi:10.1088/1361-6463/abedfd

2020

• Novotny Z., D. Aegerter, N. Comini, B. Tobler, L. Artiglia, U. Maier, T. Moehl, E. Fabbri, T. Huthwelker, T.J. Schmidt, M. Ammann, J. van Bokhoven, J. Raabe, and J. Osterwalder. 2020. “Probing the solid–liquid interface with tender x rays: A new ambient-pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy endstation at the Swiss Light Source.” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 91, 023103. doi:10.1063/1.5128600
• Novotny Z., B. Tobler, L. Artiglia, M. Fischer, M. Schreck, J. Raabe, and J. Osterwalder. 2020. “Kinetics of the Thermal Oxidation of Ir(100) toward IrO₂ Studied by Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 (9), 3601-3607. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00914

2019

• Doudin N.M., S.F. Yuk, M.D. Marcinkowski, M. Nguyen, J. Liu, Y. Wang, and Z. Novotny, et al. 2019. "Understanding Heterolytic H2 Cleavage and Water-Assisted Hydrogen Spillover on Fe3O4(001)-Supported Single Palladium Atoms." ACS Catalysis 9, no. 9:7876-7887. PNNL-SA-141193. doi:10.1021/acscatal.9b01425
• Wolf-Dietrich Z., T. Musso, M. Mosberger, Z. Novotny, R. Totani, M. Iannuzzi, B. Probst, R. Alberto, and J. Osterwalder. 2019. “Comparative Study of the Different Anchoring of Organometallic Dyes on Ultrathin Alumina.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 (36), 22250-22260. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b05209

2018

• Frederick R.T., Z. Novotny, F.P. Netzer, G.S. Herman, and Z. Dohnalek. 2018. "Growth and Stability of Titanium Dioxide Nanoclusters on Graphene/Ru(0001)." Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122, no. 2:640-648. PNNL-SA-126878. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b05518

2016

• Novotny Z., F. Netzer, and Z. Dohnalek. 2016. "Ceria nanoclusters on graphene/Ru(0001): A new model catalyst system." Surface Science 652. PNNL-SA-114572. doi:10.1016/j.susc.2016.03.020

2015

• Novotny Z., F. Netzer, and Z. Dohnalek. 2015. "Cerium oxide nanoclusters on graphene/Ru(0001): Intercalation of oxygen via spillover." ACS Nano 9, no. 8:8617-8626. PNNL-SA-111100. doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b03987

2013

• Parkinson G., Z. Novotny, G. Argentero, et al. 2013. “Carbon monoxide-induced adatom sintering in a Pd–Fe3O4 model catalyst.” Nature Mater 12, 724–728. doi:10.1038/nmat3667