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8 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Free-Energy Analysis of Bubble Nucleation on Electrocatalytic Surfaces

Qingguang Xie, Paolo Malgaretti, Othmane Aouane +2

Bubble nucleation at catalyst surfaces plays a critical role in the operation of electrolyzers. However, achieving controlled bubble nucleation remains challenging due to limited u…

physics.chem-ph2026

How back reaction, hydrogen transport, and capillarity control the performance of hydrogen release from liquid organic carriers

Tatiana Nizkaia, Thomas Solymosi, Paolo Malgaretti +2

We derive a theoretical model to elucidate the inhibition of catalytic activity during the dehydrogenation of Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC). Within our model, we account…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Spontaneous Emergence of Solitary Waves in Active Flow Networks with Elastic Elements

Rodrigo Fernández-Quevedo García, Gonçalo Cruz Antunes, Jens Harting +6

Flow networks are fundamental for understanding systems such as animal and plant vasculature or power distribution grids. These networks can encode, transmit, and transform informa…

physics.chem-ph2026

Effects of Hydrogen Transport on the Kinetic Regimes of 4-Nitrophenol Reduction by Sodium Borohydride

Tatiana Nizkaia, Philipp Groppe, Valentin Müller +3

The reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NiP) with sodium borohydride is widely used to benchmark heterogeneous catalysts, yet its kinetics are commonly oversimplified as pseudo-first-ord…

cond-mat.soft2025

Zigzagging Diffusion and Non-Standard Transport in Particle-laden Nanopores Under Extreme Confinement

A. Baer, P. Malgaretti, K. Hoellring +2

Understanding transport subject to molecular-scale confinement is key to advancing nanofluidics, yet classical hydrodynamic laws often fail at these scales. Here, we study a model…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Mechanical work extraction from an error-prone active dynamic Szilard engine

Luca Cocconi, Paolo Malgaretti, Holger Stark

Isothermal information engines operate by extracting net work from a single heat bath through measurement and feedback control. In this work, we analyze a realistic active Szilard…