Sara Barja

Ikerbasque Research Associate, UPV/EHU

Ikerbasque Research Associate at UPV/EHU.

Research line:

Electrocatalysis at the atomic scale.

Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow (2013); PhD. Special Award from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (2012); ERC StG.

Previous research experience at IMDEA nanociencia (Spain), Molecular Foundry - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Germany), Donostia International Physics Center (Spain), and Centro de Fisica de Materiales (Spain). Guest researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and University of Basel (Switzerland).

Doctor in Physics 2012 from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Publicaciones
Premios y Honores

2024

Review / Complementary probes for the electrochemical interface

Nature Reviews Chemistry

Pastor, E.; Lian, Z.; Xia, L.; Ecija, D.; Galán-Mascarós, J.R.; Barja, S.; Giménez, S.; Arbiol, J.; López, N.; García de Arquer, F.P.

2023

Article / A survey of Earth-abundant metal oxides as oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in acidic media (pH < 1)

EES Catalysis

Jiahao Yu, Stefano Giancola, Bahareh Khezri, David Nieto-Castro, Jesús Redondo, Frederik Schiller, Sara Barja, Maria Chiara Spadaro, Jordi Arbiol, Felipe A. Garcés-Pineda and José Ramón Galán-Mascarós

Article / Highly Durable Nanoporous Cu2-xS Films for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis under Mild pH Conditions

ACS Catalysis

Fernández-Climent, R.; Redondo, J.; García-Tecedor, M.; Spadaro, M.C.; Li, J.; Chartrand, D.; Schiller, F.; Pazos, J.; Hurtado, M.F.; de la Peña O’Shea, V.; Kornienko, N.; Arbiol, J.; Barja, S.; Mesa, C.A.; Giménez, S.

Article / A survey of Earth-abundant metal oxides as oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in acidic media (pH o 1)

EES Catalysis

Yu, J.; Giancola, S.; Khezri, B.; Nieto-Castro, D.; Redondo, J.; Schiller, F.; Barja, S.; Spadaro, M.C.; Arbiol, J.; Garcés-Pineda, F.A.; Galán-Mascarós, J.R.

2020

Article / Electrochemical Stability of the Reconstructed Fe3O4(001) Surface

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Grumelli, D.; Wiegmann, T.; Barja, S.; Reikowski, F.; Maroun, F.; Allongue, P.; Balajka, J.; Parkinson, G.S.; Diebold, U.; Kern, K.; Magnussen, O.M.

2019

Article / Identifying substitutional oxygen as a prolific point defect in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Nature Communications

Barja, S.; Refaely-Abramson, S.; Schuler, B.; Qiu, D.Y.; Pulkin, A.; Wickenburg, S.; Ryu, H.; Ugeda, M.M.; Kastl, C.; Chen, C.; Hwang, C.; Schwartzberg, A.; Aloni, S.; Mo, S.K.; Frank Ogletree, D.; Crommie, M.F.; Yazyev, O.V.; Louie, S.G.; Neaton, J.B.; Weber-Bargioni, A.

Article / Large Spin-Orbit Splitting of Deep In-Gap Defect States of Engineered Sulfur Vacancies in Monolayer WS2

Physical Review Letters

Schuler, B.; Qiu, D.Y.; Refaely-Abramson, S.; Kastl, C.; Chen, C.T.; Barja, S.; Koch, R.J.; Ogletree, D.F.; Aloni, S.; Schwartzberg, A.M.; Neaton, J.B.; Louie, S.G.; Weber-Bargioni, A.

2016

Article / Charge density wave order in 1D mirror twin boundaries of single-layer MoSe 2

Nature Physics

Barja, S.; Wickenburg, S.; Liu, Z.F.; Zhang, Y.; Ryu, H.; Ugeda, M.M.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.X.; Mo, S.K.; Wong, E.; Salmeron, M.B.; Wang, F.; Crommie, M.F.; Ogletree, D.F.; Neaton, J.B.; Weber-Bargioni, A.