Rik Mom
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. R.V. Mom
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 4221
- r.v.mom@lic.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5111-5591
Rik Mom uses spectroscopic tools to study the electrode-electrolyte interface during electrochemical reactions. In this way, he wants to learn which features in the atomic structure of the interface determine the catalytic performance in key processes for sustainable energy technology.
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PhD candidates
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Largest research project on sustainable hydrogen production kicks off -
The energy transition under the nanoscope: Gravitation funding for ANION project -
Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers
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New research facility for the energy transition -
Rik Mom receives an NWO Tenure Track and returns to Leiden -
Cum laude on understanding catalysts under extreme conditions
Rik Mom studied chemistry at Leiden University, where he became interested in the chemical reactions that take place at the surface of catalysts. Following this interest, he did his PhD in the group of Prof. Joost Frenken and Dr. Irene Groot, at the Leiden Institute of Physics, where he studied the structure of MoS2 particles during the catalytic removal of sulfur from organic molecules. Such operando studies require highly specialized equipment (a high-pressure scanning tunneling microscope in this case), which is home-built. This combination of instrument design and catalysis studies is what defined Rik’s further career, which he continued at the Fritz Haber Institute/BESSY synchrotron in Berlin. Here, he investigated the electrochemical conversion of water to oxygen on metal oxide electrodes using operando X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy, again developing and using purpose-built instrumentation. In his current position at Leiden University, he continues this tradition, with the current research focus on fuel cell and electrolyzer electrocatalysis.
Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
Nationality: Dutch
Date of Birth: 28-11-1988
Education
2013 - 2017 PhD, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands (cum laude)
Thesis title: “Imaging complex model catalysts in action”
Advisors: Prof. Joost W.M. Frenken, Dr. Irene Groot
2010 - 2013 MSc in Chemistry, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, The Netherlands (cum laude)
Current and previous research positions
2020 - present Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, The Netherlands
2018 - 2020 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany (Prof. Robert Schlögl)
2017 - 2018 Postdoctoral researcher, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany (Prof. Robert Schlögl)
Grants, awards, recognitions since 2016
2023 Beam time at SOLEIL, SLS, Diamond, MAX IV and NSRRC
2021 NWO ECCM MVI Top-up grant with E. Cuppen and L. Hessels from the Rathenau Institute (400 k€)
2020 ECCM Tenure Track grant (k€ 950)
2019 Beam time at NSRRC (Taiwan)
2018 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (k€ 70)
2016 SFV Michel Cantarel Grant
Contribution to teaching and supervision
- MSc Chemistry course: Spectroscopy on Chemical Reactions and Environments
- BSc MST course: Physical Chemistry and Kinetics
- BSc Minor course: Green Chemistry
- Lecturer in HRSMC PhD course Physical Methods in Inorganic Chemistry
- Lecturer in ECCM graduate school
- Lecturer in Pre-University College chemistry lecture series
(Co-)supervision of 4 PhD students and 1 postdoctoral fellow since 2016.
Other responsibilities since 2016
- Reviewer for amongst others Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, ACS Catalysis, and Angewandte Chemie
- Chair of In situ and operando techniques symposium at the 73rd annual meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry
- Scientific advisory board member of Operando Photoemission at MESA+
Publication record including five recent representative publications
30 papers with >1300 citations, H-index 16 (Google Scholar, 2023)
Full publication record: Leiden University
- H Trzesniowski, N Deka, O van der Heijden, R Golnak, J Xiao, MTM Koper, R Seidel, RV Mom, Reversible and Irreversible Cation Intercalation in NiFeOx Oxygen Evolution Catalysts in Alkaline Media J. Phys. Chem. Lett. C (2023), 14 (2), 545-551. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03336
- N Deka, TE Jones, LJ Falling, LE Sandoval-Diaz, T Lunkenbein, J.J. Velasco-Velez, T.S. Chan, C.H. Chuang, A. Knop-Gericke, RV Mom, On the Operando Structure of Ruthenium Oxides during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Media, ACS catalysis (2023), 13, 7488-7498. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c01607
- H Javed, A Knop-Gericke, RV Mom Structural Model for Transient Pt Oxidation during Fuel Cell Start-up Using Electrochemical X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2022), 14 (31), 36238-36245. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c09249
- RV Mom, LJ Falling, O Kasian, G Algara-Siller, D Teschner, RH Crabtree, A Knop-Gericke, KJJ Mayrhofer, J-J Velasco-Vélez, TE Jones, Operando Structure–Activity–Stability Relationship of Iridium Oxides during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, ACS Catalysis (2022), 12 (9), 5174-5184. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c05951
- JJ Velasco-Vélez, LJ Falling, D Bernsmeier, MJ Sear, PCJ Clark, TS Chan, E Stotz, M Hävecker, R Kraehnert, A Knop-Gericke, CH Chuang, DE Starr, M Favaro, RV Mom, A comparative study of electrochemical cells for in situ x-ray spectroscopies in the soft and tender x-ray range, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2021), 54 (12), 124003. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/abd2ed
Assistant professor
- Science
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- LIC/Energy & Sustainability
- LIC/ES/Catalysis and Surface Chemistry
- Louisa S., Koper M.T.M. & Mom R.V. (2024), Prospects for electrochemical X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy as a powerful electrochemical interface characterization technique, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 45: 101462.
- Heijden O. van der, Eggenbeen J.J.J., Trzesniowski H., Deka N., Golnak R., Xiao J., Rijn M. van, Mon R.V. & Koper M.T.M. (2024), Li+ cations activate NiFeOOH for oxygen evolution in sodium and potassium hydroxide, Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) 63(18): e202318692.
- Mom R.V., Sandoval-Diaz L.E., Gao D.F., Chuang C.H., Carbonio E.A., Jones T.E., Arrigo R., Ivanov D., Havecker M., Cuenya B.R., Schlogl R., Lunkenbein T., Knop-Gericke A. & Velasco-Velez J.J. (2023), Assessment of the degradation mechanisms of Cu electrodes during the CO2 reduction reaction, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 15(25): 30052-30059.
- Deka N., Jones T.E., Falling L.J., Sandoval-Diaz L.E., Lunkenbein T., Velasco-Velez J.J., Chan T.S., Chuang C.H., Knop-Gericke A. & Mom R.V. (2023), On the operando structure of ruthenium oxides during the oxygen evolution reaction in acidic media, ACS Catalysis 13(11): 7488-7498.
- Velasco‐Vélez J.J., Poon J., Gao D., Chuang C.H., Bergmann A., Jones T.E., Haw S.C., Chen J.M., Carbonio E., Mom R.V., Ivanov D., Arrigo R., Cuenya B.R., Knop‐Gericke A. & Schlögl R. (2023), Cationic copper species stabilized by zinc during the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 revealed by in situ X‐Ray spectroscopy, Advanced Sustainable Systems 7(5): 2200453.
- Trzesniowski H., Deka N., Heijden O. van der, Golnak R, Xiao J., Koper M.T.M., Seidel R. & Mom R.V. (2023), Reversible and irreversible cation intercalation in NiFeOx oxygen evolution catalysts in alkaline media, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 14(2): 545-551.
- Nagra H.J., Knop-Gericke A. & Mom R.V. (2022), Structural model for transient Pt oxidation during fuel cell start-up using electrochemical X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 14(31): 36238-36245.
- Mom R.V. & Knop-Gericke A. (2022), Hydroxylation of platinum surface oxides induced by water vapor, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13(3): 879-883.
- Mom R.V., Falling L.J., Kasian O., Algara-Siller G., Teschner D., Crabtree R.H., Knop-Gericke A., Mayrhofer K.J.J., Velasco-Velez J.J. & Jones T.E. (2022), Operando structure-activity-stability relationship of iridium oxides during the oxygen evolution reaction, ACS Catalysis 12(9): 5174-5184.
- Velez J.J.V., Bernsmeier D., Jones T.E., Zeller P., Carbonio E., Chuang C.H., Falling L.J., Streibel V., Mom R.V., Hammud A., Havecker M., Arrigo R., Stotz E., Lunkenbein T., Knop-Gericke A., Krahnert R. & Schlogl R. (2022), The rise of electrochemical NAPXPS operated in the soft X-ray regime exemplified by the oxygen evolution reaction on IrOx electrocatalysts, Faraday Discussions 236: 103-125.
- Shih A.J., Cecílio de Oliveira Monteiro M., Dattila F., Pavesi D., Philips M., Marques da Silva A.H.., Vos R.E., Ojha K., Park S., Van der Heijden O., Marcandalli G., Goyal A., Villalba M.A., Chen X., Kasun Kalhara Gunasooriya G.T., McCrum I., Mom R.V., López N. & Koper M.T.M. (2022), Water electrolysis, Nature Reviews Methods Primers 2: 84.
- Velasco-Velez J.J., Falling L.J., Bernsmeier D., Sear M.J., Clark P.C.J., Chan T.S., Stotz E., Havecker M., Kraehnert R., Knop-Gericke A., Chuang C.H., Starr D.E., Favaro M. & Mom R.V. (2021), A comparative study of electrochemical cells for in situ x-ray spectroscopies in the soft and tender x-ray range, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 54(12): .
- Velasco-Velez J.J., Carbonio E.A., Chuang C.H., Hsu C.J., Lee J.F., Arrigo R., Havecker M., Wang R.Z., Plodinec M., Wang F.R., Centeno A., Zurutuza A., Falling L.J., Mom R.V., Hofmann S., Schlogl R., Knop-Gericke A. & Jones T.E. (2021), Surface Electron-Hole Rich Species Active in the Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation, Journal of the American Chemical Society 143(32): 12524-12534.
- Falling L.J., Velasco-Velez J.J., Mom R.V., Knop-Gericke A., Schlogl R., Teschner D. & Jones T.E. (2021), The ladder towards understanding the oxygen evolution reaction, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 30: 100842.
- Ding Y.X., Gu Q.Q., Klyushin A., Huang X., Choudhury S.H., Spanos I., Song F.H., Mom R., Dungen P., Mechler A.K., Schlogl R. & Heumann S. (2020), Dynamic carbon surface chemistry: Revealing the role of carbon in electrolytic water oxidation, Journal of Energy Chemistry 47: 155-159.
- Falling L.J., Mom R.V., Diaz L.E.S., Nakhaie S., Stotz E., Ivanov D., Havecker M., Lunkenbein T., Knop-Gericke A., Schlogl R. & Velasco-Velez J.J. (2020), Graphene-Capped Liquid Thin Films for Electrochemical Operando X-ray Spectroscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 12(33): 37680-37692.
- Frevel L.J., Mom R., Velasco-Velez J.J., Plodinec M., Knop-Gericke A., Schlogl R. & Jones T.E. (2020), In Situ X-ray Spectroscopy on the Electrochemical Development of Iridium Nanoparticles in Confined Electrolyte (vol 123, pg 9146, 2019), The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C 124(27): 14941-14943.
- Nong H.N., Falling L.J., Bergmann A., Klingenhof M., Tran H.P., Spori C., Mom R., Timoshenko J., Zichittella G., Knop-Gericke A., Piccinin S., Perez-Ramirez J., Roldan Cuenya B., Schlogl R., Strasser P., Teschner D. & Jones T.E. (2020), Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution, Nature 587(7834): 408-+.
- Velasco-Velez J.J., Chuang C.H., Gao D.F., Zhu Q.J., Ivanov D., Jeon H.S., Arrigo R., Mom R.V., Stotz E., Wu H.L., Jones T.E., Roldan Cuenya B., Knop-Gericke A. & Schlogl R. (2020), On the Activity/Selectivity and Phase Stability of Thermally Grown Copper Oxides during the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2, ACS Catalysis 10(19): 11510-11518.
- Velasco-Velez J.J., Mom R.V., Sandoval-Diaz L.E., Falling L.J., Chuang C.H., Gao D.F., Jones T.E., Zhu Q.J., Arrigo R., Roldan Cuenya B., Knop-Gericke A., Lunkenbein T. & Schlogl R. (2020), Revealing the Active Phase of Copper during the Electroreduction of CO2 in Aqueous Electrolyte by Correlating In Situ X-ray Spectroscopy and In Situ Electron Microscopy, ACS Energy Letters 5(6): 2106-2111.
- Mom R.V., Louwen J.N., Frenken J.W.M. & Groot I.M.N. (2019), In situ observations of an active MoS2 model hydrodesulfurization catalyst, Nature Communications 10: 2546.
- Mom R.V., Melissen S.T.A.G., Sautet P., Frenken J.W.M., Steinmann S.N. & Groot I.M.N. (2019), The Pressure Gap for Thiols: Methanethiol Self-Assembly on Au(111) from Vacuum to 1 bar, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C 123(19): 12382-12389.
- Velasco-Velez J.J., Jones T.E., Streibel V., Havecker M., Chuang C.H., Frevel L., Plodinec M., Centeno A., Zurutuza A., Wang R., Arrigo R., Mom R., Hofmann S., Schlogl R. & Knop-Gericke A. (2019), Electrochemically active Ir NPs on graphene for OER in acidic aqueous electrolyte investigated by in situ and ex situ spectroscopies, Surface Science 681: 1-8.
- Tesch M.F., Bonke S.A., Jones T.E., Shaker M.N., Xiao J., Skorupska K., Mom R., Melder J., Kurz P., Knop-Gericke A., Schlogl R., Hocking R.K. & Simonov A.N. (2019), Evolution of Oxygen-Metal Electron Transfer and Metal Electronic States During Manganese Oxide Catalyzed Water Oxidation Revealed with In Situ Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy, Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) 58: 3426-3432.
- Frevel L.J., Mom R.V., Velasco-Velez J.J., Plodinec M., Knop-Gericke A., Schlogl R. & Jones T.E. (2019), In Situ X-ray Spectroscopy of the Electrochemical Development of Iridium Nanoparticles in Confined Electrolyte, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C 123: 9146-9152.
- Mom R., Frevel L., Velasco-Velez J.J., Plodinec M., Knop-Gericke A. & Schlogl R. (2019), The Oxidation of Platinum under Wet Conditions Observed by Electrochemical X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Journal of the American Chemical Society 141: 6537-6544.
- Mom R.V., Vermeer J., Frenken J.W.M. & Groot I.M.N. (2018), Structural Dynamics of Al2O3/NiAl(110) During Film Growth in NO2, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122(2): 788–793.
- Mom R.V., Ivashenko O., Frenken J.W.M., Groot I.M.N. & Sjastad A.O. (2018), Nucleation, alloying, and stability of Co-Re bimetallic nanoparticles on Al2O3/NiAl(110), The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C 122(16): 8967-8975.
- Mom R.V. (29 June 2017), Imaging complex model catalysts in action: From surface science towards industrial practice using high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy (Dissertatie. LION, Science, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Frenken J.W.M., Groot I.M.N.
- Mom R.V., Onderwaater W.G., Rost M.J., Jankowski M., Wenzel S., Jacobse L., Alkemade P.F.A., Vandalon V., Spronsen M.A. van, Weeren M. van, Crama L., Tuijn P.C. van der, Felici R., Kessels W.M.M., Carla F., Frenken J.W.M. & Groot I.M.N. (2017), Simultaneous scanning tunneling microscopy and synchrotron X-ray measurements in a gas environment, Ultramicroscopy 182: 233-242.
- Onderwaater W.G., Tuijn P.C. van der, Mom R.V., Spronsen M.A. van, Roobol S.B., Saedi A., Dnec J., Isern H., Carla F., Dufrane T., Koehler R.C.T., Crama L., Groot I.M.N., Felici R. & Frenken J.W.M. (2016), Combined scanning probe microscopy and x-ray scattering instrument for in situ catalysis investigations, Review of Scientific Instruments 87: 113705.
- Mom R.V., Rost M.J., Frenken J.W.M. & Groot I.M.N. (2016), Tuning the properties of molybdenum oxide on Al2O3/NiAl(110): metal versus oxide deposition, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C 120(35): 19737–19743.
- Mom R.V., Cheng J., Koper M.T.M. & Sprik M.l. (2014), Modeling the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Metal Oxides: The Infuence of Unrestricted DFT Calculations, 118(8): 4095-4102.
- Mom R.V., Hahn C., Jacobse L. & Juurlink L.B.F. (2013), LEED analysis of a nickel cylindrical single crystal, Surface Science 613: 15-20.