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31 items found for 2019 [total: 324]
Stabilization of metal nanoparticle catalysts via encapsulation in mesoporous zeolites by steam-assisted recrystallization Acs Applied Nano Materials, Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.9b02205
Decoration of plasmonic Mg nanoparticles by partial galvanic replacement The Journal Of Chemical Physics, 151 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1063/1.5131703
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Understanding the mechanochemical synthesis of the perovskite LaMnO 3 and its catalytic behaviour Dalton Transactions, 23 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT03590G
Influence of synthesis conditions on the structure of nickel nanoparticles and their reactivity in selective asymmetric hydrogenation Chemcatchem, Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901955
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS B18-Core EXAFS E01-JEM ARM 200CF open access
Molecular nitrogen promotes catalytic hydrodeoxygenation Nature Catalysis, 345 Oct 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0368-6
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Tuning of catalytic sites in Pt/TiO2 catalysts for the chemoselective hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene Nature Catalysis, 9 Sept 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0334-3
Synthesis and properties of a compositional series of MIL-53(Al) metal-organic framework crystal-glass composites Journal Of The American Chemical Society, Sept 2019 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b07557
Striated 2D lattice with sub‐nm 1D etch channels by controlled thermally induced phase transformations of PdSe2 Advanced Materials, 16 Sept 2019 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201904251
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
The catalytic decomposition of nitrous oxide Sept 2019
Thesis E01-JEM ARM 200CF open access
Simultaneous identification of low and high atomic number atoms in monolayer 2D materials using 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy Nano Letters, Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02717
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Atomically sharp dual grain boundaries in 2D WS 2 bilayers Small, 30 Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201902590
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Manipulating the optical properties of carbon dots via fine tuning their structural features Chemsuschem, Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201901795
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
In situ analysis of nm-scale alpha formation in titanium alloys Microscopy And Microanalysis, 25 Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1017/S1431927619008183
Conference Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Observing structural dynamics and measuring chemical kinetics in low dimensional materials using high speed imaging Microscopy And Microanalysis, 25 Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1017/S1431927619009140
Mapping non-crystalline nanostructure in beam sensitive systems with low-dose scanning electron pair distribution function analysis Microscopy And Microanalysis, 25 Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1017/S1431927619008912
Conference Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Low-dose scanning electron diffraction microscopy of mechanochemically nanostructured pharmaceuticals Microscopy And Microanalysis, 25 Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1017/S1431927619009462
Conference Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Heterogeneity at multiple length scales in halide perovskite semiconductors Nature Reviews Materials, 44 Jul 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-019-0125-0
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide using TS-1 supported catalysts Jul 2019
Science Highlight E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Metal-organic framework crystal-glass composites Nature Communications, 10 June 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10470-z
Atomic structural catalogue of defects and vertical stacking in 2H/3R mixed polytype multilayer WS 2 pyramids Nanoscale, 10 May 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR01783F
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
In-situ synthesis of single-atom Ir by utilizing metal-organic frameworks: An acid-resistant catalyst for hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone Journal Of Catalysis, 373 May 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2019.03.035
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Anisotropic fracture dynamics due to local lattice distortions Acs Nano, May 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b01071
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Formation and healing of defects in atomically thin GaSe and InSe Acs Nano, Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b08253
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Ceria nanocrystals supporting Pd for formic acid electrocatalytic oxidation: prominent polar surface metal support interactions Acs Catalysis, Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00421
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Generation of maghemite nanocrystals from iron–sulfur centres Dalton Transactions, 64 Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT00514E
Atomic electrostatic maps of 1D channels in 2D semiconductors using 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy Nature Communications, 10 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08904-9
On the high structural heterogeneity of Fe-impregnated graphitic-carbon catalysts from Fe nitrate precursor Catalysts, 9 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.3390/catal9040303
The direct synthesis of H2O2 using TS-1 supported catalysts Chemcatchem, 6 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900100
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Atomic resolution defocused electron ptychography at low dose with a fast, direct electron detector Scientific Reports, 9 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40413-z
Nanoporous carbon: Liquid-free synthesis and geometry dependent catalytic performance Acs Nano, Jan 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b09399
In situ high temperature atomic level dynamics of large inversion domain formations in monolayer MoS2 Nanoscale, 27 Jan 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C8NR08821G
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
- Kristoffer H. Rasmussen, Farnoosh Goodarzi, David B. Christensen, Jerrik Mielby, Søren Kegnæs, "Stabilization of metal nanoparticle catalysts via encapsulation in mesoporous zeolites by steam-assisted recrystallization", Acs Applied Nano Materials (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.9b02205
- Jérémie Asselin, Christina Boukouvala, Yuchen Wu, Elizabeth R. Hopper, Sean M. Collins, John S. Biggins, Emilie Ringe, "Decoration of plasmonic Mg nanoparticles by partial galvanic replacement", The Journal Of Chemical Physics, 151 (2019), DOI: 10.1063/1.5131703
- Rachel H. Blackmore, Maria Elena Rivas, Tugce Eralp Erden, Trung Dung Tran, Huw R. Marchbank, Dogan Ozkaya, Martha Briceno De Gutierrez, Alison Wagland, Paul Collier, Peter P. Wells, "Understanding the mechanochemical synthesis of the perovskite LaMnO 3 and its catalytic behaviour", Dalton Transactions, 23 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9DT03590G
- Rosa Arrigo, Simone Gallarati, Manfred E. Schuster, Jake Seymour, Diego Gianolio, Ivan Da Silva, June Callison, Haosheng Feng, John E. Proctor, Pilar Ferrer, Federica Venturini, Dave Grinter, Georg Held, "Influence of synthesis conditions on the structure of nickel nanoparticles and their reactivity in selective asymmetric hydrogenation", Chemcatchem (2019), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901955
- Haohong Duan, Jin-Cheng Liu, Ming Xu, Yufei Zhao, Xue-Lu Ma, Juncai Dong, Xusheng Zheng, Jianwei Zheng, Christopher Allen, Mohsen Danaie, Yung-Kang Peng, Titipong Issariyakul, Dongliang Chen, Angus Kirkland, Jean-Charles Buffet, Jun Li, Shik Chi Edman Tsang, Dermot O'Hare, "Molecular nitrogen promotes catalytic hydrodeoxygenation", Nature Catalysis, 345 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0368-6
- Margherita Macino, Alexandra J. Barnes, Sultan M. Althahban, Ruiyang Qu, Emma K. Gibson, David J. Morgan, Simon J. Freakley, Nikolaos Dimitratos, Christopher J. Kiely, Xiang Gao, Andrew M. Beale, Donald Bethell, Qian He, Meenakshisundaram Sankar, Graham J. Hutchings, "Tuning of catalytic sites in Pt/TiO2 catalysts for the chemoselective hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene", Nature Catalysis, 9 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0334-3
- Christopher W. Ashling, Duncan N. Johnstone, Remo N. Widmer, Jingwei Hou, Sean M. Collins, Adam F. Sapnik, Alice M. Bumstead, Philip A. Chater, David A. Keen, Thomas Bennett, "Synthesis and properties of a compositional series of MIL-53(Al) metal-organic framework crystal-glass composites", Journal Of The American Chemical Society (2019), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b07557
- Gyeong Hee Ryu, Taishan Zhu, Jun Chen, Sapna Sinha, Viktoryia Shautsova, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Jamie H. Warner, "Striated 2D lattice with sub‐nm 1D etch channels by controlled thermally induced phase transformations of PdSe2", Advanced Materials, 16 (2019), DOI: 10.1002/adma.201904251
- [Thesis] Nia Richards, "The catalytic decomposition of nitrous oxide" (2019)
- Yi Wen, Colin Ophus, Christopher S. Allen, Shiang Fang, Jun Chen, Efthimios Kaxiras, Angus Kirkland, Jamie H. Warner, "Simultaneous identification of low and high atomic number atoms in monolayer 2D materials using 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy", Nano Letters (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02717
- Jun Chen, Gang Seob Jung, Gyeong Hee Ryu, Ren‐jie Chang, Si Zhou, Yi Wen, Markus J. Buehler, Jamie Warner, "Atomically sharp dual grain boundaries in 2D WS 2 bilayers", Small, 30 (2019), DOI: 10.1002/smll.201902590
- Hui Luo, Nikolaos Papaioannou, Enrico Salvadori, Maxie Roessler, Gereon Ploenes, Ernst R. H. Van Eck, Liviu Tanase, Jingyu Feng, Yiwei Sun, Yan Yang, Mohsen Danaie, Ana Jorge Sobrido, Andrei Sapelkin, James Durrant, Stoichko D. Dimitrov, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, "Manipulating the optical properties of carbon dots via fine tuning their structural features", Chemsuschem (2019), DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201901795
- [Conference Paper] A. K. Ackerman, C. Ophus, M. Danaie, P. Karamched, A. J. Knowles, A. Wilkinson, D. Rugg, D. Dye, "In situ analysis of nm-scale alpha formation in titanium alloys", Microscopy And Microanalysis, 25, 1490 - 1491 (2019), DOI: 10.1017/S1431927619008183
- [Conference Paper] A. I. Kirkland, Christopher Allen, E. Besley, Chen Huang, J. Kim, S. Skowron, J. Warner, "Observing structural dynamics and measuring chemical kinetics in low dimensional materials using high speed imaging", Microscopy And Microanalysis, 25, 1682 - 1683 (2019), DOI: 10.1017/S1431927619009140
- [Conference Paper] Joonatan E. M. Laulainen, Duncan N. Johnstone, Ivan Bogachev, Sean M. Collins, Louis Longley, Thomas Bennett, Paul A. Midgley, "Mapping non-crystalline nanostructure in beam sensitive systems with low-dose scanning electron pair distribution function analysis", Microscopy And Microanalysis, 25, 1636 - 1637 (2019), DOI: 10.1017/S1431927619008912
- [Conference Paper] Duncan N. Johnstone, Christopher Allen, Mohsen Danaie, Royston C. B. Copley, Jeffrey Brum, Angus I. Kirkland, Paul A. Midgley, "Low-dose scanning electron diffraction microscopy of mechanochemically nanostructured pharmaceuticals", Microscopy And Microanalysis, 25, 1746 - 1747 (2019), DOI: 10.1017/S1431927619009462
- Elizabeth M. Tennyson, Tiarnan A. S. Doherty, Samuel D. Stranks, "Heterogeneity at multiple length scales in halide perovskite semiconductors", Nature Reviews Materials, 44 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41578-019-0125-0
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide using TS-1 supported catalysts" (2019)
- Jingwei Hou, Christopher W. Ashling, Sean M. Collins, Andraž Krajnc, Chao Zhou, Louis Longley, Duncan N. Johnstone, Philip Chater, Shichun Li, Marie-Vanessa Coulet, Philip L. Llewellyn, François-Xavier Coudert, David Keen, Paul A. Midgley, Gregor Mali, Vicki Chen, Thomas D. Bennett, "Metal-organic framework crystal-glass composites", Nature Communications, 10, 2580 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10470-z
- Gyeong Hee Ryu, Jun Chen, Yi Wen, Si Zhou, Ren-Jie Chang, Jamie H. Warner, "Atomic structural catalogue of defects and vertical stacking in 2H/3R mixed polytype multilayer WS 2 pyramids", Nanoscale, 10 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9NR01783F
- Wenxiu Cao, Lu Lin, Haifeng Qi, Qian He, Zhijie Wu, Aiqin Wang, Wenhao Luo, Tao Zhang, "In-situ synthesis of single-atom Ir by utilizing metal-organic frameworks: An acid-resistant catalyst for hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone", Journal Of Catalysis, 373, 161 - 172 (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2019.03.035
- Gang Seob Jung, Shanshan Wang, Zhao Qin, Si Zhou, Mohsen Danaie, Angus I. Kirkland, Markus J. Buehler, Jamie H. Warner, "Anisotropic fracture dynamics due to local lattice distortions", Acs Nano (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b01071
- David G. Hopkinson, Viktor Zólyomi, Aidan P. Rooney, Nick Clark, Daniel J. Terry, Matthew Hamer, David J. Lewis, Christopher S. Allen, Angus I. Kirkland, Yury Andreev, Zakhar Kudrynskyi, Zakhar Kovalyuk, Amalia Patanè, Vladimir I. Fal'Ko, Roman Gorbachev, Sarah Haigh, "Formation and healing of defects in atomically thin GaSe and InSe", Acs Nano (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b08253
- Lin Ye, A. A. Hanif Mahadi, Chalathan Saengruengrit, Jin Qu, Feng Xu, Simon Fairclough, Neil Young, Ping-Luen Ho, Junjun Shan, Luan Nguyen, Franklin F. Tao, Karaked Tedsree, Shik Chi Edman Tsang, "Ceria nanocrystals supporting Pd for formic acid electrocatalytic oxidation: prominent polar surface metal support interactions", Acs Catalysis (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00421
- Samya Banerjee, Andreas Omlor, Juliusz A. Wolny, Yisong Han, Frederik Lermyte, Amy E. Godfrey, Peter B. O'Connor, Volker Schünemann, Mohsen Danaie, Peter J. Sadler, "Generation of maghemite nanocrystals from iron–sulfur centres", Dalton Transactions, 64 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9DT00514E
- Shiang Fang, Yi Wen, Christopher Allen, Colin Ophus, Grace G. D. Han, Angus I. Kirkland, Efthimios Kaxiras, Jamie H. Warner, "Atomic electrostatic maps of 1D channels in 2D semiconductors using 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy", Nature Communications, 10 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08904-9
- Rosa Arrigo, Manfred Erwin Schuster, "On the high structural heterogeneity of Fe-impregnated graphitic-carbon catalysts from Fe nitrate precursor", Catalysts, 9 (2019), DOI: 10.3390/catal9040303
- Richard J. Lewis, Kenji Ueura, Yukimasa Fukuta, Simon J. Freakley, Liqun Kang, Feng Ryan Wang, Qian He, Jennifer. K. Edwards, David J. Morgan, Yasushi Yamamoto, Graham J. Hutchings, "The direct synthesis of H2O2 using TS-1 supported catalysts", Chemcatchem, 6 (2019), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900100
- Jiamei Song, Christopher Allen, Si Gao, Chen Huang, Hidetaka Sawada, Xiaoqing Pan, Jamie Warner, Peng Wang, Angus I. Kirkland, "Atomic resolution defocused electron ptychography at low dose with a fast, direct electron detector", Scientific Reports, 9 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40413-z
- Ruoyu Xu, Liqun Kang, Johannes Knossalla, Jerrik Mielby, Qiming Wang, Bolun Wang, Junrun Feng, Guanjie He, Yudao Qin, Jijia Xie, Ann-Christin Swertz, Qian He, Søren Kegnæs, Dan J.l. Brett, Ferdi Schüth, Feng Ryan Wang, "Nanoporous carbon: Liquid-free synthesis and geometry dependent catalytic performance", Acs Nano (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b09399
- Jun Chen, Si Zhou, Yi Wen, Gyeong Hee Ryu, Christopher Allen, Yang Lu, Angus I. Kirkland, Jamie H. Warner, "In situ high temperature atomic level dynamics of large inversion domain formations in monolayer MoS2", Nanoscale, 27 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C8NR08821G
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