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36 items found for 2021 [total: 324]
Improving ultra-fast charging performance and durability of all solid state thin film Li-NMC battery-on-chip systems by in situ TEM lamella analysis Applied Materials Today, 26 Dec 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2021.101282
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Dynamics at polarized carbon dioxide–iron oxyhydroxide interfaces unveil the origin of multicarbon product formation Acs Catalysis, Dec 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c04296
Stabilized tilted-octahedra halide perovskites inhibit local formation of performance-limiting phases Science, 374 Dec 2021 DOI: 10.1126/science.abl4890
Microcavity-like exciton-polaritons can be the primary photoexcitation in bare organic semiconductors Nature Communications, 12 Nov 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26617-w
A high-throughput, solvent free method for dispersing metal atoms directly onto supports Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, Nov 2021 DOI: 10.1039/D1TA08372D
Edge-hosted Fe-N3 sites on a multiscale porous carbon framework combining high intrinsic activity with efficient mass transport for oxygen reduction Chem Catalysis, 3 Oct 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.checat.2021.09.012
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Atomistic mechanics of torn back folded edges of triangular voids in monolayer WS2 Small, 102 Oct 2021 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202104238
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Liquid-phase sintering of lead halide perovskites and metal-organic framework glasses Science, 374 Oct 2021 DOI: 10.1126/science.abf4460
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Controlling the production of acid catalyzed products of furfural hydrogenation by Pd/TiO2 Chemcatchem, Oct 2021 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202101036
Low-coordinated Co-N-C on oxygenated graphene for efficient electrocatalytic H2O2 production Advanced Functional Materials, 1 Oct 2021 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202106886
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Atomic structure of dislocations and grain boundaries in two-dimensional PtSe2 Acs Nano, Oct 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c06736
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Gold–rhodium nanoflowers for the plasmon-enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction under visible light Acs Catalysis, Oct 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c02938
Atomically thin clays and micas offer super speedy ion exchange Oct 2021
Science Highlight E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts Nature Communications, 12 Sept 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25811-0
Counting molecules in nano test tubes: a method for determining the activation parameters of thermally driven reactions through direct imaging Chemical Communications, 38 Sept 2021 DOI: 10.1039/D1CC03827C
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Ion exchange in atomically thin clays and micas Nature Materials, 14 Aug 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-021-01072-6
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization Science Advances, 7 Aug 2021 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh4232
Shear-induced chemical segregation in a Fe-based bulk metallic glass at room temperature Scientific Reports, 11 Jul 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92907-4
Using XANES and EELS to analyse space weathered Apollo lunar samples: Preparation for Hayabusa2 Samples Jul 2021
Conference Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF E02-JEM ARM 300CF I14-Hard X-ray Nanoprobe
Reversible lithium storage in sp2 hydrocarbon frameworks Journal Of Energy Chemistry, 1 Jul 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.jechem.2021.07.019
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Studying biological structures using electron ptychography Jul 2021
Diamond Annual Review Highlight E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Well defined single-site catalysts enabled by surface coordination chemistry Jul 2021
Diamond Annual Review Highlight B18-Core EXAFS E01-JEM ARM 200CF E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Direct visualization of substitutional Li doping in supported Pt nanoparticles and their ultra-selective catalytic hydrogenation performance Chemistry – A European Journal, June 2021 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202101470
Atomic resolution HOLZ-STEM imaging of atom position modulation in oxide heterostructures Ultramicroscopy, 168 May 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2021.113296
Atomic diffusivities in amorphous and liquid Cu-Zr: Kirkendall effects and dependence on packing density Acta Materialia, 33 May 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2021.116993
Intercalating lithium into the lattice of silver nanoparticles boosts catalytic hydrogenation of carbon–oxygen bonds Chemical Science, 8 May 2021 DOI: 10.1039/D1SC01700D
Mixed hierarchical local structure in a disordered metal–organic framework Nature Communications, 12 Apr 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22218-9
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I22-Small angle scattering & Diffraction open access
Single-molecule imaging and kinetic analysis of intermolecular polyoxometalate reactions Chemical Science, 126 Apr 2021 DOI: 10.1039/D1SC01874D
Stepwise collapse of a giant pore metal–organic framework Dalton Transactions, 38 Mar 2021 DOI: 10.1039/D1DT00881A
Effect of the preparation of the catalyst and the protective agent in liquid phase hydrogenation reactions Mar 2021
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Contrast transfer and noise considerations in focused-probe electron ptychography Ultramicroscopy, 221 Feb 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.113189
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Sulfur promotion in Au/C catalyzed acetylene hydrochlorination Small, Feb 2021 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202007221
The selective oxidation of cyclohexane via in-situ H2O2 production over supported Pd-based catalysts Catalysis Letters, 12 Jan 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s10562-020-03511-6
Evaluation and realization of safer Mg-S battery: the decisive role of the electrolyte Nano Energy, 334 Jan 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.105832
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Fe‐redox changes in Itokawa space‐weathered rims Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 312 Jan 2021 DOI: 10.1111/maps.13611
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF E02-JEM ARM 300CF I14-Hard X-ray Nanoprobe I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy open access
- León Romano Brandt, Kazunori Nishio, Enrico Salvati, Kevin P. Simon, Chrysanthi Papadaki, Taro Hitosugi, Alexander M. Korsunsky, "Improving ultra-fast charging performance and durability of all solid state thin film Li-NMC battery-on-chip systems by in situ TEM lamella analysis", Applied Materials Today, 26 (2021), DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2021.101282
- Rosa Arrigo, Raoul Blume, Verena Streibel, Chiara Genovese, Alberto Roldan, Manfred E. Schuster, Claudio Ampelli, Siglinda Perathoner, Juan J. Velasco Vélez, Michael Hävecker, Axel Knop-Gericke, Robert Schlögl, Gabriele Centi, "Dynamics at polarized carbon dioxide–iron oxyhydroxide interfaces unveil the origin of multicarbon product formation", Acs Catalysis (2021), DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c04296
- Tiarnan A. S. Doherty, Satyawan Nagane, Dominik J. Kubicki, Young-Kwang Jung, Duncan N. Johnstone, Affan N. Iqbal, Dengyang Guo, Kyle Frohna, Mohsen Danaie, Elizabeth M. Tennyson, Stuart Macpherson, Anna Abfalterer, Miguel Anaya, Yu-Hsien Chiang, Phillip Crout, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Sean M. Collins, Clare P. Grey, Aron Walsh, Paul A. Midgley, Samuel D. Stranks, "Stabilized tilted-octahedra halide perovskites inhibit local formation of performance-limiting phases", Science, 374, 1598 - 1605 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/science.abl4890
- Raj Pandya, Richard Y. S. Chen, Qifei Gu, Jooyoung Sung, Christoph Schnedermann, Oluwafemi S. Ojambati, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Jeffrey Gorman, Gianni Jacucci, Olimpia D. Onelli, Tom Willhammar, Duncan N. Johnstone, Sean M. Collins, Paul A. Midgley, Florian Auras, Tomi Baikie, Rahul Jayaprakash, Fabrice Mathevet, Richard Soucek, Matthew Du, Antonios M. Alvertis, Arjun Ashoka, Silvia Vignolini, David G. Lidzey, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Richard H. Friend, Thierry Barisien, Laurent Legrand, Alex W. Chin, Joel Yuen-Zhou, Semion K. Saikin, Philipp Kukura, Andrew J. Musser, Akshay Rao, "Microcavity-like exciton-polaritons can be the primary photoexcitation in bare organic semiconductors", Nature Communications, 12 (2021), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26617-w
- Emerson Cristofer Kohlrausch, Higor A. Centurion, Rhys Lodge, Xuanli Luo, Thomas Slater, Marcos J. L. Santos, Sanliang Ling, Valmor R. Mastelaro, Matthew J. Cliffe, Renato Vitalino Goncalves, Jesum Alves Fernandes, "A high-throughput, solvent free method for dispersing metal atoms directly onto supports", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A (2021), DOI: 10.1039/D1TA08372D
- Jingjing Liu, Zhichao Gong, Christopher Allen, Wen Ge, Haisheng Gong, Jiangwen Liao, Jianbin Liu, Kang Huang, Minmin Yan, Rui Liu, Guanchao He, Juncai Dong, Gonglan Ye, Huilong Fei, "Edge-hosted Fe-N3 sites on a multiscale porous carbon framework combining high intrinsic activity with efficient mass transport for oxygen reduction", Chem Catalysis, 3 (2021), DOI: 10.1016/j.checat.2021.09.012
- Gyeong Hee Ryu, Gang Seob Jung, Hyoju Park, Ren‐jie Chang, Jamie H. Warner, "Atomistic mechanics of torn back folded edges of triangular voids in monolayer WS2", Small, 102 (2021), DOI: 10.1002/smll.202104238
- Jingwei Hou, Peng Chen, Atul Shukla, Andraž Krajnc, Tiesheng Wang, Xuemei Li, Rana Doasa, Luiz H. G. Tizei, Bun Chan, Duncan N. Johnstone, Rijia Lin, Tobias U. Schülli, Isaac Martens, Dominique Appadoo, Mark S'Ari, Zhiliang Wang, Tong Wei, Shih-Chun Lo, Mingyuan Lu, Shichun Li, Ebinazar B. Namdas, Gregor Mali, Anthony K. Cheetham, Sean M. Collins, Vicki Chen, Lianzhou Wang, Thomas D. Bennett, "Liquid-phase sintering of lead halide perovskites and metal-organic framework glasses", Science, 374, 621 - 625 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/science.abf4460
- George F. Tierney, Shahram Alijani, Monik Panchal, Donato Decarolis, Martha Briceno De Gutierrez, Khaled Mohammed, June Callison, Emma Gibson, Paul Thompson, Paul Collier, Nikolaos Dimitratos, E. Crina Corbos, Frederic Pelletier, Alberto Villa, Peter Wells, "Controlling the production of acid catalyzed products of furfural hydrogenation by Pd/TiO2", Chemcatchem (2021), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202101036
- Haisheng Gong, Zengxi Wei, Zhichao Gong, Jingjing Liu, Gonglan Ye, Minmin Yan, Juncai Dong, Christopher Allen, Jianbin Liu, Kang Huang, Rui Liu, Guanchao He, Shuangliang Zhao, Huilong Fei, "Low-coordinated Co-N-C on oxygenated graphene for efficient electrocatalytic H2O2 production", Advanced Functional Materials, 1 (2021), DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202106886
- Jun Chen, Yanming Wang, Wenshuo Xu, Yi Wen, Gyeong Hee Ryu, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Jamie H. Warner, "Atomic structure of dislocations and grain boundaries in two-dimensional PtSe2", Acs Nano (2021), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c06736
- Maria Paula De Souza Rodrigues, André H. B. Dourado, Leonardo De O. Cutolo, Luanna S. Parreira, Tiago Vinicius Alves, Thomas J. A. Slater, Sarah Haigh, Pedro H. C. Camargo, Susana Inés Cordoba De Torresi, "Gold–rhodium nanoflowers for the plasmon-enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction under visible light", Acs Catalysis (2021), DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c02938
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Atomically thin clays and micas offer super speedy ion exchange" (2021)
- Wenchao Wan, Yonggui Zhao, Shiqian Wei, Carlos A. Triana, Jingguo Li, Andrea Arcifa, Christopher Allen, Rui Cao, Greta R. Patzke, "Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts", Nature Communications, 12 (2021), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25811-0
- Kayleigh L. Y. Fung, Stephen T. Skowron, Christopher S. Allen, Andrei N. Khlobystov, "Counting molecules in nano test tubes: a method for determining the activation parameters of thermally driven reactions through direct imaging", Chemical Communications, 38 (2021), DOI: 10.1039/D1CC03827C
- Yi-Chao Zou, Lucas Mogg, Nick Clark, Cihan Bacaksiz, Slavisa Milanovic, Vishnu Sreepal, Guang-Ping Hao, Yi-Chi Wang, David G. Hopkinson, Roman Gorbachev, Samuel Shaw, Kostya S. Novoselov, Rahul Raveendran-Nair, Francois M. Peeters, Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo, Sarah Haigh, "Ion exchange in atomically thin clays and micas", Nature Materials, 14 (2021), DOI: 10.1038/s41563-021-01072-6
- Alexander J. Sneyd, Tomoya Fukui, David Paleček, Suryoday Prodhan, Isabella Wagner, Yifan Zhang, Jooyoung Sung, Sean M. Collins, Thomas J. A. Slater, Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Liam R. Macfarlane, J. Diego Garcia-Hernandez, Linjun Wang, George R. Whittell, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Kai Chen, David Beljonne, Ian Manners, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao, "Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization", Science Advances, 7 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh4232
- D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin, A. S. Trifonov, Y. P. Ivanov, A. K. A. Lu, A. V. Lubenchenko, A. L. Greer, "Shear-induced chemical segregation in a Fe-based bulk metallic glass at room temperature", Scientific Reports, 11 (2021), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92907-4
- [Conference Paper] Leon Hicks, John Bridges, Takaaki Noguchi, Hiroshi Hidaka, Jack Piercy, "Using XANES and EELS to analyse space weathered Apollo lunar samples: Preparation for Hayabusa2 Samples" (2021)
- Zhangxiang Hao, Junrun Feng, Yiyun Liu, Liqun Kang, Bolun Wang, Junwen Gu, Lin Sheng, Ruoyu Xu, Sushila Marlow, Dan J.l. Brett, Yunhui Huang, Feng Ryan Wang, "Reversible lithium storage in sp2 hydrocarbon frameworks", Journal Of Energy Chemistry, 1 (2021), DOI: 10.1016/j.jechem.2021.07.019
- [Diamond Annual Review Highlight] Angus Kirkland, "Studying biological structures using electron ptychography" (2021)
- [Diamond Annual Review Highlight] Feng Ryan Wang, "Well defined single-site catalysts enabled by surface coordination chemistry" (2021)
- Tianyi Chen, Christopher Foo, Jianwei Zheng, Huihuang Fang, Peter Nellist, Edman Shik Chi Tsang, "Direct visualization of substitutional Li doping in supported Pt nanoparticles and their ultra-selective catalytic hydrogenation performance", Chemistry – A European Journal (2021), DOI: 10.1002/chem.202101470
- Magnus Nord, Juri Barthel, Christopher S. Allen, Damien Mcgrouther, Angus I. Kirkland, Ian Maclaren, "Atomic resolution HOLZ-STEM imaging of atom position modulation in oxide heterostructures", Ultramicroscopy, 168 (2021), DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2021.113296
- S.v. Ketov, Yu P. Ivanov, B. Putz, Z. Zhang, J. Eckert, A. I. Greer, "Atomic diffusivities in amorphous and liquid Cu-Zr: Kirkendall effects and dependence on packing density", Acta Materialia, 33 (2021), DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2021.116993
- Xin-Ping Duan, Tianyi Chen, Tianxiang Chen, Lele Huang, Li Ye, Benedict T. W. Lo, Youzhu Yuan, Shik Chi Edman Tsang, "Intercalating lithium into the lattice of silver nanoparticles boosts catalytic hydrogenation of carbon–oxygen bonds", Chemical Science, 8 (2021), DOI: 10.1039/D1SC01700D
- Adam F. Sapnik, Irene Bechis, Sean M. Collins, Duncan N. Johnstone, Giorgio Divitini, Andrew J. Smith, Philip A. Chater, Matthew A. Addicoat, Timothy Johnson, David A. Keen, Kim E. Jelfs, Thomas D. Bennett, "Mixed hierarchical local structure in a disordered metal–organic framework", Nature Communications, 12 (2021), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22218-9
- Jack W. Jordan, Kayleigh L. Y. Fung, Stephen T. Skowron, Christopher Allen, Johannes Biskupek, Graham N. Newton, Ute Kaiser, Andrei N. Khlobystov, "Single-molecule imaging and kinetic analysis of intermolecular polyoxometalate reactions", Chemical Science, 126 (2021), DOI: 10.1039/D1SC01874D
- Adam F. Sapnik, Duncan N. Johnstone, Sean M. Collins, Giorgio Divitini, Alice M. Bumstead, Christopher W. Ashling, Philip A. Chater, Dean S. Keeble, Timothy Johnson, David A. Keen, Thomas D. Bennett, "Stepwise collapse of a giant pore metal–organic framework", Dalton Transactions, 38 (2021), DOI: 10.1039/D1DT00881A
- [Thesis] Shahram Alijani, "Effect of the preparation of the catalyst and the protective agent in liquid phase hydrogenation reactions" (2021)
- Colum M. O'Leary, Gerardo T. Martinez, Emanuela Liberti, Martin J. Humphry, Angus I. Kirkland, Peter D. Nellist, "Contrast transfer and noise considerations in focused-probe electron ptychography", Ultramicroscopy, 221 (2021), DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.113189
- Simon R. Dawson, Samuel Pattisson, Grazia Malta, Nicholas F. Dummer, Louise R. Smith, Anna Lazaridou, Christopher S. Allen, Thomas E. Davies, Simon J. Freakley, Simon Kondrat, Christopher J. Kiely, Peter Johnston, Graham J. Hutchings, "Sulfur promotion in Au/C catalyzed acetylene hydrochlorination", Small (2021), DOI: 10.1002/smll.202007221
- Caitlin M. Crombie, Richard J. Lewis, Dávid Kovačič, David J. Morgan, Thomas J. A. Slater, Thomas E. Davies, Jennifer. K. Edwards, Martin Skov Skjøth-Rasmussen, Graham J. Hutchings, "The selective oxidation of cyclohexane via in-situ H2O2 production over supported Pd-based catalysts", Catalysis Letters, 12 (2021), DOI: 10.1007/s10562-020-03511-6
- Lin Sheng, Zhangxiang Hao, Junrun Feng, Wenjia Du, Manxi Gong, Liqun Kang, Paul R. Shearing, Dan J. I. Brett, Yunhui Huang, Feng Ryan Wang, "Evaluation and realization of safer Mg-S battery: the decisive role of the electrolyte", Nano Energy, 334 (2021), DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.105832
- Tom Willhammar, Kazuho Daicho, Duncan N. Johnstone, Kayoko Kobayashi, Yingxin Liu, Paul A. Midgley, Lennart Bergström, Tsuguyuki Saito, "Local crystallinity in twisted cellulose nanofibers", Acs Nano (2021), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08295
- L. J. Hicks, J. C. Bridges, T. Noguchi, A. Miyake, J. D. Piercy, S. H. Baker, "Fe‐redox changes in Itokawa space‐weathered rims", Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 312 (2021), DOI: 10.1111/maps.13611
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