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38 items found for 2024 [total: 324]
Grain and domain microstructure in long chain N-alkane and N-alkanol wax crystals Crystal Growth & Design, 30 Dec 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.4c00909
Complementary electron, X-ray and neutron diffraction analysis and automated characterisation of sodium-ion battery cathode materials Dec 2024
Thesis E01-JEM ARM 200CF E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Exploring spin-orbit and spin-transfer torque through magnetic tunnel junctions Dec 2024
Thesis E01-JEM ARM 200CF E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Molecular cross-linking enhances stability of non-fullerene acceptor organic photovoltaics Acs Energy Letters, Dec 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.4c02897
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Effect of Pt nanoparticle morphology on the aerobic oxidation of ethylene glycol to glycolic acid in water Inorganic Chemistry, Nov 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03970
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Nanostructure and photovoltaic potential of plasmonic nanofibrous active layers Small, 21 Nov 2024 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202409269
Endochondral ossification: insights into the cartilage mineralization processes achieved by an anhydrous freeze substitution protocol Acta Biomaterialia, 423 Nov 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2024.11.015
Aqueous phase reforming by platinum catalysts: effect of particle size and carbon support Catalysts, 14 Nov 2024 DOI: 10.3390/catal14110798
Analysis of molecular packing and nanoscale atomic variation in polymer semiconductors Bio Web Of Conferences, 129 Oct 2024 DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/202412924033
Controlling nanocluster growth through nanoconfinement: the effect of the number and nature of metal-organic framework functionalities Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02422B
Design and understanding of adaptive hydrogenation catalysts triggered by the H2/CO2-formic acid equilibrium Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 3 Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c06765
Nickel-based dual single atom electrocatalysts for the nitrate reduction reaction Journal Of Colloid And Interface Science, Aug 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.08.124
Benign methylformamidinium byproduct induced by cation heterogeneity inhibits local formation of δ-phase perovskites Energy & Environmental Science, Aug 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03058C
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Controlling AxMn[Fe(CN)6] charge transfer pathways through tilt-engineering for enhanced metal-to-metal interactions Materials Advances, Aug 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4MA00262H
Visualization of tetrahedral Li in the alkali layers of Li-rich layered metal oxides Journal Of The American Chemical Society, Aug 2024 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c05556
Subsurface single-atom catalyst enabled by mechanochemical synthesis for oxidation chemistry Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202410457
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS E01-JEM ARM 200CF I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis I20-EDE-Energy Dispersive EXAFS (EDE) I20-Scanning-X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES) open access
Thermally stable high-loading single Cu sites on ZSM-5 for selective catalytic oxidation of NH3 Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 121 Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2404830121
Cation ordering in low-temperature niobium-rich NbWO bronzes: New anodes for high-rate Li-ion batteries Matter, 559 Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.06.023
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Quantitative electron microscopy of zeolites using aberration corrected (S)TEM and machine learning Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mam/ozae044.179
Conference Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Combining scanning nanobeam electron diffraction with 3D electron diffraction to investigate crystal defects Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mam/ozae044.901
Conference Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Electron beam and thermal stabilities of MFM-300(M) metal-organic frameworks Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4TA03302G
Carbon nanotubes allow next-gen semiconductor synthesis June 2024
Science Highlight E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Sn-doped PdAg/Al2O3 catalysts: Efficient catalysts for the selective hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene under industrial conditions Journal Of Catalysis, 400 June 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2024.115600
Journal Paper E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Modulating proton conductivity through crystal structure tuning in arenedisulfonate coordination polymers Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, 7 June 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01716A
Composition dictates octahedral tilt and photostability in halide perovskites Advanced Materials, May 2024 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307508
Characterisation of the morphology of surface-assembled Au nanoclusters on amorphous carbon Nanoscale, May 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4NR00978A
Stabilization of 2D raft structures of Au nanoclusters with up to 60 atoms by a carbon support Small Science, 1190 May 2024 DOI: 10.1002/smsc.202400093
Atomically dispersed asymmetric cobalt electrocatalyst for efficient hydrogen peroxide production in neutral media Nature Communications, 15 May 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48209-0
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1 B18-Core EXAFS E02-JEM ARM 300CF open access
Controlled biocatalytic synthesis of a metal nanoparticle-enzyme hybrid: demonstration for catalytic H2-driven NADH recycling Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Apr 2024 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202404024
Ultrasmall and highly dispersed Pt entities deposited on mesoporous N-doped carbon nanospheres by pulsed CVD for improved HER Small, 8 Apr 2024 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202311260
CO2 hydrogenation to methanol on intermetallic PdGa and PdIn catalysts and the effect of Zn co-deposition Applied Catalysis A: General, 11 Apr 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.apcata.2024.119735
Impact of ceria support morphology on Au single‐atom catalysts for benzyl alcohol selective oxidation Chemcatchem, Apr 2024 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202301673
Disordered alkali-niobates for use as a sodium-ion battery anode material Mar 2024
Thesis E01-JEM ARM 200CF E02-JEM ARM 300CF I11-High Resolution Powder Diffraction I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I15-Extreme Conditions
Ultrastable ceramic-based metal–organic framework membranes with missing linkers for robust desalination Nature Water, 452 Mar 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-024-00218-5
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF
Illuminating the future: a game-changing approach to quantum dot production Jan 2024
Science Highlight E01-JEM ARM 200CF
Electro-oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural by a catalyst containing copper nanoparticles and single copper atoms Materials Today Catalysis, 12 Jan 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcata.2024.100041
Multifunctional sulfonium-based treatment for perovskite solar cells with less than 1% efficiency loss over 4,500-h operational stability tests Nature Energy, 65 Jan 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41560-023-01421-6
Highly stable manganese oxide cathode material enabled by Grotthuss topochemistry for aqueous zinc ion batteries Energy & Environmental Science, 22 Jan 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04161A
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1 B18-Core EXAFS E01-JEM ARM 200CF E02-JEM ARM 300CF open access
- Emily Wynne, Simon D. Connell, Rachael Shinebaum, Helen Blade, Neil George, Andy Brown, Sean M. Collins, "Grain and domain microstructure in long chain N-alkane and N-alkanol wax crystals", Crystal Growth & Design, 30 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.4c00909
- [Thesis] Andrew Bridger, "Complementary electron, X-ray and neutron diffraction analysis and automated characterisation of sodium-ion battery cathode materials" (2024)
- [Thesis] Megan Smith, "Exploring spin-orbit and spin-transfer torque through magnetic tunnel junctions" (2024)
- Sangcheol Yoon, Braulio Reyes-Suárez, Sang T. Pham, Hervé Vezin, Yeny A. Tobon, Myeongjae Lee, Sam Mugiraneza, Brian Minki Kim, Mariane Yuka Tsubaki Oide, Seongju Yoo, Seunggu Lee, Shu Hui Wang, Sean M. Collins, Christopher M. Bates, Yongsup Park, Bongsoo Kim, G. N. Manjunatha Reddy, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, "Molecular cross-linking enhances stability of non-fullerene acceptor organic photovoltaics", Acs Energy Letters (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.4c02897
- Werner Oberhauser, Claudio Evangelisti, Xuan Trung Nguyen, Jonathan Filippi, Lorenzo Poggini, Laura Capozzoli, Gabriele Manca, Ella A. Kitching, Thomas J. A. Slater, Mohsen Danaie, "Effect of Pt nanoparticle morphology on the aerobic oxidation of ethylene glycol to glycolic acid in water", Inorganic Chemistry (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03970
- Ryan M. Schofield, Barbara M. Maciejewska, Karim A. Elmestekawy, Jack M. Woolley, George T. Tebbutt, Mohsen Danaie, Christopher S. Allen, Laura M. Herz, Hazel E. Assender, Nicole Grobert, "Nanostructure and photovoltaic potential of plasmonic nanofibrous active layers", Small, 21 (2024), DOI: 10.1002/smll.202409269
- Suwimon Boonrungsiman, Christopher Allen, Fabio Nudelman, Sandra Shefelbine, Colin Farquharson, Alexandra E. Porter, Roland A. Fleck, "Endochondral ossification: insights into the cartilage mineralization processes achieved by an anhydrous freeze substitution protocol", Acta Biomaterialia, 423 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2024.11.015
- Xuan Trung Nguyen, Ella Kitching, Thomas Slater, Emanuela Pitzalis, Jonathan Filippi, Werner Oberhauser, Claudio Evangelisti, "Aqueous phase reforming by platinum catalysts: effect of particle size and carbon support", Catalysts, 14 (2024), DOI: 10.3390/catal14110798
- [Conference Paper] Sang Pham, Sean Collins, "Analysis of molecular packing and nanoscale atomic variation in polymer semiconductors", Bio Web Of Conferences, 129 (2024), DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/202412924033
- James King, Zhipeng Lin, Federica Zanca, Hui Luo, Linda Zhang, Patrick Cullen, Mohsen Danaie, Michael Hirscher, Simone Meloni, Alin Elena, Petra A. Szilagyi, "Controlling nanocluster growth through nanoconfinement: the effect of the number and nature of metal-organic framework functionalities", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02422B
- Yuyan Zhang, Natalia Levin, Liqun Kang, Felix Mueller, Mirijam Zobel, Serena Debeer, Walter Leitner, Alexis Bordet, "Design and understanding of adaptive hydrogenation catalysts triggered by the H2/CO2-formic acid equilibrium", Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 3 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c06765
- Cuizhu Yu, Ziyi Guo, Yongfang Zhou, Yi Shen, "Nickel-based dual single atom electrocatalysts for the nitrate reduction reaction", Journal Of Colloid And Interface Science (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.08.124
- Jihoo Lim, Jaehui Kim, Josh Davies-Jones, Mohsen Danaie, Eunyoung Choi, Hongjae Shim, Liang Chen, Jincheol Kim, Judy S. Kim, Philip R. Davies, Jan Seidel, Martin Green, Samuel D. Stranks, Sang Il Seok, Jae Yun, "Benign methylformamidinium byproduct induced by cation heterogeneity inhibits local formation of δ-phase perovskites", Energy & Environmental Science (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03058C
- Alejandro Regueiro, Javier Castells-Gil, Chen Shen, Iuliia Mikulska, Christopher Allen, Lapo Bogani, Ramón Torres-Cavanillas, "Controlling AxMn[Fe(CN)6] charge transfer pathways through tilt-engineering for enhanced metal-to-metal interactions", Materials Advances (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4MA00262H
- Weixin Song, Miguel A. Pérez-Osorio, Jun Chen, Zhiyuan Ding, John-Joseph Marie, Mikkel Juelsholt, Robert A. House, Peter G. Bruce, Peter D. Nellist, "Visualization of tetrahedral Li in the alkali layers of Li-rich layered metal oxides", Journal Of The American Chemical Society (2024), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c05556
- Xuze Guan, Rong Han, Hiroyuki Asakura, Bolun Wang, Lu Chen, Jay Hon Cheung Yan, Shaoliang Guan, Luke Keenan, Shusaku Hayama, Matthijs A. Van Spronsen, Georg Held, Jie Zhang, Hao Gu, Yifei Ren, Lun Zhang, Zhangyi Yao, Yujiang Zhu, Anna Regoutz, Tsunehiro Tanaka, Yuzheng Guo, Feng Ryan Wang, "Subsurface single-atom catalyst enabled by mechanochemical synthesis for oxidation chemistry", Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2024), DOI: 10.1002/anie.202410457
- Lu Chen, Xuze Guan, Xinbang Wu, Hiroyuki Asakura, David G. Hopkinson, Christopher Allen, June Callison, Paul J. Dyson, Feng Ryan Wang, "Thermally stable high-loading single Cu sites on ZSM-5 for selective catalytic oxidation of NH3", Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 121 (2024), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2404830121
- Supreeth Nagendran, Amoghavarsha Mahadevegowda, Sundeep Vema, Mohsen Danaie, Weixin Song, Bo Wen, Caterina Ducati, Clare P. Grey, "Cation ordering in low-temperature niobium-rich NbWO bronzes: New anodes for high-rate Li-ion batteries", Matter, 559 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.06.023
- [Conference Paper] Tahmid Choudhury, Chen Huang, Aakash Varambhia, Alessandro Turrina, Mervyn Shannon, Dogan Ozkaya, Angus I. Kirkland, "Quantitative electron microscopy of zeolites using aberration corrected (S)TEM and machine learning" (2024), DOI: 10.1093/mam/ozae044.179
- [Conference Paper] H. W. Leung, R. C. B. Copley, J. E. M. Laulainen, Duncan N. Johnstone, P. A. Midgley, "Combining scanning nanobeam electron diffraction with 3D electron diffraction to investigate crystal defects" (2024), DOI: 10.1093/mam/ozae044.901
- Eu-Pin Tien, Guanhai Cao, Yinlin Chen, Nick Clark, Evan Tillotson, Duc-The Ngo, Joseph H. Carter, Stephen P. Thompson, Chiu C. Tang, Christopher Allen, Sihai Yang, Martin Schroeder, Sarah J. Haigh, "Electron beam and thermal stabilities of MFM-300(M) metal-organic frameworks", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4TA03302G
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Carbon nanotubes allow next-gen semiconductor synthesis" (2024)
- Tom Backhouse, James H. Earley, Jane N. Mugo, Gregory Goodlet, Glenn Jones, Riho Seljamäe-Green, Tugce E. Erden, Matthew Forster, Pilar Gómez, Simon W. Jackson, "Sn-doped PdAg/Al2O3 catalysts: Efficient catalysts for the selective hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene under industrial conditions", Journal Of Catalysis, 400 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2024.115600
- Chao Sun, Christopher M. Pask, Sang T. Pham, Emilio Rapaccioli, Andrew J. Britton, Stuart Micklethwaite, Andrew Bell, Maximilian O. Besenhard, Rik Drummond-Brydson, Ke-Jun Wu, Sean M. Collins, "Modulating proton conductivity through crystal structure tuning in arenedisulfonate coordination polymers", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, 7 (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01716A
- Affan N. Iqbal, Kieran W. P. Orr, Satyawan Nagane, Jordi Ferrer Orri, Tiarnan A. S. Doherty, Young-Kwang Jung, Yu-Hsien Chiang, Thomas A. Selby, Yang Lu, Alessandro J. Mirabelli, Alan Baldwin, Zher Ying Ooi, Qichun Gu, Miguel Anaya, Samuel D. Stranks, "Composition dictates octahedral tilt and photostability in halide perovskites", Advanced Materials (2024), DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307508
- Malcolm Dearg, Sean Lethbridge, James Mccormack, Richard E. Palmer, Thomas Slater, "Characterisation of the morphology of surface-assembled Au nanoclusters on amorphous carbon", Nanoscale (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4NR00978A
- Sean Lethbridge, Theodoros Pavloudis, James Mccormack, Thomas Slater, Joseph Kioseoglou, Richard E. Palmer, "Stabilization of 2D raft structures of Au nanoclusters with up to 60 atoms by a carbon support", Small Science, 1190 (2024), DOI: 10.1002/smsc.202400093
- Longxiang Liu, Liqun Kang, Jianrui Feng, David G. Hopkinson, Christopher S. Allen, Yeshu Tan, Hao Gu, Iuliia Mikulska, Veronica Celorrio, Diego Gianolio, Tianlei Wang, Liquan Zhang, Kaiqi Li, Jichao Zhang, Jiexin Zhu, Georg Held, Pilar Ferrer, David Grinter, June Callison, Martin Wilding, Sining Chen, Ivan Parkin, Guanjie He, "Atomically dispersed asymmetric cobalt electrocatalyst for efficient hydrogen peroxide production in neutral media", Nature Communications, 15 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48209-0
- Lucy B. F. Browne, Tim Sudmeier, Maya A. Landis, Christopher S. Allen, Kylie A. Vincent, "Controlled biocatalytic synthesis of a metal nanoparticle-enzyme hybrid: demonstration for catalytic H2-driven NADH recycling", Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2024), DOI: 10.1002/anie.202404024
- Sven Küspert, Ian E. Campbell, Zhiqiang Zeng, S. Esmael Balaghi, Niklas Ortlieb, Ralf Thomann, Markus Knäbbeler‐buß, Christopher S. Allen, Suzanne E. Mohney, Anna Fischer, "Ultrasmall and highly dispersed Pt entities deposited on mesoporous N-doped carbon nanospheres by pulsed CVD for improved HER", Small, 8 (2024), DOI: 10.1002/smll.202311260
- Naomi Lawes, Nicholas F. Dummer, Samantha Fagan, Oskar Wielgosz, Isla E. Gow, Louise R. Smith, Thomas J. A. Slater, Thomas Davies, Kieran J. Aggett, David J. Morgan, Stuart H. Taylor, Graham J. Hutchings, Michael Bowker, "CO2 hydrogenation to methanol on intermetallic PdGa and PdIn catalysts and the effect of Zn co-deposition", Applied Catalysis A: General, 11 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.apcata.2024.119735
- Xinyue Zhou, Aristarchos Mavridis, Mark A. Isaacs, Charalampos Drivas, Carmine D’agostino, Christopher M. A. Parlett, "Impact of ceria support morphology on Au single‐atom catalysts for benzyl alcohol selective oxidation", Chemcatchem (2024), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202301673
- [Thesis] Wai Chi Rachel Tang, "Disordered alkali-niobates for use as a sodium-ion battery anode material" (2024)
- Yingchao Dong, Qiang Lyu, Li-Chiang Lin, Camille Violet, Bin Lin, Yu Han, Chuyang Tang, Han-Qing Yu, Menachem Elimelech, "Ultrastable ceramic-based metal–organic framework membranes with missing linkers for robust desalination", Nature Water, 452 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s44221-024-00218-5
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Illuminating the future: a game-changing approach to quantum dot production" (2024)
- Yongfang Zhou, Yi Shen, Hongying Li, "Electro-oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural by a catalyst containing copper nanoparticles and single copper atoms", Materials Today Catalysis, 12 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcata.2024.100041
- Jiajia Suo, Bowen Yang, Edoardo Mosconi, Dmitry Bogachuk, Tiarnan A. S. Doherty, Kyle Frohna, Dominik J. Kubicki, Fan Fu, Yeonju Kim, Oussama Er-Raji, Tiankai Zhang, Lorenzo Baldinelli, Lukas Wagner, Ayodhya N. Tiwari, Feng Gao, Andreas Hinsch, Samuel D. Stranks, Filippo De Angelis, Anders Hagfeldt, "Multifunctional sulfonium-based treatment for perovskite solar cells with less than 1% efficiency loss over 4,500-h operational stability tests", Nature Energy, 65 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41560-023-01421-6
- Fangjia Zhao, Jianwei Li, Arunabhiram Chutia, Longxiang Liu, Liqun Kang, Feili Lai, Haobo Dong, Xuan Gao, Yeshu Tan, Tianxi Liu, Ivan P. Parkin, Guanjie He, "Highly stable manganese oxide cathode material enabled by Grotthuss topochemistry for aqueous zinc ion batteries", Energy & Environmental Science, 22 (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04161A
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