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I15-1 XPDF: X-ray Pair Distribution Function
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Wavelength: 0.31, 0.19, 0.16 Å
Energy: 40, 65, 76 keV
Energy: 40, 65, 76 keV
These papers are all based at least in part on data gathered on beamline I15-1. If you have published a paper based on data from I15-1 which doesn't appear here, please send a reference (ideally including a DOI) to us.
35 items found for 2024 [total: 263]
(RPh3P)[Mn(dca)3]: a family of glass-forming hybrid organic-inorganic materials Inorganic Chemistry, Dec 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c04181
Factors affecting capacity and voltage fading in disordered rocksalt cathodes for lithium-ion batteries Matter, 7 Dec 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.032
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I21-Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS)
Short-range order and topology of Te‐rich amorphous Ge-Sb-Te alloys Journal Of The American Ceramic Society, 9 Nov 2024 DOI: 10.1111/jace.20258
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Determining the structure-activity relationships of supported palladium oxide nanoparticles: a combined X-ray scattering and spectroscopy approach Nov 2024
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I22-Small angle scattering & Diffraction
High-entropy layered oxide cathode materials with moderated interlayer spacing and enhanced kinetics for sodium-ion batteries Advanced Materials, 10 Oct 2024 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202410857
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Evolution of Interfacial electro-chemo-mechanics between lithium metal and halide solid electrolyte Chemistry Of Materials, Oct 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c02307
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Effect of solvothermal synthesis parameters on crystallite size and atomic structure of cobalt iron oxide nanoparticles Nanoscale Advances, Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4NA00590B
High ammonia adsorption in copper-carboxylate materials: host-guest interactions and crystalline-amorphous-crystalline phase transitions Chemical Communications, Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4CC02604G
Journal Paper B22-Multimode InfraRed imaging And Microspectroscopy I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) open access
Understanding the electrochemical behaviour of reduced graphene oxide cathodes in all-carbon Na-ion batteries Materials Advances, Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4MA00605D
Atomic scale investigation and cytocompatibility of copper and zinc-loaded phosphate-based glasses prepared by coacervation Materialia, 306 Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtla.2024.102246
Lithium and sodium benzimidazolate coordination networks: syntheses, structures, and thermal properties Crystal Growth & Design, Aug 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.4c00927
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Chemically tailored metal-organic frameworks for enhanced capture of short- and long-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from water Advanced Functional Materials, Aug 2024 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202409932
Order-to-disorder transition in a zirconium-based metal–organic framework Chemistry Of Materials, Aug 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01460
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Mg-rich disordered rocksalt oxide cathodes for Mg-ion batteries Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, Aug 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4TA02348J
Local structure analysis of non-crystalline metal oxide photocatalysts Jul 2024
Thesis I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Observation of a reversible order-order transition in a metal-organic framework – ionic liquid nanocomposite phase-change material Small, 332 Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202303315
Structural features of neat 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in the liquid state Journal Of Molecular Liquids, 117 Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2024.125622
Loading and thermal behaviour of ZIF-8 metal–organic framework-inorganic glass composites Dalton Transactions, 46 June 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4DT00894D
Large dynamic scissoring mode displacements coupled to band gap opening in the cubic phase of the methylammonium lead halide perovskites Journal Of Physics: Condensed Matter, June 2024 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ad5b44
Journal Paper I11-High Resolution Powder Diffraction I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) open access
Direct visualisation of metal–defect cooperative catalysis in a Ru-doped defective MOF-808 Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, June 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01689K
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Intercalated water drives anomalous thermal expansion in the tetragonal zircon structured bismuth vanadate BiVO4 photocatalyst Chemistry – An Asian Journal, May 2024 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202400408
Tetrahedra rotational and displacive disorder in the scheelite-type oxide CsReO4 Inorganic Chemistry, May 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01266
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Water clusters and linde type-a aluminophosphate: interplay between structural order and disorder May 2024
Conference Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Local structure and dynamics in MPt(CN)6 prussian blue analogues Chemistry Of Materials, May 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01013
Linking bulk and surface structures in complex mixed oxides Acs Catalysis, May 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c05230
New research on energy storage at Diamond May 2024
Science Highlight B18-Core EXAFS I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I20-Scanning-X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES)
Seeing the unseen: the structural influence of the lone pair electrons in PbWO4 Inorganic Chemistry, 3 May 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c00866
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Exploring the effects of the photochromic response and crystallization on the local structure of noncrystalline niobium oxide Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, Apr 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c04038
Mechanochemically-induced glass formation from two-dimensional hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites Chemical Science, 62 Apr 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4SC00905C
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
Does trapped O2 form in the bulk of LiNiO2 during charging? Energy & Environmental Science, 2 Mar 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04354A
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I21-Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) open access
Copper single-site engineering in MOF-808 membranes for improved water treatment Nanoscale, 30 Mar 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05821B
Electronic origin of negative thermal expansion in samarium hexaboride revealed by X-ray diffraction and total scattering Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 5 Feb 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D3CP05954E
Synthesis and characterization of sulfur-based glasses and glass-ceramics for the solid-state electrolyte applications Feb 2024
Thesis I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Breaking the ceiling of capacity limit via anion redox reactions Jan 2024
Thesis I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
- Bikash Kumar Shaw, Lucia Corti, Joshua M. Tuffnell, Celia Castillo-Blas, Patrick Schlachta, Georgina P. Robertson, Lauren Mchugh, Adam F. Sapnik, Sebastian A. Hallweger, Philip A. Chater, Gregor Kieslich, David A. Keen, Sian E. Dutton, Frédéric Blanc, Thomas D. Bennett, "(RPh3P)[Mn(dca)3]: a family of glass-forming hybrid organic-inorganic materials", Inorganic Chemistry (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c04181
- Liquan Pi, Erik Bjorklund, Gregory J. Rees, Weixin Song, Chen Gong, John-Joseph Marie, Xiangwen Gao, Shengda D. Pu, Mikkel Juelsholt, Philip A. Chater, Joohyuk Park, Min Gyu Kim, Jaewon Choi, Stefano Agrestini, Mirian Garcia-Fernandez, Ke-Jin Zhou, Alex W. Robertson, Robert S. Weatherup, Robert A. House, Peter G. Bruce, "Factors affecting capacity and voltage fading in disordered rocksalt cathodes for lithium-ion batteries", Matter, 7 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.032
- I. Pethes, A. Piarristeguy, A. Pradel, R. Escalier, M. Micoulaut, S. Michalik, J. Darpentigny, A. Zitolo, P. Jóvári, "Short-range order and topology of Te‐rich amorphous Ge-Sb-Te alloys", Journal Of The American Ceramic Society, 9 (2024), DOI: 10.1111/jace.20258
- [Thesis] Lisa J. Allen, "Determining the structure-activity relationships of supported palladium oxide nanoparticles: a combined X-ray scattering and spectroscopy approach" (2024)
- Zefu Huang, Shijian Wang, Xin Guo, Frederick Marlton, Yameng Fan, Wei-Kong Pang, Tao Huang, Jun Xiao, Dongfang Li, Hao Liu, Qinfen Gu, Cheng-Chieh Yang, Chung-Li Dong, Bing Sun, Guoxiu Wang, "High-entropy layered oxide cathode materials with moderated interlayer spacing and enhanced kinetics for sodium-ion batteries", Advanced Materials, 10 (2024), DOI: 10.1002/adma.202410857
- Lily Mandal, Ripan K. Biswas, Susmita Bera, Satishchandra B. Ogale, Abhik Banerjee, "Evolution of Interfacial electro-chemo-mechanics between lithium metal and halide solid electrolyte", Chemistry Of Materials (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c02307
- Olivia Aalling-Frederiksen, Rebecca K. Pittkowski, Andy S. Anker, Jonathan Quinson, Lars Klemeyer, Ben Frandsen, Dorota Koziej, Kirsten M. O. Jensen, "Effect of solvothermal synthesis parameters on crystallite size and atomic structure of cobalt iron oxide nanoparticles", Nanoscale Advances (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4NA00590B
- Wanpeng Lu, Yinlin Chen, Zi Wang, Jin Chen, Yujie Ma, Weiyao Li, Jiangnan Li, Meng He, Mengtian Fan, Alena M. Sheveleva, Floriana Tuna, Eric J. L. Mcinnes, Mark D. Frogley, Philip A. Chater, Catherine Dejoie, Martin Schroder, Sihai Yang, Lixia Guo, "High ammonia adsorption in copper-carboxylate materials: host-guest interactions and crystalline-amorphous-crystalline phase transitions", Chemical Communications (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4CC02604G
- Marcin W. Orzech, Francesco Mazzali, Arturas Adomkevicius, Mauro Coduri, Yubiao Niu, James D. Mcgettrick, Philip A. Chater, Laura Cabo-Fernandez, Laurence J. Hardwick, Lorenzo Malavasi, Serena Margadonna, "Understanding the electrochemical behaviour of reduced graphene oxide cathodes in all-carbon Na-ion batteries", Materials Advances (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4MA00605D
- B. A. Kyffin, R. Di Pasquale, D. M. Pickup, F. Foroutan, I. Abrahams, N. Kanwal, D. S. Keeble, M. Felipe-Sotelo, A. Hoxha, Z. Moghaddam, S. J. Hinder, M. A. Baker, E. T. Nery, D. Carta, "Atomic scale investigation and cytocompatibility of copper and zinc-loaded phosphate-based glasses prepared by coacervation", Materialia, 306 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.mtla.2024.102246
- Pascal Kolodzeiski, Erik Svensson Grape, Roman Pallach, Lennard Richter, A. Ken Inge, Sebastian Henke, "Lithium and sodium benzimidazolate coordination networks: syntheses, structures, and thermal properties", Crystal Growth & Design (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.4c00927
- Edward Loukopoulos, Sergio Marugán-Benito, Dionysios Raptis, Emmanuel Tylianakis, George E. Froudakis, Andreas Mavrandonakis, Ana Platero-Prats, "Chemically tailored metal-organic frameworks for enhanced capture of short- and long-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from water", Advanced Functional Materials (2024), DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202409932
- Wessel M. W. Winters, Chao Zhou, Jingwei Hou, Maria Diaz-Lopez, Thomas Bennett, Yuanzheng Yue, "Order-to-disorder transition in a zirconium-based metal–organic framework", Chemistry Of Materials (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01460
- Robert A. House, Yuan Quan, Dingqiao Ji, Yi Yuan, Hang Xu, Rui Qi, Sofia De Sousa Coutinho, Sibylle Riedel, Zhirong Zhao-Karger, Lijiang Song, Alex W Robertson, Peter G. Bruce, "Mg-rich disordered rocksalt oxide cathodes for Mg-ion batteries", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4TA02348J
- [Thesis] Ezgi Onur Sahin, "Local structure analysis of non-crystalline metal oxide photocatalysts" (2024)
- Vahid Nozari, Ayda Nemati Vesali Azar, Roman Sajzew, Celia Castillo-Blas, Ayano Kono, Martin Oschatz, David A. Keen, Philip A. Chater, Georgina P. Robertson, James M. A. Steele, Luis León-Alcaide, Alexander Knebel, Christopher W. Ashling, Thomas D. Bennett, Lothar Wondraczek, "Observation of a reversible order-order transition in a metal-organic framework – ionic liquid nanocomposite phase-change material", Small, 332 (2024), DOI: 10.1002/smll.202303315
- Giulia Adriana Bracchini, Emanuela Mangiacapre, Fabrizio Lo Celso, Daniel J. M. Irving, Carlo Ottaviani, Grazia Isa C. Righetti, Maria Enrica Di Pietro, Andrea Mele, Lorenzo Guazzelli, Olga Russina, Alessandro Triolo, "Structural features of neat 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in the liquid state", Journal Of Molecular Liquids, 117 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2024.125622
- Ashleigh M. Chester, Celia Castillo-Blas, Roman Sajzew, Bruno P. Rodrigues, Giulio I. Lampronti, Adam F. Sapnik, Georgina P. Robertson, Matjaž Mazaj, Daniel J. M. Irving, Lothar Wondraczek, David A. Keen, Thomas D. Bennett, "Loading and thermal behaviour of ZIF-8 metal–organic framework-inorganic glass composites", Dalton Transactions, 46 (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4DT00894D
- Tobias A. Bird, Junsheng Chen, Manila Songvilay, Christopher Stock, Michael T. Wharmby, Nicholas C. Bristowe, Mark S. Senn, "Large dynamic scissoring mode displacements coupled to band gap opening in the cubic phase of the methylammonium lead halide perovskites", Journal Of Physics: Condensed Matter (2024), DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ad5b44
- Chirui Xu, William Orbell, Guilian Wang, Boye Li, Bryan K. Y. Ng, Tai-Sing Wu, Yun-Liang Soo, Zhao-Xue Luan, Kangjian Tang, Xin-Ping Wu, S. C. Edman Tsang, Pu Zhao, "Direct visualisation of metal–defect cooperative catalysis in a Ru-doped defective MOF-808", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01689K
- Bryce G. Mullens, Frederick P. Marlton, Maria K. Nicholas, Ahmadi J. Permana, Helen E. A. Brand, Helen Maynard-Casely, Philip A. Chater, Brendan J. Kennedy, "Intercalated water drives anomalous thermal expansion in the tetragonal zircon structured bismuth vanadate BiVO4 photocatalyst", Chemistry – An Asian Journal (2024), DOI: 10.1002/asia.202400408
- Bryce G. Mullens, Frederick P. Marlton, Matilde Saura-Múzquiz, Philip A. Chater, Brendan J. Kennedy, "Tetrahedra rotational and displacive disorder in the scheelite-type oxide CsReO4", Inorganic Chemistry (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01266
- [Conference Paper] Janez Volavšek, Suzana Mal, Alenka Ristić, Anže Hubman, Franci Merzel, Nataša Zabukovec Logar, Andraž Krajnc, "Water clusters and linde type-a aluminophosphate: interplay between structural order and disorder" (2024)
- Elodie A. Harbourne, Helena Barker, Quentin Guéroult, John Cattermull, Liam A. V. Nagle-Cocco, Nikolaj Roth, John S. O. Evans, David Keen, Andrew L. Goodwin, "Local structure and dynamics in MPt(CN)6 prussian blue analogues", Chemistry Of Materials (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01013
- Liudmyla Masliuk, Kyeonghyeon Nam, Maxwell W. Terban, Yonghyuk Lee, Pierre Kube, Daniel Delgado, Frank Girgsdies, Karsten Reuter, Robert Schlögl, Annette Trunschke, Christoph Scheurer, Mirijam Zobel, Thomas Lunkenbein, "Linking bulk and surface structures in complex mixed oxides", Acs Catalysis (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c05230
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "New research on energy storage at Diamond" (2024)
- Bryce G. Mullens, Frederick P. Marlton, Maria K. Nicholas, Ahmadi Jaya Permana, Maxim Avdeev, Supratik Mukherjee, Ganapathy Vaitheeswaran, Cheng Li, Jue Liu, Philip A. Chater, Brendan J. Kennedy, "Seeing the unseen: the structural influence of the lone pair electrons in PbWO4", Inorganic Chemistry, 3 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c00866
- Ezgi Onur, Jinsun Lee, Raquel Aymerich-Armengol, Joohyun Lim, Yitao Dai, Harun Tuysuz, Christina Scheu, Claudia Weidenthaler, "Exploring the effects of the photochromic response and crystallization on the local structure of noncrystalline niobium oxide", Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c04038
- Chumei Ye, Giulio Lampronti, Lauren N. Mchugh, Celia Castillo-Blas, Ayano Kono, Celia Chen, Georgina P. Robertson, Liam A. V. Nagle-Cocco, Weidong Xu, Samuel D. Stranks, Valentina Martinez, Ivana Brekalo, Bahar Karadeniz, Krunoslav Užarević, Wenlong Xue, Pascal Kolodzeiski, Chinmoy Das, Philip Chater, David A. Keen, Sian E. Dutton, Thomas D. Bennett, "Mechanochemically-induced glass formation from two-dimensional hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites", Chemical Science, 62 (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4SC00905C
- [Thesis] Wai Chi Rachel Tang, "Disordered alkali-niobates for use as a sodium-ion battery anode material" (2024)
- Mikkel Juelsholt, Jun Chen, Miguel A. Pérez-Osorio, Gregory Rees, Sofia De Sousa Coutinho, Helen E. Maynard-Casely, Jue Liu, Michelle Everett, Stefano Agrestini, Mirian Garcia-Fernandez, Ke-Jin Zhou, Robert A. House, Peter G. Bruce, "Does trapped O2 form in the bulk of LiNiO2 during charging?", Energy & Environmental Science, 2 (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04354A
- Isabel Del Castillo Velilla, Ignacio Romero-Muniz, Carlo Marini, Carmen Montoro, Ana Platero-Prats, "Copper single-site engineering in MOF-808 membranes for improved water treatment", Nanoscale, 30 (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05821B
- Li Li, Martin T. Dove, Zhongsheng Wei, Anthony E. Phillips, Dean S. Keeble, "Electronic origin of negative thermal expansion in samarium hexaboride revealed by X-ray diffraction and total scattering", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 5 (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D3CP05954E
- [Thesis] Jiajie Zhang, "Synthesis and characterization of sulfur-based glasses and glass-ceramics for the solid-state electrolyte applications" (2024)
- [Thesis] Yanfang Wang, "Breaking the ceiling of capacity limit via anion redox reactions" (2024)
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