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I15-1 XPDF: X-ray Pair Distribution Function
Status: Operational
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.
34 items found for 2025 [total: 263]
Twisted tin-chloride perovskite single-crystal heterostructures Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 499 Dec 2025 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202520140
Optimal ratio or historical convention: the use of methanol-ethanol mixtures as pressure-transmitting mediums Journal Of Applied Crystallography, 58 Dec 2025 DOI: 10.1107/S1600576725008349
Changes in the long-range order and local atomic structure of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks under extreme conditions Inorganic Chemistry, 285 Dec 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c03812
Revisiting potassium intercalation in graphite: an operando characterisation and computational approach Ees Batteries, Nov 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5EB00184F
Luminescent chiral molecular glasses by melt-quenching enantiopure BINAP Advanced Science, Nov 2025 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202518879
A combined neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering study of a MgAl-layered double oxide Inorganic Chemistry, Nov 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c03754
Journal Paper E02-JEM ARM 300CF I11-High Resolution Powder Diffraction I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) open access
High permittivity short-range orthorhombic Q phase in CaTiO3 modified NaNbO3 ceramics Ceramics International, 8 Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2025.10.204
2D Co-Mo-hydroxide-based multifunctional material for the development of H2-based clean energy technologies Advanced Materials, Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202512458
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1 I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) open access
Cation-disordered rocksalt cathode for anode-free zinc-ion batteries Energy & Environmental Science, Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5EE02643A
High-quality ultra-fast total scattering and pair distribution function data using an X-ray free-electron laser Iucrj, 12 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.1107/S205225252500538X
On the cation distribution in acceptor doped Ba(Zr,Ce)O3 -(Zr,Ce)O2 co-ionic composite electrolytes Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, 29 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5TA02711J
Emergent negative thermal expansion in amorphous Fe-Y-Zr-B alloys Physical Review Letters, 135 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.1103/2g25-bdjx
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Deciphering interfacial interactions in a dual-functional MOF@COF composite for organic pollutant removal from water Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5TA03279B
Structural dynamics of melting and glass formation in a two-dimensional hybrid perovskite Nature Communications, 16 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61410-z
Emergent spin-glass behavior in an iron(II)-based metal–organic framework glass Advanced Functional Materials, 141 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202517854
Emergent topological polarization textures in relaxor ferroelectrics Nature Communications, 16 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62658-1
How multi-length scale disorder shapes ion transport in lithium argyrodites Energy & Environmental Science, Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01612F
Choline acetate/water mixtures: physicochemical properties and structural organization Molecules, 30 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.3390/molecules30163403
Accounting for instrument resolution in the pair distribution functions obtained from total scattering data using Hermite functions Journal Of Applied Crystallography, 58 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1107/S1600576725004340
Stabilisation and functional enhancement of a metal-organic framework purinate-glass composite Chemical Communications, Jul 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5CC01366F
Advanced stability and energy storage capacity in hierarchically engineered Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based multilayer capacitors Nature Communications, 16 Jul 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61936-2
Modulation excitation pair distribution function experiments in catalysis to increase phase sensitivity Nanoscale, Jul 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5NR01575H
Non-oxidative dehydrogenation of methanol to dimethoxymethane over Ag/Hβ zeolite bifunctional catalyst Catalysis Science & Technology, 104 June 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5CY00544B
Sustainable aroma absorption: exploring the potentiality of a β-cyclodextrin and lactic acid supramolecular eutectic solvent Carbohydrate Polymers, 36 May 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2025.123819
Influence of ion size on structure and redox chemistry in Na-rich and Li-rich disordered rocksalt battery cathodes Advanced Materials, 2 May 2025 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202419878
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I21-Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) open access
Mechanochemical synthesis enables melting, glass formation and glass-ceramic conversion in a cadmium-based zeolitic imidazolate framework Journal Of The American Chemical Society, Apr 2025 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c02767
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Structural features of the thymol-carvacrol equimolar mixture: X-ray scattering and molecular dynamics The Journal Of Physical Chemistry B, Mar 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c07674
Journal Paper I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF)
Structural and interfacial characterization of a photocatalytic titanium MOF-phosphate glass composite Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, Mar 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c18444
Solvent-free approach for the synthesis of heterometallic Fe-Zn-ZIF glass via melt-quenched process Chemical Science, Mar 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5SC00767D
Highly porous metal-organic framework glass design and application for gas separation membranes Nature Communications, 16 Feb 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56295-x
Amorphisation mechanisms of metal-organic frameworks under high pressures and temperatures Jan 2025 DOI: 10.17863/CAM.116551
Thesis I11-High Resolution Powder Diffraction I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I15-Extreme Conditions I20-EDE-Energy Dispersive EXAFS (EDE)
Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation Nature Communications, 16 Jan 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55367-8
Quenching effects in lead-free bismuth based ferroelectric ceramics Jan 2025
Thesis I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I15-Extreme Conditions
- Jamie L. Cleron, Chih-Yi Chen, Feng Pan, Santanu Saha, Frederick P. Marlton, Robert M. Stolz, Jiayi Li, Jennifer A. Dionne, Fang Liu, Marina R. Filip, Hemamala I. Karunadasa, "Twisted tin-chloride perovskite single-crystal heterostructures", Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 499 (2025), DOI: 10.1002/anie.202520140
- Cameron J. G. Wilson, Cecilia M. S. Alvares, Anna Herlihy, Nicholas P. Funnell, Gabriele C. Sossoa, Mark S. Senn, "Optimal ratio or historical convention: the use of methanol-ethanol mixtures as pressure-transmitting mediums", Journal Of Applied Crystallography, 58 (2025), DOI: 10.1107/S1600576725008349
- Georgina P. Robertson, Simone Anzellini, Carlo Meneghini, Anna Herlihy, Monica Amboage, David Keen, Tetsuo Irifune, Thomas D. Bennett, "Changes in the long-range order and local atomic structure of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks under extreme conditions", Inorganic Chemistry, 285 (2025), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c03812
- Zhenyu Guo, Kang Wang, Yuanzhu Zhao, Gang Cheng, Yichen Huang, Connor Wright, Zonghao Shen, Hossein Yadegari, Jinglin Jiang, Kaitian Zheng, Cecilia Mattevi, Carla Molteni, Peter D. Haynes, Mary P. Ryan, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Fei Xie, "Revisiting potassium intercalation in graphite: an operando characterisation and computational approach", Ees Batteries (2025), DOI: 10.1039/D5EB00184F
- Nuttaporn Krittametaporn, Philipp Ralle, Dorothea Dierks, Christian Nelle, Suresh K. Vasa, Pascal Kolodzeiski, Rasmus Linser, Andreas Steffen, Sebastian Henke, "Luminescent chiral molecular glasses by melt-quenching enantiopure BINAP", Advanced Science (2025), DOI: 10.1002/advs.202518879
- Dermot O'Hare, Frederick Z. T. Yang, Theodosios Famprikis, Joerg Neuefeind, Mohsen Danaie, Claire T. Coulthard, Chunping Chen, "A combined neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering study of a MgAl-layered double oxide", Inorganic Chemistry (2025), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c03754
- Hareem Zubairi, Muhammad Wasim, Yang Liu, Ying Chen, Zhilun Lu, Diming Xu, Antonio Feteira, Anna Herlihy, Ge Wang, "High permittivity short-range orthorhombic Q phase in CaTiO3 modified NaNbO3 ceramics", Ceramics International, 8 (2025), DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2025.10.204
- Daniel Muñoz-Gil, Celia Castillo-Blas, Dawid Krystian Feler, Isabel Gómez-Recio, Miguel Tinoco, Ana Querejeta-Fernández, Rodrigo González-Prieto, Felipe Gandara, Romualdo Santos Silva, Pilar Ferrer, Carlos Prieto, Luc Lajaunie, José Luis Martinez-Peña, María Luisa Ruiz-González, María Luisa Ruiz-González, José María González-Calbet, "2D Co-Mo-hydroxide-based multifunctional material for the development of H2-based clean energy technologies", Advanced Materials (2025), DOI: 10.1002/adma.202512458
- Zixuan Li, Rui Qi, Yi Yuan, Lechen Yang, Lijiang Song, Ashok S. Menon, Louis F. J. Piper, Didier Wermeille, Paul Thompson, Robert A. House, Peter G. Bruce, Alex W. Robertson, "Cation-disordered rocksalt cathode for anode-free zinc-ion batteries", Energy & Environmental Science (2025), DOI: 10.1039/D5EE02643A
- Adam F. Sapnik, Philip A. Chater, Dean S. Keeble, John S. O. Evans, Federica Bertolotti, Antonietta Guagliardi, Lise J. Støckler, Elodie A. Harbourne, Anders B. Borup, Rebecca S. Silberg, Adrien Descamps, Clemens Prescher, Benjamin D. Klee, Axel Phelipeau, Imran Ullah, Kárel G. Medina, Tobias A. Bird, Viktoria Kaznelson, William Lynn, Andrew L. Goodwin, Bo B. Iversen, Celine Crepisson, Emil S. Bozin, Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen, Emma E. Mcbride, Reinhard B. Neder, Ian Robinson, Justin S. Wark, Michał Andrzejewski, Ulrike Boesenberg, Erik Brambrink, Carolina Camarda, Valerio Cerantola, Sebastian Goede, Hauke Höppner, Oliver S. Humphries, Zuzana Konopkova, Naresh Kujala, Thomas Michelat, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, Alexander Pelka, Thomas R. Preston, Lisa Randolph, Michael Roeper, Andreas Schmidt, Cornelius Strohm, Minxue Tang, Peter Talkovski, Ulf Zastrau, Karen Appel, David A. Keen, "High-quality ultra-fast total scattering and pair distribution function data using an X-ray free-electron laser", Iucrj, 12 (2025), DOI: 10.1107/S205225252500538X
- Amir Masoud Dayaghi, Laura Almar, Sonia Escolástico, Bo Jiang, Patrícia Almeida Carvalho, Jose M. Serra, Reidar Haugsrud, Truls Norby, "On the cation distribution in acceptor doped Ba(Zr,Ce)O3 -(Zr,Ce)O2 co-ionic composite electrolytes", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, 29 (2025), DOI: 10.1039/D5TA02711J
- Ming Gao, Hankun Xu, Kun Lin, Andrea Sanson, Alessandro Venier, Alessandro Puri, Jochi Tseng, Guodong Li, Qian Zhang, Xuyu Dong, Yili Cao, Qiang Li, Xianran Xing, "Emergent negative thermal expansion in amorphous Fe-Y-Zr-B alloys", Physical Review Letters, 135 (2025), DOI: 10.1103/2g25-bdjx
- Isabel Del Castillo-Velilla, Celia Castillo-Blas, Thomas D. Bennett, Beatriz Cuadrado-Benavent, Felix Zamora, Carmen Montoro, Ana Platero-Prats, "Deciphering interfacial interactions in a dual-functional MOF@COF composite for organic pollutant removal from water", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A (2025), DOI: 10.1039/D5TA03279B
- Chumei Ye, Lauren N. Mchugh, Pierre Florian, Ruohan Yu, Celia Castillo-Blas, Celia Chen, Arad Lang, Yuhang Dai, Jingwei Hou, David A. Keen, Sian E. Dutton, Thomas D. Bennett, "Structural dynamics of melting and glass formation in a two-dimensional hybrid perovskite", Nature Communications, 16 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61410-z
- Chinmoy Das, Soma Salamon, Joachim Landers, Jan-Benedikt Weiss, Wen-Long Xue, Pascal Kolodzeiski, Roman Pallach, Heiko Wende, Sebastian Henke, "Emergent spin-glass behavior in an iron(II)-based metal–organic framework glass", Advanced Functional Materials, 141 (2025), DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202517854
- Maksim Eremenko, Victor Krayzman, Semen Gorfman, Alexei Bosak, Helen Y. Playford, Philip A. Chater, Bruce Ravel, William J. Laws, Feng Ye, Arianna Minelli, Bi-Xia Wang, Zuo-Guang Ye, Matthew G. Tucker, Igor Levin, "Emergent topological polarization textures in relaxor ferroelectrics", Nature Communications, 16 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62658-1
- Bartholomew T. Payne, Mikkel Juelsholt, Miguel A. Pérez-Osorio, Dominic L. R. Melvin, Gabriel J. Cuello, Emmanuelle Suard, Daniel J. M. Irving, Nicholas Rees, Mark Feaviour, Enrico Petrucco, Stephen Day, Gregory J. Rees, Peter G. Bruce, "How multi-length scale disorder shapes ion transport in lithium argyrodites", Energy & Environmental Science (2025), DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01612F
- Emanuela Mangiacapre, Zina Barhoumi, Martin Brehm, Franca Castiglione, Valerio Di Lisio, Alessandro Triolo, Olga Russina, "Choline acetate/water mixtures: physicochemical properties and structural organization", Molecules, 30 (2025), DOI: 10.3390/molecules30163403
- Shaojie Wang, Min Gao, Yinze Qin, Sijie Zhang, Lei Tan, Martin Dove, "Accounting for instrument resolution in the pair distribution functions obtained from total scattering data using Hermite functions", Journal Of Applied Crystallography, 58 (2025), DOI: 10.1107/S1600576725004340
- Janis Timoshenko, David Kordus, Jette K. Mathiesen, Uta Hejral, Patrik Zeller, Gereon Behrendt, Eylül Öztuna, Jihao Wang, Zahra Gheisari, Rene Eckert, Stephan Reitmeier, Andreas Reitzmann, Holger Ruland, Jan Folke, Thomas Lunkenbein, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, "X-ray absorption by a microgranular sample", Physical Review B, 112 (2025), DOI: 10.1103/bqg7-kb24
- Yujun Rong, Ashleigh M. Chester, Georgina P. Robertson, Ayano Kono, Bethan Turner, Philip A. Chater, Lauren N. Mchugh, David Keen, Thomas D. Bennett, Celia Castillo-Blas, "Stabilisation and functional enhancement of a metal-organic framework purinate-glass composite", Chemical Communications (2025), DOI: 10.1039/D5CC01366F
- Weichen Zhao, Zhaobo Liu, Diming Xu, Ge Wang, Da Li, Jinnan Liu, Zhentao Wang, Yan Guo, Jiajia Ren, Tao Zhou, Lixia Pang, Hongwei Yang, Wenfeng Liu, Houbin Huang, Di Zhou, "Advanced stability and energy storage capacity in hierarchically engineered Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based multilayer capacitors", Nature Communications, 16 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61936-2
- Fabio Manzoni, Ansgar Meise, Mirijam Zobel, "Modulation excitation pair distribution function experiments in catalysis to increase phase sensitivity", Nanoscale (2025), DOI: 10.1039/D5NR01575H
- Natalia Simitsis, Felix Egger, Mirijam Zobel, Chalachew Mebrahtu, Regina Palkovits, "Non-oxidative dehydrogenation of methanol to dimethoxymethane over Ag/Hβ zeolite bifunctional catalyst", Catalysis Science & Technology, 104 (2025), DOI: 10.1039/D5CY00544B
- Emanuela Mangiacapre, Alessandro Triolo, Miriana Kfoury, Steven Ruellan, Fabrizio Lo Celso, Daniel J. M. Irving, Sophie Fourmentin, Olga Russina, "Sustainable aroma absorption: exploring the potentiality of a β-cyclodextrin and lactic acid supramolecular eutectic solvent", Carbohydrate Polymers, 36 (2025), DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2025.123819
- Nicole C. Mitchell, Oliver O. Thomas, Benjamin G. Meyer, Mirian Garcia-Fernandez, Ke-Jin Zhou, Patrick S. Grant, Peter G. Bruce, Richard Heap, Ruth Sayers, Robert A. House, "Influence of ion size on structure and redox chemistry in Na-rich and Li-rich disordered rocksalt battery cathodes", Advanced Materials, 2 (2025), DOI: 10.1002/adma.202419878
- Wen-Long Xue, Alexander Klein, Mounir El Skafi, Jan-Benedikt Weiss, Felix Egger, Hui Ding, Suresh K. Vasa, Christian Liebscher, Mirijam Zobel, Rasmus Linser, Jin-Chong Tan, Sebastian Henke, "Mechanochemical synthesis enables melting, glass formation and glass-ceramic conversion in a cadmium-based zeolitic imidazolate framework", Journal Of The American Chemical Society (2025), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c02767
- Emanuela Mangiacapre, Fabrizio Lo Celso, Alessandro Triolo, Fabio Ramondo, Daniel J. M. Irving, Ahmad Alhadid, Mirjana Minceva, Olga Russina, "Structural features of the thymol-carvacrol equimolar mixture: X-ray scattering and molecular dynamics", The Journal Of Physical Chemistry B (2025), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c07674
- Celia Castillo-Blas, Montaña J. García, Ashleigh M. Chester, Matjaž Mazaj, Shaoliang Guan, Georgina P. Robertson, Ayano Kono, James M. A. Steele, Luis León-Alcaide, Bruno Poletto-Rodrigues, Philip A. Chater, Silvia Cabrera, Andraž Krajnc, Lothar Wondraczek, David A. Keen, Jose Alemán, Thomas Bennett, "Structural and interfacial characterization of a photocatalytic titanium MOF-phosphate glass composite", Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces (2025), DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c18444
- Luis Leon-Alcaide, Celia Castillo Blas, Vlad Martin-Diaconescu, Ivan Da Silva, David A. Keen, Thomas D. Bennett, Guillermo Minguez Espallargas, "Solvent-free approach for the synthesis of heterometallic Fe-Zn-ZIF glass via melt-quenched process", Chemical Science (2025), DOI: 10.1039/D5SC00767D
- Shichun Li, Chao Ma, Jingwei Hou, Shuwen Yu, Aibing Chen, Juan Du, Philip A. Chater, Dean S. Keeble, Zhihua Qiao, Chongli Zhong, David A. Keen, Yu Liu, Thomas D. Bennett, "Highly porous metal-organic framework glass design and application for gas separation membranes", Nature Communications, 16 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56295-x
- [Thesis] Georgina H. P. Robertson, "Amorphisation mechanisms of metal-organic frameworks under high pressures and temperatures" (2025), DOI: 10.17863/CAM.116551
- Hengtong Bu, Hengwei Luan, Jingyi Kang, Jili Jia, Wenhui Guo, Yunshuai Su, Huaping Ding, Hsiang-Shun Chang, Ranbin Wang, You Wu, Lingxiang Shi, Pan Gong, Qiaoshi Zeng, Yang Shao, Kefu Yao, "Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation", Nature Communications, 16 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55367-8
- [Thesis] Juncheng Pan, "Quenching effects in lead-free bismuth based ferroelectric ceramics" (2025)
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