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75 items found for 2017 [total: 1046]
Hydrated and dehydrated Ca-coordination polymers based on benzene-dicarboxylates: mechanochemical synthesis, structure refinement, and spectroscopic characterization Crystengcomm, 20 Dec 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7CE01906H
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
A universal adsorption behaviour for Cu uptake by iron (hydr)oxide organo-mineral composites Chemical Geology, Dec 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.12.022
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Biotemplating: a sustainable synthetic methodology for Na-ion battery materials Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, 189 Dec 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7TA09260A
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Novel Lewis acidic zeolites as heterogeneous catalysts for liquid phase chemistry Dec 2017
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS
Homocoupling of phenylboronic acid using atomically dispersed gold on carbon catalysts: catalyst evolution before reaction Chemcatchem, Dec 2017 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201701840
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Substitution of Re 7+ into CaMnO3 : an efficient free electron generation dopant for tuning of thermoelectric properties Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 28 Nov 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP06805K
Impacts of repeated redox cycling on technetium mobility in the environment Environmental Science & Technology, Nov 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02426
Coupling of emergent octahedral rotations to polarization in (K,Na)NbO3 ferroelectrics Scientific Reports, 7 Nov 2017 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15937-x
Codoping of Sb2Te3 thin films with V and Cr Physical Review Materials, 1 Nov 2017 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.064409
Design, synthesis and characterisation of novel materials for photocatalytic water splitting Nov 2017
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS open access
VOx/Fe2O3 shell–core catalysts for the selective oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde Topics In Catalysis, 158 Nov 2017 DOI: 10.1007/s11244-017-0873-2
SPIONs for cell labelling and tracking using MRI: magnetite or maghemite? Biomaterials Science, 6 Nov 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7BM00515F
Polyamine functionalised ion exchange resins: Synthesis, characterisation and uranyl uptake Chemical Engineering Journal, Nov 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2017.11.040
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
The role of non-thermal plasmas in methane oxidation Nov 2017
Science Highlight B18-Core EXAFS
Zirconium arene triple-decker sandwich complexes: Synthesis, electronic structure and bonding Chemical Communications, Oct 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC07083G
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Incorporation of molybdenum(vi) in akaganéite (β-FeOOH) and the microbial reduction of Mo–akaganéite by Shewanella loihica PV-4 Crystengcomm, 19 Oct 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7CE01569K
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Bacterial SBP56 identified as a Cu-dependent methanethiol oxidase widely distributed in the biosphere The Isme Journal, 12 Oct 2017 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.148
Support induced charge transfer effects on electrochemical characteristics of Pt nanoparticle electrocatalysts Journal Of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Oct 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.10.010
In situ determination of the nanostructure effects on the activity, stability and selectivity of Pt-Sn ethanol oxidation catalysts Journal Of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Sept 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.09.060
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Uranium(V) incorporation mechanisms and stability in Fe(II)/Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxides Environmental Science & Technology Letters, Sept 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00348
Mineralogy of dust and aerosols: status and perspectives of spectroscopic methods as novel ice cores proxies and for climatic and environmental applications Sept 2017
Conference Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Investigation of the role of morphology on the magnetic properties of Ca2Mn3O8 materials Dalton Transactions, Sept 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT03053C
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Designing metal nanoparticles for catalysis Sept 2017
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy open access
Solvothermal synthesis of oxides for catalysis Sept 2017
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I12-JEEP: Joint Engineering, Environmental and Processing
In situ arsenic oxidation and sorption by a Fe-Mn binary oxide waste in soil Journal Of Hazardous Materials, Aug 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.08.066
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Enzyme activity by design: an artificial rhodium hydroformylase for linear aldehydes Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Aug 2017 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201705753
An EXAFS approach to the study of polyoxometalate–protein interactions: the case of decavanadate–actin Inorganic Chemistry, Aug 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01018
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
The adsorption of Cu on the CeO2(110) surface Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Aug 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP04144F
Synthesis and activation for catalysis of Fe-SAPO-34 prepared using iron polyamine complexes as structure directing agents Catalysis Science & Technology, Aug 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7CY01269A
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
In situ spatially resolved techniques for the investigation of packed bed catalytic reactors: current status and future outlook of spaci-fb Aug 2017 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ache.2017.05.001
Book Chapter B18-Core EXAFS
Effect of parameters on NO reduction by methane in presence of excess O2 and functionalized AlMCM-41 as catalysts Journal Of The Taiwan Institute Of Chemical Engineers, Jul 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2017.07.018
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Iron phosphate glasses: Bulk properties and atomic scale structure Journal Of Nuclear Materials, Jul 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.07.015
High-resolution X-ray diffraction with no sample preparation Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations And Advances, 73 Jul 2017 DOI: 10.1107/S2053273317008592
Phosphate ion functionalization of perovskite surfaces for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction The Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters, Jul 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01504
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
A high-quality non-destructive XRD technique for cultural heritage Jul 2017
Poster B18-Core EXAFS open access
Combined in situ XAFS/DRIFTS studies of the evolution of nanoparticle structures from molecular precursors Chemistry Of Materials, Jul 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02552
Non-destructive X-ray diffraction Jul 2017
Science Highlight B18-Core EXAFS
Time-resolved powder X-ray diffraction of the solvothermal crystallization of cobalt gallate spinel photocatalyst reveals transient layered double hydroxides Chemistry Of Materials, June 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01761
Electronic metal-support interaction enhanced oxygen reduction activity and stability of boron carbide supported platinum Nature Communications, 8 June 2017 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15802
Properties of bimetallic AuAg nanoparticles for H2 production June 2017
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS open access
Generation, spectroscopic and chemical characterization of an octahedral iron (V) - nitrido species with a neutral ligand platform Journal Of The American Chemical Society, June 2017 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b00429
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Cation distribution and vacancies in nickel cobaltite Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, June 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP02260C
Magnetic proximity coupling to Cr-doped Sb2Te3 thin films Physical Review B, 95 June 2017 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.224422
Probing the role of a non-thermal plasma (NTP) in the hybrid NTP-catalytic oxidation of CH4 Angewandte Chemie International Edition, June 2017 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201703550
Materials and breakdown phenomena: heterogeneous molybdenum metallic films Condensed Matter, 2 May 2017 DOI: 10.3390/condmat2020018
Na0.35MnO2 as an ionic conductor with randomly distributed nano-sized layers Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, May 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7TA02913F
Solvent-dependent nuclearity, geometry and catalytic activity of [(SPhos)Pd(Ph)Cl] 2 Dalton Transactions, May 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT01019B
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Linear, trinuclear cobalt complexes with o-phenylene-bis-silylamido ligands Chemistry - A European Journal, 23 May 2017 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201700496
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Borate polyanion-based systems as Li- and Mg-ion cathode materials May 2017 DOI: 10.17863/CAM.10706
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS
Insights into charge compensation through Oxygen redox May 2017
Science Highlight B18-Core EXAFS
Design and characterization of a mapping device optimized to collect XRD patterns from highly inhomogeneous and low density powder samples Nuclear Instruments And Methods In Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions With Materials And Atoms, Apr 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2017.03.061
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
The application of a completely non-destructive high-resolution X-ray diffraction technique in cultural heritage science Apr 2017
Conference Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Ca- and Sr-tetrafluoroisophthalates: mechanochemical synthesis, characterization, and ab initio structure determination Dalton Transactions, 46 Apr 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT00734E
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
In situ XAFS study of palladium electrodeposition at the liquid/liquid interface Electrochimica Acta, Mar 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.03.059
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Is geometric frustration-induced disorder a recipe for high ionic conductivity? Journal Of The American Chemical Society, Mar 2017 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b00502
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Ruthenium-nickel-nickel hydroxide nanoparticles for room temperature catalytic hydrogenation Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, Mar 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7TA01437F
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Nanoparticles in a box: a concept to isolate, store and re-use colloidal surfactant-free precious metal nanoparticles Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, Mar 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7TA00628D
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Visualisation of developmental ossification using trace element mapping Journal Of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 21 Mar 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7JA00042A
Retardation of uranium and thorium by a cementitious backfill developed for radioactive waste disposal Chemosphere, Mar 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.03.109
Identification of single-site gold catalysis in acetylene hydrochlorination Science, 355 Mar 2017 DOI: 10.1126/science.aal3439
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Effects of metal speciation on metal plant dynamics in the presence of plant growth promoting bacteria Mar 2017
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
An X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of ball-milled lithium tantalate and lithium titanate nanocrystals Iop Conference Series: Materials Science And Engineering, 169 Feb 2017 DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/169/1/012015
Understanding the role of promoters in catalysis: operando XAFS/DRIFTS study of CeOx/Pt/Al2O3 during CO oxidation Catalysis, Structure & Reactivity, 3 Feb 2017 DOI: 10.1080/2055074X.2017.1278890
Effects of Cl on the reduction of supported PdO in ethanol/water solvent mixtures Catalysis, Structure & Reactivity, 3 Feb 2017 DOI: 10.1080/2055074X.2016.1267296
Catalyst accessibility to chemical reductants in metal–organic frameworks Chemical Communications, 53 Feb 2017 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC00022G
Novel X-ray diffraction and the remote analysis of Mars Feb 2017
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS
Towards the interrogation of the behaviour of a single nanoparticle under realistic catalytic reaction conditions Catalysis, Structure & Reactivity, 3 Feb 2017 DOI: 10.1080/2055074X.2016.1277655
Structure of gold–silver nanoparticles The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C, Jan 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11186
Nano-structured rhodium doped SrTiO3–Visible light activated photocatalyst for water decontamination Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Jan 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2017.01.066
Electronic state of sodium trans-[tetrachloridobis(1H-indazole)ruthenate(III)] (NKP-1339) in tumor, liver and kidney tissue of a SW480-bearing mouse Scientific Reports, 7 Jan 2017 DOI: 10.1038/srep40966
Mechanism of enhanced strontium uptake into calcite via an amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) crystallisation pathway Crystal Growth & Design, Jan 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01599
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Tandem site- and size-controlled Pd nanoparticles for the directed hydrogenation of furfural Acs Catalysis, Jan 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b03190
Long-term immobilization of technetium via bioremediation with slow-release substrates Environmental Science & Technology, Jan 2017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b04876
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Evidence for strong lattice effects as revealed from huge unconventional oxygen isotope effects on the pseudogap temperature in La2−x Srx CuO4 Physical Review B, 95 Jan 2017 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.014514
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
In-situ synchrotron based investigations of the structure of iron substituted microporous catalysts under operating conditions Jan 2017
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I11-High Resolution Powder Diffraction
- Abdal-Azim Al-Terkawi, Gudrun Scholz, Carsten Prinz, Annett Zimathies, Franziska Emmerling, Erhard Kemnitz, "Hydrated and dehydrated Ca-coordination polymers based on benzene-dicarboxylates: mechanochemical synthesis, structure refinement, and spectroscopic characterization", Crystengcomm, 20, 946 - 961 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CE01906H
- Alba Otero Fariña, Caroline L. Peacock, Sarah Fiol, Juan Antelo, Benjamin Carvin, "A universal adsorption behaviour for Cu uptake by iron (hydr)oxide organo-mineral composites", Chemical Geology (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.12.022
- Silvija Zilinskaite, Anthony J. R. Rennie, Rebecca Boston, Nik Reeves-Mclaren, "Biotemplating: a sustainable synthetic methodology for Na-ion battery materials", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A, 189 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7TA09260A
- [Thesis] Abbas Al-Nayili, "Novel Lewis acidic zeolites as heterogeneous catalysts for liquid phase chemistry" (2017)
- Tanja E. Parmentier, Simon R. Dawson, Grazia Malta, Li Lu, Thomas E. Davies, Simon A. Kondrat, Simon J. Freakley, Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings, "Homocoupling of phenylboronic acid using atomically dispersed gold on carbon catalysts: catalyst evolution before reaction", Chemcatchem (2017), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201701840
- J. Felix Shin, Hongjun Niu, Jonathan Alaria, John B. Claridge, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, "Substitution of Re 7+ into CaMnO3 : an efficient free electron generation dopant for tuning of thermoelectric properties", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 28 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CP06805K
- Nicholas Karl Masters-Waage, Katherine Morris, Jonathan R. Lloyd, Samuel Shaw, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Christopher Boothman, Pieter Bots, Athanasios Rizoulis, Francis R. Livens, Gareth Law, "Impacts of repeated redox cycling on technetium mobility in the environment", Environmental Science & Technology (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02426
- I. Levin, V. Krayzman, G. Cibin, M. G. Tucker, M. Eremenko, K. Chapman, R. L. Paul, "Coupling of emergent octahedral rotations to polarization in (K,Na)NbO3 ferroelectrics", Scientific Reports, 7 (2017), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15937-x
- L. B. Duffy, A. I. Figueroa, G. Van Der Laan, T. Hesjedal, "Codoping of Sb2Te3 thin films with V and Cr", Physical Review Materials, 1, 064409 (2017), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.064409
- [Thesis] Emily Glover, "Design, synthesis and characterisation of novel materials for photocatalytic water splitting" (2017)
- Pip Hellier, Peter P. Wells, Diego Gianolio, Michael Bowker, "VOx/Fe2O3 shell–core catalysts for the selective oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde", Topics In Catalysis, 158 (2017), DOI: 10.1007/s11244-017-0873-2
- Michael Barrow, Arthur Taylor, Ana M. Fuentes-Caparrós, Jack Sharkey, Luke Daniels, Pranab Mandal, B. Kevin Park, Patricia Murray, Matthew Rosseinsky, Dave J. Adams, "SPIONs for cell labelling and tracking using MRI: magnetite or maghemite?", Biomaterials Science, 6, 101 - 106 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7BM00515F
- J. T. M. Amphlett, M. D. Ogden, R. I. Foster, N. Syna, K. Soldenhoff, C. A. Sharrad, "Polyamine functionalised ion exchange resins: Synthesis, characterisation and uranyl uptake", Chemical Engineering Journal (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2017.11.040
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "The role of non-thermal plasmas in methane oxidation" (2017)
- Alexander F. R. Kilpatrick, Jennifer Green, Zoe Turner, Jean-Charles Buffet, Dermot O'Hare, "Zirconium arene triple-decker sandwich complexes: Synthesis, electronic structure and bonding", Chemical Communications (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CC07083G
- Ralph M. Bolanz, Christoph Grauer, Rebecca E. Cooper, Jörg Göttlicher, Ralph Steininger, Stephen Parry, Kirsten Küsel, "Incorporation of molybdenum(vi) in akaganéite (β-FeOOH) and the microbial reduction of Mo–akaganéite by Shewanella loihica PV-4", Crystengcomm, 19, 6189 - 6198 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CE01569K
- Özge Eyice, Nataliia Myronova, Arjan Pol, Ornella Carrión, Jonathan D. Todd, Tom J. Smith, Stephen J. Gurman, Adam Cuthbertson, Sophie Mazard, Monique Ash Mennink-Kersten, Timothy D. H. Bugg, Karl kristoffer Andersson, Andrew W. B. Johnston, Huub J. M. Op Den Camp, Hendrik Schafer, "Bacterial SBP56 identified as a Cu-dependent methanethiol oxidase widely distributed in the biosphere", The Isme Journal, 12 (2017), DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.148
- Colleen Jackson, Graham T. Smith, Matthew Markiewicz, David W. Inwood, Andrew S. Leach, Penny S. Whalley, Anthony R. Kucernak, Andrea E. Russell, Denis Kramer, Pieter B. J. Levecque, "Support induced charge transfer effects on electrochemical characteristics of Pt nanoparticle electrocatalysts", Journal Of Electroanalytical Chemistry (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.10.010
- Laura Calvillo, Lucila Méndez De Leo, Stephen J. Thompson, Stephen W. T. Price, Ernesto J. Calvo, Andrea E. Russell, "In situ determination of the nanostructure effects on the activity, stability and selectivity of Pt-Sn ethanol oxidation catalysts", Journal Of Electroanalytical Chemistry (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.09.060
- Hannah Roberts, Katherine Morris, Gareth Law, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Kristina Kvashnina, Pieter Bots, Samuel Shaw, "Uranium(V) incorporation mechanisms and stability in Fe(II)/Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxides", Environmental Science & Technology Letters (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00348
- [Conference Paper] A. Marcelli, "Mineralogy of dust and aerosols: status and perspectives of spectroscopic methods as novel ice cores proxies and for climatic and environmental applications" (2017)
- Laura J. Vera Stimpson, Silvia Ramos, Gavin B. G. Stenning, Marek Jura, Stephen Parry, Giannantonio Cibin, Donna Arnold, "Investigation of the role of morphology on the magnetic properties of Ca2Mn3O8 materials", Dalton Transactions (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7DT03053C
- [Thesis] Scott Rogers, "Designing metal nanoparticles for catalysis" (2017)
- [Thesis] Daniel Sean Cook, "Solvothermal synthesis of oxides for catalysis" (2017)
- Clare M. Mccann, Caroline L. Peacock, Karen A. Hudson-Edwards, Thomas Shrimpton, Neil D. Gray, Karen L. Johnson, "In situ arsenic oxidation and sorption by a Fe-Mn binary oxide waste in soil", Journal Of Hazardous Materials (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.08.066
- Amanda G. Jarvis, Lorenz Obrecht, Peter J. Deuss, Wouter Laan, Emma K. Gibson, Peter Wells, Paul Kamer, "Enzyme activity by design: an artificial rhodium hydroformylase for linear aldehydes", Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2017), DOI: 10.1002/anie.201705753
- M. Paula M. Marques, Diego Gianolio, Susana Ramos, Luis A. E. Batista De Carvalho, Manuel Aureliano, "An EXAFS approach to the study of polyoxometalate–protein interactions: the case of decavanadate–actin", Inorganic Chemistry (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01018
- Arunabhiram Chutia, Emma Gibson, Matthew R. Farrow, Peter Wells, David O. Scanlon, Nikolaos Dimitratos, David J. Willock, C. Richard A. Catlow, "The adsorption of Cu on the CeO2(110) surface", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CP04144F
- Alessandro Turrina, Iulian Dugulan, Jillian Collier, Richard I. Walton, John L Casci, Paul Wright, "Synthesis and activation for catalysis of Fe-SAPO-34 prepared using iron polyamine complexes as structure directing agents", Catalysis Science & Technology (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CY01269A
- [Book Chapter] Alexandre Goguet, Caomhan Stewart, Jamal Touitou, Kevin Morgan, "In situ spatially resolved techniques for the investigation of packed bed catalytic reactors: current status and future outlook of spaci-fb" (2017), DOI: 10.1016/bs.ache.2017.05.001
- Mounir Sakmeche, Ahmed Belhakem, Rachid Kessas, Samia Amina Ghomari, "Effect of parameters on NO reduction by methane in presence of excess O2 and functionalized AlMCM-41 as catalysts", Journal Of The Taiwan Institute Of Chemical Engineers (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2017.07.018
- Kitheri Joseph, Martin C. Stennett, Neil C. Hyatt, R. Asuvathraman, Charu L. Dube, Amy S. Gandy, K. V. Govindan Kutty, Kenny Jolley, P. R. Vasudeva Rao, Roger Smith, "Iron phosphate glasses: Bulk properties and atomic scale structure", Journal Of Nuclear Materials (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.07.015
- G. M. Hansford, S. M. R. Turner, P. Degryse, A. J. Shortland, "High-resolution X-ray diffraction with no sample preparation", Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations And Advances, 73, 293 - 311 (2017), DOI: 10.1107/S2053273317008592
- Chunzhen Yang, Christel Laberty-Robert, Dmitry Batuk, Giannantonio Cibin, Alan Chadwick, Vanessa Pereira Pimenta, Wei Yin, Leiting Zhang, Jean-Marie Tarascon, Alexis Grimaud, "Phosphate ion functionalization of perovskite surfaces for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction", The Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01504
- [Poster] Graeme Hansford, Stuart Turner, Patrick Degryse, Andrew Shortland, "A high-quality non-destructive XRD technique for cultural heritage" (2017)
- Ellie K. Dann, Emma K. Gibson, Richard A. Catlow, Paul Collier, Tugce Eralp Erden, Diego Gianolio, Christopher Hardacre, Anna Kroner, Agnes Raj, Alexandre Goguet, Peter Wells, "Combined in situ XAFS/DRIFTS studies of the evolution of nanoparticle structures from molecular precursors", Chemistry Of Materials (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02552
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Non-destructive X-ray diffraction" (2017)
- Daniel S. Cook, Yue Wu, Karla Lienau, Rene More, Reza J. Kashtiban, Oxana Magdysyuk, Greta R. Patzke, Richard I. Walton, "Time-resolved powder X-ray diffraction of the solvothermal crystallization of cobalt gallate spinel photocatalyst reveals transient layered double hydroxides", Chemistry Of Materials (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01761
- Colleen Jackson, Graham T. Smith, David W. Inwood, Andrew S. Leach, Penny S. Whalley, Mauro Callisti, Tomas Polcar, Andrea E. Russell, Pieter Levecque, Denis Kramer, "Electronic metal-support interaction enhanced oxygen reduction activity and stability of boron carbide supported platinum", Nature Communications, 8 (2017), DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15802
- [Thesis] Anna L. Gould, "Properties of bimetallic AuAg nanoparticles for H2 production" (2017)
- Gerard Sabenya, Laura Lazaro, Ilaria Gamba, Vlad Martin-Diaconescu, Erik Andris, Thomas Weyhermuller, Frank Neese, Jana Roithova, Eckhard Bill, Julio Lloret-Fillol, Miquel Costas, "Generation, spectroscopic and chemical characterization of an octahedral iron (V) - nitrido species with a neutral ligand platform", Journal Of The American Chemical Society (2017), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b00429
- Danilo Loche, Claudia Marras, Daniela Carta, Maria Francesca Francesca Casula, Gavin Mountjoy, Anna Corrias, "Cation distribution and vacancies in nickel cobaltite", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CP02260C
- L. B. Duffy, A. I. Figueroa, L. Gladczuk, N.-J. Steinke, K Kummer, G. Van Der Laan, Thorsten Hesjedal, "Magnetic proximity coupling to Cr-doped Sb2Te3 thin films", Physical Review B, 95, 224422 (2017), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.224422
- Emma K. Gibson, C. Elena Stere, Bronagh Curran-Mcateer, Wilm Jones, Giannantonio Cibin, Diego Gianolio, Alexandre Goguet, Peter Wells, C. Richard A. Catlow, Paul Collier, Peter Hinde, Christopher Hardacre, "Probing the role of a non-thermal plasma (NTP) in the hybrid NTP-catalytic oxidation of CH4", Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2017), DOI: 10.1002/anie.201703550
- Augusto Marcelli, Bruno Spataro, Giovanni Castorina, Wei Xu, Stefano Sarti, Francesca Monforte, Giannantonio Cibin, "Materials and breakdown phenomena: heterogeneous molybdenum metallic films", Condensed Matter, 2 (2017), DOI: 10.3390/condmat2020018
- Arturas Adomkevicius, Laura Cabo-Fernandez, Tzu-Ho Wu, Tzu-Man Ou, Ming-Guan Chen, Yuri Andreev, Chi-Chang Hu, Laurence J. Hardwick, "Na0.35MnO2 as an ionic conductor with randomly distributed nano-sized layers", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7TA02913F
- John B. Brazier, Mark A Newton, Elena M. Barreiro, Luis A. Adrio, Leticia Naya, King Kuok (mimi) Hii, "Solvent-dependent nuclearity, geometry and catalytic activity of [(SPhos)Pd(Ph)Cl] 2", Dalton Transactions (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7DT01019B
- Kirill Yu. Monakhov, Jan Van Leusen, Paul Kogerler, Emilie-Laure Zins, M. Esmail Alikhani, Moniek Tromp, Andreas A. Danopoulos, Pierre Braunstein, "Linear, trinuclear cobalt complexes with o-phenylene-bis-silylamido ligands", Chemistry - A European Journal, 23, 6504 - 6508 (2017), DOI: 10.1002/chem.201700496
- [Thesis] Hugh Glass, "Borate polyanion-based systems as Li- and Mg-ion cathode materials" (2017), DOI: 10.17863/CAM.10706
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Insights into charge compensation through Oxygen redox" (2017)
- A. D'Elia, G. Cibin, P. E. Robbins, V. Maggi, A. Marcelli, "Design and characterization of a mapping device optimized to collect XRD patterns from highly inhomogeneous and low density powder samples", Nuclear Instruments And Methods In Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions With Materials And Atoms (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2017.03.061
- [Conference Paper] Graeme Hansford, "The application of a completely non-destructive high-resolution X-ray diffraction technique in cultural heritage science" (2017)
- Abdal-Azim Al-Terkawi, Gudrun Scholz, Ana Guilherme Buzanich, Stefan Reinsch, Franziska Emmerling, Erhard Kemnitz, "Ca- and Sr-tetrafluoroisophthalates: mechanochemical synthesis, characterization, and ab initio structure determination", Dalton Transactions, 46, 6003 - 6012 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7DT00734E
- Samuel G. Booth, Sin-Yuen Chang, Akihiro Uehara, Camille La Fontaine, Giannantonio Cibin, Sven Schroeder, Robert A. W. Dryfe, "In situ XAFS study of palladium electrodeposition at the liquid/liquid interface", Electrochimica Acta (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.03.059
- Andre Duvel, Paul Heitjans, Pavel Fedorov, Gudrun Scholz, Giannantonio Cibin, Alan V. Chadwick, David M. Pickup, Silvia Ramos, Lewis W.l. Sayle, Emma K Sayle, Thi X. T. Sayle, Dean C. Sayle, "Is geometric frustration-induced disorder a recipe for high ionic conductivity?", Journal Of The American Chemical Society (2017), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b00502
- Li Hua Zhu, Shiyao Shan, Valeri Petkov, Weiwei Hu, Anna Kroner, Jinbao Zheng, Changlin Yu, Nuowei Zhang, Yunhua Li, Rafael Luque, Chuan-Jian Zhong, Hengqiang Ye, Zhiqing Yang, Bing Hui Chen, "Ruthenium-nickel-nickel hydroxide nanoparticles for room temperature catalytic hydrogenation", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7TA01437F
- Sarah Neumann, Sarah Grotheer, Julia Tielke, Imke Schrader, Jonathan Quinson, Alessandro Zana, Mehtap Oezaslan, Matthias Arenz, Sebastian Kunz, "Nanoparticles in a box: a concept to isolate, store and re-use colloidal surfactant-free precious metal nanoparticles", Journal Of Materials Chemistry A (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7TA00628D
- Jennifer Anne, Nicholas P. Edwards, Arjen Van Veelen, Victoria Egerton, Phillip L. Manning, J . Frederick W. Mosselmans, Stephen Parry, William I. Sellers, Michael Buckley, Roy A. Wogelius, "Visualisation of developmental ossification using trace element mapping", Journal Of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 21 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7JA00042A
- M. Felipe-Sotelo, J. Hinchliff, L. P. Field, A. E. Milodowski, O. Preedy, D. Read, "Retardation of uranium and thorium by a cementitious backfill developed for radioactive waste disposal", Chemosphere (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.03.109
- Grazia Malta, Simon A. Kondrat, Simon J. Freakley, Catherine J. Davies, Li Lu, Simon Dawson, Adam Thetford, Emma K. Gibson, David J. Morgan, Wilm Jones, Peter Wells, Peter Johnston, C. Richard A. Catlow, Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings, "Identification of single-site gold catalysis in acetylene hydrochlorination", Science, 355, 1399 - 1403 (2017), DOI: 10.1126/science.aal3439
- [Thesis] Nyekachi Chituru Adele, "Effects of metal speciation on metal plant dynamics in the presence of plant growth promoting bacteria" (2017)
- [Conference Paper] A. V. Chadwick, D. M. Pickup, S. Ramos, G. Cibin, Nuria Tapia-Ruiz, S. Breuer, D. Wohlmuth, M. Wilkening, "An X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of ball-milled lithium tantalate and lithium titanate nanocrystals", Iop Conference Series: Materials Science And Engineering, 169 (2017), DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/169/1/012015
- E. K. Gibson, E. M. Crabb, D. Gianolio, A. E. Russell, D. Thompsett, P. P. Wells, "Understanding the role of promoters in catalysis: operando XAFS/DRIFTS study of CeOx/Pt/Al2O3 during CO oxidation", Catalysis, Structure & Reactivity, 3, 5 - 12 (2017), DOI: 10.1080/2055074X.2017.1278890
- John B. Brazier, Mark A. Newton, Elena M. Barreiro, Stephen Parry, Luis A. Adrio, Christopher J. Mulligan, Klaus Hellgardt, King Kuok (mimi) Hii, Paul B. J. Thompson, Rachel Nichols, Bao N. Nguyen, "Effects of Cl on the reduction of supported PdO in ethanol/water solvent mixtures", Catalysis, Structure & Reactivity, 3, 54 - 62 (2017), DOI: 10.1080/2055074X.2016.1267296
- Souvik Roy, Vlad Pascanu, Sonja Pullen, Greco González Miera, Belén Martín-Matute, Sascha Ott, "Catalyst accessibility to chemical reductants in metal–organic frameworks", Chemical Communications, 53, 3257 - 3260 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CC00022G
- [Thesis] Stuart Turner, "Novel X-ray diffraction and the remote analysis of Mars" (2017)
- David James Martin, Donato Decarolis, Remi Tucoulou, Gema Martínez-Criado, Andrew M. Beale, "Towards the interrogation of the behaviour of a single nanoparticle under realistic catalytic reaction conditions", Catalysis, Structure & Reactivity, 3, 63 - 70 (2017), DOI: 10.1080/2055074X.2016.1277655
- Ian J. Godfrey, Andrew J. Dent, Ivan P. Parkin, Shinya Maenosono, Gopinathan Sankar, "Structure of gold–silver nanoparticles", The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11186
- Borbala Kiss, Troy D. Manning, David Hesp, Christophe Didier, Arthur Taylor, David M. Pickup, Alan V. Chadwick, Heather E. Allison, Vinod R. Dhanak, John B. Claridge, James R. Darwent, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, "Nano-structured rhodium doped SrTiO3–Visible light activated photocatalyst for water decontamination", Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2017.01.066
- Amir Blazevic, Alfred Hummer, Petra Heffeter, Walter Berger, Martin Filipits, Giannantonio Cibin, Bernhard K. Keppler, Annette Rompel, "Electronic state of sodium trans-[tetrachloridobis(1H-indazole)ruthenate(III)] (NKP-1339) in tumor, liver and kidney tissue of a SW480-bearing mouse", Scientific Reports, 7 (2017), DOI: 10.1038/srep40966
- Janice L. Littlewood, Samuel Shaw, Caroline L. Peacock, Pieter Bots, Divyesh Trivedi, Ian T. Burke, "Mechanism of enhanced strontium uptake into calcite via an amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) crystallisation pathway", Crystal Growth & Design (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01599
- Scott M. Rogers, C. Richard A. Catlow, Carine E. Chan-Thaw, Arunabhiram Chutia, Nan Jian, Richard E. Palmer, Michal Perdjon, Adam Thetford, Nikolaos Dimitratos, Alberto Villa, Peter Wells, "Tandem site- and size-controlled Pd nanoparticles for the directed hydrogenation of furfural", Acs Catalysis (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b03190
- Laura Newsome, Adrian Cleary, Katherine Morris, Jonathan R. Lloyd, "Long-term immobilization of technetium via bioremediation with slow-release substrates", Environmental Science & Technology (2017), DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b04876
- M. Bendele, F. Von Rohr, Z. Guguchia, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, A. Bianconi, A. Simon, A. Bussmann-Holder, H. Keller, "Evidence for strong lattice effects as revealed from huge unconventional oxygen isotope effects on the pseudogap temperature in La2−x Srx CuO4", Physical Review B, 95 (2017), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.014514
- [Thesis] G. P. Gregori, "In-situ synchrotron based investigations of the structure of iron substituted microporous catalysts under operating conditions" (2017)
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