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72 items found for 2019 [total: 1046]
Ligand redox noninnocence in [Co III (TAML)] 0/– complexes affects nitrene formation Journal Of The American Chemical Society, Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b11715
Formation of a U(VI)–persulfide complex during environmentally relevant sulfidation of iron (oxyhydr)oxides Environmental Science & Technology, Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b03180
Revealing strain effects on the chemical composition of perovskite oxide thin films surface, bulk, and interfaces Advanced Materials Interfaces, 247 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1002/admi.201901440
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Insights on uranium uptake mechanisms by ion exchange resins with chelating functionalities: chelation vs anion exchange Chemical Engineering Journal, Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2019.123712
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Influence of synthesis conditions on the structure of nickel nanoparticles and their reactivity in selective asymmetric hydrogenation Chemcatchem, Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901955
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS B18-Core EXAFS E01-JEM ARM 200CF open access
Quantitative production of butenes from biomass-derived γ-valerolactone catalysed by hetero-atomic MFI zeolite Nature Materials, 19 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0562-6
Understanding the mechanochemical synthesis of the perovskite LaMnO 3 and its catalytic behaviour Dalton Transactions, 23 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT03590G
A new approach to the immobilisation of technetium and transuranics: Co-disposal in a zirconolite ceramic matrix Journal Of Nuclear Materials, Nov 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.151885
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Catalytic and biophysical investigation of rhodium hydroformylase Catalysis Science & Technology, 9 Nov 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9CY01679A
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Formation of a copper(II)-tyrosyl complex at the active site of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases following oxidation by H2O2 Journal Of The American Chemical Society, Nov 2019 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09833
The rapid electrochemical activation of MoTe2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction Nature Communications, 10 Oct 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12831-0
Investigating the active species in a [(R‐SN(H)S‐R)CrCl 3 ] ethene trimerization system: Mononuclear or dinuclear? Chemcatchem, 12 Oct 2019 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901640
Tuning of catalytic sites in Pt/TiO2 catalysts for the chemoselective hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene Nature Catalysis, 9 Sept 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0334-3
Plutonium(IV) sorption during ferrihydrite nanoparticle formation Acs Earth And Space Chemistry, Sept 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00105
Synthesis, characterisation and water–gas shift activity of nano-particulate mixed-metal (Al, Ti) cobalt oxides Dalton Transactions, 48 Sept 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT01634A
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
An open access, integrated XAS data repository at Diamond Light Source Radiation Physics And Chemistry, Sept 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2019.108479
Implications of the molybdenum coordination environment in MFI zeolites on methane dehydroaromatisation performance Chemcatchem, Sept 2019 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901166
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Back-reflection energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction to assess the origin of the “MacGregor Man” Aug 2019
Conference Paper B18-Core EXAFS I11-High Resolution Powder Diffraction open access
Composite materials with combined electronic and ionic properties Matter, Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2019.04.007
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Non-destructive XRD analysis of paints for art historical research Aug 2019
Conference Paper B18-Core EXAFS open access
Influence of microstructure on the corrosion of archaeological iron observed using 3D synchrotron micro-tomography Corrosion Science, Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2019.108132
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS I11-High Resolution Powder Diffraction I12-JEEP: Joint Engineering, Environmental and Processing
Identification of the key steps in the self-assembly of homogeneous gold metal nanoparticles produced using inverse micelles Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 60 Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03473K
Mixed molybdenum and vanadium oxide nanoparticles with excellent high-power performance as Li-ion battery negative electrodes Electrochimica Acta, Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.134695
Silicate stabilisation of colloidal UO2 produced by uranium metal corrosion Journal Of Nuclear Materials, Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.151751
Shape-persistent porous organic cage supported palladium nanoparticles as heterogeneous catalytic materials Nanoscale, 11 Aug 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR04553H
Metaschoepite dissolution in sediment column systems – implications for uranium speciation and transport Environmental Science & Technology, Jul 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b02292
An efficient base-metal NiMn/TiO2 catalyst for CO2 methanation Acs Catalysis, Jul 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b01968
Magnetism and structure in nanocomposite Fe nanoparticle/Al matrix films Journal Of Alloys And Compounds, Jul 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.151653
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Synthesis of Pt-Rh nanowires for direct ethanol fuel cell applications Jul 2019
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS
Direct synthesis of multiplexed metal-nanowire-based devices by using carbon nanotubes as vector templates Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 Jul 2019 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201902857
Synchrotron radiation research and analysis of the particulate matter in deep ice cores: An overview of the technical challenges Condensed Matter, 4 June 2019 DOI: 10.3390/condmat4030061
Hard X-ray spectroscopy: An exhaustive toolbox for mechanistic studies (?) Faraday Discussions, June 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9FD00070D
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Carbidisation of Pd nanoparticles by ethene decomposition, with methane production Chemcatchem, June 2019 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900795
Impact of nanoparticle-support interactions in co3o4/al2o3 catalysts for the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide Acs Catalysis, June 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00685
Evidence for tetranuclear bis-µ-oxo cubane species in molecular iridium-based water oxidation catalysts from XAS analysis Chemical Communications, June 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC02088H
Observation of visible light activated photocatalytic degradation of stearic acid on thin films of tantalum oxynitride synthesized by aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition Dalton Transactions, June 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C8DT04638G
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
A brief discussion of the magnetocaloric effect in thin films of manganite doped with chromium Journal Of Physics: Conference Series, 1247 June 2019 DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1247/1/012013
Pd local structure and size correlations on the activity of Pd/ TiO2 for photocatalytic reforming of methanol Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, June 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP00826H
Proton chelating ligands drive improved chemical separations for rhodium Inorganic Chemistry, June 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01136
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Identification of structure-activity relationships in molybdenum and iron containing zeolites used in methane dehydroaromatisation and NOx reduction June 2019
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I20-Scanning-X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES)
Na-doped ruthenium perovskite electrocatalysts with improved oxygen evolution activity and durability in acidic media Nature Communications, 10 May 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09791-w
Combined spatially resolved operando spectroscopy: New insights into kinetic oscillations of CO oxidation on Pd/γ-Al2O3 Journal Of Catalysis, 373 May 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2019.03.037
Strategies for the analysis of the elemental metal fraction of Ir and Ru oxides via XRD, XANES, and EXAFS Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 38 May 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP01758E
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Investigating effect of clay composition on safety function performance in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) May 2019
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy I20-Scanning-X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES)
Ca-, Sr-, and Ba-Coordination polymers based on anthranilic acid via mechanochemistry Dalton Transactions, 48 May 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT00991D
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Spectroscopic and theoretical investigation of the [Fe 2 (bdt)(CO) 6 ] hydrogenase mimic and some catalyst intermediates Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, May 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP01393H
First-order valence transition: Neutron diffraction, inelastic neutron scattering, and x-ray absorption investigations on the double perovskite Ba2PrRu0.9Ir0.1O6 Physical Review B, 99 May 2019 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.184440
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Stabilization of O-O bonds by d0 cations in Li4+xNi1-xWO6 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.25) rocksalt oxides as the origin of large voltage hysteresis Journal Of The American Chemical Society, Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13633
A comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of the CO + NO reaction catalyzed by Au/Ni nanoparticles Acs Catalysis, Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b05154
Water-induced formation of cobalt-support compounds under simulated high conversion Fischer-Tropsch environment Acs Catalysis, Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00160
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
What triggers oxygen loss in oxygen redox cathode materials? Chemistry Of Materials, Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00227
Improving synchrotron methods for advanced characterisation of heterogeneous catalysts Apr 2019
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I20-EDE-Energy Dispersive EXAFS (EDE) open access
Leonardo da Vinci: A closer look Apr 2019
Book Chapter B18-Core EXAFS
Tuning the activity of supported metal catalysts Apr 2019
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I20-Scanning-X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES) open access
Non-crystalline tetravalent uranium species in the subsurface: formation and stability Apr 2019
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS I20-Scanning-X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES)
Highly active Pt3Rh/C nanoparticles towards ethanol electrooxidation. Influence of the catalyst structure Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Apr 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.04.078
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Redox behaviour and solid solubility of cerium ortho-niobates Journal Of Solid State Chemistry, 271 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2018.12.042
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
CO2 hydrogenation to methanol over Cu catalysts supported on La-modified SBA-15: the crucial role of Cu–LaOx interfaces Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.03.059
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Effect of precious metal particle size and support type on catalytic activity as revealed by X-ray methods Mar 2019
Thesis B18-Core EXAFS open access
A versatile liquid-jet/sessile droplet system for operando studies of reactions in liquid dispersions and solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 4 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C8RE00207J
Nanocrystalline transition-metal gallium oxide spinels from acetylacetonate precursors via solvothermal synthesis Materials, 12 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.3390/ma12050838
MoO 3 films grown on polycrystalline Cu: Morphological, structural, and electronic properties Journal Of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 37 Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1116/1.5078794
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Nanoscale polar heterogeneities and branching Bi-displacement directions in K0.5Bi0.5TiO3 Chemistry Of Materials, Mar 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b05187
Bioremediation of strontium and technetium contaminated groundwater using glycerol phosphate Chemical Geology, Feb 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.02.004
OX-1 metal-organic framework nanosheets as robust hosts for highly active catalytic palladium species Acs Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Feb 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05843
Determining the maximum lanthanum incorporation in the fluorite structure of La-doped ceria nanocubes for enhanced redox ability Rsc Advances, 9 Feb 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA09766F
Electrochemical evaluation of Pb, Ag, and Zn cyanamides/carbodiimides Acs Omega, 4 Feb 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b02748
Catalytic decomposition of N2O over Cu–Al–Ox mixed metal oxides Rsc Advances, 9 Jan 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA10509J
In-depth characterisation of metal-support compounds in spent Co/SiO2 Fischer-Tropsch model catalysts Catalysis Today, Jan 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2019.01.065
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
Nanoporous carbon: Liquid-free synthesis and geometry dependent catalytic performance Acs Nano, Jan 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b09399
Anticancer drug impact on DNA – a study by neutron spectroscopy coupled with synchrotron-based FTIR and EXAFS Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 205 Jan 2019 DOI: 10.1039/C8CP05881D
Controlled synthesis of surfactant-free water-dispersible colloidal platinum nanoparticles by the Co4Cat process Chemsuschem, Jan 2019 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201802897
Journal Paper B18-Core EXAFS
- Nicolaas P. Van Leest, Martijn A. Tepaske, Jean-Pierre H. Oudsen, Bas Venderbosch, Niels R. Rietdijk, Maxime A. Siegler, Moniek Tromp, Jarl Ivar Van Der Vlugt, Bas De Bruin, "Ligand redox noninnocence in [Co III (TAML)] 0/– complexes affects nitrene formation", Journal Of The American Chemical Society (2019), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b11715
- Luke T. Townsend, Samuel Shaw, Naomi E. R. Ofili, Nikolas Kaltsoyannis, Alex S. Walton, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Thomas S. Neil, Jonathan R. Lloyd, Sarah Heath, Rosemary Hibberd, Katherine Morris, "Formation of a U(VI)–persulfide complex during environmentally relevant sulfidation of iron (oxyhydr)oxides", Environmental Science & Technology (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b03180
- Celeste A. M. Van Den Bosch, Andrea Cavallaro, Roberto Moreno, Giannantonio Cibin, Gwilherm Kerherve, José M. Caicedo, Thomas K. Lippert, Max Doebeli, José Santiso, Stephen J. Skinner, Ainara Aguadero, "Revealing strain effects on the chemical composition of perovskite oxide thin films surface, bulk, and interfaces", Advanced Materials Interfaces, 247 (2019), DOI: 10.1002/admi.201901440
- James T. M. Amphlett, Sungyeol Choi, Stephen A. Parry, Ellen M. Moon, Clint A. Sharrad, Mark D. Ogden, "Insights on uranium uptake mechanisms by ion exchange resins with chelating functionalities: chelation vs anion exchange", Chemical Engineering Journal (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2019.123712
- Rosa Arrigo, Simone Gallarati, Manfred E. Schuster, Jake Seymour, Diego Gianolio, Ivan Da Silva, June Callison, Haosheng Feng, John E. Proctor, Pilar Ferrer, Federica Venturini, Dave Grinter, Georg Held, "Influence of synthesis conditions on the structure of nickel nanoparticles and their reactivity in selective asymmetric hydrogenation", Chemcatchem (2019), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901955
- Longfei Lin, Alena M. Sheveleva, Ivan Da Silva, Christopher M. A. Parlett, Zhimou Tang, Yueming Liu, Mengtian Fan, Xue Han, Joseph H. Carter, Floriana Tuna, Eric J. L. Mcinnes, Yongqiang Cheng, Luke L. Daemen, Svemir Rudic, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Chiu C. Tang, Sihai Yang, "Quantitative production of butenes from biomass-derived γ-valerolactone catalysed by hetero-atomic MFI zeolite", Nature Materials, 19, 86 - 93 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0562-6
- Rachel H. Blackmore, Maria Elena Rivas, Tugce Eralp Erden, Trung Dung Tran, Huw R. Marchbank, Dogan Ozkaya, Martha Briceno De Gutierrez, Alison Wagland, Paul Collier, Peter P. Wells, "Understanding the mechanochemical synthesis of the perovskite LaMnO 3 and its catalytic behaviour", Dalton Transactions, 23 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9DT03590G
- D. J. Bailey, S. M. Lawson, S. K. Sun, M. C. Stennett, T.-H. Lee, B. Ravel, C. L. Corkhill, J. Heo, N. C. Hyatt, "A new approach to the immobilisation of technetium and transuranics: Co-disposal in a zirconolite ceramic matrix", Journal Of Nuclear Materials (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.151885
- Hasan T. Imam, Amanda G. Jarvis, Veronica Celorrio, Irshad Baig, Christopher C. R. Allen, Andrew C. Marr, Paul C. J. Kamer, "Catalytic and biophysical investigation of rhodium hydroformylase", Catalysis Science & Technology, 9, 6428 - 6437 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9CY01679A
- Alessandro Paradisi, Esther M. Johnston, Morten Tovborg, Callum R. Nicoll, Luisa Ciano, Adam Dowle, Jonathan Mcmaster, Y. Hancock, Gideon J. Davies, Paul H. Walton, "Formation of a copper(II)-tyrosyl complex at the active site of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases following oxidation by H2O2", Journal Of The American Chemical Society (2019), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09833
- Jessica C. Mcglynn, Torben Dankwort, Lorenz Kienle, Nuno A. G. Bandeira, James P. Fraser, Emma K. Gibson, Irene Cascallana-Matias, Katalin Kamarás, Mark D. Symes, Harry N. Miras, Alexey Y. Ganin, "The rapid electrochemical activation of MoTe2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction", Nature Communications, 10 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12831-0
- Bas Venderbosch, Jean-Pierre H. Oudsen, David J. Martin, Bas Bruin, Ties J. Korstanje, Moniek Tromp, "Investigating the active species in a [(R‐SN(H)S‐R)CrCl 3 ] ethene trimerization system: Mononuclear or dinuclear?", Chemcatchem, 12, 881 - 892 (2019), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901640
- Margherita Macino, Alexandra J. Barnes, Sultan M. Althahban, Ruiyang Qu, Emma K. Gibson, David J. Morgan, Simon J. Freakley, Nikolaos Dimitratos, Christopher J. Kiely, Xiang Gao, Andrew M. Beale, Donald Bethell, Qian He, Meenakshisundaram Sankar, Graham J. Hutchings, "Tuning of catalytic sites in Pt/TiO2 catalysts for the chemoselective hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene", Nature Catalysis, 9 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0334-3
- Kurt F. Smith, Katherine Morris, Gareth Law, Ellen H. Winstanley, Francis R. Livens, Joshua S. Weatherill, Liam G. Abrahamsen-Mills, Nicholas D. Bryan, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Giannantonio Cibin, Stephen Parry, Richard Blackham, Kathleen A. Law, Samuel Shaw, "Plutonium(IV) sorption during ferrihydrite nanoparticle formation", Acs Earth And Space Chemistry (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00105
- Moritz Wolf, Stephen J. Roberts, Wijnand Marquart, Ezra J. Olivier, Niels T. J. Luchters, Emma K. Gibson, C. Richard A. Catlow, Jan. H. Neethling, Nico Fischer, Michael Claeys, "Synthesis, characterisation and water–gas shift activity of nano-particulate mixed-metal (Al, Ti) cobalt oxides", Dalton Transactions, 48, 13858 - 13868 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9DT01634A
- Giannantonio Cibin, Diego Gianolio, Stephen A. Parry, Tom Schoonjans, Oliver Moore, Rachael Draper, Laura A. Miller, Alexander Thoma, Claire L. Doswell, Abigail Graham, "An open access, integrated XAS data repository at Diamond Light Source", Radiation Physics And Chemistry (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2019.108479
- Andrew M. Beale, Miren Agote-Aran, Rachel E. Fletcher, Martha Briceno, Anna B. Kroner, Igor V. Sazanov, Ben Slater, María E. Rivas, Andrew W. J. Smith, Paul Collier, Ines Lezcano-Gonzalez, "Implications of the molybdenum coordination environment in MFI zeolites on methane dehydroaromatisation performance", Chemcatchem (2019), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901166
- [Conference Paper] Craig I. Hiley, Liam Mcnamara, Andrew Shortland, Patrick Degryse, Daniel Bone, Kelly Domoney, Giannantonio Cibin, Graeme Hansford, "Back-reflection energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction to assess the origin of the “MacGregor Man”" (2019)
- Noam Ralbag, Meirav Mann-Lahav, Elena S. Davydova, Uri Ash, Reuven Galed, Michael Handl, Renate Hiesgen, Emanuele Magliocca, William Mustain, Jin He, Peixi Cong, Andrew Beale, Gideon S. Grader, David Avnir, Dario R. Dekel, "Composite materials with combined electronic and ionic properties", Matter (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2019.04.007
- [Conference Paper] Graeme Hansford, Craig I. Hiley, Nicholas Eastaugh, Giannantonio Cibin, "Non-destructive XRD analysis of paints for art historical research" (2019)
- H. J. Simon, G. Cibin, C. Reinhard, Y. Liu, E. Schofield, I. C. Freestone, "Influence of microstructure on the corrosion of archaeological iron observed using 3D synchrotron micro-tomography", Corrosion Science (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2019.108132
- Donato Decarolis, Yaroslav I. Odarchenko, Jennifer J. Herbert, Chengwu Qiu, Alessandro Longo, Andrew M. Beale, "Identification of the key steps in the self-assembly of homogeneous gold metal nanoparticles produced using inverse micelles", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 60 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03473K
- Dustin Bauer, Thomas E. Ashton, Dan J. L. Brett, Paul R. Shearing, Noriyoshi Matsumi, Jawwad A. Darr, "Mixed molybdenum and vanadium oxide nanoparticles with excellent high-power performance as Li-ion battery negative electrodes", Electrochimica Acta (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.134695
- Thomas Neill, Katherine Morris, Carolyn I. Pearce, Liam Abrahamsen-Mills, Libor Kovarik, Simon Kellet, Bruce Rigby, Tonya Vitova, Bianca Schacherl, Samuel Shaw, "Silicate stabilisation of colloidal UO2 produced by uranium metal corrosion", Journal Of Nuclear Materials (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.151751
- Shan Jiang, Harrison J. Cox, Evangelos I. Papaioannou, Chenyang Tang, Huiyu Liu, Billy J. Murdoch, Emma K. Gibson, Ian S. Metcalfe, John S. O. Evans, Simon K. Beaumont, "Shape-persistent porous organic cage supported palladium nanoparticles as heterogeneous catalytic materials", Nanoscale, 11, 14929 - 14936 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9NR04553H
- William R. Bower, Katherine Morris, Francis R. Livens, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Connaugh M. Fallon, Adam J. Fuller, Louise S. Natrajan, Christopher Boothman, Jonathan R. Lloyd, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Daniel Grolimund, Dario Ferreira Sanchez, Tom Jilbert, Julia E. Parker, Thomas S. Neill, Gareth T. W. Law, "Metaschoepite dissolution in sediment column systems – implications for uranium speciation and transport", Environmental Science & Technology (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b02292
- Wilbert L. Vrijburg, Emanuele Moioli, Wei Chen, Min Zhang, Bas Terlingen, Bart Zijlstra, Ivo A. W. Filot, Andreas Zuttel, Evgeny A. Pidko, Emiel J.m. Hensen, "An efficient base-metal NiMn/TiO2 catalyst for CO2 methanation", Acs Catalysis (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b01968
- M. S. Kurt, S. H. Baker, M. Roy, M. R. Lees, "Magnetism and structure in nanocomposite Fe nanoparticle/Al matrix films", Journal Of Alloys And Compounds (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.151653
- [Thesis] Edmundo Sebadelhe Valério Neto, "Synthesis of Pt-Rh nanowires for direct ethanol fuel cell applications" (2019)
- Pierrick Clément, Xinzhao Xu, Craig T. Stoppiello, Graham A. Rance, Antonio Attanzio, James N. O'Shea, Robert H. Temperton, Andrei N. Khlobystov, Kevin R. J. Lovelock, Jake M. Seymour, Richard M. Fogarty, Alastair Baker, Richard A. Bourne, Brendan Hall, Thomas W. Chamberlain, Matteo Palma, "Direct synthesis of multiplexed metal-nanowire-based devices by using carbon nanotubes as vector templates", Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58, 9928 - 9932 (2019), DOI: 10.1002/anie.201902857
- Giannantonio Cibin, Augusto Marcelli, Valter Maggi, Giovanni Baccolo, Dariush Hampai, Phillip E. Robbins, Andrea Liedl, Claudia Polese, Alessandro D'Elia, Salvatore Macis, Antonio Grilli, Agostino Raco, "Synchrotron radiation research and analysis of the particulate matter in deep ice cores: An overview of the technical challenges", Condensed Matter, 4 (2019), DOI: 10.3390/condmat4030061
- Anke Schoch, Lukas Burkhardt, Roland Schoch, Kai Stuehrenberg, Matthias Bauer, "Hard X-ray spectroscopy: An exhaustive toolbox for mechanistic studies (?)", Faraday Discussions (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9FD00070D
- Michael Bowker, Wilm Jones, Peter P. Wells, Emma K. Gibson, Arunabhiram Chutia, Ian P. Silverwood, C. Richard A. Catlow, "Carbidisation of Pd nanoparticles by ethene decomposition, with methane production", Chemcatchem (2019), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900795
- Thulani M. Nyathi, Nico Fischer, Andrew P. E. York, David J. Morgan, Graham J. Hutchings, Emma K. Gibson, Peter Wells, C. Richard A. Catlow, Michael Claeys, "Impact of nanoparticle-support interactions in co3o4/al2o3 catalysts for the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide", Acs Catalysis (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00685
- Stuart A. Bartlett, Emma V. Sackville, Emma K. Gibson, Veronica Celorrio, Peter P. Wells, Maarten Nachtegaal, Stafford W. Sheehan, Ulrich Hintermair, "Evidence for tetranuclear bis-µ-oxo cubane species in molecular iridium-based water oxidation catalysts from XAS analysis", Chemical Communications (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9CC02088H
- Samuel D. Cosham, Veronica Celorrio, Alexander N. Kulak, Geoffrey Hyett, "Observation of visible light activated photocatalytic degradation of stearic acid on thin films of tantalum oxynitride synthesized by aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition", Dalton Transactions (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C8DT04638G
- [Conference Paper] G. Campillo, A. I. Figueroa, O. Arnache, J. Osorio, J. M. Marín Ramírez, L. Fallarino, "A brief discussion of the magnetocaloric effect in thin films of manganite doped with chromium", Journal Of Physics: Conference Series, 1247 (2019), DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1247/1/012013
- Hasliza Bahruji, Norli Abdullah, Scott M. Rogers, Peter P. Wells, C. Richard A. Catlow, Michael Bowker, "Pd local structure and size correlations on the activity of Pd/ TiO2 for photocatalytic reforming of methanol", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9CP00826H
- Hirokazu Narita, Rebecca M. Nicolson, Ryuhei Motokawa, Fumiyuki Ito, Kazuko Morisaku, Midori Goto, Mikiya Tanaka, William T. Heller, Hideaki Shiwaku, Tsuyoshi Yaita, Ross J. Gordon, Jason B. Love, Peter A. Tasker, Emma R. Schofield, Mark R. Antonio, Carole A. Morrison, "Proton chelating ligands drive improved chemical separations for rhodium", Inorganic Chemistry (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01136
- [Thesis] Miren Agote Aran, "Identification of structure-activity relationships in molybdenum and iron containing zeolites used in methane dehydroaromatisation and NOx reduction" (2019)
- María Retuerto, Laura Pascual, Federico Calle-Vallejo, Pilar Ferrer, Diego Gianolio, Amaru González Pereira, Álvaro García, Jorge Torrero, María Teresa Fernández-Díaz, Peter Bencok, Miguel A. Peña, José Luis G. Fierro, Sergio Rojas, "Na-doped ruthenium perovskite electrocatalysts with improved oxygen evolution activity and durability in acidic media", Nature Communications, 10 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09791-w
- Ellie K. Dann, Emma K. Gibson, C. Richard A. Catlow, Veronica Celorrio, Paul Collier, Tugce Eralp, Monica Amboage, Christopher Hardacre, Cristina Stere, Anna Kroner, Agnes Raj, Scott Rogers, Alexandre Goguet, Peter P. Wells, "Combined spatially resolved operando spectroscopy: New insights into kinetic oscillations of CO oxidation on Pd/γ-Al2O3", Journal Of Catalysis, 373, 201 - 208 (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2019.03.037
- Anita Reksten, Andrea Russell, Peter W. Richardson, Stephen J. Thompson, Karina Mathisen, Frode Seland, Svein Sunde, "Strategies for the analysis of the elemental metal fraction of Ir and Ru oxides via XRD, XANES, and EXAFS", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 38 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9CP01758E
- [Thesis] Adam Peter Sims, "Investigating effect of clay composition on safety function performance in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF)" (2019)
- Abdal-Azim Al-Terkawi, Gudrun Scholz, Carsten Prinz, Franziska Emmerling, Erhard Kemnitz, "Ca-, Sr-, and Ba-Coordination polymers based on anthranilic acid via mechanochemistry", Dalton Transactions, 48, 6513 - 6521 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9DT00991D
- Jean-Pierre Oudsen, Bas Venderbosch, David Martin, Ties Johannis Korstanje, Joost N. H. Reek, Moniek Tromp, "Spectroscopic and theoretical investigation of the [Fe 2 (bdt)(CO) 6 ] hydrogenase mimic and some catalyst intermediates", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C9CP01393H
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- Moritz Wolf, Emma K. Gibson, Ezra J. Olivier, Jan H. Neethling, C. Richard A. Catlow, Nico Fischer, Michael Claeys, "Water-induced formation of cobalt-support compounds under simulated high conversion Fischer-Tropsch environment", Acs Catalysis (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00160
- Robert A. House, Urmimala Maitra, Liyu Jin, Juan G. Lozano, James W. Somerville, Nicholas H. Rees, Andrew J. Naylor, Laurent C. Duda, Felix Massel, Alan V. Chadwick, Silvia Ramos, David M. Pickup, Daniel E. Mcnally, Xingye Lu, Thorsten Schmitt, Matthew R. Roberts, Peter G. Bruce, "What triggers oxygen loss in oxygen redox cathode materials?", Chemistry Of Materials (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00227
- [Thesis] Eleanor Dann, "Improving synchrotron methods for advanced characterisation of heterogeneous catalysts" (2019)
- [Book Chapter] Alan Donnithorne, "Leonardo da Vinci: A closer look" (2019)
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- [Thesis] Luca Loreggian, "Non-crystalline tetravalent uranium species in the subsurface: formation and stability" (2019)
- Caio V. S. Almeida, Dênis S. Ferreira, Haoliang Huang, Ana C. Gaiotti, Giuseppe A. Camara, Andrea E. Russell, Katlin I. B. Eguiluz, Giancarlo R. Salazar-Banda, "Highly active Pt3Rh/C nanoparticles towards ethanol electrooxidation. Influence of the catalyst structure", Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.04.078
- Cassandra M. Harris, Stephen J. Skinner, "Redox behaviour and solid solubility of cerium ortho-niobates", Journal Of Solid State Chemistry, 271, 135 - 143 (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2018.12.042
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- S.-Y. Chang, T. A. Kathyola, E. A. Willneff, C.. J. Willis, P. Wilson, P. J. Dowding, G. Cibin, A. B. Kroner, E. J. Shotton, S. L. M. Schroeder, "A versatile liquid-jet/sessile droplet system for operando studies of reactions in liquid dispersions and solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy", Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 4, 679 - 687 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C8RE00207J
- Daniel S. Cook, Reza Kashtiban, Klaus Krambrock, Geraldo De Lima, Humberto Stumpf, Luciano R. S. Lara, José Ardisson, Richard Walton, "Nanocrystalline transition-metal gallium oxide spinels from acetylacetonate precursors via solvothermal synthesis", Materials, 12 (2019), DOI: 10.3390/ma12050838
- Salvatore Macis, Carla Aramo, Carmela Bonavolontà, Giannantonio Cibin, Alessandro D'Elia, Ivan Davoli, Mario De Lucia, Massimiliano Lucci, Stefano Lupi, Marco Miliucci, Andrea Notargiacomo, Carlo Ottaviani, Claudio Quaresima, Manuela Scarselli, Jessica Scifo, Massimo Valentino, Paola De Padova, Augusto Marcelli, "MoO 3 films grown on polycrystalline Cu: Morphological, structural, and electronic properties", Journal Of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 37 (2019), DOI: 10.1116/1.5078794
- Igor Levin, Dean S. Keeble, Giannantonio Cibin, Helen Y. Playford, Maksim Eremenko, Victor Krayzman, William J. Laws, Ian M. Reaney, "Nanoscale polar heterogeneities and branching Bi-displacement directions in K0.5Bi0.5TiO3", Chemistry Of Materials (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b05187
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- Kirill Titov, Dmitry Eremin, Alexey S. Kashin, Roberto Boada Romero, Barbara Souza, Chris S. Kelley, Mark D. Frogley, Gianfelice Cinque, Diego Gianolio, Giannantonio Cibin, Svemir Rudic, Valentine P Ananikov, Jin-Chong Tan, "OX-1 metal-organic framework nanosheets as robust hosts for highly active catalytic palladium species", Acs Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05843
- Danilo Loche, Lucy M. Morgan, Alberto Casu, Gavin Mountjoy, Colm O'Regan, Anna Corrias, Andrea Falqui, "Determining the maximum lanthanum incorporation in the fluorite structure of La-doped ceria nanocubes for enhanced redox ability", Rsc Advances, 9, 6745 - 6751 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C8RA09766F
- Jeethu Jiju Arayamparambil, Markus Mann, Xiaohui Liu, Maria Alfredsson, Richard Dronskowski, Lorenzo Stievano, Moulay Tahar Sougrati, "Electrochemical evaluation of Pb, Ag, and Zn cyanamides/carbodiimides", Acs Omega, 4, 4339 - 4347 (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b02748
- Magdalena Jablonska, Miren Agote Arán, Andrew M. Beale, Kinga Góra-Marek, Gérard Delahay, Carolina Petitto, Kateřina Pacultová, Regina Palkovits, "Catalytic decomposition of N2O over Cu–Al–Ox mixed metal oxides", Rsc Advances, 9, 3979 - 3986 (2019), DOI: 10.1039/C8RA10509J
- Moritz Wolf, Emma Gibson, Ezra J. Olivier, Jan H. Neethling, C. Richard A. Catlow, Nico Fischer, Michael Claeys, "In-depth characterisation of metal-support compounds in spent Co/SiO2 Fischer-Tropsch model catalysts", Catalysis Today (2019), DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2019.01.065
- Ruoyu Xu, Liqun Kang, Johannes Knossalla, Jerrik Mielby, Qiming Wang, Bolun Wang, Junrun Feng, Guanjie He, Yudao Qin, Jijia Xie, Ann-Christin Swertz, Qian He, Søren Kegnæs, Dan J.l. Brett, Ferdi Schüth, Feng Ryan Wang, "Nanoporous carbon: Liquid-free synthesis and geometry dependent catalytic performance", Acs Nano (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b09399
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- Jonathan Quinson, Laura Kacenauskaite, Jan Bucher, Søren Simonsen, Luise Theil Kuhn, Mehtap Oezaslan, Sebastian Kunz, Matthias Arenz, "Controlled synthesis of surfactant-free water-dispersible colloidal platinum nanoparticles by the Co4Cat process", Chemsuschem (2019), DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201802897
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