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Spectroscopy B07 Contact
Principal Beamline Scientist:
Georg Held
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 778480
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Science Group Leader
Cephise Cacho
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B07 VERSOX: Versatile Soft X-ray
Status: Operational
Wavelength: 24.8 - 0.44 nm
Energy: 50 - 2800 eV
Energy: 50 - 2800 eV
16 items found for 2022 [total: 143]
Atomic-scale characterisation of sodium aluminosilicate hydrates (N-A-S-H) and Mg-substituted N(-M)-A-S-H using XANES Applied Geochemistry, 298 Nov 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105515
Designing reactive bridging O2– at the atomic Cu-O-Fe site for selective NH3 oxidation Acs Catalysis, Nov 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c04863
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS B18-Core EXAFS E01-JEM ARM 200CF open access
Revealing solid electrolyte interphase formation through interface-sensitive Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy Nature Communications, 13 Oct 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33691-1
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1 I10-Beamline for Advanced Dichroism - scattering open access
Stabilizing efficient structures of superwetting electrocatalysts for enhanced urea oxidation reactions Chem Catalysis, 121 Oct 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.checat.2022.09.023
Plasma jet printing helps with whole battery recycling Oct 2022
Science Highlight B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS
Following Cu microstructure evolution in CuZnO/Al2O3(−Cs) catalysts during activation in H2 using in situ XRD and XRD-CT Chemistry–methods, 6 Aug 2022 DOI: 10.1002/cmtd.202200015
Plasma jet printing induced high-capacity graphite anodes for sustainable recycling of lithium-ion batteries Carbon, 183 Jul 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2022.07.027
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS
The Versatile Soft X-ray (VerSoX) beamline at Diamond Light Source Synchrotron Radiation News, 73 Jul 2022 DOI: 10.1080/08940886.2022.2082181
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1 B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS open access
Determination of H-atom positions in organic crystal structures by NEXAFS combined with density functional theory: a study of two-component systems containing isonicotinamide The Journal Of Physical Chemistry A, May 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00439
Direct in situ spectroscopic evidence of the crucial role played by surface oxygen vacancies in the O2-sensing mechanism of SnO2 Chemical Science, 121 May 2022 DOI: 10.1039/D2SC01738E
Identifying chemical and physical changes in wide-gap semiconductors using real-time and near ambient-pressure XPS Faraday Discussions, 120 May 2022 DOI: 10.1039/D1FD00119A
In situ surface analysis of palladium–platinum alloys in methane oxidation conditions Faraday Discussions, 134 Apr 2022 DOI: 10.1039/D1FD00113B
Hybrid Ni2P/CoP nanosheets as efficient and robust electrocatalysts for domestic wastewater splitting Energy & Environmental Materials, Apr 2022 DOI: 10.1002/eem2.12398
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1
On the stability of isolated iridium sites in N‐rich frameworks against agglomeration under reducing conditions Chemcatchem, Mar 2022 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202200179
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS I20-Scanning-X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES) open access
Enhanced stability of SrRuO3 mixed oxide via monovalent doping in Sr1-xKxRuO3 for the oxygen evolution reaction Journal Of Power Sources, 521 Feb 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230950
Resonant electron spectroscopy: identification of atomic contributions to valence states Faraday Discussions, Feb 2022 DOI: 10.1039/D1FD00117E
- Xinyuan Ke, Vahiddin Alperen Baki, Alexander I. Large, Georg Held, Brant Walkley, Jiaqi Li, "Atomic-scale characterisation of sodium aluminosilicate hydrates (N-A-S-H) and Mg-substituted N(-M)-A-S-H using XANES", Applied Geochemistry, 298 (2022), DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105515
- Xuze Guan, Rong Han, Hiroyuki Asakura, Zhipeng Wang, Siyuan Xu, Bolun Wang, Liqun Kang, Yiyun Liu, Sushila Marlow, Tsunehiro Tanaka, Yuzheng Guo, Feng Ryan Wang, "Designing reactive bridging O2– at the atomic Cu-O-Fe site for selective NH3 oxidation", Acs Catalysis (2022), DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c04863
- Jack E. N. Swallow, Michael W. Fraser, Nis-Julian H. Kneusels, Jodie F. Charlton, Christopher G. Sole, Conor M. E. Phelan, Erik Bjorklund, Peter Bencok, Carlos Escudero, Virginia Perez-Dieste, Clare P. Grey, Rebecca J. Nicholls, Robert S Weatherup, "Revealing solid electrolyte interphase formation through interface-sensitive Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy", Nature Communications, 13 (2022), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33691-1
- Jichao Zhang, Xuedan Song, Liqun Kang, Jiexin Zhu, Longxiang Liu, Qing Zhang, Dan J. I. Brett, Paul R. Shearing, Liqiang Mai, Ivan P. Parkin, Guanjie He, "Stabilizing efficient structures of superwetting electrocatalysts for enhanced urea oxidation reactions", Chem Catalysis, 121 (2022), DOI: 10.1016/j.checat.2022.09.023
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Plasma jet printing helps with whole battery recycling" (2022)
- Daniela M. Farmer, Simon D. M. Jacques, David Waller, Sara Boullosa Eiras, Kanak Roy, Georg Held, Gopinathan Sankar, Andrew M. Beale, "Following Cu microstructure evolution in CuZnO/Al2O3(−Cs) catalysts during activation in H2 using in situ XRD and XRD-CT", Chemistry–methods, 6 (2022), DOI: 10.1002/cmtd.202200015
- Madhushri Bhar, Avishek Dey, Sourav Ghosh, Matthijs A. Van Spronsen, Vimalnath Selvaraj, Yalamanchili Kaliprasad, Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Surendra K. Martha, "Plasma jet printing induced high-capacity graphite anodes for sustainable recycling of lithium-ion batteries", Carbon, 183 (2022), DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2022.07.027
- David C. Grinter, Federica Venturini, Pilar Ferrer, Matthijs A. Van Spronsen, Rosa Arrigo, Wilson Quevedo Garzon, Kanak Roy, Alexander I. Large, Santosh Kumar, Georg Held, "The Versatile Soft X-ray (VerSoX) beamline at Diamond Light Source", Synchrotron Radiation News, 73, 1 - 9 (2022), DOI: 10.1080/08940886.2022.2082181
- Paul T. Edwards, Lucy K. Saunders, David C. Grinter, Pilar Ferrer, Georg Held, Elizabeth J. Shotton, Sven L. M. Schroeder, "Determination of H-atom positions in organic crystal structures by NEXAFS combined with density functional theory: a study of two-component systems containing isonicotinamide", The Journal Of Physical Chemistry A (2022), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00439
- Stefan Kucharski, Pilar Ferrer, Federica Venturini, Georg Held, Alex S. Walton, Conor Byrne, James A. Covington, Sai Kiran Ayyala, Andrew Beale, Chris Blackman, "Direct in situ spectroscopic evidence of the crucial role played by surface oxygen vacancies in the O2-sensing mechanism of SnO2", Chemical Science, 121 (2022), DOI: 10.1039/D2SC01738E
- Simon Astley, Di Hu, Kerry Hazeldine, Johnathan Ash, Rachel E. Cross, Simon Cooil, Martin W. Allen, James Evans, Kelvin James, Federica Venturini, David C. Grinter, Pilar Ferrer, Rosa Arrigo, Georg Held, Gruffudd T. Williams, D. Andrew Evans, "Identifying chemical and physical changes in wide-gap semiconductors using real-time and near ambient-pressure XPS", Faraday Discussions, 120 (2022), DOI: 10.1039/D1FD00119A
- Alexander I. Large, Roger A. Bennett, Tugce Eralp-Erden, Georg Held, "In situ surface analysis of palladium–platinum alloys in methane oxidation conditions", Faraday Discussions, 134 (2022), DOI: 10.1039/D1FD00113B
- Yeshu Tan, Jianrui Feng, Liqun Kang, Longxiang Liu, Fangjia Zhao, Siyu Zhao, Dan J. L. Brett, Paul R. Shearing, Guanjie He, Ivan Parkin, "Hybrid Ni2P/CoP nanosheets as efficient and robust electrocatalysts for domestic wastewater splitting", Energy & Environmental Materials (2022), DOI: 10.1002/eem2.12398
- Andree Iemhoff, Maurice Vennewald, Jens Artz, Chalachew Mebrahtu, Alexander Meledin, Thomas E. Weirich, Heinrich Hartmann, Astrid Besmehn, Matteo Aramini, Federica Venturini, Fred Mosselmans, Georg Held, Rosa Arrigo, Regina Palkovits, "On the stability of isolated iridium sites in N‐rich frameworks against agglomeration under reducing conditions", Chemcatchem (2022), DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202200179
- Isabel Rodríguez-García, Dmitry Galyamin, Laura Pascual, Pilar Ferrer, Miguel A. Peña, David Grinter, Georg Held, Mohamed Abdel Salam, Mohamed Mokhtar, Katabathini Narasimharao, Maria Retuerto, Sergio Rojas, "Enhanced stability of SrRuO3 mixed oxide via monovalent doping in Sr1-xKxRuO3 for the oxygen evolution reaction", Journal Of Power Sources, 521 (2022), DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230950
- Jake M. Seymour, Ekaterina Gousseva, Alex Large, Georg Held, Dennis Hein, Garlef Wartner, Wilson Quevedo, Robert Seidel, Claudia Kolbeck, Coby J. Clarke, Richard M. Fogarty, Richard A. Bourne, Roger A. Bennett, Robert G. Palgrave, Patricia A. Hunt, Kevin R. J. Lovelock, "Resonant electron spectroscopy: identification of atomic contributions to valence states", Faraday Discussions (2022), DOI: 10.1039/D1FD00117E
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