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Spectroscopy B07 Contact
Principal Beamline Scientist:
Georg Held
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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
19 items found for 2023 [total: 143]
Synthesis of Pt decorated manganese oxide (MnO2/Mn5O8) nanorods and their catalytic activity for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol Applied Surface Science, 51 Dec 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.159091
Structure-function relationship of highly reactive CuOx clusters on Co3O4 for selective formaldehyde sensing at low temperatures Advanced Science, 10 Dec 2023 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202308224
Green alternatives to zinc dialkyldithiophosphates: vanadium oxide-based additives Acs Applied Engineering Materials, 10 Oct 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acsaenm.3c00425
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1 B18-Core EXAFS I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy open access
Studying surface chemistry of mixed conducting perovskite oxide electrodes with synchrotron-based soft x-rays The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C, Oct 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04278
Metal-doped imine frameworks for the oxygen reduction reaction in acidic media Journal Of Power Sources, 578 Sept 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233223
Anion vacancy regulated sodium/potassium intercalation in potassium prussian blue analog cathodes for hybrid sodium-ion batteries Advanced Functional Materials, Sept 2023 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202308227
Understanding the surface regeneration and reactivity of garnet solid-state electrolytes Acs Energy Letters, Jul 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01042
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS I11-High Resolution Powder Diffraction open access
Adsorption structure of iron phthalocyanine and titanyl phthalocyanine on Cu(111) Inorganica Chimica Acta, 21 Jul 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2023.121679
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1 I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis open access
Using porous boron nitride in adsorption-based processes: investigation of material challenges and opportunities June 2023 DOI: 10.25560/105323
Thesis B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS
Insights into the high activity of ruthenium phosphide for the production of hydrogen in proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers Advanced Energy And Sustainability Research, 33 June 2023 DOI: 10.1002/aesr.202300059
Understanding how the structure of boron oxynitride affects its photocatalytic properties May 2023
Science Highlight B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS
Platinum-based self-standing electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction Apr 2023
Thesis B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS
Spectroscopic identification of active sites of oxygen-doped carbon for selective oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Mar 2023 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202303525
Journal Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1 E02-JEM ARM 300CF open access
Insights by in-situ studies on the nature of highly-active hydrotalcite-based Ni-Fe catalysts for CO2 methanation Chemical Engineering Research And Design, 55 Mar 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2023.03.026
Revealing the role of CO during CO2 hydrogenation on Cu surfaces with in situ soft X-ray spectroscopy Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 10 Mar 2023 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12728
Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO(111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition Nature Communications, 14 Feb 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36339-w
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS B18-Core EXAFS open access
Paramagnetic states in oxygen-doped boron nitride extend light harvesting and photochemistry to the deep visible region Chemistry Of Materials, 21 Feb 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c01646
UHV XPS and NEXAFS opportunities at VerSoX B07-B, diamond light source Jan 2023 DOI: 10.1117/12.2647577
Conference Paper B07-B1-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: High Throughput ES1
Nanostructured silicon matrix for materials engineering Small, 4 Jan 2023 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202206318
- Ivan Marić, Monika Šoltić, Goran Dražić, Matthijs A. Van Spronsen, Goran Štefanić, Mile Ivanda, Georg Held, Tanja Jurkin, Klemen Bohinc, Marijan Gotić, "Synthesis of Pt decorated manganese oxide (MnO2/Mn5O8) nanorods and their catalytic activity for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol", Applied Surface Science, 51 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.159091
- Matteo D'Andria, Frank Krumeich, Zhangyi Yao, Feng Ryan Wang, Andreas T. Güntner, "Structure-function relationship of highly reactive CuOx clusters on Co3O4 for selective formaldehyde sensing at low temperatures", Advanced Science, 10 (2023), DOI: 10.1002/advs.202308224
- Andrew J. Straiton, Thokozile A. Kathyola, Callum Sweeney, James D. Parish, Elizabeth A. Willneff, Sven L. M. Schroeder, Ardian Morina, Anne Neville, Joshua Smith, Andrew L. Johnson, "Green alternatives to zinc dialkyldithiophosphates: vanadium oxide-based additives", Acs Applied Engineering Materials, 10 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acsaenm.3c00425
- Zijie Sha, Gwilherm Kerherve, Matthijs A. Van Spronsen, George E. Wilson, John A. Kilner, Georg Held, Stephen J. Skinner, "Studying surface chemistry of mixed conducting perovskite oxide electrodes with synchrotron-based soft x-rays", The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04278
- Álvaro Tolosana-Moranchel, Alvaro Garcia, Álvaro García-Corral, José F. Marco, Laura Pascual, Dalia Liuzzi, Mohamed A. Salam, Pilar Ferrer, Jorge Torrero, David C. Grinter, Georg Held, Daniel García Sánchez, K. Andreas Friedrich, Maria Retuerto, Sergio Rojas, "Metal-doped imine frameworks for the oxygen reduction reaction in acidic media", Journal Of Power Sources, 578 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233223
- Runzhe Wei, Xingwu Zhai, Henry R. Tinker, Pan He, Charlie A. F. Nason, Yupei Han, Veronica Celorrio, Gopinathan Sankar, Min Zhou, Yang Xu, "Anion vacancy regulated sodium/potassium intercalation in potassium prussian blue analog cathodes for hybrid sodium-ion batteries", Advanced Functional Materials (2023), DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202308227
- Sundeep Vema, Farheen N. Sayed, Supreeth Nagendran, Burcu Karagoz, Christian Sternemann, Michael Paulus, Georg Held, Clare Grey, "Understanding the surface regeneration and reactivity of garnet solid-state electrolytes", Acs Energy Letters, 3476–3484 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01042
- Matthew A. Stoodley, Benedikt P. Klein, Michael Clarke, Leon B. S. Williams, Luke A. Rochford, Pilar Ferrer, David C. Grinter, Alex Saywell, David A. Duncan, "Adsorption structure of iron phthalocyanine and titanyl phthalocyanine on Cu(111)", Inorganica Chimica Acta, 21 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2023.121679
- [Thesis] Anouk L'Hermitte, "Using porous boron nitride in adsorption-based processes: investigation of material challenges and opportunities" (2023), DOI: 10.25560/105323
- Dmitry Galyamin, Jorge Torrero, Joshua D. Elliott, Isabel Rodríguez-García, Daniel García Sánchez, Mohamed Abdel Salam, Aldo Saul Gago, Mohamed Mokhtar, José Luis Gómez De La Fuente, Samba Violeta Bueno, Diego Gianolio, Pilar Ferrer, David C. Grinter, Georg Held, Maria Retuerto, Sergio Rojas, "Insights into the high activity of ruthenium phosphide for the production of hydrogen in proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers", Advanced Energy And Sustainability Research, 33 (2023), DOI: 10.1002/aesr.202300059
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Understanding how the structure of boron oxynitride affects its photocatalytic properties" (2023)
- [Thesis] Yeshu Tan, "Platinum-based self-standing electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction" (2023)
- Longxiang Liu, Liqun Kang, Arunabhiram Chutia, Jianrui Feng, Martyna Michalska, Pilar Ferrer, David Grinter, Georg Held, Yeshu Tan, Fangjia Zhao, Fei Guo, David Hopkinson, Christopher Allen, Yanbei Hou, Junwen Gu, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Paul Shearing, Dan Brett, Ivan P. Parkin, Guanjie He, "Spectroscopic identification of active sites of oxygen-doped carbon for selective oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide", Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2023), DOI: 10.1002/anie.202303525
- Chalachew Mebrahtu, Florian Krebs, Gianfranco Giorgianni, Salvatore Abate, Siglinda Perathoner, Gabriele Centi, Alexander I. Large, Georg Held, Rosa Arrigo, Regina Palkovits, "Insights by in-situ studies on the nature of highly-active hydrotalcite-based Ni-Fe catalysts for CO2 methanation", Chemical Engineering Research And Design, 55 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2023.03.026
- Jack E. N. Swallow, Elizabeth S. Jones, Ashley R. Head, Joshua S. Gibson, Roey Ben David, Michael W. Fraser, Matthijs A. Van Spronsen, Shaojun Xu, Georg Held, Baran Eren, Robert S Weatherup, "Revealing the role of CO during CO2 hydrogenation on Cu surfaces with in situ soft X-ray spectroscopy", Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 10 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12728
- Huihuang Fang, Simson Wu, Tugce Ayvali, Jianwei Zheng, Joshua Fellowes, Ping-Luen Ho, Kwan Chee Leung, Alexander Large, Georg Held, Ryuichi Kato, Kazu Suenaga, Yves Ira A. Reyes, Ho Viet Thang, Hsin-Yi Tiffany Chen, Shik Chi Edman Tsang, "Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO(111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition", Nature Communications, 14 (2023), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36339-w
- Elan D. R. Mistry, Daphné Lubert-Perquel, Irena Nevjestic, Giuseppe Mallia, Pilar Ferrer, Kanak Roy, Georg Held, Tian Tian, Nicholas M. Harrison, Sandrine Heutz, Camille Petit, "Paramagnetic states in oxygen-doped boron nitride extend light harvesting and photochemistry to the deep visible region", Chemistry Of Materials, 21 (2023), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c01646
- [Conference Paper] Pilar Ferrer, David C. Grinter, Georg Held, "UHV XPS and NEXAFS opportunities at VerSoX B07-B, diamond light source" (2023), DOI: 10.1117/12.2647577
- Poting Liu, Alexander Schleusener, Gabriel Zieger, Arne Bochmann, Matthijs A. Van Spronsen, Vladimir Sivakov, "Nanostructured silicon matrix for materials engineering", Small, 4 (2023), DOI: 10.1002/smll.202206318
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