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I09 SISA: Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
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34 items found for 2024 [total: 391]
Factors affecting capacity and voltage fading in disordered rocksalt cathodes for lithium-ion batteries Matter, 7 Dec 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.032
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis I15-1-X-ray Pair Distribution Function (XPDF) I21-Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS)
Octaethyl vs tetrabenzo functionalized Ru porphyrins on Ag(111): molecular conformation, self-assembly and electronic structure The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C, Dec 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c06978
Novel insights into enhanced stability of Li-rich layered and high-voltage olivine phosphate cathodes for advanced batteries through surface modification and electron structure design Advanced Science, 189 Dec 2024 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202413054
Boron-induced transformation of ultrathin Au films into two-dimensional metallic nanostructures Nature Communications, 15 Dec 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54464-y
On-surface synthesis of Ni-porphyrin-doped graphene nanoribbons Acs Nano, Nov 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c09188
Holistic structural understanding of epitaxially-grown Bi/Au(111) moiré superstructures Physical Review Materials, 8 Oct 2024 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.104001
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
Interaction of boron-based cross-linkers with polymer binders for silicon anodes in lithium-ion batteries Acs Applied Polymer Materials, 6 Oct 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.4c01523
Investigation of electrolyte salts in non-flammable triethyl phosphate for sodium-ion batteries Batteries & Supercaps, Oct 2024 DOI: 10.1002/batt.202400489
Studies of atomic-layer-deposited Zn1–XSnXOY as an alternative buffer layer for Cu2Zn(Sn1–X,GeX)S4 thin-film solar cells Acs Applied Electronic Materials, Oct 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.4c01317
Surface polarization profile of ferroelectric thin films probed by X-ray standing waves and photoelectron spectroscopy Scientific Reports, 14 Oct 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-72805-1
Electronic structure and surface band bending of Sn-doped 𝛽-Ga2O3 thin films studied by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy and ab initio calculations Physical Review B, 110 Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.115120
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
The origin of rapid capacity loss in 1,1,1-trifluoroethyl methyl carbonate-based lithium-ion battery electrolytes Advanced Materials Interfaces, 98 Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1002/admi.202400535
Depth-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy evidence of intrinsic polar states in HfO2-based ferroelectrics Advanced Materials, 7 Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202408572
Transport and electronic structure properties of MBE grown Sn doped Ga2O3 homo-epitaxial films Materials Today Physics, 5 Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtphys.2024.101555
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
Quantitative measurement of cooperative binding in partially dissociated water dimers at the hematite “R-cut” surface The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C, 6 Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c04537
Bi-intercalated epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) New Journal Of Physics, Sept 2024 DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad7f7d
Substrate metal adatom incorporation into molecular overlayers Sept 2024
Thesis I07-Surface & interface diffraction I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of epitaxial films and heterostructures Surface Science Reports, 39 Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.surfrep.2024.100638
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
Chemical trends of the bulk and surface termination-dependent electronic structure of metal-intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides Chemistry Of Materials, 8 Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00824
Subsurface single-atom catalyst enabled by mechanochemical synthesis for oxidation chemistry Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202410457
Journal Paper B07-C-Versatile Soft X-ray beamline: Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS E01-JEM ARM 200CF I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis I20-EDE-Energy Dispersive EXAFS (EDE) I20-Scanning-X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES) open access
Interfacial decomposition behaviour of triethyl phosphate-based electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries Batteries & Supercaps, Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1002/batt.202400342
Structure determination of F4TCNQ on Ag(111): a systematic trend in metal adatom incorporation Acs Omega, Jul 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c04860
Journal Paper I07-Surface & interface diffraction I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis open access
Reactive DC sputtered TiO2 electron transport layers for cadmium-free Sb2Se3 solar cells Advanced Energy Materials, 2 June 2024 DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202401077
Insights on the electronic structure of Tin (II) pyrochlore oxides with 5s2 lone pair states as transparent p-type oxide semiconductors Journal Of Materials Chemistry C, June 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01455C
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
First-principles treatment of vibrational broadening in x-ray excited valence band spectra for n−SrTiO3(001) Physical Review B, 109 May 2024 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.195115
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
Structure of graphene grown on Cu(111): X-ray standing wave measurement and density functional theory prediction Physical Review Letters, 132 May 2024 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.196201
Near-surface analysis of magnetron sputtered AlCrNbYZrNx high entropy materials resolved by HAXPES Applied Surface Science, 6 May 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.160349
Enabling a non-flammable methyl(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl) carbonate electrolyte in NMC622-graphite Li-ion cells by electrode pre-passivation Energy Advances, Apr 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4YA00052H
Between carbide and nitride MAX phases: Sol-gel assisted synthesis and characterization of the carbonitride phase Cr2GaC1xNx Journal Of Materials Chemistry C, Apr 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4TC00067F
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
Extensive photochemical restructuring of molecule-metal surfaces under room light Nature Communications, 15 Mar 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46125-x
Controlling sodium dendrite growth via grain boundaries in Na3Zr2Si2PO12 electrolyte Advanced Energy Materials, Feb 2024 DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202304488
Probing the role of surface termination in the adsorption of azupyrene on copper Nanoscale, Feb 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR04690G
Achieving environmental stability in an atomically thin quantum spin Hall insulator via graphene intercalation Nature Communications, 15 Feb 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45816-9
Probing the electronic properties of gap states near the surface of n−SrTiO3−δ/i−Si(001) heterojunctions with high sensitivity Physical Review Materials, 8 Jan 2024 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.014602
Journal Paper I09-Surface and Interface Structural Analysis
- Liquan Pi, Erik Bjorklund, Gregory J. Rees, Weixin Song, Chen Gong, John-Joseph Marie, Xiangwen Gao, Shengda D. Pu, Mikkel Juelsholt, Philip A. Chater, Joohyuk Park, Min Gyu Kim, Jaewon Choi, Stefano Agrestini, Mirian Garcia-Fernandez, Ke-Jin Zhou, Alex W. Robertson, Robert S. Weatherup, Robert A. House, Peter G. Bruce, "Factors affecting capacity and voltage fading in disordered rocksalt cathodes for lithium-ion batteries", Matter, 7 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.032
- Dennis Meier, Peter Knecht, Pablo Vezzoni Vicente, Fulden Eratam, Hongxiang Xu, Tien-Lin Lee, Alexander Generalov, Alexander Riss, Biao Yang, Francesco Allegretti, Peter Feulner, Joachim Reichert, Johannes V. Barth, Ari Paavo Seitsonen, David A. Duncan, Anthoula C. Papageorgiou, "Octaethyl vs tetrabenzo functionalized Ru porphyrins on Ag(111): molecular conformation, self-assembly and electronic structure", The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c06978
- Zhilin Liang, Abdulaziz Baubaid, Mariusz Radtke, Maximilian Mellin, Clément Maheu, Sandipan Maiti, Hadar Sclar, Igor Píš, Silvia Nappini, Elena Magnano, Federica Bondino, Robert Winkler, René Hausbrand, Christian Hess, Lambert Alff, Boris Markovsky, Doron Aurbach, Wolfram Jaegermann, Gennady Cherkashinin, "Novel insights into enhanced stability of Li-rich layered and high-voltage olivine phosphate cathodes for advanced batteries through surface modification and electron structure design", Advanced Science, 189 (2024), DOI: 10.1002/advs.202413054
- Alexei Preobrajenski, Nikolay Vinogradov, David A. Duncan, Tien-Lin Lee, Mikhail Tsitsvero, Tetsuya Taketsugu, Andrey Lyalin, "Boron-induced transformation of ultrathin Au films into two-dimensional metallic nanostructures", Nature Communications, 15 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54464-y
- Matthew Edmondson, Michael Clarke, James N. O’shea, Qiang Chen, Harry L. Anderson, Alex Saywell, "On-surface synthesis of Ni-porphyrin-doped graphene nanoribbons", Acs Nano (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c09188
- Pablo Vezzoni Vicente, Tobias Weiss, Dennis Meier, Wenchao Zhao, Birce Sena Tömekçe, Marc G. Cuxart, Benedikt P. Klein, David A. Duncan, Tien-Lin Lee, Anthoula C. Papageorgiou, Matthias Muntwiler, Ari Paavo Seitsonen, Willi Auwärter, Peter Feulner, Johannes V. Barth, Francesco Allegretti, "Holistic structural understanding of epitaxially-grown Bi/Au(111) moiré superstructures", Physical Review Materials, 8 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.104001
- Tamara Patranika, Katharina Märker, Subhradip Paul, Andrew J. Naylor, Jonas Mindemark, Kristina Edström, Guiomar Hernández, "Interaction of boron-based cross-linkers with polymer binders for silicon anodes in lithium-ion batteries", Acs Applied Polymer Materials, 6 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.4c01523
- Wessel W. A. Van Ekeren, Lasse Dettmann, Yonas Tesfamhret, Andrew J. Naylor, Reza Younesi, "Investigation of electrolyte salts in non-flammable triethyl phosphate for sodium-ion batteries", Batteries & Supercaps (2024), DOI: 10.1002/batt.202400489
- Melike Babucci, Tobias Torndahl, Soham Mukherjee, Charlotte Platzer Björkman, Natalia M. Martin, "Studies of atomic-layer-deposited Zn1–XSnXOY as an alternative buffer layer for Cu2Zn(Sn1–X,GeX)S4 thin-film solar cells", Acs Applied Electronic Materials (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.4c01317
- Le Phuong Hoang, Irena Spasojevic, Tien-Lin Lee, David Pesquera, Kai Rossnagel, Jorg Zegenhagen, Gustau Catalan, Ivan A. Vartanyants, Andreas Scherz, Giuseppe Mercurio, "Surface polarization profile of ferroelectric thin films probed by X-ray standing waves and photoelectron spectroscopy", Scientific Reports, 14 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-72805-1
- Jiaye Zhang, Zhenni Yang, Siliang Kuang, Ziqi Zhang, Shenglong Wei, Joe Willis, Tien-Lin Lee, Piero Mazzolini, Oliver Bierwagen, Shanquan Chen, Zuhuang Chen, Duanyang Chen, Hongji Qi, David Scanlon, Kelvin H. L. Zhang, "Electronic structure and surface band bending of Sn-doped 𝛽-Ga2O3 thin films studied by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy and ab initio calculations", Physical Review B, 110 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.115120
- Florian Gebert, Neeha Gogoi, Dumindu P. Siriwardena, Andrew J. Naylor, "The origin of rapid capacity loss in 1,1,1-trifluoroethyl methyl carbonate-based lithium-ion battery electrolytes", Advanced Materials Interfaces, 98 (2024), DOI: 10.1002/admi.202400535
- Megan O. Hill, Ji Soo Kim, Moritz L. Müller, Dibya Phuyal, Sunil Taper, Manisha Bansal, Maximilian T. Becker, Babak Bakhit, Tuhin Maity, Bartomeu Monserrat, Giuliana Di Martino, Nives Strkalj, Judith L. Macmanus‐driscoll, "Depth-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy evidence of intrinsic polar states in HfO2-based ferroelectrics", Advanced Materials, 7 (2024), DOI: 10.1002/adma.202408572
- Siliang Kuang, Zhenni Yang, Ziqi Zhang, Ziqian Sheng, Shenglong Wei, Yihong Chen, Wenjing Xu, Ye Yang, Duanyang Chen, Hongji Qi, Kelvin H. L. Zhang, "Transport and electronic structure properties of MBE grown Sn doped Ga2O3 homo-epitaxial films", Materials Today Physics, 5 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.mtphys.2024.101555
- Paul Ryan, Panukorn Sombut, Ali Rafsanjani-Abbasi, Chunlei Wang, Fulden Eratam, Francesco Goto, Cesare Franchini, Ulrike Diebold, Matthias Meier, David A. Duncan, Gareth S. Parkinson, "Quantitative measurement of cooperative binding in partially dissociated water dimers at the hematite “R-cut” surface", The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C, 6 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c04537
- Susanne Wolff, Mark Hutter, Philip Schädlich, Hao Yin, Monja Stettner, Sabine Wenzel, Frank Stefan Tautz, Francois Bocquet, Thomas Seyller, Christian Kumpf, "Bi-intercalated epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001)", New Journal Of Physics (2024), DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad7f7d
- [Thesis] Archie L. Hobson, "Substrate metal adatom incorporation into molecular overlayers" (2024)
- Scott A. Chambers, "X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of epitaxial films and heterostructures", Surface Science Reports, 39 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.surfrep.2024.100638
- Brendan Edwards, Darius-A. Deaconu, Philip A. E. Murgatroyd, Sebastian Buchberger, Tommaso Antonelli, Daniel Halliday, Gesa-R. Siemann, Andela Zivanovic, Liam Trzaska, Akhil Rajan, Edgar Abarca Morales, Daniel A. Mayoh, Amelia E. Hall, Rodion V. Belosludov, Matthew D. Watson, Timur K. Kim, Deepnarayan Biswas, Tien-Lin Lee, Craig M. Polley, Dina Carbone, Mats Leandersson, Geetha Balakrishnan, Mohammad Saeed Bahramy, Phil D. C. King, "Chemical trends of the bulk and surface termination-dependent electronic structure of metal-intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides", Chemistry Of Materials, 8 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00824
- Xuze Guan, Rong Han, Hiroyuki Asakura, Bolun Wang, Lu Chen, Jay Hon Cheung Yan, Shaoliang Guan, Luke Keenan, Shusaku Hayama, Matthijs A. Van Spronsen, Georg Held, Jie Zhang, Hao Gu, Yifei Ren, Lun Zhang, Zhangyi Yao, Yujiang Zhu, Anna Regoutz, Tsunehiro Tanaka, Yuzheng Guo, Feng Ryan Wang, "Subsurface single-atom catalyst enabled by mechanochemical synthesis for oxidation chemistry", Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2024), DOI: 10.1002/anie.202410457
- Florian Gebert, Robin Lundström, Wessel Van Ekeren, Andrew Naylor, "Interfacial decomposition behaviour of triethyl phosphate-based electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries", Batteries & Supercaps (2024), DOI: 10.1002/batt.202400342
- Archie L. Hobson, Hadeel Hussain, Philip J. Mousley, David A. Duncan, Mona. Braim, Giovanni Costantini, Christopher Nicklin, D. Phil Woodruff, "Structure determination of F4TCNQ on Ag(111): a systematic trend in metal adatom incorporation", Acs Omega (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c04860
- Christopher Don, Thomas P. Shalvey, Daniya A. Sindi, Bradley Lewis, Jack E. N. Swallow, Leon Bowen, Daniel F. Fernandes, Tomas Kubart, Deepnarayan Biswas, Pardeep K. Thakur, Tien-Lin Lee, Jonathan D. Major, "Reactive DC sputtered TiO2 electron transport layers for cadmium-free Sb2Se3 solar cells", Advanced Energy Materials, 2 (2024), DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202401077
- Jueli Shi, Ziqian Sheng, Yong-Bin Zhuang, Dong-Chen Qi, Kelvin H. L. Zhang, "Insights on the electronic structure of Tin (II) pyrochlore oxides with 5s2 lone pair states as transparent p-type oxide semiconductors", Journal Of Materials Chemistry C (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01455C
- Scott A. Chambers, Deepnarayan Biswas, Tien-Lin Lee, Mark Van Schilfgaarde, Peter V. Sushko, "First-principles treatment of vibrational broadening in x-ray excited valence band spectra for n−SrTiO3(001)", Physical Review B, 109 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.195115
- Matthew A. Stoodley, Luke A. Rochford, Tien-Lin Lee, Benedikt P. Klein, David A. Duncan, Reinhard J. Maurer, "Structure of graphene grown on Cu(111): X-ray standing wave measurement and density functional theory prediction", Physical Review Letters, 132 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.196201
- Aishwarya Srinath, Kristina Von Fieandt, Stefan Fritze, Leif Nyholm, Erik Lewin, Rebecka Lindblad, "Near-surface analysis of magnetron sputtered AlCrNbYZrNx high entropy materials resolved by HAXPES", Applied Surface Science, 6 (2024), DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.160349
- Matilde Longhini, Florian Gebert, Fosca Conti, Andrew J. Naylor, "Enabling a non-flammable methyl(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl) carbonate electrolyte in NMC622-graphite Li-ion cells by electrode pre-passivation", Energy Advances (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4YA00052H
- Niels Kubitza, Isabel Huck, Hanna Pazniak, Curran Kalha, David Koch, Bo Zhao, Pardeep K. Thakur, Tien-Lin Lee, Aysha A. Riaz, Wolfgang Donner, Hongbin Zhang, Benjamin Moss, Ulf Wiedwald, Anna Regoutz, Christina S. Birkel, "Between carbide and nitride MAX phases: Sol-gel assisted synthesis and characterization of the carbonitride phase Cr2GaC1xNx", Journal Of Materials Chemistry C (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D4TC00067F
- Chenyang Guo, Philip Benzie, Shu Hu, Bart De Nijs, Ermanno Miele, Eoin Elliott, Rakesh Arul, Helen Benjamin, Grzegorz Dziechciarczyk, Reshma R. Rao, Mary P. Ryan, Jeremy J. Baumberg, "Extensive photochemical restructuring of molecule-metal surfaces under room light", Nature Communications, 15 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46125-x
- Zhonghui Gao, Yang Bai, Junrun Feng, Jiayi Yang, Porun Liu, Haiyang Yuan, Xuze Guan, Feng Ryan Wang, Yunhui Huang, "Controlling sodium dendrite growth via grain boundaries in Na3Zr2Si2PO12 electrolyte", Advanced Energy Materials (2024), DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202304488
- Benedikt P. Klein, Matthew A. Stoodley, Dylan B. Morgan, Luke A. Rochford, Leon B. S. Williams, Paul T. P. Ryan, Lars Sattler, Sebastian M. Weber, Gerhard Hilt, Thomas J. Liddy, Tien-Lin Lee, Reinhard Maurer, David A. Duncan, "Probing the role of surface termination in the adsorption of azupyrene on copper", Nanoscale (2024), DOI: 10.1039/D3NR04690G
- Cedric Schmitt, Jonas Erhardt, Philipp Eck, Matthias Schmitt, Kyungchan Lee, Philipp Keßler, Tim Wagner, Merit Spring, Bing Liu, Stefan Enzner, Martin Kamp, Vedran Jovic, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Timur Kim, Cephise Cacho, Tien-Lin Lee, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Simon Moser, Ralph Claessen, "Achieving environmental stability in an atomically thin quantum spin Hall insulator via graphene intercalation", Nature Communications, 15 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45816-9
- S. A. Chambers, Z. H. Lim, J. H. Ngai, D. Biswas, T.-L. Lee, "Probing the electronic properties of gap states near the surface of n−SrTiO3−δ/i−Si(001) heterojunctions with high sensitivity", Physical Review Materials, 8 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.014602
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