Structural analysis of molecular materials using the pair distribution function

MW Terban, SJL Billinge - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
This is a review of atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis as applied to the study of
molecular materials. The PDF method is a powerful approach to study short-and …

Nanoparticle decoration with surfactants: Molecular interactions, assembly, and applications

H Heinz, C Pramanik, O Heinz, Y Ding, RK Mishra… - Surface Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Nanostructures of diverse chemical nature are used as biomarkers, therapeutics, catalysts,
and structural reinforcements. The decoration with surfactants has a long history and is …

IrOx·nH2O with lattice water–assisted oxygen exchange for high-performance proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers

J Xu, H **, T Lu, J Li, Y Liu, K Davey, Y Zheng… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The trade-off between activity and stability of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts in
proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE) is challenging. Crystalline IrO2 …

High-throughput design of high-performance lightweight high-entropy alloys

R Feng, C Zhang, MC Gao, Z Pei, F Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Develo** affordable and light high-temperature materials alternative to Ni-base
superalloys has significantly increased the efforts in designing advanced ferritic superalloys …

Inorganic glass electrolytes with polymer-like viscoelasticity

T Dai, S Wu, Y Lu, Y Yang, Y Liu, C Chang, X Rong… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Solid-state batteries offer an alternative promising power source for electric vehicles.
However, the interfacial mechanical stability of inorganic electrolytes is inferior to that of …

PDFgetX3: a rapid and highly automatable program for processing powder diffraction data into total scattering pair distribution functions

P Juhás, T Davis, CL Farrow… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - journals.iucr.org
PDFgetX3 is a new software application for converting X-ray powder diffraction data to an
atomic pair distribution function (PDF). PDFgetX3 has been designed for ease of use, speed …

Influence of Lattice Polarizability on the Ionic Conductivity in the Lithium Superionic Argyrodites Li6PS5X (X = Cl, Br, I)

MA Kraft, SP Culver, M Calderon… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In the search for novel solid electrolytes for solid-state batteries, thiophosphate ionic
conductors have been in recent focus owing to their high ionic conductivities, which are …

[BOOK][B] Underneath the Bragg peaks: structural analysis of complex materials

T Egami, SJL Billinge - 2003 - books.google.com
* Introducing a unique method to study the atomic structure of nano-materials* Award
winning research. Takeshi Egami received the 2003 Eugene Bertram Warren Diffraction …

Structural investigation of graphitic carbon nitride via XRD and neutron diffraction

F Fina, SK Callear, GM Carins, JTS Irvine - Chemistry of Materials, 2015 - ACS Publications
Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has, since 2009, attracted great attention for its activity as
a visible-light-active photocatalyst for hydrogen evolution. Since it was synthesized in 1834 …

Tailoring high-energy storage NaNbO3-based materials from antiferroelectric to relaxor states

MH Zhang, H Ding, S Egert, C Zhao, L Villa… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Reversible field-induced phase transitions define antiferroelectric perovskite oxides and lay
the foundation for high-energy storage density materials, required for future green …