Synchrotron X-ray analytical techniques for studying materials electrochemistry in rechargeable batteries

F Lin, Y Liu, X Yu, L Cheng, A Singer… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Rechargeable battery technologies have ignited major breakthroughs in contemporary
society, including but not limited to revolutions in transportation, electronics, and grid energy …

Phase Transitions and Dynamics in Mixed Three-and Low-Dimensional Lead Halide Perovskites

M Simenas, A Gagor, J Banys, M Maczka - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Lead halide perovskites are extensively investigated as efficient solution-processable
materials for photovoltaic applications. The greatest stability and performance of these …

Hidden diversity of vacancy networks in Prussian blue analogues

A Simonov, T De Baerdemaeker, HLB Boström… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) are a diverse family of microporous inorganic solids,
known for their gas storage ability, metal-ion immobilization, proton conduction, and stimuli …

Hydrogen atoms in supramolecular chemistry: a structural perspective. Where are they, and why does it matter?

AL Thompson, NG White - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen bonding interactions are ubiquitous across the biochemical and chemical
sciences, and are of particular interest to supramolecular chemists. They have been used to …

Neutron scattering studies of heterogeneous catalysis

X Yu, Y Cheng, Y Li, F Polo-Garzon, J Liu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the structural dynamics/evolution of catalysts and the related surface
chemistry is essential for establishing structure–catalysis relationships, where spectroscopic …

Truchet-tile structure of a topologically aperiodic metal–organic framework

EG Meekel, EM Schmidt, LJ Cameron, AD Dharma… - Science, 2023 - science.org
When tiles decorated to lower their symmetry are joined together, they can form aperiodic
and labyrinthine patterns. Such Truchet tilings offer an efficient mechanism of visual data …

Towards macroscopic crystalline 2D polymers

X Feng, AD Schlüter - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Periodic and nanoporous monolayer polymers, the structures of which can be viewed as
molecular fishing nets, have been classified as 2D polymers. They have been previously …

In situ formation of hydrides and carbides in palladium catalyst: when XANES is better than EXAFS and XRD

AL Bugaev, AA Guda, A Lazzarini, KA Lomachenko… - Catalysis Today, 2017 - Elsevier
In a number of hydrogenation reactions, palladium nanoparticles may undergo a transition
to the hydride or the carbide phase, which affects the catalytic properties. In the current work …

Transforming X-ray detection with hybrid photon counting detectors

A Förster, S Brandstetter… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hybrid photon counting (HPC) detectors have radically transformed basic research at
synchrotron light sources since 2006. They excel at X-ray diffraction applications in the …

X-ray scattering studies of protein structural dynamics

SP Meisburger, WC Thomas, MB Watkins… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
X-ray scattering is uniquely suited to the study of disordered systems and thus has the
potential to provide insight into dynamic processes where diffraction methods fail. In …