Search Results - "Butler, Ian"
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Sitting Out the Halogen Dance. Room-Temperature Formation of 2,2′-Dilithio-1,1′-dibromoferrocene. TMEDA and Related Lithium Complexes: A Synthetic Route to Multiply Substituted Ferrocenes
Published in Organometallics (11-10-2021)“…The clean room-temperature synthesis of 2,2′-dilithio-1,1′-dibromoferrocene from 1,1′-dibromoferrocene is reported. When this dilithium compound is quenched…”
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Geological Hydrogen Storage: Geochemical Reactivity of Hydrogen with Sandstone Reservoirs
Published in ACS energy letters (08-07-2022)“…The geological storage of hydrogen is necessary to enable the successful transition to a hydrogen economy and achieve net-zero emissions targets. Comprehensive…”
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Droplet fragmentation: 3D imaging of a previously unidentified pore-scale process during multiphase flow in porous media
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-02-2015)“…Using X-ray computed microtomography, we have visualized and quantified the in situ structure of a trapped nonwetting phase (oil) in a highly heterogeneous…”
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Abiotic Pyrite Formation Produces a Large Fe Isotope Fractionation
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (24-06-2011)“…The iron isotope composition of sedimentary pyrite has been proposed as a potential proxy to trace microbial metabolism and the redox evolution of the oceans…”
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An overview of the history of the Department of Chemistry at McGill University, 1965–2019
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Copper sulfide nanostructures: synthesis and biological applications
Published in RSC advances (01-03-2022)“…Over the past few years, considerable attention has been paid to biomedical applications of copper sulfide nanostructures owing to their enhanced…”
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Mechanical–Structural Investigation of Ion-Exchanged Lithium Silicate Glass using Micro-Raman Spectroscopy
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (07-04-2016)“…Micro-Raman spectroscopy was used to determine the structural modifications occurring in a simple ion-exchanged glass. The base lithium silicate composition…”
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Co and Ni assisted CdS@g-C3N4 nanohybrid: A photocatalytic system for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction
Published in Materials chemistry and physics (01-02-2021)“…Although the green production of H2 through water splitting has prompted the search for solar energy harvesting materials, this still remains an ongoing…”
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Multi-step and multi-component organometallic synthesis in one pot using orthogonal mechanochemical reactions
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (2014)“…We demonstrate that the mechanochemical strategies for oxidative addition and ligand substitution on organometallic centers can be mutually orthogonal,…”
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Test of the Snowball Theory for the Rate of Evolution of Hybrid Incompatibilities
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (17-09-2010)“…Hybrids between species are often sterile or inviable because the long-diverged genomes of their parents cause developmental problems when they come together…”
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Seismic events miss important kinematically governed grain scale mechanisms during shear failure of porous rock
Published in Nature communications (18-10-2022)“…Catastrophic failure in brittle, porous materials initiates when smaller-scale fractures localise along an emergent fault zone in a transition from stable…”
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New tyrannosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Uzbekistan clarifies evolution of giant body sizes and advanced senses in tyrant dinosaurs
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (29-03-2016)“…Tyrannosaurids—the familiar group of carnivorous dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus and Albertosaurus—were the apex predators in continental ecosystems in Asia…”
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Mjölnir: a miniature triaxial rock deformation apparatus for 4D synchrotron X‐ray microtomography
Published in Journal of synchrotron radiation (01-11-2020)“…An X‐ray transparent experimental triaxial rock deformation apparatus, here named `Mjölnir', enables investigations of brittle‐style rock deformation and…”
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Supercritical Water Gasification of Lactose as a Model Compound for Valorization of Dairy Industry Effluents
Published in Industrial & engineering chemistry research (30-09-2015)“…The dairy industry effluents, including whey waste and milk-based residues, are enriched in lactose and minor amounts of glucose that could potentially be…”
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Synthesis of γ-alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) nanoparticles and their potential for use as an adsorbent in the removal of methylene blue dye from industrial wastewater
Published in Nanoscale advances (15-01-2019)“…Non-toxic nanomaterials have gained significant importance recently in the treatment of industrial wastewater that sometimes contains organic dyes such as…”
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Triple iron isotope constraints on the role of ocean iron sinks in early atmospheric oxygenation
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-10-2020)“…The role that iron played in the oxygenation of Earth's surface is equivocal. Iron could have consumed molecular oxygen when Fe -oxyhydroxides formed in the…”
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Catastrophic Failure: How and When? Insights From 4‐D In Situ X‐ray Microtomography
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth (01-08-2020)“…Catastrophic failure of brittle rocks is important in managing risk associated with system‐sized material failure. Such failure is caused by nucleation,…”
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High-throughput synthesis of cross-linked poly(cyclotriphosphazene-co-bis(aminomethyl)ferrocene) microspheres and their performance as a superparamagnetic, electrochemical, fluorescent and adsorbent material
Published in Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996) (01-05-2017)“…[Display omitted] •Ferrocene based phosphazene microspheres have been successfully synthesized.•The diameters of the cross-linked microspheres vary from 0.3 to…”
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Synthesis, Computational Studies, Inelastic Neutron Scattering, Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy of Ruthenocene
Published in European journal of inorganic chemistry (28-02-2019)“…In this work we report a new and simplified synthesis of ruthenocene that prevents the formation of unwanted by‐products. We have also revisited the…”
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Fabrication and prospective applications of graphene oxide-modified nanocomposites for wastewater remediation
Published in RSC advances (13-04-2022)“…Water bodies have become polluted with heavy metals and hazardous contaminants as a result of fast development. Many strategies have been devised by…”
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