Search Results - "Simon, J.L"
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Nature of Activated Manganese Oxide for Oxygen Evolution
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (02-12-2015)“…Electrodeposited manganese oxide films (MnOx) are promising stable oxygen evolution catalysts. They are able to catalyze the oxygen evolution reaction in…”
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Two‐Dimensional Arrays of Transition Metal Nitride Nanocrystals
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-08-2019)“…The synthesis of low‐dimensional transition metal nitride (TMN) nanomaterials is developing rapidly, as their fundamental properties, such as high electrical…”
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Nanoscale structural order from the atomic pair distribution function (PDF): There's plenty of room in the middle
Published in Journal of solid state chemistry (01-07-2008)“…Emerging materials of scientific and technological interest are generally complex and often nanostructured: they have atomic orderings that extend on nanometer…”
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Rapid desolvation-triggered domino lattice rearrangement in a metal–organic framework
Published in Nature chemistry (01-01-2020)“…Topological transitions between considerably different phases typically require harsh conditions to collectively break chemical bonds and overcome the stress…”
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Effect of amorphization method on the physicochemical properties of amorphous sucrose
Published in Journal of food engineering (01-02-2019)“…Our objective was to characterize the physicochemical properties of amorphous sucrose prepared by freeze-drying (FreD), spray-drying (SprayD), ball milling…”
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Entropically Stabilized Local Dipole Formation in Lead Chalcogenides
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (17-12-2010)“…We report the observation of local structural dipoles that emerge from an undistorted ground state on warming, in contrast to conventional structural phase…”
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Superatomic solid solutions
Published in Nature chemistry (01-06-2021)“…In atomic solids, substitutional doping of atoms into the lattice of a material to form solid solutions is one of the most powerful approaches to modulating…”
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Investigation of thermal decomposition as a critical factor inhibiting cold crystallization in amorphous sucrose prepared by melt-quenching
Published in Journal of food engineering (01-11-2019)“…Researchers have reported that freeze-dried (FreD), spray-dried (SprayD), and ball milled (BallM) amorphous sucrose exhibit cold crystallization, whereas…”
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Structural study of biotic and abiotic poorly-crystalline manganese oxides using atomic pair distribution function analysis
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (15-03-2012)“…Manganese (Mn) oxides are among the most reactive natural minerals and play an important role in elemental cycling in oceanic and terrestrial environments. A…”
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Assigned and unassigned distance geometry: applications to biological molecules and nanostructures
Published in 4OR (01-12-2016)“…Considering geometry based on the concept of distance, the results found by Menger and Blumenthal originated a body of knowledge called distance geometry. This…”
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Local and long-range atomic/magnetic structure of non-stoichiometric spinel iron oxide nanocrystallites
Published in IUCrJ (01-01-2021)“…Spinel iron oxide nanoparticles of different mean sizes in the range 10-25 nm have been prepared by surfactant-free up-scalable near- and super-critical…”
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Real-space texture and pole-figure analysis using the 3D pair distribution function on a platinum thin film
Published in IUCrJ (01-09-2022)“…An approach is described for studying texture in nanostructured materials. The approach implements the real-space texture pair distribution function (PDF),…”
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Demonstration of thin film pair distribution function analysis (tfPDF) for the study of local structure in amorphous and crystalline thin films
Published in IUCrJ (01-09-2015)“…By means of normal-incidence, high-flux and high-energy X-rays, total scattering data for pair distribution function (PDF) analysis have been obtained from…”
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Evolution of atomic structure during nanoparticle formation
Published in IUCrJ (01-05-2014)“…Understanding the mechanism of nanoparticle formation during synthesis is a key prerequisite for the rational design and engineering of desirable materials…”
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Structures of Alkali Metals in Silica Gel Nanopores: New Materials for Chemical Reductions and Hydrogen Production
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (07-02-2007)“…Alkali metals and their alloys can be protected from spontaneous reaction with dry air by intercalation (with subsequent heating) into the pores of silica gel…”
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The rise of the X-ray atomic pair distribution function method: a series of fortunate events
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (17-06-2019)“…The atomic pair distribution function (PDF) technique is a powerful approach to gain quantitative insight into the structure of materials where the structural…”
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Study of the negative thermal expansion of cuprite-type structures by means of temperature-dependent pair distribution function analysis: Preliminary results
Published in The Journal of physics and chemistry of solids (01-09-2008)“…Copper (I) and silver (I) oxides crystallize with the same structure, and both show a wide range of negative thermal expansion (NTE): Cu 2O contracts with…”
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Structural Analysis of Molecular Materials Using the Pair Distribution Function
Published in Chemical reviews (12-01-2022)“…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…”
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Sapphire analyzers for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (11-11-2007)“…We present a sapphire ( Al 2 O 3 ) analyzer for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with 31-meV energy resolution. The analyzer is designed for resonant…”
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Molecular interaction and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 binding to the ACE2 receptor
Published in Nature communications (11-09-2020)“…Study of the interactions established between the viral glycoproteins and their host receptors is of critical importance for a better understanding of virus…”
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