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Direct formation of copper nanoparticles from atoms at graphitic step edges lowers overpotential and improves selectivity of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (2024)
Journal Article
Burwell, T., Thangamuthu, M., Aliev, G. N., Ghaderzadeh, S., Kohlrausch, E. C., Chen, Y., Theis, W., Norman, L. T., Alves Fernandes, J., Besley, E., Licence, P., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2024). Direct formation of copper nanoparticles from atoms at graphitic step edges lowers overpotential and improves selectivity of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Communications Chemistry, 7(1), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-024-01218-y

A key strategy for minimizing our reliance on precious metals is to increase the fraction of surface atoms and improve the metal-support interface. In this work, we employ a solvent/ligand/counterion-free method to deposit copper in the atomic form d... Read More about Direct formation of copper nanoparticles from atoms at graphitic step edges lowers overpotential and improves selectivity of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction.

Machine learning insights into predicting biogas separation in metal-organic frameworks (2024)
Journal Article
Cooley, I., Boobier, S., Hirst, J. D., & Besley, E. (2024). Machine learning insights into predicting biogas separation in metal-organic frameworks. Communications Chemistry, 7(1), Article 102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-024-01166-7

Breakthroughs in efficient use of biogas fuel depend on successful separation of carbon dioxide/methane streams and identification of appropriate separation materials. In this work, machine learning models are trained to predict biogas separation pro... Read More about Machine learning insights into predicting biogas separation in metal-organic frameworks.

Strain-modulated defect engineering of two-dimensional materials (2024)
Journal Article
Santra, P., Ghaderzadeh, S., Ghorbani-Asl, M., Komsa, H.-P., Besley, E., & Krasheninnikov, A. V. (2024). Strain-modulated defect engineering of two-dimensional materials. npj 2D Materials and Applications, 8(1), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-024-00472-x

Strain- and defect-engineering are two powerful approaches to tailor the opto-electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, but the relationship between applied mechanical strain and behavior of defects in these systems remains elusive. Us... Read More about Strain-modulated defect engineering of two-dimensional materials.

Understanding the Electron Beam Resilience of Two-Dimensional Conjugated Metal–Organic Frameworks (2024)
Journal Article
Mücke, D., Cooley, I., Liang, B., Wang, Z., Park, S., Dong, R., Feng, X., Qi, H., Besley, E., & Kaiser, U. (2024). Understanding the Electron Beam Resilience of Two-Dimensional Conjugated Metal–Organic Frameworks. Nano Letters, 24(10), 3014–3020. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04125

Knowledge of the atomic structure of layer-stacked two-dimensional conjugated metal–organic frameworks (2D c-MOFs) is an essential prerequisite for establishing their structure–property correlation. For this, atomic resolution imaging is often the me... Read More about Understanding the Electron Beam Resilience of Two-Dimensional Conjugated Metal–Organic Frameworks.

The significance of multipole interactions for the stability of regular structures composed from charged particles. (2024)
Journal Article
Lindgren, E. B., Avis, H., Miller, A., Stamm, B., Besley, E., & Stace, A. J. (2024). The significance of multipole interactions for the stability of regular structures composed from charged particles. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 663, Article 458-466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.02.146

Identifying the forces responsible for stabilising binary particle lattices is key to the controlled fabrication of many new materials. Experiments have shown that the presence of charge can be integral to the formation of ordered arrays; however, a... Read More about The significance of multipole interactions for the stability of regular structures composed from charged particles..

Direct Deposition of Copper Atoms onto Graphitic Step Edges Lowers Overpotential and Improves Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Thangamuthu, M., Burwell, T., Aliev, G., Ghaderzadeh, S., Kohlrausch, E., Chen, Y., Theis, W., Norman, L., Fernandes, J., Besley, E., Licence, P., & Khlobystov, A. Direct Deposition of Copper Atoms onto Graphitic Step Edges Lowers Overpotential and Improves Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Minimizing our reliance on bulk precious metals is to increase the fraction of surface atoms and improve the metal-support interface. In this work, we employ a solvent/ligand/counterion-free method to deposit copper in the atomic form directly onto a... Read More about Direct Deposition of Copper Atoms onto Graphitic Step Edges Lowers Overpotential and Improves Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction.