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Hexagonal Boron Nitride Tunnel Barriers Grown on Graphite by High Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy (2016)
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Cho, Y., Summerfield, A., Davies, A., Cheng, T. S., Smith, E. F., Mellor, C. J., …Novikov, S. V. (2016). Hexagonal Boron Nitride Tunnel Barriers Grown on Graphite by High Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Scientific Reports, 6(1), Article 34474. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34474

We demonstrate direct epitaxial growth of high-quality hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layers on graphite using high-temperature plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. Atomic force microscopy reveals mono- and few-layer island growth, while conducting... Read More about Hexagonal Boron Nitride Tunnel Barriers Grown on Graphite by High Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy.

Extremely Stable Platinum-Amorphous Carbon Electrocatalyst within Hollow Graphitized Carbon Nanofibers for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (2016)
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Gimenez-Lopez, M. D. C., Kurtoglu, A., Walsh, D. A., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2016). Extremely Stable Platinum-Amorphous Carbon Electrocatalyst within Hollow Graphitized Carbon Nanofibers for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Advanced Materials, 28(41), 9103-9108. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201602485

Unprecedented electrochemical stabilization of platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) is presented, upon insertion into shortened hollow graphitized carbon nanofibers (PtNP@S-GNF) toward the oxygen-reduction reaction for fuel-cell applications. In contrast t... Read More about Extremely Stable Platinum-Amorphous Carbon Electrocatalyst within Hollow Graphitized Carbon Nanofibers for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction.

Direct Measurement of Electron Transfer in Nanoscale Host-Guest Systems: Metallocenes in Carbon Nanotubes (2016)
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McSweeney, R. L., Chamberlain, T. W., Baldoni, M., Lebedeva, M. A., Davies, E. S., Besley, E., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2016). Direct Measurement of Electron Transfer in Nanoscale Host-Guest Systems: Metallocenes in Carbon Nanotubes. Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(38), 13540-13549. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201602116

Electron‐transfer processes play a significant role in host–guest interactions and determine physicochemical phenomena emerging at the nanoscale that can be harnessed in electronic or optical devices, as well as biochemical and catalytic systems. A n... Read More about Direct Measurement of Electron Transfer in Nanoscale Host-Guest Systems: Metallocenes in Carbon Nanotubes.

Carbon Nanotubes as Electrically Active Nanoreactors for Multi-Step Inorganic Synthesis: Sequential Transformations of Molecules to Nanoclusters and Nanoclusters to Nanoribbons (2016)
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Botos, A., Biskupek, J., Chamberlain, T. W., Rance, G. A., Stoppiello, C. T., Sloan, J., …Khlobystov, A. N. (2016). Carbon Nanotubes as Electrically Active Nanoreactors for Multi-Step Inorganic Synthesis: Sequential Transformations of Molecules to Nanoclusters and Nanoclusters to Nanoribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(26), 8175-8183. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b03633

In organic synthesis, the composition and structure of products are predetermined by the reaction conditions; however, the synthesis of well-defined inorganic nanostructures often presents a significant challenge yielding non-stoichiometric or polymo... Read More about Carbon Nanotubes as Electrically Active Nanoreactors for Multi-Step Inorganic Synthesis: Sequential Transformations of Molecules to Nanoclusters and Nanoclusters to Nanoribbons.

Stabilising the lowest energy charge-separated state in a {metal chromophore - fullerene} assembly: a tuneable panchromatic absorbing donor-acceptor triad (2016)
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Lebedeva, M. A., Chamberlain, T. W., Scattergood, P. A., Delor, M., Sazanovich, I. V., Davies, E. S., …Khlobystov, A. N. (in press). Stabilising the lowest energy charge-separated state in a {metal chromophore - fullerene} assembly: a tuneable panchromatic absorbing donor-acceptor triad. Chemical Science, 9, https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sc04271b

Photoreduction of fullerene and the consequent stabilisation of a charge-separated state in a donor-acceptor assembly have been achieved, overcoming the common problem of a fullerene-based triplet state being an energy sink that prevents charge-separ... Read More about Stabilising the lowest energy charge-separated state in a {metal chromophore - fullerene} assembly: a tuneable panchromatic absorbing donor-acceptor triad.

Chemical reactions at the graphitic step-edge: changes in product distribution of catalytic reactions as a tool to explore the environment within carbon nanoreactors (2016)
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Lebedeva, M. A., Chamberlain, T. W., Thomas, A., Thomas, B. E., Stoppiello, C. T., Volkova, E., …Khlobystov, A. N. (2016). Chemical reactions at the graphitic step-edge: changes in product distribution of catalytic reactions as a tool to explore the environment within carbon nanoreactors. Nanoscale, 8(22), 11727-11737. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6NR03360A

A series of explorative cross-coupling reactions have been developed to investigate the local nanoscale environment around catalytically active Pd(II)complexes encapsulated within hollow graphitised nanofiber (GNF). Two new fullerene-containing and f... Read More about Chemical reactions at the graphitic step-edge: changes in product distribution of catalytic reactions as a tool to explore the environment within carbon nanoreactors.

Strain-Engineered Graphene Grown on Hexagonal Boron Nitride by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (2016)
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Summerfield, A., Davies, A., Cheng, T. S., Korolkov, V. V., Cho, Y., Mellor, C. J., …Beton, P. H. (2016). Strain-Engineered Graphene Grown on Hexagonal Boron Nitride by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Scientific Reports, 6(1), Article 22440. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22440

Graphene grown by high temperature molecular beam epitaxy on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) forms continuous domains with dimensions of order 20 μm, and exhibits moiré patterns with large periodicities, up to ~30 nm, indicating that the layers are hig... Read More about Strain-Engineered Graphene Grown on Hexagonal Boron Nitride by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.

Investigation of the Interactions and Bonding between Carbon and Group VIII Metals at the Atomic Scale (2016)
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Zoberbier, T., Chamberlain, T. W., Biskupek, J., Suyetin, M., Majouga, A. G., Besley, E., …Khlobystov, A. N. (2016). Investigation of the Interactions and Bonding between Carbon and Group VIII Metals at the Atomic Scale. Small, 12(12), 1649-1657. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201502210

The nature and dynamics of bonding between Fe, Ru, Os, and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is studied by aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (AC-HRTEM). The metals catalyze a wide variety of different transfor... Read More about Investigation of the Interactions and Bonding between Carbon and Group VIII Metals at the Atomic Scale.

Electron beam controlled covalent attachment of small organic molecules to graphene (2016)
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Markevich, A., Kurasch, S., Lehtinen, O., Reimer, O., Feng, X., Müllen, K., …Besley, E. (2016). Electron beam controlled covalent attachment of small organic molecules to graphene. Nanoscale, 8(5), 2711-2719. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr07539d

The electron beam induced functionalization of graphene through the formation of covalent bonds between free radicals of polyaromatic molecules and CC bonds of pristine graphene surface has been explored using first principles calculations and high-r... Read More about Electron beam controlled covalent attachment of small organic molecules to graphene.

4-Arylbenzenesulfonamides as Human Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (hCAIs): Synthesis by Pd Nanocatalyst-Mediated Suzuki–Miyaura Reaction, Enzyme Inhibition, and X-ray Crystallographic Studies (2016)
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Cornelio, B., Laronze-Cochard, M., Ceruso, M., Ferraroni, M., Rance, G. A., Carta, F., …Sapi, J. (2016). 4-Arylbenzenesulfonamides as Human Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (hCAIs): Synthesis by Pd Nanocatalyst-Mediated Suzuki–Miyaura Reaction, Enzyme Inhibition, and X-ray Crystallographic Studies. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 59(2), 721-732. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01771

Benzenesulfonamides bearing various substituted (hetero)aryl rings in the para-position were prepared by palladium nanoparticle-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions and evaluated as human carbonic anhydrase (hCA, EC 4.2.1.1) inhibitors a... Read More about 4-Arylbenzenesulfonamides as Human Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (hCAIs): Synthesis by Pd Nanocatalyst-Mediated Suzuki–Miyaura Reaction, Enzyme Inhibition, and X-ray Crystallographic Studies.

High temperature MBE of graphene on sapphire and hexagonal boron nitride flakes on sapphire (2016)
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Cheng, T. S., Davies, A., Summerfield, A., Cho, Y., Cebula, I., Hill, R. J., …Novikov, S. V. (2016). High temperature MBE of graphene on sapphire and hexagonal boron nitride flakes on sapphire. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 34(2), 02L101. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.4938157

The discovery of graphene and its remarkable electronic properties has provided scientists with a revolutionary material system for electronics and optoelectronics. Here, the authors investigate molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) as a growth method for gra... Read More about High temperature MBE of graphene on sapphire and hexagonal boron nitride flakes on sapphire.

Transmission Electron Microscopy: Isotope Substitution Extends the Lifetime of Organic Molecules in Transmission Electron Microscopy (Small 5/2015) (2015)
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Chamberlain, T. W., Biskupek, J., Skowron, S. T., Bayliss, P. A., Bichoutskaia, E., Kaiser, U., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2015). Transmission Electron Microscopy: Isotope Substitution Extends the Lifetime of Organic Molecules in Transmission Electron Microscopy (Small 5/2015). Small, 11(5), 510-510. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201570027

Decreasing the energy of the electron beam in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) improves the stability of inorganic molecules, however, organic molecules become surprisingly less stable under these conditions. On page 622, E. Bichoutskaia, U. Ka... Read More about Transmission Electron Microscopy: Isotope Substitution Extends the Lifetime of Organic Molecules in Transmission Electron Microscopy (Small 5/2015).

Palladium nanoparticles in catalytic carbon nanoreactors: the effect of confinement on Suzuki-Miyaura reactions (2015)
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Cornelio, B., Saunders, A., Solomonsz, W., Laronze-Cochard, M., Fontana, A., Sapi, J., …Rance, G. A. (in press). Palladium nanoparticles in catalytic carbon nanoreactors: the effect of confinement on Suzuki-Miyaura reactions. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 3, https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TA06953F

We explore the construction and performance of a range of catalytic nanoreactors based on palladium nanoparticles encapsulated in hollow graphitised nanofibres. The optimum catalytic material, with small palladium nanoparticles located almost exclusi... Read More about Palladium nanoparticles in catalytic carbon nanoreactors: the effect of confinement on Suzuki-Miyaura reactions.

Switching intermolecular interactions by confinement in carbon nanotubes (2014)
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Chamberlain, T., Lebedeva, M., Abuajwa, W., Suyetin, M., Lewis, W., Bichoutskaia, E., …Khlobystov, A. N. (2015). Switching intermolecular interactions by confinement in carbon nanotubes. Chemical Communications, 51(4), 648-651. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc08029g

The encapsulation of trityl-functionalised C60 molecules inside carbon nanotubes drastically affects the intermolecular interactions for this species. Whilst the orientations of molecules in the crystal are often controlled by thermodynamics, the mol... Read More about Switching intermolecular interactions by confinement in carbon nanotubes.

The effects of interactions between proline and carbon nanostructures on organocatalysis in the Hajos-Parrish-Eder-Sauer-Wiechert reaction (2014)
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Rance, G., & Khlobystov, A. N. (in press). The effects of interactions between proline and carbon nanostructures on organocatalysis in the Hajos-Parrish-Eder-Sauer-Wiechert reaction. Nanoscale, 6, https://doi.org/10.1039/C4NR04009K

The non-covalent interactions of S-(-)-proline with the surfaces of carbon nanostructures (fullerene, nanotubes and graphite) change the nucleophilic-electrophilic and acid-base properties of the amino acid, thus tuning its activity and selectivity i... Read More about The effects of interactions between proline and carbon nanostructures on organocatalysis in the Hajos-Parrish-Eder-Sauer-Wiechert reaction.

Tuning the interactions between electron spins in fullerene-based triad systems (2014)
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Lebedeva, M. A., Chamberlain, T. W., Davies, E. S., Thomas, B. E., Schröder, M., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2014). Tuning the interactions between electron spins in fullerene-based triad systems. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 10, https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.10.31

A series of six fullerene-linker-fullerene triads have been prepared by the stepwise addition of the fullerene cages to bridging moieties thus allowing the systematic variation of fullerene cage (C60 or C70) and linker (oxalate or terephthalate) and... Read More about Tuning the interactions between electron spins in fullerene-based triad systems.

Evaluating the effects of carbon nanoreactor diameter and internal structure on the pathways of the catalytic hydrosilylation reaction (2014)
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Solomonsz, W. A., Rance, G. A., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2014). Evaluating the effects of carbon nanoreactor diameter and internal structure on the pathways of the catalytic hydrosilylation reaction. Small, 10(9),

Three different types of carbon nanoreactors, double-walled nanotubes (DWNT), multi-walled nanotubes (MWNT) and graphitised carbon nanofibers (GNF) have been appraised for the first time as containers for the reactions of phenylacetylene hydrosilylat... Read More about Evaluating the effects of carbon nanoreactor diameter and internal structure on the pathways of the catalytic hydrosilylation reaction.

Palladium nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes as catalysts of cross-coupling reactions (2013)
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Cornelio, B., Rance, G. A., Laronze-Cochard, M., Fontana, A., Sapi, J., & Khlobystov, A. N. (in press). Palladium nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes as catalysts of cross-coupling reactions. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 1, https://doi.org/10.1039/C3TA11530E

The macroscopic properties of composite nanotube-nanoparticle superstructures are determined by a complex interplay of structural parameters at the nanoscale. The catalytic performance of different carbon nanotube-palladium nanoparticle catalysts, wh... Read More about Palladium nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes as catalysts of cross-coupling reactions.