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Controlling multiple orderings in metal thiocyanate molecular perovskites Ax{Ni[Bi(SCN)6]} (2021)
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Lee, J. Y., Ling, S., Argent, S., Senn, M., Cañadillas-Delgado, L., & Cliffe, M. (2021). Controlling multiple orderings in metal thiocyanate molecular perovskites Ax{Ni[Bi(SCN)6]}. Chemical Science, 12(10), 3516-3525. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc06619b

We report four new A-site vacancy ordered thiocyanate double double perovskites, A1–x{Ni[Bi(SCN)6](1–x)/3}, A = K+, NH4+, CH3(NH3)+ (MeNH3+) and C(NH2)3+ (Gua+), including the first examples of thiocyanate perovskites containing organic A-site cation... Read More about Controlling multiple orderings in metal thiocyanate molecular perovskites Ax{Ni[Bi(SCN)6]}.

General synthesis of single atom electrocatalysts: via a facile condensation-carbonization process (2020)
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Chen, W., Luo, X., Slater, T. . J., Ling, S., Zhou, Y., Bao, R., …Shen, Y. (2020). General synthesis of single atom electrocatalysts: via a facile condensation-carbonization process. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(48), 25959-25969. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ta08115a

The general and cost-effective synthesis of single atom electrocatalysts (SAECs) still remains a great challenge. Herein, we report a general synthetic protocol for the synthesis of SAECs via a simple condensation-carbonization process, in which furf... Read More about General synthesis of single atom electrocatalysts: via a facile condensation-carbonization process.

Highly Emissive Perylene Diimide-Based Metallacages and Their Host–Guest Chemistry for Information Encryption (2020)
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Hou, Y., Zhang, Z., Lu, S., Yuan, J., Zhu, Q., Chen, W., …Zhang, M. (2020). Highly Emissive Perylene Diimide-Based Metallacages and Their Host–Guest Chemistry for Information Encryption. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(44), 18763–18768. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c09904

Here we report two highly emissive perylene diimide (PDI)-based metallacages and explore their complexation with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, such as pyrene, triphenylene, and perylene. The fluorescence quantum yields of metallacages exceed 90%... Read More about Highly Emissive Perylene Diimide-Based Metallacages and Their Host–Guest Chemistry for Information Encryption.

Design principles for the ultimate gas deliverable capacity material: nonporous to porous deformations without volume change (2020)
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Witman, M., Ling, S., Stavila, V., Wijeratne, P., Furukawa, H., & Allendorf, M. D. (2020). Design principles for the ultimate gas deliverable capacity material: nonporous to porous deformations without volume change. Molecular Systems Design and Engineering, 5(9), 1491-1503. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0me00122h

Understanding the fundamental limits of gas deliverable capacity in porous materials is of critical importance as it informs whether technical targets (e.g., for on-board vehicular storage) are feasible. High-throughput screening studies of rigid mat... Read More about Design principles for the ultimate gas deliverable capacity material: nonporous to porous deformations without volume change.

Hemoglobin-derived Fe-Nx-S species supported by bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes as efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (2020)
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Chen, W., Luo, X., Ling, S., Zhou, Y., Shen, B., Slater, T. J., …Shen, Y. (2020). Hemoglobin-derived Fe-Nx-S species supported by bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes as efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. Carbon, 168, 588-596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2020.06.064

Herein, we report a facile route to synthesize isolated single iron atoms on nitrogen-sulfur-codoped carbon matrix via a direct pyrolysis process in which hemoglobin, a by-product of the meat industry, was utilized as a precursor for iron, nitrogen a... Read More about Hemoglobin-derived Fe-Nx-S species supported by bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes as efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction.

The Interaction of Hydrogen with the van der Waals Crystal ?-InSe (2020)
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Felton, J., Blundo, E., Ling, S., Glover, J., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Makarovsky, O., …Patané, A. (2020). The Interaction of Hydrogen with the van der Waals Crystal γ-InSe. Molecules, 25(11), Article 2526. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25112526

The emergence of the hydrogen economy requires development in the storage, generation and sensing of hydrogen. The indium selenide (?-InSe) van der Waals (vdW) crystal shows promise for technologies in all three of these areas. For these applications... Read More about The Interaction of Hydrogen with the van der Waals Crystal ?-InSe.

Emissive Platinum(II) Cages with Reverse Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Multiple Sensing (2020)
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Zhang, Z., Zhao, Z., Wu, L., Lu, S., Ling, S., Li, G., …Zhang, M. (2020). Emissive Platinum(II) Cages with Reverse Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Multiple Sensing. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(5), 2592-2600. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b12689

It is quite challenging to realize fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between two chromophores with specific positions and directions. Herein, through the self-assembly of two carefully selected fluorescent ligands via metal-coordination i... Read More about Emissive Platinum(II) Cages with Reverse Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Multiple Sensing.

Extracting an Empirical Intermetallic Hydride Design Principle from Limited Data via Interpretable Machine Learning (2019)
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Witman, M., Ling, S., Grant, D. M., Walker, G. S., Agarwal, S., Stavila, V., & Allendorf, M. D. (2020). Extracting an Empirical Intermetallic Hydride Design Principle from Limited Data via Interpretable Machine Learning. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(1), 40-47. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02971

An open question in the metal hydride community is whether there are simple, physics-based design rules that dictate the thermodynamic properties of these materials across the variety of structures and chemistry they can exhibit. While black box mach... Read More about Extracting an Empirical Intermetallic Hydride Design Principle from Limited Data via Interpretable Machine Learning.

Advances, Updates, and Analytics for the Computation-Ready, Experimental Metal–Organic Framework Database: CoRE MOF 2019 (2019)
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Chung, Y. G., Haldoupis, E., Bucior, B. J., Haranczyk, M., Lee, S., Zhang, H., …Snurr, R. Q. (2019). Advances, Updates, and Analytics for the Computation-Ready, Experimental Metal–Organic Framework Database: CoRE MOF 2019. Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, 64(12), 5985-5998. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jced.9b00835

Over 14 000 porous, three-dimensional metal–organic framework structures are compiled and analyzed as a part of an update to the Computation-Ready, Experimental Metal–Organic Framework Database (CoRE MOF Database). The updated database includes addit... Read More about Advances, Updates, and Analytics for the Computation-Ready, Experimental Metal–Organic Framework Database: CoRE MOF 2019.

Imaging defects and their evolution in a metal–organic framework at sub-unit-cell resolution (2019)
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Liu, L., Chen, Z., Wang, J., Zhang, D., Zhu, Y., Ling, S., …Han, Y. (2019). Imaging defects and their evolution in a metal–organic framework at sub-unit-cell resolution. Nature Chemistry, 11(7), 622-628. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0263-4

© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Defect engineering of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) offers promising opportunities for tailoring their properties to specific functions and applications. However, determinin... Read More about Imaging defects and their evolution in a metal–organic framework at sub-unit-cell resolution.

Kinetic Control of Interpenetration in Fe–Biphenyl-4,4′-dicarboxylate Metal–Organic Frameworks by Coordination and Oxidation Modulation (2019)
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Bara, D., Wilson, C., Mörtel, M., Khusniyarov, M. M., Ling, S., Slater, B., …Forgan, R. S. (2019). Kinetic Control of Interpenetration in Fe–Biphenyl-4,4′-dicarboxylate Metal–Organic Frameworks by Coordination and Oxidation Modulation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(20), 8346-8357. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b03269

Phase control in the self-assembly of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is often a case of trial and error; judicious control over a number of synthetic variables is required to select the desired topology and control features such as interpenetration... Read More about Kinetic Control of Interpenetration in Fe–Biphenyl-4,4′-dicarboxylate Metal–Organic Frameworks by Coordination and Oxidation Modulation.

A and B site doping of a phonon-glass perovskite oxide thermoelectric (2018)
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Daniels, L., Ling, S., Savvin, S., Pitcher, M., Dyer, M., Claridge, J., …Rosseinsky, M. (2018). A and B site doping of a phonon-glass perovskite oxide thermoelectric. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(32), 15640-15652. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ta03739f

By tuning the A site cation size it is possible to control the degree of octahedral distortion and ultimately structural symmetry in the new perovskite solid solution La0.5Na0.5−xKxTiO3, affording a rhombohedral-to-cubic transition as x increases abo... Read More about A and B site doping of a phonon-glass perovskite oxide thermoelectric.

Predicting vapor liquid equilibria using density functional theory: a case study of argon (2018)
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Goel, H., Ling, S., Ellis, B. N., Taconi, A., Slater, B., & Rai, N. (2018). Predicting vapor liquid equilibria using density functional theory: a case study of argon. Journal of Chemical Physics, 148(22), Article 224501. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5025726

Predicting vapor liquid equilibria (VLE) of molecules governed by weak van der Waals (vdW) interactions using the first principles approach is a significant challenge. Due to the poor scaling of the post Hartree-Fock wave function theory with system... Read More about Predicting vapor liquid equilibria using density functional theory: a case study of argon.

Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites (2018)
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Witman, M., Ling, S., Boyd, P., Barthel, S., Haranczyk, M., Slater, B., & Smit, B. (2018). Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites. ACS Central Science, 4(2), 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00555

© 2018 American Chemical Society. Scientific interest in two-dimensional (2D) materials, ranging from graphene and other single layer materials to atomically thin crystals, is quickly increasing for a large variety of technological applications. Whil... Read More about Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites.

Violations of Löwenstein's rule in zeolites (2017)
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Fletcher, R. E., Ling, S., & Slater, B. (2017). Violations of Löwenstein's rule in zeolites. Chemical Science, 8(11), 7483-7491. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7sc02531a

Zeolites, microporous aluminosilicates, are amongst the most widely used catalysts in the petrochemical industry. Zeolite catalytic functionality is influenced by the location of tetrahedral alumina and associated counter-cations in the aluminosilica... Read More about Violations of Löwenstein's rule in zeolites.

Phonon-glass electron-crystal behaviour by A site disorder in n-type thermoelectric oxides (2017)
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Daniels, L. M., Savvin, S. N., Pitcher, M. J., Dyer, M. S., Claridge, J. B., Ling, S., …Rosseinsky, M. J. (2017). Phonon-glass electron-crystal behaviour by A site disorder in n-type thermoelectric oxides. Energy and Environmental Science, 10(9), 1917-1922. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ee01510k

© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Phonon-glass electron-crystal (PGEC) behaviour is realised in La0.5Na0.5Ti1-xNbxO3 thermoelectric oxides. The vibrational disorder imposed by the presence of both La3+ and Na+ cations on the A site of the ABO3 p... Read More about Phonon-glass electron-crystal behaviour by A site disorder in n-type thermoelectric oxides.

Is high-density amorphous ice simply a “derailed” state along the ice I to ice IV pathway? (2017)
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Shephard, J. J., Ling, S., Sosso, G. C., Michaelides, A., Slater, B., & Salzmann, C. G. (2017). Is high-density amorphous ice simply a “derailed” state along the ice I to ice IV pathway?. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(7), 1645-1650. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00492

The structural nature of high-density amorphous ice (HDA), which forms through low-temperature pressure-induced amorphization of the “ordinary” ice I, is heavily debated. Clarifying this question is important for understanding not only the complex co... Read More about Is high-density amorphous ice simply a “derailed” state along the ice I to ice IV pathway?.