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Disorder and Halide Distributions in Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals as Seen by Colloidal 133Cs Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Colloidal nuclear magnetic resonance (cNMR) spectroscopy on inorganic cesium lead halide nanocrystals (CsPbX3 NCs) is found to serve for noninvasive characterization and quantification of disorder within these structurally soft and labile particles. In par ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

129Xe Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Demystified: The Influence of the Glassing Matrix on the Radical Properties

Rolf Gruetter, Andrea Capozzi, Jean-Noël Hyacinthe, Thanh Phong Kevin Lê, Emma Linnea Wiström

129Xe dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is a controversial topic. The gold standard technique for hyperpolarized xenon magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is spin exchange optical pumping, which received FDA approval in 2022. Nevertheless, the ve ...

2024

Printed ecoresorbable temperature sensors for environmental monitoring

Danick Briand, Nicolas Francis Fumeaux, James Alec Pierce Bourely, Melissa Kossairi

Electronic waste has become a pressing issue, necessitating sustainable solutions for the disposal of electronic devices. While the development of environmentally degradable electronics has gained attention, the fabrication of stable and performant sensors ...

2023

Characterisation and hydration kinetics of beta-C2S synthesised with K2SO4 as dopant

Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Shashank Bishnoi, Sreejith Krishnan

In this study, a protocol for synthesising beta-C2S using K2SO4 as a dopant has been reported. Quantitative X-Ray diffraction was used to characterise synthesised samples. It was observed that it is possible to synthesise beta-C2S with high purity (>96 wt% ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Mercury Isotope Fractionation during Dark Abiotic Reduction of Hg(II) by Dissolved, Surface-Bound, and Structural Fe(II)

Lorenz Schwab

Stable mercury (Hg) isotope ratios are an emerging tracer for biogeochemical transformations in environmental systems, but their application requires knowledge of isotopic enrichment factors for individual processes. We investigated Hg isotope fractionatio ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Implementing Multi-Electron Transfer Strategies in Uranium Chemistry

Dieuwertje Katelijn Modder

In the last decades, the activation of small molecules has attracted increasing attention for their use as cheap and abundant feedstock. Low-oxidation state uranium complexes have displayed high reactivity towards small molecules thanks to their unique pro ...

EPFL2023

High-Throughput Nanopore Fabrication and Classification Using Xe-Ion Irradiation and Automated Pore-Edge Analysis

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andras Kis, Martina Lihter, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Mukeshchand Thakur, Sanjin Marion, Michal Daniel Macha

Large-area nanopore drilling is a major bottleneck in state-of-the-art nanoporous 2D membrane fabrication protocols. In addition, high-quality structural and statistical descriptions of as-fabricated porous membranes are key to predicting the corresponding ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Effect of post-heat treatment conditions on shape memory property in 4D printed Fe-17Mn-5Si-10Cr-4Ni shape memory alloy

Christian Leinenbach, Irene Ferretto

The influence of post-heat treatment on the microstructure and properties of 4D printed Fe-17Mn-5Si-10Cr-4Ni (wt. %) shape memory alloy (SMA) produced via a laser powder bed fusion process is investigated in this study. It is shown that heat-treatment temp ...

2022

Dual-function engineering to construct ultra-stable anodes for potassium-ion hybrid capacitors: N, O-doped porous carbon spheres

Kangning Zhao, Yanan Chen, Chao Yang, Jie Xu, Xin Peng, Wen Liu, Wei Zhou

Heteroatom doping engineering is deemed to be an adoptable strategy to boost the potassium (K) storage performance of carbonaceous materials. The inevitable issue for this strategy lies in the huge volume expansion originated from the large radius of K+. I ...

Elsevier2022

Low-energy Electron Holography Microscope for Imaging of Single Molecules

Sven Alexander Szilagyi

Structure determination techniques are an essential tool to investigate and understand molecules, especially in biology, where functionality crucially depends on structure. The dominant high-resolution methods, such as transmission electron microscopy and ...

EPFL2022

Crystallization kinetics of atomic crystals revealed by a single-shot and single-particle X-ray diffraction experiment

Christoph Bostedt, Alessandro Colombo, Giorgio Rossi

Crystallization is a fundamental natural phenomenon and the ubiquitous physical process in materials science for the design of new materials. So far, experimental observations of the structural dynamics in crystallization have been mostly restricted to slo ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Efficient Kr/Xe separation from triangular g-C(3)N(4)nanopores, a simulation study

Nicola Marzari, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Nicola Colonna, Davide Campi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra

Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is a promising material for molecular sieving membranes, thanks to its atom-thick ordered lattice with an extremely high density (1.6 x 10(14)pores per cm(2)) of triangular-shaped nanopores of similar to 0.34 nm diameter. Here, ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Characterizing crystalline defects in single Xe nanoparticles from angular correlations of single-shot diffracted X-rays

Matthias Bucher, Yiming Li, Christoph Bostedt

We performed a wide-angle X-ray scattering experiment of single Xe nanoparticles using an X-ray free electron laser. We developed a novel analysis method that focuses on the angular correlation between plural Bragg spots in single-shot diffraction patterns ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Structure evolution, bandgap, and dielectric function in La-doped hafnium oxide thin layer subjected to swift Xe ion irradiation

Philippe Buffat, Elena Suvorova Buffat

High-resolution transmission electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and electron energy-loss spectroscopy provide information on the structural evolution, dielectric function, and bandgap values of nanocrystalline 10nm thick lanthanum doped hafnia (La: ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Cd-113 Solid-State NMR at 21.1 T Reveals the Local Structure and Passivation Mechanism of Cadmium in Hybrid and All-Inorganic Halide Perovskites

David Lyndon Emsley, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Albert Hofstetter, Daniel Prochowicz, Brennan James Walder

Cadmium doping has recently emerged as an efficacious strategy for defect suppression and band gap tuning in hybrid as well as all-inorganic halide perovskites. However, the cadmium speciation in these materials is unknown. Here, we use high-field cadmium- ...

2020

Cryogenic Infrared Action Spectroscopy Fingerprints the Hydrogen Bonding Network in Gas-Phase Coumarin Cations

Thomas Rizzo, Eduardo Carrascosa Casado, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli

We report cryogenic vibrational spectra of gas-phase cations of two common hydroxycoumarins, scopoletin and esculetin, as well as their glycosidic derivatives, scopolin and esculin. The study allows direct observation of the intramolecular interactions bet ...

2020

Energy dependent structure of Xe ion tracks in YBCO and the effect on the superconductive properties in magnetic fields

Philippe Buffat, Elena Suvorova Buffat

The morphology and structure of damaged regions (tracks) produced by swift heavy 167, 77, and 46 MeV 132Xe23+ ions in YBCO-based second generation industrial high temperature superconductors wires (2G HTS) were studied using transmission electron microscop ...

2019

First-principles calculations of iodine-related point defects in CsPbI3

Joachim Maier, Alessandro Senocrate

We present here first principles hybrid functional calculations of the atomic and electronic structure of several iodine-related point defects in CsPbI3, a material relevant for photovoltaic applications. We show that the presence of neutral interstitial I ...

2019

Print-Light-Synthesis of Ni and NiFe-nanoscale catalysts for oxygen evolution

Hubert Girault, Emad Oveisi, Mounir Driss Mensi, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Victor Costa Bassetto

By hyphenating inkjet printing and flash light irradiation, Ni- and NiFe-nano-electrocatalysts of diameters below 2.5 nm with ultralow loadings below 2 µg·cm–2 are synthesized. To achieve this, nanoliter ink volumes containing Ni and Fe chlorides as cataly ...

2019

Evolution of nitrogen concentration and ammonia production in N-2-seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Laurie Porte, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Haomin Sun, Richard Pitts, Yann Camenen, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Alberto Bottino, Emiliano Fable, Andrea Scarabosio, Doohyun Kim, Dávid Wágner, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Donghyun Kim, Xiao Wang, Bernhard Sieglin, Otto Asunta, Hartmut Zohm, Emanuele Poli, Gergely Papp, Giovanni Tardini

Ammonia formation was studied in a series of dedicated nitrogen seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade. The evolution of ammonia formation was investigated with a reference phase before the seeding, and a long, stable flat-top nitrogen-seeded phase. It ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019