BEDFORD RESEARCH GROUP
Welcome to the website for the Bedford Research Group. Here you will find information on all the group’s research activities, publications and various musings. The group is always looking for talented, enthusiastic, and passionate students eager to develop scientific principles for the generation of new materials with interesting/improved properties. Our group is highly collaborative as well, so feel free to contact us if you would be interested in working together!
BEDFORD RESEARCH GROUP
Welcome to the website for the Bedford Research Group. Here you will find information on all the group’s research activities, publications and various musings. The group is always looking for talented, enthusiastic, and passionate students eager to develop scientific principles for the generation of new materials with interesting/improved properties. Our group is highly collaborative as well, so feel free to contact us if you would be interested in working together ?
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Our team
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Research
We make really interesting materials. Then we shoot X-rays at them to figure out how they work and how to make better materials. Click here to learn more.
Publications
Dissemination of new research is vital to the progress of technology. Click here to see what the team has published.
WHAT WE DO
Our group is interested in two things: 1) Uncovering the fundamental structural science behind what gives materials the properties that they exhibit and 2) using this information to make new materials with emergent properties. We strive to accomplish both of these interests through creative thinking coupled with the rigorous study of fundamental science. Many of our students work in very collaborative projects across campus, Australia, and beyond and work in areas including catalysis, advanced ceramic materials, biosensors, and rare earth materials.
New paper out in Advanced Materials Technologies 🔮🧱📟!! Led by our mates in CAMD 🎥 at UNSW, multi component composites were made via 3D printing 🖨️. Acrylonitrile and polycarbosilane were combined with a photocurable 💡❤️🩹 resin and printed, providing a means to tune local microphase separation. After pyrolysis, a SiOC/carbon material was formed exhibiting the properties of both materials. Read the paper here ➡️: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/admt.202400337 #3dprinting #composites #polyacrylonitrile #polycarbosilane #sioc #synchrotronscience #dataordie
New paper out in Advanced Materials Technologies 🔮🧱📟!! Led by our mates in CAMD 🎥 at UNSW, multi component composites were made via 3D printing 🖨️. Acrylonitrile and polycarbosilane were combined with a photocurable 💡❤️🩹 resin and printed, providing a means to tune local microphase separation. After pyrolysis, a SiOC/carbon material was formed exhibiting the properties of both materials. Read the paper here ➡️: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/admt.202400337 #3dprinting #composites #polyacrylonitrile #polycarbosilane #sioc #synchrotronscience #dataordie
Great science 🧪, great time with colleagues 🤗 , and great food 🍕🍷🍝 at the Ultra High Temperature Ceramics 🥵😶🌫️🏺🧱conference in Sicily 🇮🇹 this week. I was very happy to present work from our group efforts in understanding structure property relationships for polymer derived ceramics, led by @haihackbarth @steeephch in the lab. It was interesting to see where people in the field were doing in this space as well, and all the newer concepts in making composite materials. See you in two years at Keystone ⛷️! #ceramics #ultrahightemperature #conference #sicily #naxos #etnavolcano #dontrentelectric #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Great science 🧪, great time with colleagues 🤗 , and great food 🍕🍷🍝 at the Ultra High Temperature Ceramics 🥵😶🌫️🏺🧱conference in Sicily 🇮🇹 this week. I was very happy to present work from our group efforts in understanding structure property relationships for polymer derived ceramics, led by @haihackbarth @steeephch in the lab. It was interesting to see where people in the field were doing in this space as well, and all the newer concepts in making composite materials. See you in two years at Keystone ⛷️! #ceramics #ultrahightemperature #conference #sicily #naxos #etnavolcano #dontrentelectric #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Great job to everyone who heroed through experiments at PETRA-III this week 🤡🎭🦸🦸♂️🦸♀️. The team examined new advanced ceramic materials🧱 using PDF measurements in-situ during thermal treatment 🔥. Thanks to our mates a AFRL 🛫 and uni Montpellier 🍷🧀👒 for the assist, and @steeephch for leading the charge. Keep an eye out 👁️🍢 out for the new data published soon. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #desy #petraiii #totalscattering #pdf #ceramics #polymerderivedceramics #pyrolysis #collabos #airforceresearchlaboratory #montpellier #lazygovernmentworker #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie
Great job to everyone who heroed through experiments at PETRA-III this week 🤡🎭🦸🦸♂️🦸♀️. The team examined new advanced ceramic materials🧱 using PDF measurements in-situ during thermal treatment 🔥. Thanks to our mates a AFRL 🛫 and uni Montpellier 🍷🧀👒 for the assist, and @steeephch for leading the charge. Keep an eye out 👁️🍢 out for the new data published soon. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #desy #petraiii #totalscattering #pdf #ceramics #polymerderivedceramics #pyrolysis #collabos #airforceresearchlaboratory #montpellier #lazygovernmentworker #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out in Advanced Materials 📟🧱😁😎👍🌩️. Lead by our collaborators at the University of Adelaide 🍷🏄🦘, high entropy alloy 🌀🤘🧑🏭nanoparticles were developed for CO2 reduction reactions mediated by Li 🔋. Lots of really nice fundamental work done on this effort to better understand how electronic structure ⚡️influence reactivity ⚗️. Great work by all! Read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202401288 #co2 #lithium #highentropyalloy #electrocatalysis #nickel #iron #copper #cobalt #ruthenium #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie
New paper out in Advanced Materials 📟🧱😁😎👍🌩️. Lead by our collaborators at the University of Adelaide 🍷🏄🦘, high entropy alloy 🌀🤘🧑🏭nanoparticles were developed for CO2 reduction reactions mediated by Li 🔋. Lots of really nice fundamental work done on this effort to better understand how electronic structure ⚡️influence reactivity ⚗️. Great work by all! Read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202401288 #co2 #lithium #highentropyalloy #electrocatalysis #nickel #iron #copper #cobalt #ruthenium #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie
New paper out in Green Chemistry 💚🧪. In collaboration with researchers at CityU 🏙️ 🏫, new catalyst we designed for C-O cleavage of lignin 🌲 substrates, an important reaction to enable bio-derived aromatics. Great work by all, including @tarencataldo @yuweii77vv for the XAS experiments 💡🩻. Read the paper here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2024/gc/d4gc00338a #biomass #greenchemistry #lignin #zinc #indium #sulfides #xas #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie
New paper out in Green Chemistry 💚🧪. In collaboration with researchers at CityU 🏙️ 🏫, new catalyst we designed for C-O cleavage of lignin 🌲 substrates, an important reaction to enable bio-derived aromatics. Great work by all, including @tarencataldo @yuweii77vv for the XAS experiments 💡🩻. Read the paper here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2024/gc/d4gc00338a #biomass #greenchemistry #lignin #zinc #indium #sulfides #xas #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie
Just finished up with some experiments at P21 one of PETRA-III’s premier PDF beamlines 🩻🤓⚛️🇩🇪. We looked at a range of interesting electrocatalysis geared for sustainable fuel generation ☀️🪴🎈. Many thanks to our friends at the University of Montpellier 🇫🇷🥖 and @yuweii77vv for taking the lead on experiments. #synchrotronlife #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #xrd #atomicpdf #electrocatalysis #danishfoodingermany #itrainedalot #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Just finished up with some experiments at P21 one of PETRA-III’s premier PDF beamlines 🩻🤓⚛️🇩🇪. We looked at a range of interesting electrocatalysis geared for sustainable fuel generation ☀️🪴🎈. Many thanks to our friends at the University of Montpellier 🇫🇷🥖 and @yuweii77vv for taking the lead on experiments. #synchrotronlife #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #xrd #atomicpdf #electrocatalysis #danishfoodingermany #itrainedalot #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Great science and great times at the ACS Spring Meeting in NOLA 🎺🎷🍹🦞🦐🧫⚗️🔬. The group represented with four invited talks (including one by the fabulous @yuweii77vv 🧑🏫👩🏫👨🏫. It was great catching up with old friends and colleagues and meeting new collaborators. Big congrats to Sara Thoi for her award as well 🏆. This should be in NOLA every year! #acsspring2024 #nola #chemistry #phdlife #biomass #advancedceramics #highentropyalloys #gosara #cantstopwontstop #ontogermany #dataordie
Great science and great times at the ACS Spring Meeting in NOLA 🎺🎷🍹🦞🦐🧫⚗️🔬. The group represented with four invited talks (including one by the fabulous @yuweii77vv 🧑🏫👩🏫👨🏫. It was great catching up with old friends and colleagues and meeting new collaborators. Big congrats to Sara Thoi for her award as well 🏆. This should be in NOLA every year! #acsspring2024 #nola #chemistry #phdlife #biomass #advancedceramics #highentropyalloys #gosara #cantstopwontstop #ontogermany #dataordie
Just wrapped up on an excellent AFOSR program review in DC 🏛️ on advanced composite materials 🧱🛩️🧑🔬👩🔬. Great to see all the good work, good friends and colleagues. Being a new newbie to this area, its was super informative 📚, and I’m really excited about future work in this program. Good stuff 😎. #research #programreview #composites #advancedmaterials #highentropy #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Just wrapped up on an excellent AFOSR program review in DC 🏛️ on advanced composite materials 🧱🛩️🧑🔬👩🔬. Great to see all the good work, good friends and colleagues. Being a new newbie to this area, its was super informative 📚, and I’m really excited about future work in this program. Good stuff 😎. #research #programreview #composites #advancedmaterials #highentropy #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Time to party while the advisor’s away 🎉🍾🏃♂️🤪. The group went out to celebrate @zuby57 new position at Griffith University 🦁, while also welcoming on our newest student, Tanveer! Good time for the lab for sure #party #milestones #goodtimeswithlabmates #maketime #backtothelab #dataordie
Time to party while the advisor’s away 🎉🍾🏃♂️🤪. The group went out to celebrate @zuby57 new position at Griffith University 🦁, while also welcoming on our newest student, Tanveer! Good time for the lab for sure #party #milestones #goodtimeswithlabmates #maketime #backtothelab #dataordie
Great times at the AFRL Biotech Summit 🛫🧫🗻. it was amazing to see old friends and colleagues, get some new project started, and touring the old stomping ground 🥰🥰. Could have went without the tornado though… 🌪️🙅♂️🙅♀️🙅#biotech #collabs #letsgetbusy #notornadoesplease #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Great times at the AFRL Biotech Summit 🛫🧫🗻. it was amazing to see old friends and colleagues, get some new project started, and touring the old stomping ground 🥰🥰. Could have went without the tornado though… 🌪️🙅♂️🙅♀️🙅#biotech #collabs #letsgetbusy #notornadoesplease #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
🆕 📝 published in Small Science 🔬🧪😎🙌. Lead by our colleagues in the Boyer group, nanostructured carbon materials were 3D printed 🖨️ from PAN polymer precursors. Self assembly 👨👩👦👦👨👩👦👦 design processes allow for control over the microstructure of the carbon materials, enabling changes in thermal properties 🌡️. Great work by all 👍. Read the paper ➡️ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smsc.202300275 #pan #carbon #3dprinting #nano #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #collabs #dataordie
🆕 📝 published in Small Science 🔬🧪😎🙌. Lead by our colleagues in the Boyer group, nanostructured carbon materials were 3D printed 🖨️ from PAN polymer precursors. Self assembly 👨👩👦👦👨👩👦👦 design processes allow for control over the microstructure of the carbon materials, enabling changes in thermal properties 🌡️. Great work by all 👍. Read the paper ➡️ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smsc.202300275 #pan #carbon #3dprinting #nano #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #collabs #dataordie
New paper 🗣️📝 out in ChemCatChem 🧪🐈🧪 😺😼😸😻. In this effort, we generated CeZr oxide nanocatalysts for organophosphate hydrolysis reactions 🌊❌, which are important from degrading toxic chemicals 😵. Here, biomineralization 🐚 processes are used to make the catalyst under aqueous conditions at neutral pH 🌎🐳🦔. Check out the paper here: https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cctc.202300965 #biomineralization #protamine #organophosphate #hydrolysis #ceria #zirconia #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie
New paper 🗣️📝 out in ChemCatChem 🧪🐈🧪 😺😼😸😻. In this effort, we generated CeZr oxide nanocatalysts for organophosphate hydrolysis reactions 🌊❌, which are important from degrading toxic chemicals 😵. Here, biomineralization 🐚 processes are used to make the catalyst under aqueous conditions at neutral pH 🌎🐳🦔. Check out the paper here: https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cctc.202300965 #biomineralization #protamine #organophosphate #hydrolysis #ceria #zirconia #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie
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