BEDFORD RESEARCH GROUP
Welcome to the website for the Bedford Research Group.ย Here you will find information on all the groupโs research activities, publications and various musings.ย 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.ย 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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BEDFORD RESEARCH GROUP
Welcome to the website for the Bedford Research Group.ย Here you will find information on all the groupโs research activities, publications and various musings.ย 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.ย 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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Interested in joining our team?
Our team
Click here to learn more about our crew and information to join the team
Research
We make really interesting materials.ย Then we shoot X-rays at them to figure out how they work and how to make better materials.ย Click here to learn more.
Publications
Dissemination of new research is vital to the progress of technology.ย 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.ย We strive to accomplish both of these interests through creative thinking coupled with rigorous study of fundamental science. Many of our students work in very collaborative projects, both within the Particle and Catalysis Research Group, across campus, Australia and beyond.ย We focus quite a bit on catalysis, but we donโt mind playing in other areas as well.
First experiments of 2023 are in the books ๐ฌ๐งช๐ฉปโก๏ธ๐๐พ. Just finished work at 11-ID at the @esrf_synchrotron and got lots of nice looking data ๐, including a lot of in-situ measurements on biomass electrooxidation catalyst ๐ณโก๏ธ๐. Huge thank you to the staff for all their support ๐ and Grenoble for being itโs gorgeous self ๐ธ. See yโall in July ๐คฉ. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xraydiffraction #foodisbetterinfrance #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Fire yโall ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ. Just before the holiday break ๐ ๐๐ฆ, the team was hard at work at the Advanced Photon Source performing in-situ pyrolysis work studying ceramic materials ๐ชด made from polymers ๐ฅฝ. Thanks the huge assist from our mates at AFRL โ๏ธ for the massive assist. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #ceramics #pyrolysis #successthroughfailure #dataordie
Big congrats to DR Jungie Jiang for successfully completing his PhD!! ๐๐๐ซถ๐ฅณ๐๐๐พ๐ป๐๐ฅ๐ธ๐ฅผ๐งช๐จโ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐๐บ๐๐บ๐๐บ. Dr Jiangโs thesis work focused on using biomineralization ๐ pathways to make a range non-biogenic mixed metal oxides for catalysis ๐๐๐ง . Two impressive papers have already been published from his works, with another on the way โญ. Time to party ๐คช๐. #missionaccomplishedโ๏ธ #newphd #thesiscompleted #biomineralization #silica #titania #zincoxide #tinoxide #ceria #zirconia #co2utilization #byebyeorganophosphates #dataordie
Congrats to @will_hadi for receiving the Deanโs Award for Outstanding PhD Theses ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฅณ๐พ๐ป!!! This is a very selective honor reflective of the hard work and excellent research quality of the thesis. Awesome job! #phd #phdlife #bestofthebest #deansaward #ontothenextone #dataordie
Late post ๐ค๐ซ ๐คทโโ๏ธ! Congrats to Kshitij and @haihackbarth for passing their APRs back mid-December ๐ฅณ๐๐๐๐บ๐ชฉ!! Looking forward to the next year of results and productivity ๐๐. #hydrogenstorage #advancedceramics #dft #synchrotron #phd #phdlife #catchmeoutside #harrypottersphoenix #dataordie
Awesome day yesterday at the UNSW engineering commencement. Congrats to all the graduates, especially @will_hadi on receiving his PhD! Great to see everyone there ! #goals #phd #missionaccomplished #graduation #ontothenextone #dataordie
Congrats to everyone in the BRG for their successful completion of their annual performance reviews ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณโ โ ๐๐5 down, 2 to go for 2022! Congrats to @bijilsubhash @yuweii77vv @gug_rj for passing their reviews, and to Taren and Jhair for officially becoming PhD candidates ๐ค๐. Good job yโall ๐ซก๐. #phd #phdlife #synchrotronlife #highentropyalloy #somethingfuelcycle #biomasscatalysis #biosensors #mofs #undeniable #dataordie
New paper out in Advanced Materials Interfaces โ๏ธ๐งฑ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐คฆโโ๏ธ!! In collabos with our friends at AFRL โ๏ธ๐ธ, carbon nanotube based sensors for volatile organic compounds ๐คข๐คฎhave been developed and fully characterized. CNTs were functionalities with peptides that were discovered via computational chemistry ๐งช ๐ฉโ๐ป๐งโ๐ป๐จโ๐ป๐งช and machine learning approaches ๐ค. To correlate sensor performance to peptide sequence, N K-edge measurements were used to probe alignment at the interface, which was done at the Aussitron ๐ฆ๐จ๐ท๐ฆ. Keep an eye out for more work in this area.. we are just getting started ๐ซก๐. Read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/admi.202201707 #sensors #carbonnanotubes #peptide #voc #nexafs #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #synchrotronlife #dataordie
Congrats to the Biotic H2 VIP team for the tip top presentation booth at the Engineering Education Festival at UNSW. A yearโs worth of hard work very well represented, where the students showcased an electrolyzer running off of beer waste ๐ป๐๐ฅฐโป๏ธโก๏ธโก๏ธ๐ก๐ธ!! Killer stuff yโall, see you next year ๐ ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ #vip #beertohydrogren #electrolyzer #undergradresearch #unsweng #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out now in Chemistry of Materials ๐งช๐งฑ!! In collabs with our besties at Johns Hopkins Uni, we report on flexible ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง๐งโโ๏ธboron induced MOFs for Li-S batteries ๐. We show that by inducing flexibility in the framework structure, better battery performance is measured. Cool stuff ๐!! Read the paper here โก๏ธโก๏ธ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02324 #lithiumsulfurbattery #lithium #sulfur #mof #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronradiation #dataordie
Great week of seminars and visits ๐๐ฃ๐. First stop, Colorado ๐where there was snow and seminars at NREL (plus a get together at Mines). Super pumped to be doing a sabbatical here next year!! Second stop CICESE ๐โ๏ธ๐ฒ๐ฝ, where I spoke to the department of applied physics. Going to be doing some great work with them in the future on laser pattern nanocatalyst ๐. Good way to end travel in 2022โฆ hell of a travel year yall ๐บ๐ธ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ญ๐ช๐ธ#seminarseminar #betterinthemountains #biomass #catalysis #sciencesouthoftheborder #dontstealmycar #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Just finished representing the School of ChemEng at the AIChE student recruitment event ๐๐โ๏ธ. Pretty cool seeing all the potential phd students and informing them about all the possibilities available to them at UNSW ๐ฆ๐๐๐งช. See yโall next year in Orlando! #phdstudent #cometoOz #aiche #ontodisneyworld #spreadingthegoodword #dataordie
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