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.
Great times and good science at the ACS Spring Meeting in Indy 🏎️ this week. Great job to @gug_rj and @yuweii77vv for representing 💪, and to NREL for organizing a killer catalyst symposium 🧪🗡️🎙️. Definitely felt good to be back after a bit of a hiatus from the national meetings. #acs #indy #biomass #postersession #seeyouinnola #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
And that’s a wrap for synchrotron experiments at NSLS-II 🎬🥱😮💨💤💤. We ended with performing some very nice HAXPES measurements on heterostructured 2D materials 🫓 and high entropy alloy catalysts 🌪️🌪️, including some nice looking valence band spectra ⚡️🎸🌈. Look at that analyzer 😱🤩😻!!! Good job @yuweii77vv #xps #vbs #haxpes #2dmaterials #highentropy #catalysis #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #nslsii #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Everything everywhere all at once, the XAS edition 🫠😵💫👽🫥🤯😎😘🎥🎬⚡️💡🕴️🤹♂️🤹🤹♀️. Early this week, the crew was performing XAS at three different synchrotrons on three continents simultaneously 😻😱💪👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬. Up first, @will_hadi @haihackbarth & Jhair were at the Aussitron 🇦🇺🦘🕷️performing a range of in-situ experiments for biomass electrocatalysis. Up next, Taren and out friends at CEA ☢️ went to Soleil 🇫🇷🥖🧀 to study the local structure of nuclear separation materials 🔬✅. And finally, @yuweii77vv yours truly, and our friends from Stony Brook Uni performed in-situ synthesis of Pt single atom catalytsts at NSLS-II 🇺🇸🗽🥯. This is the first step at understanding local structure of these materials, which will be used for methanol oxidation experiments under an ARC project. Fun times y’all 😎 #eeaao #threecontinentsoneday #xas #biomasscatalysis #highentropyalloys #nuclearseperation #newyorkparismelbs #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #synchrotronsoleil #nslsii #aussitron #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Great job to the team and there successful in-situ XAS experiments 🧪 ⚡️ at the Aussitron 🦘🕷️🐨👏(@steeephch @zuby57 & Jhair). Great looking data was collected on a series of high entropy alloys for various electrocatalytic reactions. Just a small snippet of the XAS experiments coming soon 😬🫡🤭. #xas #electrochemistry #insitu #highentropyalloys #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #dataordie
Our recent paper on Cu-based biomass oxidation catalysts is featured on the front cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A💃🕺💃🕺🎉🥳🍾!!! The work, lead by @will_hadi, showcases some new directions in the rapidly growing field. Big thanks to the legends at @ella_maru studios for putting this together. Tip top work, as always 🏆🎨🖼️. The paper can be found here: http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=D2TA08306J #biomass #hmf #fdca #coverart #scienceasart #cuwinstherace #dataordie
After 6 long years, we finally made it back to New York 🗽🥰 and NSLS-II!! Just wrapped on some quick in-situ and electrochemical PDF measurements, where we are studying the structure of multimetallic nanoparticles during alcohol oxidation reactions in collabos with our mates at CU Boulder 🦬🏔️Thanks to Dan and John for the assist! See y’all next week 😉. #welcomebacktonewyork #electrochemistry #electrocatalysis #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #seeyounexttuesday #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Just wrapped at APS/11-ID-C doing a lot of in-situ furnace PDF work 🔥🥵☀️☕️❤️🔥. Got some really nice looking data sets on 3D printable preceramic polymer materials 🧱🖨️, which will help our understanding on how polymer-to-ceramic conversions take place at the atomic scale ⚛️🕵️♀️🕵️♀️🕵️♂️. Thanks to the beamline staff and our friends at AFRL for the assistance. And a huge huge huge thanks to all at the APS for the help over the years. It’ll be sad being away for so long, but I’m sure the place will look tip top after the upgrade. It’s fitting that the last beam time before the upgrade happens at the same beamline I started at all those years ago 🧙♂️. #hothothot🔥🔥🔥 #ceramics #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #synchrotronlife #comebackstronger #dontmissmetoomuch #badtimelapse #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Whoa! Look at how much fun we had at APS 🤖🍾👯♀️👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬. Despite some invalid command line setbacks 🤪🫥, we got some killer looking in-situ electrocatalytic XAS data at MR-CAT 🦁. Biomass oxidation reactions? ✅✅. C-N coupling ?? ✅. Huge thanks to our friends at Johns Hopkins for the assist the experiments 🎓🏫.
#xas #insitu #biomass #cncoupling #invalidcommandline #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #synchrotronlife #getbettersoonjosh #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
The crew recently wrapped up a nice set of experiments at SXR of the Aussitron 🦘🐨🕷💪🧐🎉. We used XAS in the soft X-ray regime to probe the surfaces of function biosensor 🧫🔬👩🔬🧑🔬🧪. Thanks to the staff at SXR for all the help! #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #sampleprep #uhv #sensors #missingout #dataordie
When you intend to have a civil teams meeting and end of opening a wormhole to another universe….🫣🫠🤠😵💫🫡🤯😎 #teamsmeeting #wormhole #multiversal3dprinting #ceramics #dataordie #diedinawormhole
First paper of 2023 is out in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A🎉🎊📝🤓🅰️. Here, we dig into the nitty gritty details of 5-HMF electrooxidation to FDCA 🔬🙀, an important reaction for biomass upgrading and possible green H2 generation 🌳⛽️.We discover that Cu based catalyst exhibit excellent reactivity and selectivity vs more common water oxidation catalyst, providing new avenues toward biomass electrolysis 💪💯✅.Big props to @will_hadi for leading the charge, and @yuweii77vv @zuby57 @darastrix354 for their contributions 👍🤙. Reading yall : https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/ta/d2ta08306j/unauth #prussianblue #electrocatalysis #copper #betterthannickel #betterthancobalt #5hmf #biomass #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #sciencehike #dataordie
First experiments of 2023 are in the books 🔬🧪🩻⚡️🎉🍾. Just finished work at 11-ID at the @esrf_synchrotron and got lots of nice looking data 😎, including a lot of in-situ measurements on biomass electrooxidation catalyst 🌳⚡️🐈. Huge thank you to the staff for all their support 🙏 and Grenoble for being it’s gorgeous self 😸. See y’all in July 🤩. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xraydiffraction #foodisbetterinfrance #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
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