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
Click here to learn more about our crew and information to join the team
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 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. We focus quite a bit on catalysis, but we don’t mind playing in other areas as well.
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 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳✅✅🏁🏁5 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 🤓😎. Good job y’all 🫡😁. #phd #phdlife #synchrotronlife #highentropyalloy #somethingfuelcycle #biomasscatalysis #biosensors #mofs #undeniable #dataordie
New paper out in Advanced Materials Interfaces ⚛️🧱🤦♀️🤦🤦♂️!! In collabos with our friends at AFRL ✈️🛸, carbon nanotube based sensors for volatile organic compounds 🤢🤮have been developed and fully characterized. CNTs were functionalities with peptides that were discovered via computational chemistry 🧪 👩💻🧑💻👨💻🧪 and machine learning approaches 🤖. 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 🦘🐨🕷🦈. Keep an eye out for more work in this area.. we are just getting started 🫡😎. 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 year’s worth of hard work very well represented, where the students showcased an electrolyzer running off of beer waste 🍻🗑🥰♻️➡️⚡️💡🎸!! Killer stuff y’all, see you next year 🙂 🥳🥳 #vip #beertohydrogren #electrolyzer #undergradresearch #unsweng #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out now in Chemistry of Materials 🧪🧱!! In collabs with our besties at Johns Hopkins Uni, we report on flexible 🧘♂️🧘🧘♀️boron induced MOFs for Li-S batteries 🔋. We show that by inducing flexibility in the framework structure, better battery performance is measured. Cool stuff 😎!! Read the paper here ➡️➡️ 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 🔊🗣🎙. First stop, Colorado 🏔where 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 🌊☀️🇲🇽, 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 😎. Good way to end travel in 2022… hell of a travel year yall 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇸🇬🇲🇽🇵🇦🇨🇴🇩🇪🇨🇭🇪🇸#seminarseminar #betterinthemountains #biomass #catalysis #sciencesouthoftheborder #dontstealmycar #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Just finished representing the School of ChemEng at the AIChE student recruitment event 📓🎓☑️. Pretty cool seeing all the potential phd students and informing them about all the possibilities available to them at UNSW 🦘📜🏖🧪. See y’all next year in Orlando! #phdstudent #cometoOz #aiche #ontodisneyworld #spreadingthegoodword #dataordie
Greetings from PETRA-III 🩻⚡️🇩🇪!! The crew is currently at P21.1 🇸🇪 performing PDF measurements on biomass electrooxidation catalyst during reactions!! By measuring changes in structure during reactions, we can start to determine how structure influences reactivity 😸🏋️♂️🏌️♂️. Data is looking good 🙌😎😇..!! Looking forward to a return visit! #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #petraiii #desy #catalyst #biomass #highentropy #layeredmaterials #ileftearly #radiationsafety #thebeatles #biggermanbeers #ontophoenix #richpeopleorphanage #dataordie
And that’s a wrap on another amazing AFOSR program review ✈️ 🎬💪! It’s really quite amazing to be involved with this group, with amazing projects spanning a huge spectrum activities, including our fun synchrotron activities looking at the interface of biosensors 🔬🧪🧫!! See y’all next year 🫡😎🤓🥳!! #humanperformance #biosensors #turtledance #shootinglasersatflies #IR2ADP #nomadscientist #watchoutyall #dataordie
Greetings/Saludos/Salutacions para ALBA 🇪🇸!! Just wrapped on some nice in-situ electrocatalysis experiments at BL22. Fun stuff and good data 🥳😎🤓!! Looking forward to coming back next year 🔶🔶. (Also, how good if the food here..yikes) 🤤🤤. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #food2good #breadandpotatochips #meow #nearfarwhereveryouare #diamondshapedcountry
New paper published in PCCP 😵💫😵💫!! Led by our mates in Canada 🇨🇦 🍁, in-situ 😎 differential PDF measurements 🤯🤯 were used to monitor cluster to nanoparticle transitions for Au 🥇and Ag 🥈deposited on Al2O3 🐇. Understanding these transitions is critical for synthesizing new catalyst for a variety of useful reactions 🧪🧪🧪. Read the paper here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/CP/D2CP02682A #nano #clusters #gold #silver #al2o3 #differential #insituallday #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #betterupnorth #blamecanada #dataordie
New publication out in ACS Applied Nano Materials y’all 🇺🇸 🧪 🎩👷♂️🔬🧱🤠🤠!! With our old mates at Deakin University 🧝♀️🧝🧝♂️, Cu nanofibers were generated via electrospinning 🤯😵💫😵💫 for arsenic removal! Good job everyone for pushing this through!! Read the paper (or just look at the pictures 🦷) here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsanm.2c02776 #copper #arsenic #electrospinning #byebyearsenic #gooddataneverdies #betterlatethannever #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #dataordie
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