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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Our team
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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 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.
Big time congratulations to Junjie for completing his #phd on biomineralized ๐ nanomaterials for catalysis. Great ceremony, and it was very nice to see the grandparents ๐. Big things on the horizon for Junjie for sure ๐๐๐. #phdlife #phdjourney #phdgraduation #phdceremonygraduation #biomineralization #synchrotronlife #missionaccomplished #dataordie
Congrats to @zuby57 for passing his final research progress review ๐๐๐๐!!Now, onto the thesis ๐โโ๏ธ๐๐โโ๏ธ๐๐ฌ. #phd #phdthesis #biomass #synchrotronscience #accomplishments #dataordie
Greetings from the Bay ๐๐. @gug_rj participated in the MRS Spring Meeting jn San Francisco ๐งฑ๐ฅผ๐๐, where he presented work on characterizing biosensor interfaces ๐ค๐ช๐๏ธโโ๏ธ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ. Way to represent ๐! #conference #springmrs #materialsresearchsociety #biosensors #bayarea #gobacktohawaiiplease #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie
The group had two great student visits this week. First @gug_rj visited our colleagues at the Air Force Research Lab to collaborate on our human performance biosensing efforts ๐๐ฉโ๐๐งโ๐๐จโ๐๐พ๐พ, then to the University of Cincinnati to visiting Prof Jason Heikenfeldโs to initiate future work on electrochemical biosensors ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐๐ฑ๐ฅผโก๏ธ. Two time zones away, @yuweii77vv was busy performing experiments in Adam Holewinskiโs lab CU Boulder, focusing on collaborative biomass electroprocessing efforts โก๏ธ๐ฒ๐๏ธโท๏ธ๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ. Thanks to everyone for hosting! #collabos #sensors #airforcemuseum #wpafb #cincy #devices #biomass #sustainability #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out in ACS Catalysis ๐บ๐ธ๐งชโ๐ฑโ๏ธ๐๐. In collaboration with our friends at TU Berlin and others at UNSW, our team investigated the role of Ce doping in reactive water oxidation catalysts. We found the optimal Ce doping leads to stabile and reactive materials with desired OER properties, including those used in electrolysis devices. In-situ XAS performed at MR-CAT at APS showcase the structural changes leading to this enhancement of reactivity, which were confirmed theoretically with DFT ๐ฌ๐งฎ. Great job @zuby57 for leading the effort and @bijilsubhash for the efforts at APS. Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.2c05863 #nanotechnology #nanomaterials #sustainability #electrolysis #layereddoublehydroxides #cerium #nickel #cobalt #xas #dft #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #dataordie
New paper out in ACS Applied Nano Materials ๐บ๐ธ๐งชโ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐งฑ๐๐ซ . Lead by the excellent hydrogen storage folks at the University of Sydney, the team investigated the use of V and Ni doping in NaBH4, an interesting material for H2 storage ๐ง๐ซง๐ซ. Cool stuff ๐โโ๏ธ๐. Thanks to the folks at the Aussitron ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐บfor helping out with the photons.
Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsanm.2c05209 #hydrogen #hydrogenstorage #nabh4 #nickel #vanadium #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #dataordie
Great times and good science at the ACS Spring Meeting in Indy ๐๏ธ this week. Great job to @gug_rj and @yuweii77vv for representing ๐ช, and to NREL for organizing a killer catalyst symposium ๐งช๐ก๏ธ๐๏ธ. Definitely felt good to be back after a bit of a hiatus from the national meetings. #acs #indy #biomass #postersession #seeyouinnola #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
And thatโs a wrap for synchrotron experiments at NSLS-II ๐ฌ๐ฅฑ๐ฎโ๐จ๐ค๐ค. We ended with performing some very nice HAXPES measurements on heterostructured 2D materials ๐ซ and high entropy alloy catalysts ๐ช๏ธ๐ช๏ธ, including some nice looking valence band spectra โก๏ธ๐ธ๐. Look at that analyzer ๐ฑ๐คฉ๐ป!!! Good job @yuweii77vv #xps #vbs #haxpes #2dmaterials #highentropy #catalysis #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #nslsii #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Everything everywhere all at once, the XAS edition ๐ซ ๐ตโ๐ซ๐ฝ๐ซฅ๐คฏ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌโก๏ธ๐ก๐ด๏ธ๐คนโโ๏ธ๐คน๐คนโโ๏ธ. Early this week, the crew was performing XAS at three different synchrotrons on three continents simultaneously ๐ป๐ฑ๐ช๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐งโ๐ฌ๐จโ๐ฌ. Up first, @will_hadi @haihackbarth & Jhair were at the Aussitron ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ท๏ธperforming a range of in-situ experiments for biomass electrocatalysis. Up next, Taren and out friends at CEA โข๏ธ went to Soleil ๐ซ๐ท๐ฅ๐ง to study the local structure of nuclear separation materials ๐ฌโ . And finally, @yuweii77vv yours truly, and our friends from Stony Brook Uni performed in-situ synthesis of Pt single atom catalytsts at NSLS-II ๐บ๐ธ๐ฝ๐ฅฏ. 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 yโall ๐ #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 ๐งช โก๏ธ at the Aussitron ๐ฆ๐ท๏ธ๐จ๐(@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 ๐ฌ๐ซก๐คญ. #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 A๐๐บ๐๐บ๐๐ฅณ๐พ!!! 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 ๐๐จ๐ผ๏ธ. 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 ๐ฝ๐ฅฐ 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 ๐ฆฌ๐๏ธThanks to Dan and John for the assist! See yโall next week ๐. #welcomebacktonewyork #electrochemistry #electrocatalysis #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #seeyounexttuesday #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
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