PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
It is critically important that taxpayer funded efforts are disseminated to the public. Here you’ll find a list of all publications from the Bedford Research Group and Dr. Bedford prior to his arrival at UNSW.
2026
“High-entropy alloy nanowires for direct electrosynthesis of chlorine from seawater”
Nature Synthesis
2026
Advanced Functional Materials
2026
“PbCrO4/Pb Hybrid with Surface Unsaturated Metal Sites for Efficient CO2-to-Formate Reduction”
Advanced Functional Materials
2026
Chemistry of Materials
2026
2025
The American Ceramic Society
2025
“Conformal electrochemical deposition of intermetallic AuCu thin films for convergent C–N coupling”
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2025
“Lattice Oxygen-Mediated Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction”
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2025
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
2024
“Degradation of Glyphosate to Benign N-Formyl Glycine Using MOF-808 Nanocrystals”
Angewandte Chemie
2025
“Lone-Pair Driven Na-Ion Diffusion Leading to Highly Conductive Na2(BH4)(NH2) Phases”
ACS Applied Energy Materials
2025
2024
“Intermarrying MOF Glass and Lead Halide Perovskites for Artificial Photosynthesis”
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2024
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
2024
Advanced Materials Technology
2024
“High Entropy Alloys Enable Durable and Efficient Lithium-Mediated CO2 Redox Reactions”
Advanced Materials
2024
“High Entropy Alloys Enable Durable and Efficient Lithium-Mediated CO2 Redox Reactions”
Advanced Materials
2024
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
2024
2023
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2023
“Doping and Structure-Promoted Destabilization of NaBH4 Nanocubes for Hydrogen Storage”
ACS Applied Nano Materials
2023
“Electrochemical C–N Bond Formation within Boron Imidazolate Cages Featuring Single Copper Sites”
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2023
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2023
“Tuning the Pt–Ru Atomic Neighbors for Active and Stable Methanol Oxidation Electrocatalysis”
Chemistry of Materials
2023
Advanced Materials Interfaces
2023
“Interfacial alloying between lead halide perovskite crystals and hybrid glasses”
Nature Communications
2023
2022
“Flexible 2D Boron Imidazolate Framework for Polysulfide Adsorption in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries”
Chemistry of Materials
2022
“In Situ Growth of Cu/CuO/Cu2O Nanocrystals within Hybrid Nanofibers for Adsorptive Arsenic Removal”
ACS Applied Nano Materials
2022
“Core–shell NaBH4Synergistic Cr2O3@Ag Heterostructure Enhanced
Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CO”
Chemistry Sustainability Energy Materials
2022
“Atomically-dispersed Mn-(N-C2)2(O-C2)2 sites on carbon for efficient oxygen reduction reaction”
Energy Storage Materials
2022
ACS Applied Energy Materials
2022
“Pt Single Atom Electrocatalysts at Graphene Edges for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution”
Advanced Functional Materials
2022
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
2022
2021
The Journal of Chemical Physics
2021
“Disordered TiOx−SiOx Nanocatalysts Using Bioinspired Synthetic Routes”
Applied Energy Materials
2021
“Mixed‐Metal MOF‐74 Templated Catalysts for Efficient Carbon Dioxide Capture and Methanation”
Advanced Functional Materials
2021
Advanced Energy Materials
2021
2020
“Direct insights into the role of epoxy groups on cobalt sites for acidic H2O2 production”
Nature Communications
2020
Advanced Functional Materials
2020
“Probing the Atomic-Scale Structure of Amorphous Aluminum Oxide
Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition”
Applied Materials & Interfaces
2020
“Unlocking the potential of the formate pathway in
the photo-assisted Sabatier reaction”
Nature Catalysis
2020
Amino-acid conjugated
protein-Au nanoclusters with tuneable fluorescence properties”
JPhys Materials
2020
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2020
“Tungsten Oxide/Carbide Surface
Heterojunction Catalyst with High Hydrogen
Evolution Activity”
ACS Energy Letters
2020
“Tunable Syngas Production through CO2 Electroreduction on Cobalt−Carbon Composite Electrocatalyst”
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
2020
2019
“Chiral Restructuring of Peptide Enantiomers on Gold Nanomaterials”
ACS Biomaterials. Science & Engineering
2019
Advaced Energy Materials
2019
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
2019
“Hierarchically Structured Co(OH)2/CoPt/N-CN Air Cathodes for Rechargeable Zinc−Air Batteries”
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2019
“A Fully Reversible Water Electrolyzer Cell Made Up from FeCoNi (Oxy)hydroxide Atomic Layers”
Advanced Energy Materials
2019
“Discovery of Anion Insertion Electrochemistry in Layered Hydroxide Nanomaterials”
Scientific Reports
2019
2018
“Programmable Mechanical Properties from a Worm Jaw-Derived Biopolymer through Hierarchical Ion Exposure”“
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2018
Journal of Material Chemistry A
2018
Before UNSW 2008-2017
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
2017
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2016
“Oxidation behavior of zero-valent iron nanoparticles in mixed matrix water purification membranes”
Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology
2015
“Light-Activated Tandem Catalysis Driven by Multicomponent Nanomaterials“
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2013
“Nanofiber‐Based Bulk‐Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using Coaxial Electrospinning”
Advanced Energy Materials
2012
“Photocatalytic Self Cleaning Textile Fibers by Coaxial Electrospinning”
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2010
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2015
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2013
Journal of Materials Chemistry
2012
“Photocatalytic Self Cleaning Textile Fibers by Coaxial Electrospinning”
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2010
“Effects of Metal Composition and Ratio on Peptide-Templated Multimetallic PdPt Nanomaterials”
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2017
“Immobilization of Stable Thylakoid Vesicles in Conductive Nanofibers by Electrospinning“
Biomacromolecules
2011
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
2010
Chemistry of Materials
2014
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
2013
“Periodicity and Atomic Ordering in Nanosized Particles of Crystals“
The Journal of Chemistry C
2008
Last week we were in Reno 🎰participating in an ARO 💣 work on REE 🧲 extraction and separations, hosted at UNR 🐺. It was great to connect with research staff and industry folks from the region, and UNT has an amazing mining ⛏️ museum 💎🪙🗿🤘. Big outcomes coming from this event for sureeee 😁. #reno #unr #ree #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Last week we wrapped 📻 on some NEXAFS and RIXS 🧟♂️ measures at the Advanced Light Source 🔦⚡️⭕️ at LBNL 🥰☮️✌️. We examined a range of REE 🧲 complexes important to improving separation processes over SX 👎 to better understand how we can improve selectivity. Cool stuff, cool turkeys 🦃, and as always, and amazing view of the bay from LNBL 🌁. Thanks to the staff help from LBNL, INL 🥔, and Colorado School of Mines ⛏️. #criticalminerals #criticalmaterials #synchrotronlife #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
What a week at DMC2025!🤩D🤺🏭. Great talks and a great group of researchers all collected together to discuss the future of defense manufacturing. There was also a space launch!🚀 🔭👨🚀👩🚀🧑🚀👾👽🌝#dmc #artemisii #collabos #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out in Nature Synthesis 🌸 🌴🧪⚗️😎😻🌩️. Co-lead by our colleagues at USyd 🦈, high entropy nanowires 🧶 were used for the Cl2 evolution, which exhibits 98% FE at 10kA/ m2 ⚡️. We employed multiple in-situ experiments to showcase an PtO2 edge site activation mechanism, which enables high selectivity. Read the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-026-00999-5 #nature #synthesis #highentropy #synchrotronscience #dataordie
We recently wrapped on some nice in-situ electrochemical ⚡️🧪 XAS beamtime at the ISS 🛰️ beamline, NSLS-II. Huge thanks to our colleagues at Johns Hopkins for the assist. New data to be published soon! #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #synchrotron #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out in Chemistry of Materials 🧪🧱😅⏱️⌛️👍💪. Led by the team at UQ👸, a novel method for making PbI2 🎨🧂quantum dots was examined, using the thermal decomposition 🔥 MOF glasses 🔎 and Pb halides. The decomposed MOF chemistry provides an excellent shell around the QDs while also resulting in a tight size distribution, important for optoelectronic applications. Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02293 #quantumdots #leadiodine #synchrotron #dataordie
Nice little call out on the INL 🥔☢️🔬webpage on our critical materials 🧱 work for the military 🪖🫡. Lots of exciting stuff on the horizon and big projects coming up 👍😎💪. Read here: https://inl.gov/feature-story/idaho-national-laboratory-strengthening-national-security-with-critical-materials-research/ #watchout #criticalmaterials #criticalminerals #research #dataordie
New paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition 🇩🇪⚗️🌍📝😲🍬🙂↕️🙂↔️. In another effort led by the folks at Griffith University 🦁, new dual site catalysts were engineered for the CO2 reduction reaction 💨🔥. Using Ni-Cr atomic pairs anchored ⚓️ into a nitrated carbon matrix, Ni atoms promote CO2 activation while Cr atoms promote H20 💦dissociation, ultimately boosting reaction efficiency 🧐🧠. Great work by all! Read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202521247 #electrocatalysis #nickel #chromium #co2 #dataordie
New paper out in JACS 📓🇺🇸🧪🏘️🧐🧠⚗️!!! In a collaborative effort led by our mates at Griffith university 🦁, we deep dive 🤿 into the role that O vacancies play in CO2 elctroconversion⚡️in tin oxides🥫. Using a range of insitu measurements 📏 and DFT calculations🤖, we uncover unique Sn-O motifs that facilitate formate production that better explain the process well beyond the conventional adsorbate evolution models 💃🕺👯👯♀️👯♂️. Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.5c17016?casa_token=qytzdRJXgKkAAAAA%3AF3b63a7R0nRFcXlXyYT2fyUoKiapmHgysDqIADjw-0kfwrzyMtCRVjHkngk0htS3aT14_YwSrckhmz7i #electrocatalysis #co2rr #sno2 #synchrotron #dataordie
Got to spend some time at the University of Utah 🔴⚪️🙌 recently for a summit on regional strategy for future critical material and minerals research ⛏️🧪📄. Great event with a ton of great institutions involved, plus we got snow ☃️🌨️. Lots of new work coming out of this group soon 😁 #criticalminerals #utah #letitsnow❄️❄️ #collabos #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Just wrapped up on some XAS 🩻 experiments at a snowy ☃️🌨️ Advanced Photon Source 💡. We got a ton of nice data on chemistries 🧪 used in REE separations ⚡️🧲, along with a bunch of new catalyst chemistries as well 🤓. Big thanks to @darastrix354 for all the help with experiments, and the rest of the team for Mines ⛏️ and INL 🥔☢️. Keep an eye out for new papers in the future 😎📝🙊. #aps #xas #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #synchrotronlife #firsttimers #betterinthesnow #whosdinosauristhis #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
I had a great time at the Microelectronics National Security Summit & Workshop 💻📲🗻🛠️, hosted by the Southwest Mission Acceleration Center (SWMAC) and ASU SWAP Hub 🌵🏜️🚀🔫💣☀️🔱🤝. Great to see people from across industries and professions come together to discuss the future of the field. Always nice to be in the desert too (as long as it’s not summer!) #microelectronics #themission #summit #swaphub #asu #thunderbird #cm #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
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