PUBLICATIONS
It is critically important scientific results are disseminated to the public. Here you’ll find a list of all publications from the Bedford Research Group and from Dr. Bedford prior to his arrival at UNSW.
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.
2024

Advanced Materials Technology
2024

Journal of the European Ceramic Society
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
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
Busy week! 😁😎🥸. Up first, a quick stop to the ATL for NAM29 to present research on biomass electroconversion processes 🧪⚡️⚡️🌲😎🦅. Up second, experiments at ALS…. Except not👎🙈. Unfortunately there was an equipment issue and we could not do experiments. These things happen, what can you do ?🤷♂️. We’ll take another shot next cycle 👍#nam29 #atl #biomass #catalyst #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #cantstopwontstop #dataordie

Busy week! 😁😎🥸. Up first, a quick stop to the ATL for NAM29 to present research on biomass electroconversion processes 🧪⚡️⚡️🌲😎🦅. Up second, experiments at ALS…. Except not👎🙈. Unfortunately there was an equipment issue and we could not do experiments. These things happen, what can you do ?🤷♂️. We’ll take another shot next cycle 👍#nam29 #atl #biomass #catalyst #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
A little bit of a late post… @yuweii77vv and colleagues recently performed in-situ XAS awards at Spring-8 🩻💥⚡️🇯🇵🗾🍣🍱. Work was done one some recently developed catalysts for electrocatalytic chemical processes ⚡️⛽️🐪🫧🧐. Great work all, keep an eye out for the upcoming work 😎. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #catalyst #catalysis #insitu #xas #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie

A little bit of a late post… @yuweii77vv and colleagues recently performed in-situ XAS awards at Spring-8 🩻💥⚡️🇯🇵🗾🍣🍱. Work was done one some recently developed catalysts for electrocatalytic chemical processes ⚡️⛽️🐪🫧🧐. Great work all, keep an eye out for the upcoming work 😎. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #catalyst #catalysis #insitu #xas #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie
Just wrapped with experiments at BESSY-II 😎🇩🇪🍻🧑🔬👩🔬👨🔬🐮🐄. Using the Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory (EMIL) and the OAESE beamline, we examined metal oxides catalyst under operando conditions during biomass conversion reactions 🤯🙂↔️😱😸. Awesome datasets collected for sure, and very supportive staff. We’ll be back 🤖for sure. thanks to @yuweii77vv for the assist and being excellent at opening doors 🙂 #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #bessy #softxrays #copper #cobalt #biomass #carbonnanotubes #cantstopwontstop💪 #dataordie

Just wrapped with experiments at BESSY-II 😎🇩🇪🍻🧑🔬👩🔬👨🔬🐮🐄. Using the Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory (EMIL) and the OAESE beamline, we examined metal oxides catalyst under operando conditions during biomass conversion reactions 🤯🙂↔️😱😸. Awesome datasets collected for sure, and very supportive staff. We’ll be back 🤖for sure. thanks to @yuweii77vv for the assist and being excellent at opening doors 🙂 #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #bessy #softxrays #copper #cobalt #biomass #carbonnanotubes #cantstopwontstop💪 #dataordie
Feels good to be….😊😁😀☺️😎…after a two year hiatus for upgrades, we just wrapped on XAS experiments at the Advanced Photon Source 🩻⭕️☠️. Lots of great data across a lot of collaborative work. Thanks to @darastrix354 for keeping 10-ID-B pumping 🐈🐈⬛, and our collabs from INL 🥔☢️🐈⬛⚡️ for the help. Looking forward to more beam time at the APS in the future 🙂😀. #welcomeback #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xas #criticalmaterials #rareearthelements #nitride #borides #electrocatalysis #cantstopwontstop #dataordie

Feels good to be….😊😁😀☺️😎…after a two year hiatus for upgrades, we just wrapped on XAS experiments at the Advanced Photon Source 🩻⭕️☠️. Lots of great data across a lot of collaborative work. Thanks to @darastrix354 for keeping 10-ID-B pumping 🐈🐈⬛, and our collabs from INL 🥔☢️🐈⬛⚡️ for the help. Looking forward to more beam time at the APS in the future 🙂😀. #welcomeback #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xas #criticalmaterials #rareearthelements #nitride #borides #electrocatalysis #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out in ACS Omega 🇺🇸🧪🏘️♎️. In partnership with the our friends at AFRL🛩️, we examine the local structure of polymer derived SiOC, an industrially relevant material that is poorly understood 😎. Here, we use a range of synchrotron techniques (at APS 🇺🇸, CLS 🇨🇦, and Aussitron 🇦🇺) to show how this material isn’t simply a mix of carbon, oxides, and/or carbides, but demonstrates local Si-O and Si-C coordination in a disordered environment. Cool new insights 👍. Thanks to our colleagues at the synchrotron facilities, and @yuweii77vv @haihackbarth for their efforts. Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.4c09094 #sioc #carbides #oxides #oxycarbides #polymerderivedceramics #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie

New paper out in ACS Omega 🇺🇸🧪🏘️♎️. In partnership with the our friends at AFRL🛩️, we examine the local structure of polymer derived SiOC, an industrially relevant material that is poorly understood 😎. Here, we use a range of synchrotron techniques (at APS 🇺🇸, CLS 🇨🇦, and Aussitron 🇦🇺) to show how this material isn’t simply a mix of carbon, oxides, and/or carbides, but demonstrates local Si-O and Si-C coordination in a disordered environment. Cool new insights 👍. Thanks to our colleagues at the synchrotron facilities, and @yuweii77vv @haihackbarth for their efforts. Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.4c09094 #sioc #carbides #oxides #oxycarbides #polymerderivedceramics #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie
Congrats to @gug_rj for receiving his PhD in Chemical Engineering 🍾🙌🎉🥳🎊🥂🕺💃🪩🇧🇷📚😺👍😎🧪⚗️🥼‼️!!! Great work, and some novel approaches for looking at biotic/abiotic interfaces for functional biosensors 🧬🔬🧫🩻. Great accomplishment! #phd #phlife #missionaccomplished✔️ #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #peptides #graphene #sensors #vocs #ontothenextone #dataordie

Congrats to @gug_rj for receiving his PhD in Chemical Engineering 🍾🙌🎉🥳🎊🥂🕺💃🪩🇧🇷📚😺👍😎🧪⚗️🥼‼️!!! Great work, and some novel approaches for looking at biotic/abiotic interfaces for functional biosensors 🧬🔬🧫🩻. Great accomplishment! #phd #phlife #missionaccomplished✔️ #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #peptides #graphene #sensors #vocs #ontothenextone #dataordie
New paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition 🇩🇪🧪🌎🗞️😎👍😁🧐! In partnership with @ale.fraca and his team at the Universidad de Cordoba 🇦🇷, metal organic frameworks were used to selectively degrade glyphosate, one of the most commonly used pesticides, to far less harmful chemicals in water 🌱 🌾🧑🌾👩🌾👨🌾💧🦆. The trick is to engineering catalyst sites with liable ligands to form defects. Great work by all, especially Jhair and Tatiana for co-leading the work, @steeephch for helping with data collection, and our mates at the Australian Synchrotron 🇦🇺, Taiwan Photon Source 🇹🇼, and PETRA-III 🇩🇪 for keeping the X-rays humming 🩻🐦🔥. Read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.202424540 #pesticidefree #glyphosate #organophosphate #mofs #zirconium #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie

New paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition 🇩🇪🧪🌎🗞️😎👍😁🧐! In partnership with @ale.fraca and his team at the Universidad de Cordoba 🇦🇷, metal organic frameworks were used to selectively degrade glyphosate, one of the most commonly used pesticides, to far less harmful chemicals in water 🌱 🌾🧑🌾👩🌾👨🌾💧🦆. The trick is to engineering catalyst sites with liable ligands to form defects. Great work by all, especially Jhair and Tatiana for co-leading the work, @steeephch for helping with data collection, and our mates at the Australian Synchrotron 🇦🇺, Taiwan Photon Source 🇹🇼, and PETRA-III 🇩🇪 for keeping the X-rays humming 🩻🐦🔥. Read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.202424540 #pesticidefree #glyphosate #organophosphate #mofs #zirconium #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie
The team just wrapped on back to back experiments at MEX-1 and MEX-2 beamlines of the Australian Synchrotron 🦘🐨🕷️🕸️⭕️💪📈📊. Great work by @maryam.jamshidi93 and the rest of the team 👍, where we looked at a range of catalysts, ceramics and sorbent materials ⚡️🧱🧽. Keep an eye out for upcoming papers soon 😎. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xas #catalyst #ceramics #mofs #rocks #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie

The team just wrapped on back to back experiments at MEX-1 and MEX-2 beamlines of the Australian Synchrotron 🦘🐨🕷️🕸️⭕️💪📈📊. Great work by @maryam.jamshidi93 and the rest of the team 👍, where we looked at a range of catalysts, ceramics and sorbent materials ⚡️🧱🧽. Keep an eye out for upcoming papers soon 😎. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xas #catalyst #ceramics #mofs #rocks #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie
New paper out in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A 📓🧱🧪🅰️🧪🇬🇧👍. In collaboration with ANSTO 🦘☢️and CEA 🥖☢️, Zr based sorbent materials for minor actinides were evaluated using a range of analytical techniques to probe their radiation tolerance 🙅🙅♀️🙅♂️. Great work to all….. read the paper here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/ta/d4ta08221d/unauth #nuclearfuel #actinides #americium #europium #phosphonates #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie

New paper out in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A 📓🧱🧪🅰️🧪🇬🇧👍. In collaboration with ANSTO 🦘☢️and CEA 🥖☢️, Zr based sorbent materials for minor actinides were evaluated using a range of analytical techniques to probe their radiation tolerance 🙅🙅♀️🙅♂️. Great work to all….. read the paper here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/ta/d4ta08221d/unauth #nuclearfuel #actinides #americium #europium #phosphonates #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie
New paper in ACS Applied Energy Materials 🇺🇸🧪👥⚡️🧱😊🎉. In this work led by our colleagues at the University of Sydney, computational studies 💻🤖were performed on a Na transport on class of borohydrides, important materials for future battery technologies 🔋. These efforts showcase the important in borohydride phase in ion conductivity, and what anion pairing is important for transport. 😎. Read to the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsaem.4c02634 #computionalchemistry #sodium #sodiumionbattery #borohydrides #dataordie

New paper in ACS Applied Energy Materials 🇺🇸🧪👥⚡️🧱😊🎉. In this work led by our colleagues at the University of Sydney, computational studies 💻🤖were performed on a Na transport on class of borohydrides, important materials for future battery technologies 🔋. These efforts showcase the important in borohydride phase in ion conductivity, and what anion pairing is important for transport. 😎. Read to the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsaem.4c02634 #computionalchemistry #sodium #sodiumionbattery #borohydrides #dataordie
Just wrapped on some nice XAS experiments at Diamond 💍💎🔷🔶💠🤓! During this beam time sleepy 🥱 (@yuweii77vv ) go some excellent looking data on a range of new catalysts 🐈⬛ and advanced ceramics 🧱. Also, holy HERFD Batman 🔬🦇. We’ll be back for sure 🏃🏃♀️🏃♂️🚀🏊🏊♀️🏊♂️. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xas #herfd #biomass #catalyst #ceramics #iron #nickel #cobalt #manganese #zirconium #niobium #cantstopwontstop #dataordie

Just wrapped on some nice XAS experiments at Diamond 💍💎🔷🔶💠🤓! During this beam time sleepy 🥱 (@yuweii77vv ) go some excellent looking data on a range of new catalysts 🐈⬛ and advanced ceramics 🧱. Also, holy HERFD Batman 🔬🦇. We’ll be back for sure 🏃🏃♀️🏃♂️🚀🏊🏊♀️🏊♂️. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xas #herfd #biomass #catalyst #ceramics #iron #nickel #cobalt #manganese #zirconium #niobium #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Busy week last week… so busy there arent a lot of photos 🫠. First, I was thrilled to visit INL 🥔☢️ for an invited seminar and to discuss future collaborative efforts 😎. The latter half of the week consisted of coalition building between the DoD labs at Colorado 🏔️research entities. Exciting times again yall 😁 #seminar #famouspotatoes #collabs #newstuffcomingsoon #cantstopwontstop #dataordie

Busy week last week… so busy there arent a lot of photos 🫠. First, I was thrilled to visit INL 🥔☢️ for an invited seminar and to discuss future collaborative efforts 😎. The latter half of the week consisted of coalition building between the DoD labs at Colorado 🏔️research entities. Exciting times again yall 😁 #seminar #famouspotatoes #collabs #newstuffcomingsoon #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
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