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.

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2020

“Strategic Design of MoO2 Nanoparticles Supported by Carbon Nanowires for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction”

ACS Energy Letters

2020

 

“Uncovering Atomic-Scale Stability and Reactivity in Engineered Zinc Oxide Electrocatalysts for Controllable Syngas Production”

Advanced Energy Materials

2020

 

“Probing Dopant Locations in Silicon Nanocrystals via High Energy X‑ray Diffraction and Reverse Monte Carlo Simulation”

Nano Letters

2020

 

“High-Performance, Long-Life, Rechargeable Li–CO2 Batteries based on a 3D Holey Graphene Cathode Implanted with Single Iron Atoms”

Advanced Materials

2020

 

“Direct insights into the role of epoxy groups on cobalt sites for acidic H2O2 production”

Nature Communications

2020

 

“Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction of Cu@CuxO Nanoparticles Decorated on 3D Vertical Graphene with Intrinsic sp3-type Defect”

Advanced Functional Materials

2020

 

“Probing the Atomic-Scale Structure of Amorphous Aluminum Oxide
Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition”

Applied Materials & Interfaces

2020

 

“Preserving the Exposed Facets of Pt3Sn Intermetallic Nanocubes During an Order to Disorder Transition Allows the Elucidation of the Effect of the Degree of Alloy Ordering on Electrocatalysis”

Journal of the American Chemical Society

2020

 

“Tailorable Micelle Morphology in Self-Assembling Block Copolymer Gels for Templating Nanoporous Ceramics”

Macromolecules

2020

 

Amino-acid conjugated
protein-Au nanoclusters with tuneable fluorescence properties”

JPhys  Materials

2020

 

“Effect of a protein corona on the fibrinogen induced cellular oxidative stress of gold nanoparticles”

Nanoscale

2020

 

“An Exceptionally Mild and Scalable Solution-Phase Synthesis of Molybdenum Carbide Nanoparticles for Thermocatalytic CO2 Hydrogenation”

Journal of the American Chemical Society

2020

 

“Valence Alignment of Mixed Ni–Fe Hydroxide Electrocatalysts through Preferential Templating on Graphene Edges for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution”

ACS Nano

2020

 

“Nanoporous Zirconium Phosphonate Materials with Enhanced
Chemical and Thermal Stability for Sorbent Applications”

Applied Nano Materials

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

 

“Refilling Nitrogen to Oxygen Vacancies in Ultrafine Tungsten Oxide Clusters for Superior Lithium Storage”

Advaced Energy Materials

2019

 

 

“Characterization and catalytic behavior of Fischer–Tropsch catalysts derived from different cobalt precursors”

Catalysis Today

2019

 

“Light-Induced Synergistic Multidefect Sites on TiO2/SiO2 Composites for Catalytic Dehydrogenation”

ACS Catalysis

2019

 

“Enhanced elasticity in poly(acrylic acid) gels via synthesis in the presence of high concentrations of select salts”

Soft Matter

2019

 

“Unifying double flame spray pyrolysis with lanthanum doping to restrict cobalt–aluminate formation in Co/Al2O3 catalysts for the dry reforming of methane”

Catalysis Science and Technology

2019

 

“Molecularly Heterogeneous Structure of a Nonionic Deep Eutectic Solvent Composed of N-Methylacetamide and Lauric Acid“

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

“Structurally colored protease responsive nanoparticle hydrogels with degradation-directed assembly”

Nanoscale

2019

 

“Modulating Activity through Defect Engineering of Tin Oxides for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction”

ChemSusChem

2019

 

“Introducing Nonstructural Ligands to Zirconia-like Metal−Organic Framework Nodes To Tune the Activity of Node-Supported Nickel Catalysts for Ethylene Hydrogenation”

ACS Catalysis

2019

 

“Effects of substrate porosity in carbon aerogel supported copper for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction”

Electrochimica Acta

2019

 

“Plasma Treating Mixed Metal Oxides to Improve Oxidative Performance via Defect Generation”

Materials

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

“Fabricating Ceramic Nanostructures with Ductile-like Compression Behavior via Rapid Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer and Preceramic Polymer Blends”

ACS Applied Nano Materials

2018

 

“Programmable Mechanical Properties from a Worm Jaw-Derived Biopolymer through Hierarchical Ion Exposure”“

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

2018

“Structural Evolution of Molybdenum Disulfide Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition for Realization of Large Scale Films in Microelectronic Applications”

ACS Applied Nano Materials

2018

 

“Promoting sulfur adsorption using surface Cu sites in metal–organic frameworks for lithium sulfur batteries”

Journal of Material Chemistry A

2018

 

Before UNSW 2008-2017

“In situ electrochemical high-energy X-ray diffraction using a capillary working electrode cell geometry“

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

2017

“Multi-Component Fe−Ni Hydroxide Nanocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Methanol Oxidation Reactions under Alkaline Conditions”

ACS Catalysis

2016

 

“Toward a modular multi-material nanoparticle synthesis and assembly strategy via bionanocombinatorics: bifunctional peptides for linking Au and Ag nanomaterials”

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

 

“Doped Silicon Nanocrystal Plasmonics”

ACS Photonics

2017

“Peptide Binding for Bio-Based Nanomaterials”

Methods in Enzymology

2016

 

“Sequence-Dependent Structure/Function Relationships of Catalytic Peptide-Enabled Gold Nanoparticles Generated under Ambient Synthetic Conditions“

Journal of the American Chemical Society

2015

 

“Direct Synthetic Control over the Size, Composition, and Photocatalytic Activity of Octahedral Copper Oxide Materials: Correlation Between Surface Structure and Catalytic Functionality”

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

2015

 

“Exploiting Localized Surface Binding Effects to Enhance the Catalytic Reactivity of Peptide-Capped Nanoparticles“

Journal of the American Chemical Society

2013

“Photocatalytic cellulosic electrospun fibers for the degradation of potent cyanobacteria toxin microcystin-LR”

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

“Semiconductor-Based, Solar-Driven Photochemical Cells for Fuel Generation from Carbon Dioxide in Aqueous Solutions”

ChemSusChem

2016

“Atomic-scale identification of Pd leaching in nanoparticle catalyzed C–C coupling: effects of particle surface disorder”

Chemical Science

2015

 

“Elucidation of Peptide-Directed Palladium Surface Structure for Biologically Tunable Nanocatalysts”

ACS Nano

2015

 

“Keratin-based antimicrobial textiles, films, and nanofibers”

Journal of Material Chemistry B

2013

 

“Immobilization of Stable Thylakoid Vesicles in Conductive Nanofibers by Electrospinning“

Biomacromolecules

2011

 

“Analysis of 3D structures of platinum nanoparticles by high energy X-ray diffraction and reverse Monte Carlo simulations”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

2010

 

“Nature of peptide wrapping onto metal nanoparticle catalysts and driving forces for size control”

Nanoscale

2017

 

“Peptide-Directed PdAu Nanoscale Surface Segregation: Toward Controlled Bimetallic Architecture for Catalytic Materials”

ACS Nano

2016

 

“Identifying the Atomic-Level Effects of Metal Composition on the Structure and Catalytic Activity of Peptide-Templated Materials.”

ACS Nano

2015

 

“Peptide-Modified Dendrimers as Templates for the Production of Highly Reactive Catalytic Nanomaterials“

Chemistry of Materials

2014

“Structural Control and Catalytic Reactivity of Peptide-Templated Pd and Pt Nanomaterials for Olefin Hydrogenation“

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

2013

“Engineered Multifunctional Nanocarriers for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapeutics”

Small

2011

 

“Periodicity and Atomic Ordering in Nanosized Particles of Crystals“

The Journal of Chemistry C

2008

switcH2 Goes Live!!!

switcH2 Goes Live!!!

March 2, 2020

From the Peter Ferral Cup to switcH2.  The students have officially started their startup company.  Really great stuff!! Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.  Learn more about switcH2 here: https://www.switch2engineering.com/
New Paper in Advanced Materials

New Paper in Advanced Materials

March 1, 2020

New paper in Advanced Materials!!  In collaboration with Liming Dai’s group and various NASA researchers, we report on a Li-CO2 battery based on graphene materials.  Such materials could pave the way toward new energy storage constructs where atmospheric CO2 can be
Recent Soft X-ray Spectroscopy at the Aussitron

Recent Soft X-ray Spectroscopy at the Aussitron

February 23, 2020

Our students just got back from the SXR beamline at the Aussitron.  They spent the weekend probing the lower energy electronic transitions, including in various catalytic and biosensor systems.  Good job everyone! Thanks to Lar Thomsen for looking over the ...
New Publication in Nanoscale

New Publication in Nanoscale

February 13, 2020

Ever wonder how proteins absorb on Au NPs?  Our findings on this topic can be found in our recent paper in Nanoscale.  In collaboration with Alf Garcia-Bennett’s team at Macquarie University, we use a series of techniques to explore how protein absorb on Au ...
New PartCat Paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

New PartCat Paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

February 12, 2020

New paper from PartCat is now out in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.  Here we detail how catalysts manipulation can lead to the selective production of syngas. DOUBLE THUMBS UP EMOJI.  You can find the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.9b21216
Our latest work published in JACS

Our latest work published in JACS

February 11, 2020

Two in a row!! Our latest paper in JACS is in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Chemistry at UNSW and Rob Scott’s group at the University of Saskatchewan.  This paper details the directed disordering of intermetallic Pt3Sn nanocatalysts and how ...
Two in a row!!

Two in a row!!

February 11, 2020

Two in a row!! Our latest paper in JACS is in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Chemistry at UNSW and Rob Scott’s group at the University of Saskatchewan.  This paper details the directed disordering of intermetallic Pt3Sn nanocatalysts and how ...
Recent Collaborative Work Published in JACS

Recent Collaborative Work Published in JACS

January 7, 2020

Latest paper published in JACS!!  In collaboration with colleagues from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Southern California, we report on a novel synthetic method for generating MoC nanoparticles.  Cool stuff! EXAFS and PDF were used ...
New paper in Nano Letters! 

New paper in Nano Letters! 

January 5, 2020

New paper in Nano Letters!  In collaboration with the Kortshagen Group at the University of Minnesota, we investigate the local atomic structure of plasmonic Si nanocrystals using atomic PDF and RMC modeling.  RMC modeling provides a means to track dopant ...
Liquid Cell NEXAFS at the Advanced Light Source

Liquid Cell NEXAFS at the Advanced Light Source

December 10, 2019

We are in the Bay!!  Currently performing liquid-cell NEXAFS experiments with the Brian Collins Group at 7.3.3 to study biomolecules at functional abiotic interfaces.  These experiments WERE NOT EASY haha. Thanks to the team at 7.3.3 for being such good hosts. ...

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