Structural analysis of molecular materials using the pair distribution function

MW Terban, SJL Billinge - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
This is a review of atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis as applied to the study of
molecular materials. The PDF method is a powerful approach to study short-and …

Mineral scaling induced membrane wetting in membrane distillation for water treatment: Fundamental mechanism and mitigation strategies

H Chang, Y Zhu, L Huang, Z Yan, F Qu, H Liang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The scaling-induced wetting phenomenon seriously affects the application of membrane
distillation (MD) technology in hypersaline wastewater treatment. Unlike the large amount of …

Ultrahard bulk amorphous carbon from collapsed fullerene

Y Shang, Z Liu, J Dong, M Yao, Z Yang, Q Li, C Zhai… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Amorphous materials inherit short-and medium-range order from the corresponding crystal
and thus preserve some of its properties while still exhibiting novel properties,. Due to its …

Self-supported Pt–CoO networks combining high specific activity with high surface area for oxygen reduction

GW Sievers, AW Jensen, J Quinson, A Zana… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Several concepts for platinum-based catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are
presented that exceed the US Department of Energy targets for Pt-related ORR mass …

Reversible magnesium and aluminium ions insertion in cation-deficient anatase TiO2

T Koketsu, J Ma, BJ Morgan, M Body, C Legein… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
In contrast to monovalent lithium or sodium ions, the reversible insertion of multivalent ions
such as Mg2+ and Al3+ into electrode materials remains an elusive goal. Here, we …

2D molybdenum and vanadium nitrides synthesized by ammoniation of 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes)

P Urbankowski, B Anasori, K Hantanasirisakul, L Yang… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
MXenes are a rapidly growing class of 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides, finding
applications in fields ranging from energy storage to electromagnetic interference shielding …

Control of electronic properties of 2D carbides (MXenes) by manipulating their transition metal layers

B Anasori, C Shi, EJ Moon, Y Xie, CA Voigt… - Nanoscale …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, a transition from metallic to semiconducting-like behavior has been
demonstrated in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides by replacing titanium with …

Resolving the Structure of Ti3C2Tx MXenes through Multilevel Structural Modeling of the Atomic Pair Distribution Function

HW Wang, M Naguib, K Page… - Chemistry of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
MXenes are a recently discovered family of two-dimensional (2D) early transition metal
carbides and carbonitrides, which have already shown many attractive properties and great …

Synthesis and characterization of two-dimensional Nb 4 C 3 (MXene)

M Ghidiu, M Naguib, C Shi, O Mashtalir… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on the synthesis of a phase-pure, 2-dimensional transition metal carbide Nb4C3,
produced by immersing Nb4AlC3 powders in hydrofluoric acid. The structure of this, only …

PDFgetX3: a rapid and highly automatable program for processing powder diffraction data into total scattering pair distribution functions

P Juhás, T Davis, CL Farrow… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - journals.iucr.org
PDFgetX3 is a new software application for converting X-ray powder diffraction data to an
atomic pair distribution function (PDF). PDFgetX3 has been designed for ease of use, speed …