By Dr Nicholas Bedford

Journal articles

Fu HQ; Liu J; Bedford NM; Wang Y; Wright J; Liu PF; Wen CF; Wang L; Yin H; Qi D; Liu P; Yang HG; Zhao H, 2022, 'Operando Converting BiOCl into Bi2O2(CO3)xCly for Efficient Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate', Nano-Micro Letters, vol. 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00862-0

Zong L; Lu F; Zhang W; Fan K; Chen X; Johannessen B; Qi D; Bedford NM; Warren M; Segre CU; Liu P; Wang L; Zhao H, 2022, 'Atomically-dispersed Mn-(N-C2)2(O-C2)2 sites on carbon for efficient oxygen reduction reaction', Energy Storage Materials, vol. 49, pp. 209 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2022.04.016

Ma Z; Tsounis C; Toe CY; Kumar PV; Subhash B; Xi S; Yang HY; Zhou S; Lin Z; Wu KH; Wong RJ; Thomsen L; Bedford NM; Lu X; Ng YH; Han Z; Amal R, 2022, 'Reconstructing Cu Nanoparticle Supported on Vertical Graphene Surfaces via Electrochemical Treatment to Tune the Selectivity of CO2Reduction toward Valuable Products', ACS Catalysis, vol. 12, pp. 4792 - 4805, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c05431

Kuschnerus I; Giri K; Ruan J; Huang Y; Bedford N; Garcia-Bennett A, 2022, 'On the growth of the soft and hard protein corona of mesoporous silica particles with varying morphology', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 612, pp. 467 - 478, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2021.12.161

Poerwoprajitno AR; Gloag L; Watt J; Cheong S; Tan X; Lei H; Tahini HA; Henson A; Subhash B; Bedford NM; Miller BK; O’Mara PB; Benedetti TM; Huber DL; Zhang W; Smith SC; Gooding JJ; Schuhmann W; Tilley RD, 2022, 'A single-Pt-atom-on-Ru-nanoparticle electrocatalyst for CO-resilient methanol oxidation', Nature Catalysis, vol. 5, pp. 231 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41929-022-00756-9

Lovell EC; Scott J; Bedford NM; Tan TH; Cullen PJ; Ostrikov KK; Amal R, 2022, 'Two Steps Back, One Leap Forward: Synergistic Energy Conversion in Plasmonic and Plasma Catalysis', ACS Energy Letters, vol. 7, pp. 300 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02387

Zhang D; Tsounis C; Ma Z; Djaidiguna D; Bedford NM; Thomsen L; Lu X; Chu D; Amal R; Han Z, 2022, 'Highly Selective Metal-Free Electrochemical Production of Hydrogen Peroxide on Functionalized Vertical Graphene Edges', Small, vol. 18, pp. 2105082 - 2105082, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202105082

Miller-Link E; Attanayake N; Zhang H; Metzroth L; Han X; Gerke C; Banerjee S; Bedford N; Thoi S, 2021, '(Invited) N₂ Reduction to NH₃ Generation Using Transition Metal-Based Catalysts', ECS Meeting Abstracts, vol. MA2021-02, pp. 1540 - 1540, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/ma2021-02531540mtgabs

Jiang J; Tsounis C; Gallington LC; Hu Y; Scott RWJ; Scott JA; Bedford NM, 2021, 'Disordered TiO x-SiO xNanocatalysts Using Bioinspired Synthetic Routes', ACS Applied Energy Materials, vol. 4, pp. 7691 - 7701, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c01025

Cui Y; Rushing JC; Seifert S; Bedford NM; Kuroda DG, 2021, 'Structural and dynamical changes observed when transitioning from an ionic liquid to a deep eutectic solvent', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 155, pp. 054507, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0053448

Hadinata Lie W; Deng C; Yang Y; Tsounis C; Wu KH; Chandra Hioe MV; Bedford NM; Wang DW, 2021, 'High yield electrooxidation of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural catalysed by unsaturated metal sites in CoFe Prussian Blue Analogue films', Green Chemistry, vol. 23, pp. 4333 - 4337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1gc01208h

Wang K; Liu J; Tang Z; Li L; Wang Z; Zubair M; Ciucci F; Thomsen L; Wright J; Bedford NM, 2021, 'Establishing structure/property relationships in atomically dispersed Co-Fe dual site M-Nxcatalysts on microporous carbon for the oxygen reduction reaction', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 9, pp. 13044 - 13055, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ta02925h

Ellersdorfer P; Petersen TC; Opletal G; Bedford NM, 2021, 'Extracting nanoscale structures from experimental and synthetic data with reverse monte carlo', Nano Futures, vol. 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2399-1984/ac087b

Zhang Q; Kumar P; Zhu X; Daiyan R; Bedford NM; Wu KH; Han Z; Zhang T; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 11, pp. 2100303 - 2100303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202100303

Zurrer T; Wong K; Horlyck J; Lovell EC; Wright J; Bedford NM; Han Z; Liang K; Scott J; Amal R, 2021, 'Mixed-Metal MOF-74 Templated Catalysts for Efficient Carbon Dioxide Capture and Methanation', Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202007624

Griep MH; Sellers MS; Subhash B; Fakner AM; West AL; Bedford NM, 2021, 'Towards the identification of the gold binding region within trypsin stabilized nanoclusters using microwave synthesis routes', Nanoscale, vol. 13, pp. 1061 - 1068, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr07068h

Zhang Q; Kumar P; Zhu X; Daiyan R; Bedford NM; Wu K; Han Z; Zhang T; Amal R; Lu X, 2021, 'Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction (Adv. Energy Mater. 17/2021)', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 11, pp. 2170067 - 2170067, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202170067

Zhang Q; Tan X; Bedford NM; Han Z; Thomsen L; Smith S; Amal R; Lu X, 2020, 'Direct insights into the role of epoxy groups on cobalt sites for acidic H2O2 production', Nature Communications, vol. 11, pp. 4181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17782-5

Iranmanesh H; Subhash B; Glover DJ; Bedford NM, 2020, 'Proteins and peptides for functional nanomaterials: Current efforts and new opportunities', MRS Bulletin, vol. 45, pp. 1005 - 1016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2020.299

Tan TH; Xie B; Ng YH; Abdullah SFB; Tang HYM; Bedford N; Taylor RA; Aguey-Zinsou KF; Amal R; Scott J, 2020, 'Unlocking the potential of the formate pathway in the photo-assisted Sabatier reaction', Nature Catalysis, vol. 3, pp. 1034 - 1043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41929-020-00544-3

Cui Y; Tan X; Xiao K; Zhao S; Bedford NM; Liu Y; Wang Z; Wu KH; Pan J; Saputera WH; Cheong S; Tilley RD; Smith SC; Yun J; Dai L; Amal R; Wang DW, 2020, 'Tungsten Oxide/Carbide Surface Heterojunction Catalyst with High Hydrogen Evolution Activity', ACS Energy Letters, vol. 5, pp. 3560 - 3568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c01858

Han X; Gerke CS; Banerjee S; Zubair M; Jiang J; Bedford NM; Miller EM; Thoi VS, 2020, 'Strategic Design of MoO2Nanoparticles Supported by Carbon Nanowires for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction', ACS Energy Letters, vol. 5, pp. 3237 - 3243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c01857

Griep MH; Bedford NM, 2020, 'Amino-acid conjugated protein–Au nanoclusters with tuneable fluorescence properties', JPhys Materials, vol. 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ab8d90

Tsounis C; Lu X; Bedford NM; Subhash B; Thomsen L; Zhang Q; Ma Z; Ostrikov K; Bendavid A; Scott JA; Amal R; Han Z, 2020, 'Valence Alignment of Mixed Ni-Fe Hydroxide Electrocatalysts through Preferential Templating on Graphene Edges for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution', ACS Nano, vol. 14, pp. 11327 - 11340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c03380

Bowen JJ; Rueschhoff LM; Martin KL; Street DP; Patel TA; Parvulescu MJS; Bedford NM; Koerner H; Seifert S; Dickerson MB, 2020, 'Tailorable micelle morphology in self-assembling block copolymer gels for templating nanoporous ceramics', Macromolecules, vol. 53, pp. 7528 - 7536, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01137

Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Huang B; Zubair M; Leverett J; Zhang Q; Lim S; Horlyck J; Tang J; Lu X; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Hart JN; Bedford NM; Amal R, 2020, 'Uncovering Atomic-Scale Stability and Reactivity in Engineered Zinc Oxide Electrocatalysts for Controllable Syngas Production', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 10, pp. 2001381 - 2001381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202001381

Ma Z; Tsounis C; Kumar PV; Han Z; Wong RJ; Toe CY; Zhou S; Bedford NM; Thomsen L; Ng YH; Amal R, 2020, 'Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction of Cu@CuxO Nanoparticles Decorated on 3D Vertical Graphene with Intrinsic sp³-type Defect', Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201910118

Young MJ; Bedford NM; Yanguas-Gil A; Letourneau S; Coile M; Mandia DJ; Aoun B; Cavanagh AS; George SM; Elam JW, 2020, 'Probing the Atomic-Scale Structure of Amorphous Aluminum Oxide Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 12, pp. 22804 - 22814, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c01905

Tejada-Vaprio R; Mosleh I; Mukherjee RP; Aljewari H; Fruchtl M; Elmasheiti A; Bedford N; Greenlee L; Beyzavi MH; Beitle R, 2020, 'Recombinant peptide fusion construction for protein-templated catalytic palladium nanoparticles', Biotechnology Progress, vol. 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/btpr.2956

Veliscek-Carolan J; Rawal A; Oldfield DT; Thorogood GJ; Bedford NM, 2020, 'Nanoporous Zirconium Phosphonate Materials with Enhanced Chemical and Thermal Stability for Sorbent Applications', ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol. 3, pp. 3717 - 3729, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.0c00405

Hu C; Gong L; Xiao Y; Yuan Y; Bedford NM; Xia Z; Ma L; Wu T; Lin Y; Connell JW; Shahbazian-Yassar R; Lu J; Amine K; Dai L, 2020, 'High-Performance, Long-Life, Rechargeable Li–CO2 Batteries based on a 3D Holey Graphene Cathode Implanted with Single Iron Atoms', Advanced Materials, vol. 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201907436

Kuschnerus I; Lau M; Giri K; Bedford N; Biazik J; Ruan J; Garcia-Bennett A, 2020, 'Effect of a protein corona on the fibrinogen induced cellular oxidative stress of gold nanoparticles', Nanoscale, vol. 12, pp. 5898 - 5905, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr00371a

Daiyan R; Chen R; Kumar P; Bedford NM; Qu J; Cairney JM; Lu X; Amal R, 2020, 'Tunable Syngas Production through CO2 Electroreduction on Cobalt-Carbon Composite Electrocatalyst', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 12, pp. 9307 - 9315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b21216

Chen HS; Benedetti TM; Goncąles VR; Bedford NM; Scott RWJ; Webster RF; Cheong S; Gooding JJ; Tilley RD, 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, vol. 142, pp. 3231 - 3239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b13313

Hunter KI; Bedford N; Schramke K; Kortshagen UR, 2020, 'Probing Dopant Locations in Silicon Nanocrystals via High Energy X-ray Diffraction and Reverse Monte Carlo Simulation', Nano Letters, vol. 20, pp. 852 - 859, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03025

Baddour FG; Roberts EJ; To AT; Wang L; Habas SE; Ruddy DA; Bedford NM; Wright J; Nash CP; Schaidle JA; Brutchey RL; Malmstadt N, 2020, 'An Exceptionally Mild and Scalable Solution-Phase Synthesis of Molybdenum Carbide Nanoparticles for Thermocatalytic CO2 Hydrogenation', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 142, pp. 1010 - 1019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b11238

Young MJ; Kiryutina T; Bedford NM; Woehl TJ; Segre CU, 2019, 'Discovery of Anion Insertion Electrochemistry in Layered Hydroxide Nanomaterials', Scientific Reports, vol. 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39052-1

Li X; Almkhelfe H; Bedford NM; Back TC; Hohn KL; Amama PB, 2019, 'Characterization and catalytic behavior of Fischer–Tropsch catalysts derived from different cobalt precursors', Catalysis Today, vol. 338, pp. 40 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2019.05.023

Slocik JM; Dennis PB; Govorov AO; Bedford NM; Ren Y; Naik RR, 2019, 'Chiral Restructuring of Peptide Enantiomers on Gold Nanomaterials', ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b00933

Torres L; Daristotle JL; Ayyub OB; Bellato Meinhardt BM; Garimella H; Margaronis A; Seifert S; Bedford NM; Woehl TJ; Kofinas P, 2019, 'Structurally colored protease responsive nanoparticle hydrogels with degradation-directed assembly', Nanoscale, vol. 11, pp. 17904 - 17912, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9nr04624k

Cui Y; Xiao K; Bedford NM; Lu X; Yun J; Amal R; Wang DW, 2019, 'Refilling Nitrogen to Oxygen Vacancies in Ultrafine Tungsten Oxide Clusters for Superior Lithium Storage', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201902148

Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Bedford NM; Saputera WH; Wu KH; Lim S; Horlyck J; Ng YH; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'Modulating Activity through Defect Engineering of Tin Oxides for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction', Advanced Science, vol. 6, pp. 1900678 - 1900678, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201900678

Young MJ; Bedford N; Elam JW; Yanguas-Gil A; Letourneau S; Coile M; Mandia D; George SM; Cavanagh AS; He X; Jasim A; Wyatt Q; White T; Kaiser H; Heitmann TW, 2019, 'Probing the Atomic-Scale Structure of Thin Films Grown By Atomic Layer Deposition', ECS Meeting Abstracts, vol. MA2019-02, pp. 1155 - 1155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/ma2019-02/24/1155

Zhang Q; Bedford NM; Pan J; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'A Fully Reversible Water Electrolyzer Cell Made Up from FeCoNi (Oxy)hydroxide Atomic Layers', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201901312

Cui Y; Rushing JC; Seifert S; Bedford NM; Kuroda DG, 2019, 'Molecularly Heterogeneous Structure of a Nonionic Deep Eutectic Solvent Composed of N-Methylacetamide and Lauric Acid', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 123, pp. 3984 - 3993, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b11732

Liu J; Li Z; Zhang X; Otake KI; Zhang L; Peters AW; Young MJ; Bedford NM; Letourneau SP; Mandia DJ; Elam JW; Farha OK; Hupp JT, 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, vol. 9, pp. 3198 - 3207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b04828

Saputera WH; Tahini HA; Sabsabi M; Tan TH; Bedford NM; Lovell E; Cui Y; Hart JN; Friedmann D; Smith SC; Amal R; Scott J, 2019, 'Light-Induced Synergistic Multidefect Sites on TiO2/SiO2 Composites for Catalytic Dehydrogenation', ACS Catalysis, vol. 9, pp. 2674 - 2684, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b04891

Han X; Wang M; Le ML; Bedford NM; Woehl TJ; Thoi VS, 2019, 'Effects of substrate porosity in carbon aerogel supported copper for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction', Electrochimica Acta, vol. 297, pp. 545 - 552, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.11.203

Wang K; Wu W; Tang Z; Li L; Chen S; Bedford NM, 2019, 'Hierarchically Structured Co(OH) 2 /CoPt/N-CN Air Cathodes for Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 11, pp. 4983 - 4994, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b18424

Rueschhoff LM; Baldwin LA; Wheeler R; Dalton MJ; Koerner H; Berrigan JD; Bedford NM; Seifert S; Cinibulk MK; Dickerson MB, 2019, 'Fabricating Ceramic Nanostructures with Ductile-like Compression Behavior via Rapid Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer and Preceramic Polymer Blends', ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol. 2, pp. 250 - 257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.8b01820

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