By Dr Nicholas Bedford

Journal articles

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr07068h

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', JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-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

Zurrer T; Wong K; Horlyck J; Lovell EC; Wright J; Bedford NM; Han Z; Liang K; Scott J; Amal R, 2020, 'Mixed-Metal MOF-74 Templated Catalysts for Efficient Carbon Dioxide Capture and Methanation', Advanced Functional Materials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202007624

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

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

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

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

Walker A; Vratsanos M; Kozawa S; Askew T; Hemmendinger K; McGrail B; Bedford N; Wnek G, 2019, 'Enhanced elasticity in poly(acrylic acid) gels: Via synthesis in the presence of high concentrations of select salts', Soft Matter, vol. 15, pp. 7596 - 7604, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9sm01101c

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 TiO 2 /SiO 2 Composites for Catalytic Dehydrogenation', ACS Catalysis, vol. 9, pp. 2674 - 2684, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b04891

Horlyck J; Nashira A; Lovell E; Daiyan R; Bedford N; Wei Y; Amal R; Scott J, 2019, 'Plasma treating mixed metal oxides to improve oxidative performance via defect generation', Materials, vol. 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12172756

Horlyck J; Pokhrel S; Lovell E; Bedford NM; Mädler L; Amal R; Scott J, 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, vol. 9, pp. 4970 - 4980, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9cy01293a

Gupta MK; Becknell KA; Crosby MG; Bedford NM; Wright J; Dennis PB; Naik RR, 2018, 'Programmable Mechanical Properties from a Worm Jaw-Derived Biopolymer through Hierarchical Ion Exposure', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 10, pp. 31928 - 31937, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b10107

Letourneau S; Young MJ; Bedford NM; Ren Y; Yanguas-Gil A; Mane AU; Elam JW; Graugnard E, 2018, 'Structural Evolution of Molybdenum Disulfide Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition for Realization of Large Scale Films in Microelectronic Applications', ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol. 1, pp. 4028 - 4037, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.8b00798

Garcia-Bennett AE; Lau M; Bedford N, 2018, 'Probing the Amorphous State of Pharmaceutical Compounds Within Mesoporous Material Using Pair Distribution Function Analysis', Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 107, pp. 2216 - 2224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xphs.2018.03.029

Baumann AE; Aversa GE; Roy A; Falk ML; Bedford NM; Thoi VS, 2018, 'Promoting sulfur adsorption using surface Cu sites in metal-organic frameworks for lithium sulfur batteries', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 6, pp. 4811 - 4821, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ta01057a

Young MJ; Bedford NM; Jiang N; Lin D; Dai L, 2017, 'In situ electrochemical high-energy X-ray diffraction using a capillary working electrode cell geometry', Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, vol. 24, pp. 787 - 795, http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577517006282

Ramezani-Dakhel H; Bedford NM; Woehl TJ; Knecht MR; Naik RR; Heinz H, 2017, 'Nature of peptide wrapping onto metal nanoparticle catalysts and driving forces for size control', Nanoscale, vol. 9, pp. 8401 - 8409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7nr02813j

Zhang H; Zhang R; Schramke KS; Bedford NM; Hunter K; Kortshagen UR; Nordlander P, 2017, 'Doped Silicon Nanocrystal Plasmonics', ACS Photonics, vol. 4, pp. 963 - 970, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00026

Merrill NA; Nitka TT; McKee EM; Merino KC; Drummy LF; Lee S; Reinhart B; Ren Y; Munro CJ; Pylypenko S; Frenkel AI; Bedford NM; Knecht MR, 2017, 'Effects of Metal Composition and Ratio on Peptide-Templated Multimetallic PdPt Nanomaterials', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 9, pp. 8030 - 8040, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b11651

Candelaria SL; Bedford NM; Woehl TJ; Rentz NS; Showalter AR; Pylypenko S; Bunker BA; Lee S; Reinhart B; Ren Y; Ertem SP; Coughlin EB; Sather NA; Horan JL; Herring AM; Greenlee LF, 2017, 'Multi-Component Fe-Ni Hydroxide Nanocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Methanol Oxidation Reactions under Alkaline Conditions', ACS Catalysis, vol. 7, pp. 365 - 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.6b02552

Yehezkeli O; Bedford NM; Park E; Ma K; Cha JN, 2016, 'Semiconductor-Based, Solar-Driven Photochemical Cells for Fuel Generation from Carbon Dioxide in Aqueous Solutions', ChemSusChem, vol. 9, pp. 3188 - 3195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201601105

Bedford NM; Showalter AR; Woehl TJ; Hughes ZE; Lee S; Reinhart B; Ertem SP; Coughlin EB; Ren Y; Walsh TR; Bunker BA, 2016, 'Peptide-Directed PdAu Nanoscale Surface Segregation: Toward Controlled Bimetallic Architecture for Catalytic Materials', ACS Nano, vol. 10, pp. 8645 - 8659, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b03963

Bedford NM; Hughes ZE; Tang Z; Li Y; Briggs BD; Ren Y; Swihart MT; Petkov VG; Naik RR; Knecht MR; Walsh TR, 2016, 'Sequence-Dependent Structure/Function Relationships of Catalytic Peptide-Enabled Gold Nanoparticles Generated under Ambient Synthetic Conditions', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 138, pp. 540 - 548, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b09529

Briggs BD; Palafox-Hernandez JP; Li Y; Lim C-K; Woehl TJ; Bedford NM; Seifert S; Swihart MT; Prasad PN; Walsh TR; Knecht MR, 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, vol. 18, pp. 30845 - 30856, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6cp06135d

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