By Dr Richard Francis Webster

Journal articles

Cavallo M; Ramadhan ZR; Somerville SV; Han E; Webster RF; Cheong S; Baldino S; Lessio M; Gooding JJ; Tilley RD, 2025, 'Enhancing the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) via Metallic Cobalt in Au-Co Nanoparticles', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 129, pp. 1243 - 1251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c07907

Eskandari P; Zhou S; Yuwono J; Gunawan D; Webster RF; Ma Z; Xu H; Amal R; Lu X, 2025, 'Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media via Ruthenium–Chromium Atomic Pairs Modified Ruthenium Nanoparticles', Advanced Materials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202419360

Zhang H; Nagashree MC; Webster RF; Wang Z; Zheng X; Kulkarni SD; Venkataramana RB; Seidel J; Sharma P, 2025, 'Optical Control of Ferroelectric Imprint in BiFeO3', Advanced Functional Materials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202502700

Sun Z; Cheng S; Jing X; Liu K; Chen YL; Wibowo AA; Yin H; Usman M; MacDonald D; Cheong S; Webster RF; Gloag L; Cox N; Tilley RD; Yin Z, 2024, 'Atomic Dispersed Co on NC@Cu Core-Shells for Solar Seawater Splitting', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202406088

Shahmiri R; Standard OC; Hart JN; Gharagozlu N; Bahmanrokh G; Yin Y; Mofarah SS; Adabifiroozjaei E; Webster R; Sorrell CC, 2024, 'Role of 3Y-TZP grain boundaries in glazing and layering', Dental Materials, 40, pp. 2148 - 2156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dental.2024.10.005

Lee M; Lim J; Choi E; Soufiani AM; Lee S; Ma FJ; Lim S; Seidel J; Seo DH; Park JS; Lee W; Lim J; Webster RF; Kim J; Wang D; Green MA; Kim D; Noh JH; Hao X; Yun JS, 2024, 'Highly Efficient Wide Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells With Tunneling Junction by Self-Assembled 2D Dielectric Layer', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202402053

O'Connell GEP; Webster RF; Elkington E; Amal R; Scott J; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Shining a light on methane dry reforming - exploring the impact of visible light on carbon formation over Co/xCeO2-Al2O3', Catalysis Science and Technology, 14, pp. 6790 - 6807, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4cy00925h

Eriş R; Bosi E; Meghwal A; Webster RF; Berndt CC; Ming Ang AS; Munroe P, 2024, 'Sunflower-like eutectic solidification in gas atomized Al0.3CrFeNiTi0.3 medium-entropy alloy powders: A comprehensive microstructural study', Materials Science and Engineering: A, 912, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2024.146996

Zubair M; Usov PM; Ohtsu H; Yuwono JA; Gerke CS; Foley GDY; Hackbarth H; Webster RF; Yang Y; Lie WH; Ma Z; Thomsen L; Kawano M; Bedford NM, 2024, 'Vacancy Mediated Electrooxidation of 5-Hydroxymethyl Furfuryl Using Defect Engineered Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalysts', Advanced Energy Materials, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202400676

Meng Q; Shi J; Zhang J; Liu Y; Wang W; Webster RF; Zhao D; Zhu Y; Hao B; Qu B; Lin X; Lin CH; Qiao L; Zu X; Huang JK; Li W; Wang D; Yang J; Li S, 2024, 'Elastic Properties of Low-Dimensional Single-Crystalline Dielectric Oxides through Controlled Large-Area Wrinkle Generation', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16, pp. 28980 - 28990, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c00260

Zhang Z; Webster RF; Zhang J, 2024, 'Alloying effects of Al, Si and Fe on Ni-20Cr alloy oxidation in water vapour at 650 °C', Corrosion Science, 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2024.112050

Zhang W; Shi J; Webster R; Li W; Li S, 2024, 'High-density spherical nanocarbon clusters for pouch-type ionic liquid supercapacitors with high volumetric energy density and rate performance', Journal of Energy Storage, 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.111101

Zhang H; Ayana A; Webster RF; Ghasemian MB; Rajendra BV; Seidel J; Sharma P, 2024, 'Polarity Control of the Schottky Barrier in Wurtzite Ferroelectrics', ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 6, pp. 1951 - 1958, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c01849

Gonçalves CN; Paul MJ; Webster RF; Kong C; Gludovatz B; Zepon G; Coury FG; Mazzer EM, 2024, 'Impact of rolling temperature on the deformation structure and mechanical performance of a CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 971, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.172585

Zeng Y; Gentle A; Webster R; Yang Z; Zhou Z; Song N; Keevers M; Green M; Jiang J, 2024, 'Revisiting Photovoltaic Module Antireflection Coatings: A Novel, Dense Sol–Gel Design to Address Long-Standing Durability Limitations', Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.3877

Chang S; Stroppa D; Webster R; Wang D, 2024, 'Revealing atomic structure and composition in ultrahigh energy storage density ferroelectric thin-films', BIO Web of Conferences, 129, pp. 29022 - 29022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202412929022

Zubair M; Usov PM; Ohtsu H; Yuwono JA; Gerke CS; Foley GDY; Hackbarth H; Webster RF; Yang Y; Lie WH; Ma Z; Thomsen L; Kawano M; Bedford NM, 2024, 'Vacancy Mediated Electrooxidation of 5‐Hydroxymethyl Furfuryl Using Defect Engineered Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalysts (Adv. Energy Mater. 35/2024)', Advanced Energy Materials, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202470147

Theska F; Webster RF; Street SR; Lison-Pick M; Primig S, 2023, 'Co-precipitation of M2B on ZrO2 in a Ni-base superalloy with B & Zr additions', Materials Chemistry and Physics, 310, pp. 128466, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2023.128466

Yakubov V; He P; Webster RF; Leo Dela Cruz M; Yang Q; Huang S; Kruzic JJ; Li X, 2023, 'Additive manufacturing of crack-free Al-alloy with coarsening-resistant τ1-CeAlSi strengthening phase', Materials Science and Engineering: A, 884, pp. 145551, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.145551

Zhang H; Alanthattil A; Webster RF; Zhang D; Ghasemian MB; Venkataramana RB; Seidel J; Sharma P, 2023, 'Robust Switchable Polarization and Coupled Electronic Characteristics of Magnesium-Doped Zinc Oxide', ACS Nano, 17, pp. 17148 - 17157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c04937

Yang S; Zhang L; Wu Z; Webster RF; Kong C; Chang SLY, 2023, 'TEM-MD characterization of KDP deformation mechanisms under nanoindentation', Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 43, pp. 3844 - 3848, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2023.02.031

Buerstmayr R; Theska F; Kozeschnik E; Webster RF; Lison-Pick M; Street S; Primig S, 2023, 'Investigation and Simulation of the Effects of nm-Scale γ′ Precipitates on the Recrystallization of Ni-based Superalloys', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 54, pp. 2259 - 2276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11661-023-07008-w

Choi E; Zhang Y; Soufiani AM; Lee M; Webster RF; Pollard ME; Reece PJ; Lee W; Seidel J; Lim J; Yun JH; Yun JS, 2022, 'Exploration of sub-bandgap states in 2D halide perovskite single-crystal photodetector', npj 2D Materials and Applications, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41699-022-00317-5

Liang J; Johannessen B; Wu Z; Webster RF; Yong J; Zulkifli MYB; Harbort JS; Cheok YR; Wen H; Ao Z; Kong B; Chang SLY; Scott J; Liang K, 2022, 'Regulating the Coordination Environment of Mesopore-Confined Single Atoms from Metalloprotein-MOFs for Highly Efficient Biocatalysis', Advanced Materials, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202205674

Gontijo M; Chakraborty A; Webster RF; Ilie S; Six J; Primig S; Sommitsch C, 2022, 'Thermomechanical and Microstructural Analysis of the Influence of B- and Ti-Content on the Hot Ductility Behavior of Microalloyed Steels', Metals, 12, pp. 1808, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/met12111808

Ramadhan ZR; Poerwoprajitno AR; Cheong S; Webster RF; Kumar PV; Cychy S; Gloag L; Benedetti TM; Marjo CE; Muhler M; Wang DW; Gooding JJ; Schuhmann W; Tilley RD, 2022, 'Introducing Stacking Faults into Three-Dimensional Branched Nickel Nanoparticles for Improved Catalytic Activity', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, pp. 11094 - 11098, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c04911

Chakraborty A; Webster RF; Primig S, 2022, 'Lath martensite substructure evolution in low-carbon microalloyed steels', Journal of Materials Science, 57, pp. 10359 - 10378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10853-022-07275-9

Zhang C; Yang B; Biazik J; Webster RF; Xie W; Tang J; Allioux F-M; Abbasi R; Mousavi M; Goldys EM; Killian KA; Chandrawati R; Esrafilzadeh D; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Gallium Nanodroplets are Anti-Inflammatory without Interfering with Iron Homeostasis', ACS Nano, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c10981

Li J; Huang J; Ma F; Sun H; Cong J; Privat K; Webster RF; Cheong S; Yao Y; Chin RL; Yuan X; He M; Sun K; Li H; Mai Y; Hameiri Z; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Tilley RD; Unold T; Green MA; Hao X, 2022, 'Unveiling microscopic carrier loss mechanisms in 12% efficient Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cells', Nature Energy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01078-7

Liang J; Johannessen B; Wu Z; Webster RF; Yong J; Bin Zulkifli MY; Harbort JS; Cheok YR; Wen H; Ao Z; Kong B; Chang SLY; Scott J; Liang K, 2022, 'Regulating the Coordination Environment of Mesopore‐Confined Single Atoms from Metalloprotein‐MOFs for Highly Efficient Biocatalysis (Adv. Mater. 44/2022)', Advanced Materials, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202270303

He P; Webster RF; Yakubov V; Kong H; Yang Q; Huang S; Ferry M; Kruzic JJ; Li X, 2021, 'Fatigue and dynamic aging behavior of a high strength Al-5024 alloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing', Acta Materialia, 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117312

Zhang L; Ng G; Kapoor-Kaushik N; Shi X; Corrigan N; Webster R; Jung K; Boyer C, 2021, '2D Porphyrinic Metal–Organic Framework Nanosheets as Multidimensional Photocatalysts for Functional Materials', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 60, pp. 22664 - 22671, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202107457

Zhang L; Ng G; Kapoor‐Kaushik N; Shi X; Corrigan N; Webster R; Jung K; Boyer C, 2021, '2D Porphyrinic Metal–Organic Framework Nanosheets as Multidimensional Photocatalysts for Functional Materials', Angewandte Chemie, 133, pp. 22846 - 22853, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202107457

Foller T; Daiyan R; Jin X; Leverett J; Kim H; Webster R; Yap JE; Wen X; Rawal A; DeSilva KKH; Yoshimura M; Bustamante H; Chang SLY; Kumar P; You Y; Lee GH; Amal R; Joshi R, 2021, 'Enhanced graphitic domains of unreduced graphene oxide and the interplay of hydration behaviour and catalytic activity', Materials Today

Buerstmayr R; Theska F; Webster R; Lison-Pick M; Primig S, 2021, 'Correlative analysis of grain boundary precipitates in Ni-based superalloy René 41', Materials Characterization, 178, pp. 111250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111250

Hou B; Benito‐alifonso D; Webster RF; Cherns D; Galan MC; Fermín DJ, 2021, 'Synthetic mechanism studies of iron selenides: An emerging class of materials for electrocatalysis', Catalysts, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/catal11060681

Pogrebnjak AD; Webster RF; Tilley RD; Buranich VV; Ivashchenko VI; Takeda Y; Oyoshi K; Sakenova R; Piotrowska K; Zukowski P; Konarski P; Kupchishin AI; Budzynski P, 2021, 'Formation of Si-Rich Interfaces by Radiation-Induced Diffusion and Microsegregation in CrN/ZrN Nanolayer Coating', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 16928 - 16938, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c19451

Buranich VV; Tsyganok PS; Pogrebnjak AD; Kassenova LG; Kupchishin AI; Webster RF; Tilley RD; Bondar OV; Rokosz K; Raaen S; Beresnev VM; Lytovchenko SV; Rakhadilov BK, 2021, 'Effect of composition and growth mechanism on the structure formation and functional properties of tialsiyn/mon nanolayer-thick coating', High Temperature Material Processes, 25, pp. 31 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1615/HighTempMatProc.2021039053

Webster R; Chang S; Tilley R, 2021, 'A New Method for the XEDS ζ-factor Measurement Through Modulation of Beam Current.', Microscopy and Microanalysis, 27, pp. 2064 - 2067, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1431927621007479

Rafiei M; Lӧhr S; Baldermann A; Webster R; Kong C, 2020, 'Quantitative petrographic differentiation of detrital vs diagenetic clay minerals in marine sedimentary sequences: Implications for the rise of biotic soils', Precambrian Research, 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105948

Maksakova OV; Webster RF; Tilley RD; Ivashchenko VI; Postolnyi BO; Bondar OV; Takeda Y; Rogoz VM; Sakenova RE; Zukowski PV; Opielak M; Beresnev VM; Pogrebnjak AD, 2020, 'Nanoscale architecture of (CrN/ZrN)/(Cr/Zr) nanocomposite coatings: Microstructure, composition, mechanical properties and first-principles calculations', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 831, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.154808

Teymouri A; Adabifiroozjaei E; Webster RF; Hagh SM; Hao X; Green MA; Pillai S, 2020, 'Evidence of Low-Temperature Joints in Silver Nanowire Based Transparent Conducting Layers for Solar Cells', ACS Applied Nano Materials, 3, pp. 3205 - 3213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b02290

S. Mofarah S; Adabifiroozjaei E; Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Pardehkhorram R; Yao Y; Assadi MHN; Mehmood R; Chen WF; Tsounis C; Scott J; Lim S; Webster R; Zhong V; Xu Y; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2020, 'Assembly of cerium-based coordination polymer into variant polycrystalline 2D-3D CeO2-x nanostructures', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8, pp. 4753 - 4763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta11961b

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

Ledermueller C; Pratiwi HI; Webster RF; Eizadjou M; Ringer SP; Primig S, 2020, 'Microalloying effects of Mo versus Cr in HSLA steels with ultrafine-grained ferrite microstructures', Materials and Design, 185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2019.108278

Pogrebnjak AD; Kong CH; Webster RF; Tilley RD; Takeda Y; Oyoshi K; Bondar OV; Buranich VV; Konstantinov SV; Baimoldanova LS; Opielak M; Zukowski P; Konarski P, 2019, 'Antibacterial Effect of Au Implantation in Ductile Nanocomposite Multilayer (TiAlSiY)N/CrN Coatings', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11, pp. 48540 - 48550, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b16328

Ledermueller C; Kozeschnik E; Webster RF; Primig S, 2019, 'Advanced Thermo-mechanical Process for Homogenous Hierarchical Microstructures in HSLA Steels', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50, pp. 5800 - 5815, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11661-019-05486-5

Gharavi PSM; Xie L; Webster RF; Park CKY; Ng YH; He J; Hart JN; Valanoor N, 2019, 'Interfacial origins of visible-light photocatalytic activity in ZnS–GaP multilayers', Acta Materialia, 181, pp. 139 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.09.041

S. Mofarah S; Adabifiroozjaei E; Yao Y; Koshy P; Lim S; Webster R; Liu X; Khayyam Nekouei R; Cazorla C; Liu Z; Wang Y; Lambropoulos N; Sorrell CC, 2019, 'Proton-assisted creation of controllable volumetric oxygen vacancies in ultrathin CeO2−x for pseudocapacitive energy storage applications', Nature Communications, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10621-2

Alinezhad A; Gloag L; Benedetti TM; Cheong S; Webster RF; Roelsgaard M; Iversen BB; Schuhmann W; Gooding JJ; Tilley RD; Alinezhad Chamazketi A, 2019, 'Direct Growth of Highly Strained Pt Islands on Branched Ni Nanoparticles for Improved Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, pp. 16202 - 16207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b07659

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