Eyring Materials Center

Research at Eyring Materials Center

The following examples illustrate some of the capabilities available through the Eyring Materials Center.

Lin, X., Li, W., Nguyen, V., Wang, S., Yang, S., Ma, L., Du, Y., Wang, B., and Fan, Z. Fe-single-atom catalyst nanocages linked by bacterial cellulose-derived carbon nanofiber aerogel for Li-S batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal 477, 146977 (2023).

Householder, M. A., Subramani, T., Lilova, K., Lyons, J. R., Stroud, R. M., and Navrotsky, A. Calorimetric measurement of the surface energy of enstatite, MgSiO3. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127, 40, 20106–20112 (2023).

Li, Y., Kottwitz, M., Vincent, J. L., Enright, M. J., Liu, Z., Zhang, L., Huang, J., Senanayake, S. D., Yang, W-C. D., Crozier, P. A., Nuzzo, R. G., and Frenkel, A. I. Dynamic structure of active sites in ceria-supported Pt catalysts for the water gas shift reaction. Nature Communications 12, 914 (2021).

Li, A., Zhang, Q., Lin, S., Sang, X., Need, R. F., Roldan. M. A., Cui, W., Hu, Z., Jin, Q, Chen, S., Zhao, J., Wang, J-O., Wang, J., He, M., Ge, C., Wang, C., Lu, H-B., Wu, Z., Guo, H., Tong, X.,Hu, Zhu, T., Kirby, B., Gu, L., Jin, K-J., and Guo, E-J. Strong ferromagnetism achieved via breathing lattices in atomically thin cobaltites. Advanced Materials, 33, 4, 2001324 (2021).

Zuo, J., Bai, J., Choi, S. et al. Chip-integrated metasurface full-Stokes polarimetric imaging sensor. Light Sci Appl 12, 218 (2023).

Leinbach, L. J., Rhoden, I. R., Leinenweber, K., Andersson, O., Gordeeva, A., and Häussermann, U. Large volume multianvil cell assembly for hydrothermal synthesis and conversions up to 6.5 GPa and 400°C. High Pressure Research, 43(3), 231-250 (2023)..

Penukula, S., Estrada Torrejon, R., and Rolston, N. Quantifying and reducing ion migration in metal halide perovskites through control of mobile ions. Molecules 27, 13, 5026 (2023).

Sayyad, M., Qin, Y., Kopaczek, J., Gupta, A., Patoary, N., Sinha, S., Benard, E., Davis, A., Yumigeta, K., Wu, C-L., Li, H., Yang, S., Samcje Esqueda. I., Singh, A., and Tongay, S. Strain anisotropy driven spontaneous formation of nanoscrolls from 2D Janus layers. Advanced Functional Materials 33, 42, 2303526 (2023).

Yaron, J. R., Bakkaloglu, S., Grigaitis, N. A., Babur, F. H., Macho, S., Rhodes, S., Norvor-Davis, S., and Rege, K. Inflammasome modulation with P2X7 inhibitor A438079-loaded dressings for diabetic wound healing. Frontiers in Immunology 15, 1340405 (2024).

Sharma, Sh., Sharma, Sa.,Moehring, S., Park, J-S., Solanki, K., and Peralta, P. Thermo-mechanical behavior of hypoeutectic Ni-Y-Zr alloys. Materials Today Communications 18, 108410 (2024).

Bonatti, L., Brugman, B.L., Subramani, T., Leinenweber, K. D., and Navrotsky, A. Heat capacity of microgram oxide samples by fast scanning calorimetry. Review of Scientific Instruments 94, 5, 054905 (2023).

Zhang, Z., Tian, J., Lu, Y., Yang, S., Jiang, D., Huang, W., Li, Y, Hong, J., Hoffman, A. S., Bare, S. R., Engelhard, M. H., Datye, A. K., and Wang, Y. Memory-dictated dynamics of single-atom Pt on CeO₂ for CO oxidation. Nat Commun 14, 2664 (2023).

Leonel, G. J., Guo, X., Singh, G., Gervais, C., and Navrotsky, A. Energetics and structure of SiC(N)(O) polymer-derived ceramics. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 106, 8, 5086-5101 (2023).

Farsad, A., Niimi, K., Selim Ersan, M., Gozalez-Rodriguez, J. R., Hristovski, K. D., and Westerhoff, P. Mechanistic study of arsenate adsorption onto different amorphous grades of titanium (hydr)oxides impregnated into a point-of-use activated carbon block. ACS ES&T Engineering 3, 7, 989-1000 (2023).

Verhagen, C. M., Jung, J-I., Tikoo, S. M., Wittman, A., Kring, D. A., Brachfeld, S., Wu, L., Burns, D. H., and Gulick, S. P. S. Significance of secondary Fe-Oxide and Fe-Sulfide minerals in upper peak ring suevite from the Chicxulub impact structure. Minerals 13, 3, 353 (2023).

Howley, E., Mangus, A., Williams, D., and Torres. C. I. Intracytoplasmic membranes develop in Geobacter sulfurreducens under thermodynamically limiting conditions. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 9, 18 (2023).

Hatch, K. A., Messina, D. C., and Nemanich, R. J. Plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition and atomic layer etching of gallium oxide using trimethylgallium. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 40, 042603 (2022).

Messina, D. C., Eller, B. S., Scowen, P. A., and Nemanich, R. J. Comparison of AlF3 thin films grown by thermal and plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 40, 012404 (2022).

Mangal, J. L., Inamdar, S., Suresh, A. P., Sekhar Jaggarapu, M. M. C., Esrafili, A., Ng, N. D., and Acharya, A. P. Short term, low dose alpha-ketoglutarate based polymeric nanoparticles with methotrexate reverse rheumatoid arthritis symptoms in mice and modulate T helper cell responses. Biomaterials Science 10, 6688-6697 (2022).

Guo, J., Weller, J.M., Yang, S., Bhat, M. H., and Chan, C. K. Reactive sintering of garnet-type Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 (LLZTO) from pyrochlore precursors prepared using a non-aqueous sol–gel method. Ionics 29, 581–590 (2023).

Kadkhodazadeh, S., Cavalca, F.C., Miller, B.J., Zhangm L., Wagner, J. B., Crozier, P. A., and Hansen, T. W. In situ TEM under optical excitation for catalysis research. Top Curr Chem (Z) 380, 52 (2022).

Manzorro, R., Xu, Y., Vincent, J. L., Rivera, R., Matteson, D. S., and Crozier, P. A. Exploring blob detection to determine atomic column positions and intensities in time-resolved TEM images with ultra-low signal-to-noise. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, 6, 1917-1930 (2022).

Mohan, S., Manzorro, R., Vincent, J. L., Tang, B., Sheth, D. U., Simoncelli, E. P., Matteson, D. S., Crozier, P. A., and Fernanez-Granda, C. Deep denoising for scientific discovery: A case study in electron microscopy. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging 8, 585-597 (2022).

Croizer, P. A. Probing response and functionality in active materials systems with in situ eectron microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, S1, 158-159 (2022).

Tan, M., Gorelik, R., Yang, S., and Crozier, P. A. Atomic scale visualization of cation point defects in gadolinium doped ceria. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, S1, 2384-2386 (2022).

Wang, Y., Haluai, P., and Crozier, P. A. In situ engineering and characterization of photonic modes in dielectric nanocubes. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, S1, 1972-1974 (2022)

Leibovich, M., Manzorro, R., Tan, M., Mohan, S., Marcos-Morales, A., Fernandez-Granda, C., and Crozier, P. A. Convolutional neural network as a solution to segment and classify high resolution TEM images to obtain 3D information. Microscopy and Microanalysis 27, S1, 3024-3026 (2022).

Wang, Y., Yang, S., and Crozier, P. A. Revealing photonic properties with high spatial resolution: An EELS study on ceria nanocubes. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, S1, 1986-1988 (2022).

Crozier, P. A. How to get something out of nothing (Almost!): Extracting information from noisy data. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, S1, 2976-2977 (2022).

Manzorro, R., Xu, Y., Matteson, D. S., and Crozier, P. A. Harnessing high temporal resolutions to explore fluxional behavior on CeO2 nanoparticles under reducing conditions. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, S1, 1792-1793 (2022).

Gilankar, A., Miller, B. K., Marcos Morales, A., Haluai, P., Tan, M., Vincent, J. L., Fernandez-Granda, C., and Crozier, P. A. Detecting and characterizing the fluxionality in Pt nanoparticles. Microscopy and Microanalysis 2, S1, 166-168 (2022).

Haluai, P., and Crozier, P. A. Rhodium doping of strontium titanate for enhanced visible light absorption. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, S1, 1880-1882 (2022).

Haluai, P., McCartney, M. R., and Crozier, P. A. Detection of adsorbates induced changes on Pt/CeO2 catalyst using in situ electron holography. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, S1, 1906-1907 (2022).

Brown-Heft, T. L.,Logan, J. F., McFadden, A. P., Guillemard, C., Le Fevre, P., Bertran, F., Andrieu, S., and Palmstram, C. J. Epitaxial Heusler superlattice Co2MnAl/Fe2MnAl with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and termination-dependent half-metallicity. Physical Review Materials 2, 034402 (2018).

Iacovino, K., McCubbin, F. M., Vander Kaaden, K. E., Clark, J., Wittman, A., Jakubek, R. S., Moore, G. M., Fries, M. D., Archer, D., and Boyce, J. W. Carbon as a key driver of super-reduced explosive volcanism on Mercury: Evidence from graphite-melt smelting experiments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 602, 117908 (2023).

Watanabe, G., Lieber, M. R., and Williams, D. R. Structural analysis of the basal state of the Artemis:DNA-PKcs complex. Nucleic Acid Research 50, 13, 7697-7720 (2022).

Narayanan, N. P., Procyk, J., Nandi, P., Prasad, A., Xu, Y., Poppleton, E., Williams, D., Zhang, F., Yan, H., Chiu, P-L., Stephanopoulos, N,, and Sulc, P. Coarse-grained simulations for the characterization and optimization of hybrid protein–DNA nanostructures. ACS Nano 16, 8, 14986-14906 (2022).

Khandelwal, N. K., Millan, C. R., Zangari, S. I., Avila, S., Williams, D., Thaker, T. M., and Tomasiak, T. M. The structural basis for regulation of the glutathione transporter Ycf1 by regulatory domain phosphorylation. Nature Communications 13, 1278 (2022).

Garvie, L. A. J. Seasonal formation of ikaite in slime flux jelly on an infected tree (Populus fremontii) wound from the Sonoran Desert. The Science of Nature 109, 48 (2022).

Leonel, G. J., Guo, X., Singh, G., and Navrotsky, A. Compositional analysis of SiOC(H) powders: A comparison of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and combustion analysis. Ceramics 6, 1, 74-85 (2023).

Siniard, K. M., Li, M., Yang, S-Z., Zhang, J., Polo-Garzon, F., Wu, Z., Yang, Z., and Dai, S. Ultrasonication-induced strong metal-support interaction construction in water towards enhanced catalysis. Angewandte Chemie 62, 20, e202214322.

Shamloo, H. I., and TIll, C. B. Decadal transition from quiescence to supereruption: petrologic investigation of the Lava Creek Tuff, Yellowstone Caldera, WY. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 174, 32 (2019).

Jin, A., Bose, M., Lichtenberg, T., and Mulders, G. D. New evidence for wet accretion of inner solar system planetesimals from meteorites Chelyabinsk and Benenitra. The Planetary Science Journal 2, 6, 244 (2021).

Leonel, G. J., Guo, X., Singh, G., Gervais, C. and Navrtskey, A. Energetics and structure of SiC(N)(O) polymer-derived ceramics. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 106, 8, 5086-5101 (2023).

Bansal, R., Verduzco, R., Wang, M. S., Westerhoff, P., and Garcia-Segura, S. Development of nano boron-doped diamond electrodes for environmental applications. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 907, 116028 (2022).

Bansal, R., Hald, N., and Garcia-Segura, S. Towards the design of mechanical flexible electrodes for sensing: Self-standing polypyrrole-copper nanocomposites. Talanta 266, 2, 125037 (2024).

Lopez-Vazquez, L. F., Ramirez-Rodriquez, L. P., Perez-Rodriguez, A., Britto Hurtado, R., Cabellos, J. L., Vargas-Ortiz, R. A., Navarro-Badilla, A., Roldan, M. A., and Cortez-Valadez, M. Ultra-small gold particles via Citrus × sinensis: Theoretical and experimental SERS study. Materials Science and Engineering: B 295, 116617 (2023).

Sahal, M., Molloy, J., Narayanan, V. R., Ladani, L., Lu, X., and Rolston, N. Robust and manufacturable lithium lLanthanum titanate-based solid-state electrolyte thin films deposited in open air. ACS Omega 8, 31, 28651–28662 (2023).

Saini, K., Nair, A. N., Yadav, A., Garcia Enriquez, L., Pollock, C. J., House. S. D., Yang, S., Guo, X. and Sreenvasan, S. T. Nickel-based single-molecule catalysts with synergistic geometric transition and magnetic field-assisted spin selection outperform RuO2 for oxygen evolution. Advanced Energy Materials 13, 42, 2302170 (2023).

Ahmad, M,. Cartledge, C., McAndrews, G., Giuri, A., McGehee, M. D., Rizzo, A., and Rolston, N. Tuning film stresses for open-sir processing of stable metal halide perovskites. ACE Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, 44, 51117-51125 (2023).

Kim, T., O’Rourke, J. G., Lee, J., Chariton, S., Prakapenka, V., Husband, R. J., Giordano, N., Liermann, H-P., Shim, S-H., and Lee, Y. A hydrogen-enriched layer in the topmost outer core sourced from deeply subducted water. Nature Geoscience 16, 1208-1214 (2023).