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Research Highlights
Rare & Efficient Energy Transfer in 2D Heterostructures
CFN staff and users co-led a study that discovered an efficient and unusual energy transfer process from a lower to higher bandgap semiconductor material in stacked heterostructures of monolayer WSe2 & MoS2.
Understanding the Tantalizing Benefits of Tantalum for Qubits
CFN users collaborated with CFN staff on a study to correlate tantalum surface oxidation states with coherence losses in superconducting qubits. Developing a variable energy X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy methodology was key to revealing the depth profile of tantalum oxidation.
In Fuel Cell Catalysts, Three Elements are Better than One
CFN staff and users from Binghamton University co-led a study resulting in a new method to synthesize monodisperse, ternary (Pt-Fe-Ni) colloidal catalysts and measure their performance.
AI Discovers New Nanostructures Using X-rays
A CFN-led team directed a blend of two self-assembling polymers to form a large library of nanostructures.
High Throughput and Multimodal Materials Identification
CFN researchers and collaborators employed artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) enhanced data analytics and theory, along with high-throughput synthesis and spatially resolved characterization, to identify the phase composition of complex metal-oxide thin films.
Controlling Oxide Catalysts with Peroxides
CFN Users at Binghamton University and CFN staff demonstrated they could control the activity and selectivity of an oxide catalyst (cupric oxide, CuO) using adsorbed oxygen.
Molecular Brushes Stabilize Nanoparticles in Extreme Solution Environments
CFN researchers and collaborators developed a series of molecular brushes that both functionalizes inorganic nanoparticles (gold, silver, platinum, and iron oxide) and stabilizes them in a diverse spectrum of solution environments.
Detecting Pollutant Gases with Aromatic Sensors
Researchers from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras have developed gas sensors based on metal phthalocyanine nanowires grown directly on electrical contacts.
A New Quantum Algorithm for Quantum Chemistry
CFN and Stony Brook University researchers propose a new quantum algorithm to accurately solve the total energies of molecules
Unexpected Kinetics in Clean Energy Catalysts
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and CFN discovered that methanol to hydrogen conversion using copper catalysts displays kinetic behavior that deviates from well-established models, which is explained by measurements of intermediates in the reaction pathway.
More Hydrogen from "Hot" Water Splitting
CFN researchers demonstrated that elevated electrolyte temperatures increase the activity of a bismuth vanadate electrode for solar hydrogen generation by photoelectrochemical water splitting by 40 percent, due to more efficient charge carrier separation and a favorable semiconductor surface reconstruction.
'No Linker' Single-Molecule Circuits
A team of CFN users and staff formed single molecule circuits with single metallocenes and gold electrodes.
