Publications

2024

1.  Insights into the active nickel centers embedded in graphitic carbon nitride for the oxygen evolution reaction

 N. Rossetti, A. Ugolotti, C. Cometto, V. Celorrio, G. Dražić, C. Di Valentin, L. Calvillo 

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2024, 12, 6652 – 6662, DOI: 10.1039/D3TA07389K 

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2.  Highly Active MoS2‐MXenes Hybrid Electrocatalysts Towards the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

 Y. Remedios-Díaz, S. Delgado, J.C. Calderón, L. Calvillo, M.C. Arévalo, E. Pastor 

 ChemElectroChem 2024, e202300673; doi.org/10.1002/celc.202300673

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3. Graphene Acetic Acid-Based Hybrid Supercapacitor and Liquid-Gated Transistor

Rafael C. Hensel, Biagio Di Vizio, Verónica Montes-García, Jijin Yang, Georgian G. Ilie, Francesco Sedona, Mauro Sambi, Paolo Samorì, Andrea Cester, Stefano Agnoli, Stefano Casalini

Advanced Electronic Materials 2024 2300685 

link to abstract open access  DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202300685 

4.  Enhanced Adsorption of Methylene Blue Dye on Functionalized Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

 Ludovica Ceroni, Stefania Benazzato, Samuel Pressi, Laura Calvillo, Ester Marotta, Enzo Menna

 Nanomaterials 2024, doi.org/10.3390/nano14060522 

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2023

1. Enhancing the Photocatalytic Activity via Direct Covalent Functionalization in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

José Luis Nova-Fernández, Daniel González-Muñoz, Gustavo Pascual-Coca, Mattia Cattelan, Stefano Agnoli, Raúl Pérez-Ruiz, José Alemán, Silvia Cabrera, Matías Blanco

Advanced Functional Materials 2023 2313102  DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202313102  

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2. How to guide photocatalytic applications of titanium dioxide co-doped with nitrogen and carbon by modulating the production of reactive oxygen species

 A. Zollo, S. Livraghi, E. Giamello, A. Cioni, V. Dami, G. Lorenzi, G. Baldi, S. Agnoli, M. A. Baluk, A. Gołąbiewska, A. Zaleska-Medynska

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 2023, 11, 111523

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3. The Interaction of Amines with Gold Nanoparticles

Y. Lyu, L. Morillas Becerril, M. Vanzan, S. Corni, M. Cattelan, G. Granozzi, M. Frasconi, P. Rajak, P. Banerjee, R. Ciancio, F. Mancin, P. Scrimin

Advanced Materials 2023 2211624 

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4. Robustness of Momentum-Indirect Interlayer Excitons in MoS2/WSe2 Heterostructure against Charge Carrier Doping

E. Khestanova, T. Ivanova, R. Gillen, A. D’Elia, O. N. Gallego Lacey, L. Wysocki, A. Grüneis, V. Kravtsov, W. Strupinski, J. Maultzsch, V. Kandyba, M. Cattelan, A. Barinov, J. Avila, P Dudin, B. V. Senkovskiy

ACS Photonics 2023, 10, 4, 1159–1168

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5. Bifunctional Zinc-Molybdate or Zinc Molybdenum Oxide/Metal Nitrogen-Carbon Catalytic Layers with Improved Four-electron Selectivity for Oxygen Reduction in acidic medium 

A. Roy, L. Girardi, D. Mosconi, M. T. Sougrati, D. Jones, S. Agnoli, F. Jaouen

Electrochimica Acta 2023, 457, 142503

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6. Supramolecular Chemistry of Carbon‐Based Dots Offers Widespread Opportunities

F Arcudi, L Đorđević

Small, 2023, 19, 2300906

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7. Scanning photoelectron spectromicroscopy: from static to operando studies of functional materials 

M Amati, Toma Susi, P Jovičević-Klug, M Jovičević-Klug, Tomasz Kosmala, Gaetano Granozzi, Stefano Agnoli, Pengfei Yang, Yanfeng Zhang, Mattia Scardamaglia, L Gregoratti

J. Electron Spectros. Relat. Phenomena 2023, 147336

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8. 2D MoS2/BiOBr van der Waals heterojunctions by liquid-phase exfoliation as photoelectrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution

M. Wang, S. Osella, R. Brescia, Z. Liu, J. Gallego, M. Cattelan, M. Crisci, S. Agnoli, T. Gatti

Nanoscale, 2023,15, 522-531

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9. Nanoneedles of Mixed Transition Metal Phosphides as Bifunctional Catalysts for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting in Alkaline Media

D. Salvò, D. Mosconi, A. Neyman, M. Bar-Sadan, L. Calvillo, G. Granozzi, M. Cattelan, S. Agnoli

Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 683

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10. Photoelectrochemical C‐H activation through a quinacridone dye enabling proton‐coupled electron transfer 

Y. Yang, G. A. Volpato, E. Rossin, N. Peruffo, F. Tumbarello, C. Nicoletti, R. Bonetto, L. Paoloni, P. Umari, E. Colusso, L. Dell’Amico, S. Berardi, E. Collini, S. Caramori, S. Agnoli, A. Sartorel 

ChemSusChem 2023, 16, e202201980 

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11. Catalytic Activity of Defect-Engineered Transition Me tal Dichalcogenides Mapped with Atomic-Scale Precision by Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy 

M. Lunardon, T. Kosmala, M. Ghorbani-Asl, A. V. Krasheninnikov, S. Kolekar, C. Durante, M. Batzill, S. Agnoli, G. Granozzi 

ACS Energy Lett. 2023, 8, 972–980 

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12. Nitrogen- and Fluorine-Doped Carbon Nanohorns as Efficient Metal-Free Oxygen Reduction Catalyst: Role of the Nitrogen Groups

E. Tosin, T. Gatti, S. Agnoli, L. Calvillo, E. Menna

Surfaces 2023, 6, 277-238

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2022

1. Growth suppression of bacteria by biofilm deterioration using silver nanoparticles with magnetic doping

Rafael Torres-Mendieta, Nhung HA Nguyen, Andrea Guadagnini, Jaroslav Semerád, Dariusz Łukowiec, Petr Parma, Jijin Yang, Stefano Agnoli, Alena Ševců, Tomas Cajthaml, Miroslav Cernik, Vincenzo Amendola

Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 18143-18156

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2. Improved mass transport imparts stability and durability in nickel catalysts for urea oxidation 

M. Cattelan, L. Calvillo, S. Agnoli 

Chem Catalysis 2022, 2, 2835-2836

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3. Green synthesis of redox-active riboflavin integrated Ni-MOF and its versatile electrocatalytic applications towards oxygen evolution and reduction, and HMF oxidation reactions 

P. Sekar,   V. Punitharaj,   R. Shanmugam,   S. Senthil Kumar,   S. Agnoli,   R. Jayakumari Deepak,   K. Murugan,   N. Bhuvanesh,  R. Karvembu 

Green Chemistry 2022, 24, 9233-9244  

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4. Au–Ag Alloy Nanocorals with Optimal Broadband Absorption for Sunlight-Driven Thermoplasmonic Applications 

Federico Pini, Roberto Pilot, Gloria Ischia, Stefano Agnoli, Vincenzo Amendola 

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 25, 28924–28935 

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5. Toward sustainable and effective HER electrocatalysts: strategies for the basal plane site activation of transition metal dichalcogenides 

M. Lunardon, M. Cattelan, S. Agnoli, G. Granozzi 

Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2022, 34, 101025

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6. The Effect of the 3D Nanoarchitecture and Ni-Promotion on the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in MoS2/Reduced GO Aerogel Hybrid Microspheres Produced by a Simple One-Pot Electrospraying Procedure

J. Ran, L. Girardi, G. Dražić, Z. Wang, S. Agnoli, H. Xia, G. Granozzi 

Small 2022, 16, 2105694

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7.  Atom-by-atom identification of catalytic active sites in operando conditions by quantitative noise detection 

Marco Lunardon, Tomasz Kosmala, Christian Durante, Stefano Agnoli, Gaetano Granozzi 

Joule 2022, 6, 617-635

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8.  First-Principles Estimation of Core Level Shifts for Hf, Ta, W, and Re

      Daniel Wolverson, Benjamin Smith, Enrico Da Como, Charles Sayers, Gary Wan, Luca Pasquali, Mattia Cattelan 

J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126, 9135−9142 

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9.  Supramolecular modulation of the mechanical properties of amino acid-functionalized cellulose nanocrystal films

V. Gabrielli, E. Missale, M. Cattelan, M.F. Pantano, M. Frasconi

Materials Today Chemistry 24 (2022) 100886 

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10.  Mapping the Energetics of Defect States in Cu2ZnSnS4 films and the Impact of Sb Doping

Devendra Tiwari, Mattia Cattelan, Robert L. Harniman, Andrei Sarua, Neil Fox, Tristan Koehler, Reiner Klenk,  David J. Fermin

ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2022, 5, 4, 3933–3940 

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11.  Large anomalous Hall effect induced by weak ferromagnetism in the noncentrosymmetric antiferromagnet CoNb3S6

Hiroaki Tanaka, Shota Okazaki, Kenta Kuroda, Ryo Noguchi, Yosuke Arai, Susumu Minami, Shinichiro Ideta, Kiyohisa Tanaka, Donghui Lu, Makoto Hashimoto, Viktor Kandyba, Mattia Cattelan, Alexei Barinov, Takayuki Muro, Takao Sasagawa, and Takeshi Kondo

Phys. Rev. B 105, L121102 

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12. Graphene Acid: a Versatile 2D Platform for Catalysis

M. Blanco, S Agnoli, G Granozzi

Israel Journal of Chemistry 2022, 62, e202100118

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13.  Azide-alkyne click chemistry over a heterogeneous copper-based single-atom catalyst

G Vilé, G Di Liberto, S Tosoni, A Sivo, V Ruta, M Nachtegaal, AH Clark, Stefano Agnoli, Yajun Zou, Aleksandr Savateev, Markus Antonietti, Gianfranco Pacchioni

ACS Catalysis 12 (5), 2947-2958

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14.  Single-atom Zn for boosting supercapacitor performance

Z Li, D Wang, H Li, M Ma, Y Zhang, Z Yan, S Agnoli, G Zhang, X Sun

Nano Research 15 (3), 1715-1724

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15.  Oxidized multiwalled nanotubes as efficient carbocatalyst for the general synthesis of azines

MA Valle-Amores, M Blanco, S Agnoli, A Fraile, J Alemán

Journal of Catalysis 406, 174-183

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16.  Design Principles and Insights into the Liquid-Phase Exfoliation of Alpha-MoO3 for the Production of Colloidal 2D Nano-inks in Green Solvents

M. Crisci, , P. Dolcet, J. Yang, M. Salerno, P. Bélteky, Á. Kukovecz, F. Lamberti, S. Agnoli, S. Osella, S. Gross, T. Gatti

J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126, 1, 404–415

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17.  Harnessing Molecular Fluorophores in the Carbon Dots Matrix: The Case of Safranin O

M. Meloni, L. Stagi, D. Sanna, S. Garroni, L. Calvillo, A. Terracina, M. Cannas, F. Messina, C. M. Carbonaro, P. Innocenzi, L. Malfatti

Nanomaterials 2022, 12, 2351 

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18. Polyethylene Glycol-Mediated Switchable Blue-Green Emissions in Sulfur Nanostructures Controlled through the Surface Chemistry

J. Ren, L. Malfatti, L. Stagi, D. Carboni, R. Anedda, L. Calvillo, P. Innocenzi

Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 18, 8456–8468

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2021

1) Strain Induced Phase Transition of WS2 by Local Dewetting of Au/Mica Film upon Annealing

T. Kosmala, P. Palczynski, M. Amati, L. Gregoratti, H. Sezen, C. Mattevi, S. Agnoli and G. Granozzi,

Surfaces, 2021, 4(1), 1-9

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2) Electrocatalytic Site Activity Enhancement via Orbital Overlap in A2MnRuO7 (A = Dy3+, Ho3+, and Er3+) Pyrochlore Nanostructures

V. Celorrio, D. Tiwari, L. Calvillo,A. Leach, H. Huang, G. Granozzi, J.A. Alonso, A. Aguadero, A.E. Russell, and D.J. Fermin,

ACS Applied Energy, 2021, 4, 176-185

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3) Selective and scaled-up continuous flow synthesis of multiple manganese nano oxides catalysts for single electron transfer reactions

D. Mosconi,M. Blanco, M. Sturaro, M. Bersani and G. Granozzi,

Chemical Engineering Journal, 417 (2021) 129063

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4) Multimodal hybrid 2D networks via the thiol-epoxide reaction on 1T/2H MoS2 polytypes

G. Tuci, A. Rossin, CP. Huu, D. Mosconi, L. Luconi, S. Agnoli, G. Granozzi, Giuliano Giambastiani,

Mater. Chem. Front., 2021,5, 3470-3479

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5) Effects of the Micro- and Meso-porosity on the single site density and turn over frequency of Fe-N-C carbon electrodes for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

M. Mazzucato, G. Daniel, M. Asad, T. Kosmala, G. Granozzi, A. Kucernak, C. Durante,

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 291 (2021) 120068

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6) Highly Graphitized Fe-N-C Electrocatalysts Prepared from Chitosan Hydrogel Frameworks

G. Daniel, T. Kosmala, F. Brombin, M. Mazzucato, A. Facchin, M. C. Dalconi, D. Badocco, P. Pastore, G. Granozzi, C. Durante,

Catalysts 2021, 11(3), 390

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7) Hybrid MXene/reduced graphene oxide aerogel microspheres for hydrogen evolution reaction

Y. Cheng, Y. Zhan, J. Ran, Z. Wang, S. Agnoli, H. Xia, G. Granozzi,

Ionics 2021, 27, 3099–3108

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8) Hybridization of Molecular and Graphene Materials for CO2 Photocatalytic Reduction with Selectivity Control

B. Ma, M. Blanco, L. Calvillo, L. Chen, G. Chen, T. Lau, G. Drazic, J. Bonin, M. Robert, G. Granozzi,

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 22, 8414–8425

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9) Engineering UV-emitting defects in h-BN nanodots by a top-down route

J. Ren, L. Stagi, L. Malfatti, C. M. Carbonaro, G. Granozzi, L. Calvillo, S. Enzo, P. Innocenzi,

Appl. Surf. Sci. 2021, 567, 150727

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10) Copper single-atoms embedded in 2D graphitic carbon nitride for the CO2 reduction

C. Cometto, A. Ugolotti, E. Grazietti, A. Moretto, G. Bottaro, L. Armelao, C. Di Valentin, L. Calvillo,G. Granozzi

npj 2D Materials and Applications, 2021, 5, 63

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11) Preparation and Electronic structure of the WSe2/Graphene/NiSex/Ni(111) heterostructure

R. Sant, M. Cattelan, S. Agnoli, G. Granozzi,

J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 39, 052201 (2021)

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12) Sulfur Doping versus hierarchical pore structure: the dominating effect on the Fe-N-C site density, activity and selectivity in Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalysis

G. Daniel, M. Mazzucato, R. Brandiele, L. De Lazzari, D. Badocco, P. Pastore, T. Kosmala, G. Granozzi, C.Durante,

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, accepted 31 July

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13) Facile synthesis by laser ablation in liquid of nonequilibrium cobalt-silver nanoparticles with magnetic and plasmonic properties

A. Guadagnini, S. Agnoli, D. Badocco, P. Pastore, D. Coral, Marcela B. Fernàndez van Raap, D. Forrer, V. Amendola,

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, (585) 2021, 267-275,

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14) Polymer-coated silver-iron nanoparticles as efficient and biodegradable MRI contrast agents

V. Amendola, A. Guadagnin, S. Agnoli, D. Badocco, P. Pastore, G. Fracasso, M. Gerosa, F. Vurro, A. Busato, P. Marzola,

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2021, 596, 332-341,

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15) Solution-processed graphene oxide coatings for enhanced heat transfer during dropwise condensation of steam

E. Colusso, M. Tancon, L. Cazzola, R. Parin, S. Agnoli, F. De Boni, M.G. Pelizzo, E. Della Gaspera,

Nano Select 2021, 2 (1), 61-71,

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16) Ce Doping Boosts the Thermo- and Photocatalytic Oxidation of CO at Low Temperature in TiZrO4 Solid Solutions

P. Tang, S. Livraghi, E. Giamello, S. Garroni, L. Malfatti, S. Agnoli,

Advanced Materials Interfaces 2021, 8 (14), 2100532,

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17) Kinetically Stable Nonequilibrium Gold-Cobalt Alloy Nanoparticles with Magnetic and Plasmonic Properties Obtained by Laser Ablation in Liquid

A. Guadagnini, S. Agnoli, D. Badocco, P. Pastore, R. Pilot, R. Ravelle-Chapuis, M. B. F. van Raap, V. Amendola,

ChemPhysChem 2021, 22 (7), 657-664.

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18)  Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution using hybrid electrodes based on single-walled carbon nanohorns and cobalt(ii) polypyridine complexes.

E. Benazzi, F. Begato, A. Niorettini, L. Destro, K. Wurst, G. Licini, S. Agnoli, C. Zonta, M. Natali,

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2021

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19)  Operando visualization of the hydrogen evolution reaction with atomic-scale precision at different metal–graphene interfaces

T. Kosmala, A. Baby, M. Lunardon, D. Perilli, H. Liu, C. Durante,C. Di Valentin, S. Agnoli, G. Granozzi

Nat Catal, 2021, 4, 850-859

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20)  Spectroscopic insight of low energy electron emission from diamond surfaces 

G. Wan, M. Cattelan, A. Croot, H. Dominguez-Andrade, S. S. Nicley, K. Haenen, Neil A. Fox

Carbon, 2021, 185, 376  

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21)  Site-specific symmetry sensitivity of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy in layered palladium diselenide

M. Cattelan, C. J. Sayers, D. Wolverson, E. Carpene

2D Materials, 2021, 8, 045036 

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22)  A simplified method for patterning graphene on dielectric layers 

 H. Røst, B. Reed, F. Strand, J. Durk, A. Evans, A. Grubišić-Čabo, G. Wan, M. Cattelan, M. Prieto, D. Gottlob, L. Tanase, L. Caldas, T. Schmidt, A. Tadich, B. Cowie, R. Chellappan, J. Wells, S. Cooil 

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2021, 13, 37510 

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23) Structure and electronic properties of tin monoxide (SnO) and lithiated SnO terminated diamond (100) and its comparison with lithium oxide terminated diamond  

 S. Ullah, G. Wan, C. Kouzios, C. Woodgate, M. Cattelan, N. Fox 

Applied Surface Science, 2021, 599, 149962 

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24) An investigation into the surface termination and near-surface bulk doping of oxygen-terminated diamond with lithium at various annealing temperatures   

S. Ullah, L. Cullingford, T. Zhang, J. R. Wong, G. Wan, M. Cattelan, N. Fox

MRS Advances, 2021, 6, 311 

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25) Experimental Studies of Electron Affinity and Work Function from Aluminium on Oxidised Diamond (100) and (111) Surfaces 

M. C. James, M. Cattelan, N. A. Fox, R. F. Silva, R. M. Silva, P. W. May 

Physica Status Solidi B, 2021, 258, 2100027  

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26) A diamond gammavoltaic cell utilising surface conductivity and its response to different photon interaction mechanisms 

G. R. Mackenzie, S. Kaluvan, P. G. Martin, C. Hutson, T. Connolley, M. Cattelan, H. Dominguez-Andrade, T. L. Martin, N. A. Fox, T. B. Scott

Materials Today Energy, 2021, 21, 100688 

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27) Empty-State Band Mapping Using Momentum-Resolved Secondary Electron Emission 

G. Wan, A. Croot, N. A Fox, M. Cattelan 

Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2007319 

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28) Ruthenium‐p‐cymene Complex Side‐Wall Covalently Bonded to Carbon Nanotubes as Efficient Hybrid Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyst

M Blanco, S Cembellín, S Agnoli, J Alemán

ChemCatChem 13 (24), 5156-516

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29) Artificial photosynthesis: photoanodes based on polyquinoid dyes onto mesoporous tin oxide surface

G. A. Volpato, E. Colusso, L. Paoloni, M. Forchetta, F. Sgarbossa, V. Cristino, M. Lunardon, S. Berardi, S. Caramori, S. Agnoli, F. Sabuzi, P. Umari, A. Martucci, P. Galloni, A. Sartorel 

Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 2021, 20, 1243

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