Determining the Distributions of Surface Sites in Motion A method was established to study the geometry and arrangement of dynamic surface species.
Sensitive NMR Method Reveals Motions of Surface Sites A new, high-sensitivity, approach for studying molecular dynamics is reported, enabling the study of surface sites.
Long Mesopores are Key for Selective Polymer Deconstruction Processivity provides a catalyst-design strategy to improve selectivity in polymer deconstructions. Insight into architectural features of porous catalysts, namely the distance through a pore to precisely placed active sites, enables catalyst design to enhance selectivity in polymer upcycling.
Software Enables Surface Structure Determination An open-source program was released that enables the 3D structure determination of surface sites.
Tuning Magnetic Topological Insulators using Defects Inelastic neutron scattering experiments reveal that magnetism in stoichiometric and lightly doped magnetic topological insulators in the Sb2Te3-MnSb2Te4 family is controlled by universal interactions between magnetic defects.
Orbital Fluctuations Control the Magnetism of a Topological Metal Initiation of a spin-reorientation in TbMn6Sn6 by Tb orbital fluctuations revealed by inelastic neutron scattering (INS) experiments.
Chlorination of 2D Silicon Revealed by NMR Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy methods to detect chlorine atoms were developed and showed that 20% of the silicon atoms in 2D silicon nanosheets are chlorine terminated.
17O NMR Facilitates Structural Studies of Catalytic Sites A new strategy generalized the high-resolution structural characterization of oxide-supported species.
New synthetic pathway to robust ferromagnets CATS scientists discovered a new ferromagnetic metal, Cr1+xPt5-xP, with a high Curie temperature of 465 K and exceptionally strong magnetic anisotropy.
How Nanochannels Help Polymer Upcycling Catalysis Spectroscopic and scattering experiments measured kinetics of polymer adsorption into pores and product desorption out of the pores for a mesoporous-shell/cleavage-site/solid-core catalyst, revealing that chain length and pore diameter govern the rates.
