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A high-throughput screening of metal-organic framework based memebranes for biogas upgrading. Glover, J. and Besley, E. Faraday Discussions, in press (2021). DOI: http://doi.org/10.1039/D1FD00005E

Fission gas released from molten salt reactor fuel: the case of noble gas short life radioisotopes for radiopharmaceutical application. Degueldre, C., Dawson, R., Cooley, I. and Besley, E. Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices 10, 100057 (2021). DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.medntd.2021.100057

Selective gas uptake and rotational dynamics in a (3,24)-connected metal-organic framework material. Trenholme, W. J. F., Kolokolov, D. I., Bound, M., Argent, S. P., Gould, J. A., Li J., Barnett, S. A., Blake, A. J., Stepanov, A. G., Besley, E., Easun, T. L., Yang, S. and Schröder, M. Journal of the American Chemical Society 143, 3348-3358 (2021). DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c11202

N-doping enabled defect-engineering of MoS2 for enhanced and selective adsorption of CO2: A DFT approach. Enujekwu, F. M., Zhang, Y., Ezeh, C. I., Zhao, H., Xu, M., Besley, E., George, M. W., Besley, N. A., Do, H. and Wu, T. Applied Surface Science 542, 148556 (2021). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.148556

Molecular quantum rings formed from a π-conjugated macrocycle. Judd, C. J., Nizovtsev, A. S., Plougmann, R., Kondratuk, D. V., Anderson, H. L., Besley, E. and Saywell, A. Physical Review Letters 125, 206803 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.206803

Porous metal-organic plyhedra: morphology, porosity, and guest binding. Argent, S. P., da Silva, I., Greenaway, A., Savage, M., Humby, J., Davies, A. J., Nowell, H., Lewis, W., Manuel, P., Tang, C. C., Blake, A. J., George, M. W., Markevich, A. V., Besley, E., Yang, S., Champness, N. R. and Schröder, M. Inorganic Chemistry 59, 15646-15658 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01935

Bond dissociation and reactivity of HF and H2O in a nano test tube. Biskupek, J., Skowron, S. T., Stoppiello, C. T., Rance, G. A., Alom, S., Fung, K. L. Y., Whitby, R. J., Levitt, M. H., Ramasse, Q., Kaiser, U., Besley, E. and Khlobystov, A. N. ACS Nano 14, 11178-11189 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c02661

Open Access Nanostructuring of the fast ion conductor, lithium nitride. Tapia-Ruiz, N., Gordon, A. G., Jewell, C. M., Edwards, H. K., Dunnill, C. W., Blackman, J. M., Snape, C. P., Brown, P. D., MacLaren, I., Baldoni, M., Besley, E., Titman, J. J. and Gregory, D. H. Nature Communications 11, 4492 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17951-6

Atomic mechanism of metal crystal nucleus formation in a single-walled carbon nanotube. Cao, K., Biskupek, J., Stoppiello, C. T., McSweeney, R. L., Chamberlain, T. W., Liu, Z., Suenaga, K., Skowron, S. T., Besley, E., Khlobystov, A. N. and Kaiser, U. Nature Chemistry 12, 921-928 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0538-9

Open Access The interaction of hydrogen with the van der Waals crystal ɣ-InSe. Felton, J., Blundo, E., Ling, S., Glover, J., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Makarovsky, O., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Besley, E., Walker, G., Polimeni, A. and Patane, A. Molecules 25, 2526 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25112526

Noncovalent passivation of supported phosphorene for device applications: from morphology to electronic properties. Lorenzoni, A., Baldoni, M., Besley, E. and Mercuri, F. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 12482-12488 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0CP00939C

Open Access Self-assembly behavior of oppositely charged inverse bi-patchy micro-colloids. Mehr, F. N., Grigoriev, D., Heaton, R., Baptiste, J., Stace, A. J., Puretskiy, N., Besley, E. and Böker, A. Small 16, 2000442 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202000442

Electrostatic interactions between spheroidal dielectric particles. Derbenev, I., Filippov, A., Stace, A. and Besley, E. Journal of Chemical Physics 152, 024121 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5129756

Imaging an unsupported metal-metal bond in dirhenium molecules at the atomic scale. Cao, K., Skowron, S. T., Biskupek, J., Stoppiello, C. T., Leist, C., Besley, E., Khlobystov, A. N. and Kaiser, U. Science Advances 6, eaay5849 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay5849

Triplet excitation and electroluminescence from a supramolecular monolayer embedded in a boron nitride tunnel barrier. Svatek, S. A., Kerfoot, J., Summerfield, A., Nizovtsev, A. S., Korolkov, V. V., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Antolín, E., Besley, E. and Beton, P. H. Nano Letters 20, 278-283 (2020). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03787