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Search Publications by: Craig Brown (Fed)

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Measuring the Influence of CO2 and Water Vapor on the Dynamics in Polyethylenimine To Understand the Direct Air Capture of CO2 from the Environment

June 5, 2024
Author(s)
Avery Baumann, Takeshi Yamada, Kanae Ito, Chad R. Snyder, John Hoffman, Craig Brown, Christopher Stafford, Christopher Soles
Aminopolymer sorbents are leading candidates for extracting CO2 directly from the atmosphere under ambient conditions. For effective carbon capture, this requires not only that the CO2 actively binds with amine groups of the polymer under low gas

Water-Enhanced CO2 Capture with Molecular Salt Sodium Guanidinate

June 4, 2024
Author(s)
Hayden Evans, Marcus Carter, Wei Zhou, Taner N. Yildirim, Craig Brown, Hui Wu
Solid-state amine absorbent materials, including those containing guanidine derivatives, have received tremendous attention as the world combats the challenges of climate change. Although these materials are attractive for their selective CO2 capture

Hydrogen Storage with Aluminum Formate, ALF: Experimental, Computational, and Technoeconomic Studies

September 28, 2023
Author(s)
Hayden Evans, Taner N. Yildirim, Peng Peng, Yongqiang Cheng, Zeyu Deng, Qiang Zhang, Dinesh Mullangi, Dan Zhao, Pieremanuele Canepa, Hanna M. Breunig, Anthony K. Cheetham, Craig Brown
Long-duration storage of hydrogen is necessary for coupling renewable H2 with stationary fuel cell power applications. In this work, aluminum formate (ALF), which adopts the ReO3-type structure, is shown to have remarkable H2 storage performance at non

Quantum Disordered Ground State in the Triangular-Lattice Magnet NaRuO 2

July 1, 2023
Author(s)
Brenden R. Ortiz, Paul M. Sarte, Alon H. Avidor, Aurland Hay, Eric Kenney, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Daniel M. Pajerowski, Adam A. Aczel, Keith M. Taddei, Craig Brown, Chennan Wang, Michael J. Graf, Ram Seshadri, Leon Balents, Stephen Wilson
The realization of spin liquid states born from the near-critical regime of the triangular lattice Hubbard model in inorganic materials remains a long-standing challenge, where weak spin-orbit coupling and other small perturbations often induce

Exclusive Recognition of CO2 from Hydrocarbons by Aluminum Formate with Hydrogen-Confined Pore Cavities

May 31, 2023
Author(s)
Zhaoqiang Zhang, Zeyu Deng, Hayden Evans, Dinesh Mullangi, Chengjun Kang, Shing B. Peh, Yuxiang Wang, Craig Brown, John Wang, Pieremanuele Canepa, Anthony K. Cheetham, Dan Zhao
Exclusive capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from hydrocarbons via adsorptive separation is an important technology in the petrochemical industry, especially for acetylene (C2H2) production. However, the physicochemical similarities between CO2 and C2H2

Noncryogenic Air Separation using Aluminum Formate Al(HCOO) 3 (ALF)

May 3, 2023
Author(s)
Dinesh Mullangi, Hayden Evans, Taner N. Yildirim, Yuxiang Wang, Zeyu Deng, Zhaoqiang Zhang, Thuc Mai, Fengxia Wei, John Wang, Angela R. Hight Walker, Craig Brown, Dan Zhao, Pieremanuele Canepa, Anthony K. Cheetham
Separating oxygen from air to create oxygen-enriched gas streams is a process that is significant in both industrial and medical fields. However, the prominent technologies for creating oxygen-enriched gas streams are both energy and infrastructure

Multivariate Flexible Framework with High Usable Hydrogen Capacity in a Reduced Pressure Swing Process

April 12, 2023
Author(s)
Arijit Halder, Ryan Klein, Sarah Shulda, Gavin McCarver, Philip Parilla, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Craig Brown, C. Michael McGuirk
Step-shaped adsorption¬–desorption of gaseous payloads by a flexible metal–organic framework can facilitate the delivery of large usable capaci-ties with significantly reduced energetic penalties. This is desirable for the storage, transport, and delivery

Aluminum Formate, Al(HCOO)3: An Earth-Abundant, Scalable, and Highly Selective Material for CO2 Capture

November 2, 2022
Author(s)
Hayden Evans, Dinesh Mullangi, Zeyu Deng, Yuxiang Wang, Shing B. Peh, Fengxia Wei, John Wang, Craig Brown, Dan Zhao, Pieremanuele Canepa, Anthony K. Cheetham
A combination of gas adsorption and gas breakthrough measurements show that the metal-organic framework, Al(HCOO) 3 (ALF), which can be made inexpensively from commodity chemicals, exhibits excellent CO 2 adsorption capacities and outstanding CO 2/N 2

Bi 12 O 17 Cl 2 with a Sextuple Bi-O Layer Composed of Rock-Salt and Fluorite Units and its Structural Conversion through Fluorination to Enhance Photocatalytic Activity

October 10, 2022
Author(s)
Daichi Kato, Osamu Tomita, Ryky Nelson, Maria A. Kirsanova, Richard Dronskowski, Hajime Suzuki, Chengchao Zhong, Cedric Tassel, Kohdai Ishida, Yosuke Matsuzaki, Craig Brown, Koji Fujita, Kotaro Fujii, Masatomo Yashima, Yoji Kobayashi, Akinori Saeki, Itaru Oikawa, Hitoshi Takamura, Ryu Abe, Hiroshi Kageyama, Tatiana E. Gorelik, Artem M. Abakumov
Layered bismuth oxyhalides with bilayered (Bi 2O 2) fluorite slabs are promising visible-light photocatalysts because of the ability to control the valence band levels. Here we show that a structurally uncharacterized Bi 12O 17Cl 2, which has been

Influence of Inorganic Layer Thickness on Methylammonium Dynamics in Hybrid Perovskite Derivatives

September 27, 2022
Author(s)
Alexandra Koegel, Iain Oswald, Chuy Rivera, Samantha L. Miller, M. Fallon, Timothy R. Prisk, Craig Brown, James Neilson
The layered Ruddlesden-Popper derivatives of CH 3NH 3PbI 3 have recently emerged as high-performing materials for photovoltaics with improved stability. The inclusion of organic molecules within the inorganic framework provides additional dynamic degrees

Polyoxocationic Antimony Oxide Cluster with Acidic Protons

June 17, 2022
Author(s)
Yuki Watanabe, Kim Hyeon-Deuk, Takafumi Yamamoto, Masayoshi Yabuuchi, Olesia M. Karakulina, Yasuto Noda, Takuya Kurihara, I-Ya Chang, Masanobu Higashi, Osamu Tomita, Cedric Tassel, Daichi Kato, Jingxin Xia, Tatsuhiko Goto, Craig Brown, Yuto Shimoyama, Naoki Ogiwara, Joke Hadermann, Artem M. Abakumov, Sayaka Uchida, Ryu Abe, Hiroshi Kageyama
The success and continued expansion of research in polyoxometalates (POMs) owe largely to their structural richness and wide range of functions. However, while most POM clusters known to date are negatively charged, there is only a handful of cationic POMs

Turning Molecular Springs into Nano-Shock Absorbers: The Effect of Macroscopic Morphology and Crystal Size on the Dynamic Hysteresis of Water Intrusion-Extrusion into-from Hydrophobic Nanopores

June 15, 2022
Author(s)
Pawel Zajdel, David Madden, Robin Babu, Diego Mirani, Nikolay Tsyrin, Luis Bartolome, Eder Amayuelas, David Fairen-Jimenez, Alexander Lowe, Miroslaw Chorazewski, Juscelino Leao, Craig Brown, Markus Bleuel, Victor Stoudenets, Maria Echeverria, Francisco Bonilla, Giulia Grancini, Simone Meloni, Yaroslav Grosu
Controlling the pressure at which liquids intrude (wet) and extrude (dry) into/from nanopore is of paramount importance for a broad range of applications, such as energy conversion, catalysis, chromatography, separation, ionic channels, and many more. To

Lattice Dynamics in the NASICON NaZr 2 (PO 4 ) 3 Solid Electrolyte from Temperature-Dependent Neutron Diffraction, NMR, and Ab Initio Computational Studies

May 10, 2022
Author(s)
Emily Morgan, Hayden Evans, Kartik Pilar, Craig Brown, Raphaele Clement, Ryo Maezono, Ram Seshadri, Bartomeu Monserrat, Anthony Cheetham
Natrium super ionic conductor (NASICON) compounds form a rich and highly chemically-tunable family of crystalline materials that are of widespread interest because they include exemplars with high ionic conductivity, low thermal expansion, and redox

Magnetic-Field-Induced Dielectric Anomalies in Cobalt-Containing Garnets

April 11, 2022
Author(s)
Abbey J. Neer, Joanna Milam-Guerrero, Veronika A. Fischer, Michelle Zheng, Nicole R. Spence, Clayton Cozzan, Mingqiang Gu, James M. Rondinelli, Craig Brown, Brent C. Melot
We present a comparative study of the magnetic and crystal chemical proper-ties of two Co 2+ containing garnets.CaY 2Co 2Ge 3O 12 and NaCa 2Co 2V 3O 12 both exhibit the onset of antiferromagnetic order at 8 K and 6 K as well as field-induced transitions

Stacking Faults Assist Lithium-Ion Conduction in a Halide-Based Superionic Conductor

April 6, 2022
Author(s)
Elias Sebti, Hayden Evans, Hengning Chen, Peter Richardson, Kelly White, Raynald Giovine, Krishna P. Koirala, Yaobin Xu, Eliovardo Gonzalez-Correa, Chongmin Wang, Craig Brown, Anthony Cheetham, Pieremanuele Canepa, Raphaele Clement
In the pursuit of urgently-needed, energy dense solid-state batteries for electric vehicle and portable electronics applications, halide solid electrolytes offer a promising path forward with exceptional compatibility against high-voltage oxide electrodes

Probing the non-classical dihydrogen ligand in OsClH3(PPh3)3 using X-ray and neutron diffraction, inelastic neutron scattering, and theoretical calculations

February 15, 2022
Author(s)
Carly Carter, Ryan Klein, Wei Zhou, Terrence J. Udovic, Craig Brown, Ting-Bin Wen, Thomas Cundari, Muhammed Yousufuddin
: Dihydrogen ligation to metal centers results in a wide range of metal-hydrogen interactions. Compounds containing non-classical dihydrogen ligands in which the H–H contacts are significantly longer than the 0.74 Å distance found in solid H2 are

Neutron vibrational spectroscopic evidence for short H???H contacts in the RNiInH1.4; 1.6 (R = Ce, La) metal hydride

February 1, 2022
Author(s)
Ryan Klein, Rafael Balderas-Xicohtencatl, Jan Petter Maehlen, Terrence J. Udovic, Craig Brown, Robert Delaplane, Yongqiang Cheng, Roman Denys, Anibal Ramirez Cuesta, Volodymyr Yartys
Intermetallic metal hydrides are critical materials for hydrogen storage applications, however, metal hydrides with greater storage capacities are still needed. Within metal hydrides, the volumetric storage capacities are limited by the number of hydrogen

Physical Properties of the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Square Lattice Antiferromagnet Ba 2 FeSi 2 O 7

December 28, 2021
Author(s)
Tae-Hwan Jang, Seung-Hwan Do, Minseong Lee, Hui Wu, Craig Brown, Andrew D. Christianson, Sang-Wook Cheong, Jae-Hoon Park
We report magnetization (χ, M), magnetic specific heat (CM), and neutron powder diffraction results on a quasi-two-dimensional (2D) S = 2 square lattice antiferromagnet Ba 2FeSi 2O 7 consisting of FeO 4 tetrahedrons with highly compressive tetragonal

Iridate Li 8 IrO 6 : An Antiferromagnetic Insulator

November 15, 2021
Author(s)
Callista M. Skaggs, Peter E. Siegfried, Chang-Jong Kang, Craig Brown, Fu Chen, Lu Ma, Steven N. Ehrlich, Yan Xin, Mark Croft, Wenqian Xu, Saul H. Lapidus, Nirmal J. Ghimire, Xiaoyan Tan
A poltcrystalline iridate, Li 8IrO 6, material was prepared via heating Li 2O and IrO 2 starting materials in a sealed quartz tube at 650 °C for 48 hours. The structure was determined from Rietveld refinement of room temperature powder neutron diffraction

Magnetic Properties and Signatures of Ordering in Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet KCeO 2

September 15, 2021
Author(s)
Mitchell M. Bordelon, Xiaoling Wang, Daniel M. Pajerowski, Arnab Banerjee, Mark Sherwin, Craig Brown, M. Eldeeb, T. Petersen, L. Hozoi, U. Robler, Martin Mourigal
The magnetic ground state and the crystalline electric field level scheme of the triangular lattice antiferromagnet KCeO 2are investigated. Below T N = 300 mK, KCeO 2 develops signatures of magnetic order in specific heat measurements and low energy