Carbon nanotube catalysts: recent advances in synthesis, characterization and applications

Y Yan, J Miao, Z Yang, FX Xiao, HB Yang… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon nanotubes are promising materials for various applications. In recent years,
progress in manufacturing and functionalizing carbon nanotubes has been made to achieve …

Practical guide for curve fitting in x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

GH Major, N Fairley, P Sherwood, MR Linford… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The use of peak fitting to extract information from x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
data is of growing use and importance. Due to increased instrument accessibility and …

Practical guides for x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS): Interpreting the carbon 1s spectrum

TR Gengenbach, GH Major, MR Linford… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The carbon 1s photoelectron spectrum is the most widely fit and analyzed narrow scan in the
x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) literature. It is, therefore, critically important to adopt …

Surface characterization of nanomaterials and nanoparticles: Important needs and challenging opportunities

DR Baer, MH Engelhard, GE Johnson… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
This review examines characterization challenges inherently associated with understanding
nanomaterials and the roles surface and interface characterization methods can play in …

Silicon (100)/SiO2 by XPS

DS Jensen, SS Kanyal, N Madaan, MA Vail… - Surface Science …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon (100) substrates are ubiquitous in microfabrication and, accordingly, their surface
characteristics are important. Herein, we report the analysis of Si (100) via X-ray …

Formation of Cu-Ni enriched phases during laser processing of non-equiatomic AlSiCrMnFeNiCu high entropy alloy nanoparticles

R Rawat, BK Singh, A Tiwari, N Arun, AP Pathak… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Al-rich non-equiatomic high entropy alloy nanoparticles (HEA NPs) were synthesized by
ablating Al 40 (SiCrMnFeNiCu) 60 (at%) target in deionized water using nanosecond Nd …

Low energy ion scattering (LEIS). A practical introduction to its theory, instrumentation, and applications

CV Cushman, P Brüner, J Zakel, GH Major… - Analytical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Low energy ion scattering (LEIS) probes the elemental composition of the outermost atomic
layer of a material and provides static depth profiles of the outer ca. 10 nm of surfaces. Its …

Assigning oxidation states to organic compounds via predictions from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: a discussion of approaches and recommended …

V Gupta, H Ganegoda, MH Engelhard… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The traditional assignment of oxidation states to organic molecules is problematic.
Accordingly, in 1999, Calzaferri proposed a simple and elegant solution that is based on the …

Surface analysis insight note. Principal component analysis (PCA) of an X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy image. The importance of preprocessing

B Moeini, TG Avval, N Gallagher… - Surface and Interface …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This Insight Note follows two previous Insight Notes on X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy
(XPS) image analysis that dealt with the importance of analyzing the raw data and the use of …

Practical guide on chemometrics/informatics in x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). I. Introduction to methods useful for large or complex datasets

TG Avval, N Gallagher, D Morgan, P Bargiela… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Chemometrics/informatics and data analysis, in general, are increasingly important topics in
x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) because of the large amount of information …