Preprints

  1. Bridging the Interpretation Gap: Synchrotron Characterisation for Industry – A Perspective from a Specialist SME
    A. Vamvakeros, S.W.T. Price, S.D.M. Jacques, and A.M. Beale
    ChemRxiv, 2026
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  2. Battery Imaging Library: Multi-length scale and multi-modal synchrotron and laboratory battery imaging data for all
    Ronan Docherty, Sam Riley, John D. Morley, Evangelos Papoutsellis, Antonia Diana Bobitan, Jack Donoghue, Katy Rankin, Fernando Alvarez Borges, Luis Salinas-Farran, Stefan Michalik, Alexander Liptak, Genoveva Burca, Pierre-Olivier Autran, Jonathan Wright, Winfried Kockelmann, Olof Gutowski, Ann-Christin Dippel, Martin Zimmermann, Dorota Matras, Bartlomiej Winiarski, John Mangum, Melissa Popeil, Donal P. Finegan, James A. Gott, Daniela Proprentner, Geoff West, Luis F.J. Piper, Hongyang Dong, Matthew P. Jones, Francesco Iacoviello, Alice V. Llewellyn, Rhodri Jervis, Yuta Kimura, Koji Amezawa, Oki Sekizawa, Mahmoud G. Ardakani, Aigerim Omirkhan, Mary P. Ryan, James O. Douglas, Siyang Wang, Finn Giuliani, Neil Mulcahy, Shelly Conroy, Chandramohan George, Andrew M. Beale, Simon D.M. Jacques, Samuel J. Cooper, and Antonis Vamvakeros
    ChemRxiv, 2026
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  3. What DINO saw: ALiBi positional encoding reduces positional bias in Vision Transformers
    Moritz Pawlowsky, Antonis Vamvakeros, Alexander Weiss, Anja Bielefeld, Samuel J. Cooper, and Ronan Docherty
    arXiv preprint, 2026
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  4. Maybe You Don’t Need a U-Net: Convolutional Feature Upsampling for Materials Micrograph Segmentation
    Ronan Docherty, Antonis Vamvakeros, and Samuel J. Cooper
    arXiv preprint, 2025
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  5. BeamStop: A Software for Analysing Chemical Imaging and Tomography Data
    Hongyang Dong, Simon D. M. Jacques, Evangelos Papoutsellis, Andrew M. Beale, and Antonis Vamvakeros
    ChemRxiv, 2025
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Journal papers

  1. Upsampling DINOv2 Features for Unsupervised Vision Tasks and Weakly Supervised Materials Segmentation
    Ronan Docherty, Antonis Vamvakeros, and Samuel J. Cooper
    Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2026
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  2. Acute Deformation Characteristics of Standard and Flexible Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes
    Sam Riley, Antonis Vamvakeros, Gustavo Quino, John Morley, Mengzheng Ouyang, Andrew Shevchuk, Kehan Huang, Pierre-Olivier Autran, Stefan Michalik, Genoveva Burca, Billy Wu, Nigel Brandon, and Chandramohan George
    Communications Materials, 2026
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  3. Mn-Promoted Co/TiO2 Catalysts: Quantitative Analysis of Cobalt Polymorphs and Stacking Faults and Its Effect on Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Performance
    Danial Farooq, Lucy Costley-Wood, Sebastian Stockenhuber, Antonis Vamvakeros, Stephen W. T. Price, Lisa J. Allen, Jakub Drnec, James Paterson, Mark Peacock, Daniel J. M. Irving, Philip A. Chater, and Andrew M. Beale
    ACS Catalysis, 2026
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  4. nDTomo: A Modular Python Toolkit for X-ray Chemical Imaging and Tomography
    Antonis Vamvakeros, Evangelos Papoutsellis, Hongyang Dong, Ronan Docherty, Andrew Michael Beale, Samuel J. Cooper, and Simon Jacques
    Digital Discovery, 2025
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  5. Rationalizing Deactivation Behavior in Pyrochlore-Type CeO2-ZrO2 Oxygen Storage Catalysts Using Multimodal Nano X-Ray Fluorescence Computed , X-Ray Diffraction Computed Tomography, and Scanning Three-Dimensional X-ray Diffraction
    Yaroslav Odarchenko, Antonis Vamvakeros, Stephen W. T. Price, Wilm Jones, Shinya Nagashima, Hai P. Nguyen, Jonathan Wright, Axel Henningsson, Stephen Hall, Simon D. M. Jacques, and Andrew M. Beale
    Chemistry–Methods, 2025
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  6. Obtaining Parallax-Free X-ray Powder Diffraction Computed Tomography Data with a Self-Supervised Neural Network
    Hongyang Dong, Simon D. M. Jacques, K. T. Butler, Oliver Gutowski, Anne-Catherine Dippel, Martin Zimmermann, Andrew M. Beale, and Antonis Vamvakeros
    npj Computational Materials, 2024
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  7. Chemical Imaging of Carbide Formation and Its Effect on Alcohol Selectivity in Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis on Mn-Doped Co/TiO2 Pellets
    Danial Farooq, Matthew E. Potter, Sebastian Stockenhuber, Jay Pritchard, Antonis Vamvakeros, Stephen W. T. Price, Jakub Drnec, Ben Ruchte, James Paterson, Mark Peacock, and Andrew M. Beale
    ACS Catalysis, 2024
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  8. SAMBA: A Trainable Segmentation Web-App with Smart Labelling
    Ronan Docherty, Isaac Squires, Antonis Vamvakeros, and Samuel J. Cooper
    Journal of Open Source Software, 2024
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  9. A Multi-Scale Study of 3D Printed Co–Al_2O_3 Catalyst Monoliths versus Spheres
    Clement Jacquot, Antonis Vamvakeros, Andraž Pavlišič, Stephen W. T. Price, Hongyang Dong, Dorota Matras, Lidia Protasova, Blaž Likozar, Simon D. M. Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, and Vesna Middelkoop
    Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 2023
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  10. Recent Developments in X-ray Diffraction/Scattering Computed Tomography for Materials Science
    Naomi E. Omori, Antonia D. Bobitan, Antonis Vamvakeros, Andrew M. Beale, and Simon D. M. Jacques
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2023
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  11. A Scalable Neural Network Architecture for Self-Supervised Tomographic Image Reconstruction
    Hongyang Dong, Simon D. M. Jacques, Winfried Kockelmann, Stephen W. T. Price, Robert Emberson, Dorota Matras, Yaroslav Odarchenko, Vesna Middelkoop, Athanasios Giokaris, Olof Gutowski, Ann-Christin Dippel, Martin Zimmermann, Andrew M. Beale, Keith T. Butler, and Antonis Vamvakeros
    Digital Discovery, 2023
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  12. 3D Printed SrNbO_2N Photocatalyst for Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water
    Antonio Iborra-Torres, Matej Huš, Kiem Nguyen, Antonis Vamvakeros, Muhammad Tariq Sajjad, Steven Dunn, Myrjam Mertens, Simon Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, Blaž Likozar, Geoffrey Hyett, Suela Kellici, and Vesna Middelkoop
    Materials Advances, 2023
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  13. Emerging Chemical Heterogeneities in a Commercial 18650 NCA Li-Ion Battery during Early Cycling Revealed by Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Tomography
    Dorota Matras, T. E. Ashton, Hongyang Dong, M. Mirolo, I. Martens, Jakub Drnec, J. A. Darr, P. D. Quinn, Simon D. M. Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, and Antonis Vamvakeros
    Journal of Power Sources, 2022
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  14. mu-CT Investigation into the Impact of a Fuel-Borne Catalyst Additive on the Filtration Efficiency and Backpressure of Gasoline Particulate Filters
    Stephen W. T. Price, Antonis Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, Kathryn E. Rankin, Nathan Hollingsworth, David Coultas, and Amy Challinor
    SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants, 2022
  15. Cycling Rate-Induced Spatially-Resolved Heterogeneities in Commercial Cylindrical Li-Ion Batteries
    Antonis Vamvakeros, Dorota Matras, Thomas E. Ashton, Alan A. Coelho, Hongyang Dong, Dustin Bauer, Yaroslav Odarchenko, Stephen W. T. Price, Keith T. Butler, Olof Gutowski, Ann-Christin Dippel, Martin Zimmermann, Jawwad A. Darr, Simon D. M. Jacques, and Andrew M. Beale
    Small Methods, 2021
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  16. Imaging Heterogeneous Electrocatalyst Stability and Decoupling Degradation Mechanisms in Operating Hydrogen Fuel Cells
    Isaac Martens, Antonis Vamvakeros, Nicolas Martinez, Raphaël Chattot, Janne Pusa, Maria Valeria Blanco, Elizabeth A. Fisher, Tristan Asset, Sylvie Escribano, Fabrice Micoud, Tim Starr, Alan Coelho, Veijo Honkimäki, Dan Bizzotto, David P. Wilkinson, Simon D. M. Jacques, Frédéric Maillard, Laetitia Dubau, Sandrine Lyonnard, Arnaud Morin, and Jakub Drnec
    ACS Energy Letters, 2021
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  17. A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Real-Time Full Profile Analysis of Big Powder Diffraction Data
    Hongyang Dong, Keith T. Butler, Dorota Matras, Stephen W. T. Price, Yaroslav Odarchenko, Rahul Khatry, Andrew Thompson, Vesna Middelkoop, Simon D. M. Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, and Antonis Vamvakeros
    npj Computational Materials, 2021
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  18. Multi-Length Scale 5D Diffraction Imaging of Ni–Pd/CeO_2–ZrO_2/Al_2O_3 Catalyst during Partial Oxidation of Methane
    Dorota Matras, Antonis Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, Marco Michiel, Vesna Middelkoop, Ilyas Z. Ismagilov, Ekaterina V. Matus, Vadim V. Kuznetsov, Robert J. Cernik, and Andrew M. Beale
    Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021
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  19. Multi-Scale Studies of 3D Printed Mn–Na–W/SiO_2 Catalyst for Oxidative Coupling of Methane
    Tim Karsten, Vesna Middelkoop, Dorota Matras, Antonis Vamvakeros, Stephen Poulston, Nicolas Grosjean, Benjamin Rollins, Fausto Gallucci, Hamid R. Godini, Simon D. M. Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, and Jens-Uwe Repke
    Catalysts, 2021
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  20. Multiscale Investigation of Adsorption Properties of Novel 3D-Printed UTSA-16 Structures
    Carlos A. Grande, Richard Blom, Vesna Middelkoop, Dorota Matras, Antonis Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, Marco Di Michiel, Kari Anne Andreassen, and Aud M. Bouzga
    Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020
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  21. DLSR: A Solution to the Parallax Artefact in X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography Data
    Antonis Vamvakeros, Alan A. Coelho, Dorota Matras, Hongyang Dong, Yaroslav Odarchenko, Stephen W. T. Price, K. T. Butler, Oliver Gutowski, Anne-Catherine Dippel, Martin Zimmermann, Ingo Martens, Jakub Drnec, Andrew M. Beale, and Simon D. M. Jacques
    Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2020
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  22. The Detection of Monoclinic Zirconia and Non-Uniform 3D Crystallographic Strain in a Re-Oxidized Ni-YSZ Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode
    Thomas M. M. Heenan, Antonis Vamvakeros, Chun Tan, Donal P. Finegan, Sohrab R. Daemi, Simon D. M. Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, Marco Di Michiel, Dan J. L. Brett, and Paul R. Shearing
    Crystals, 2020
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  23. Real-Time Multi-Length Scale Chemical Tomography of Fixed Bed Reactors during the Oxidative Coupling of Methane Reaction
    Antonis Vamvakeros, Dorota Matras, Simon D. M. Jacques, Marco Michiel, Stephen W. T. Price, Pierre Senecal, Miren Agote Aran, Vesna Middelkoop, Gavin B. G. Stenning, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Ilyas Z. Ismagilov, and Andrew M. Beale
    Journal of Catalysis, 2020
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  24. ID15A at the ESRF—a Beamline for High Speed Operando X-ray Diffraction, Diffraction Tomography and Total Scattering
    Gavin B. M. Vaughan, Robert Baker, Raymond Barret, Julien Bonnefoy, Thomas Buslaps, Stefano Checchia, Denis Duran, Francois Fihman, Pierrick Got, Jerôme Kieffer, Simon A. J. Kimber, Keith Martel, Christian Morawe, Denis Mottin, Emanuel Papillon, Sébastien Petitdemange, Antonios Vamvakeros, J.-P. Vieux, and Marco Di Michiel
    Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2020
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  25. Spatial Quantification of Dynamic Inter- and Intra-Particle Crystallographic Heterogeneities within Lithium-Ion Electrodes
    Donal P. Finegan, Antonis Vamvakeros, Chun Tan, Thomas M. M. Heenan, Sohrab R. Daemi, Natalie Seitzman, Marco Di Michiel, Simon Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, Dan J. L. Brett, Paul R. Shearing, and Kandler Smith
    Nature Communications, 2020
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  26. Exploring Cycling Induced Crystallographic Change in NMC with X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography
    Sohrab R. Daemi, Chun Tan, Antonis Vamvakeros, Thomas M. M. Heenan, Donal P. Finegan, Marco Di Michiel, Andrew M. Beale, James Cookson, Enrico Petrucco, Julia S. Weaving, Simon Jacques, Rhodri Jervis, Dan J. L. Brett, and Paul R. Shearing
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020
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  27. In Situ X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography Studies Examining the Thermal and Chemical Stabilities of Working Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-δ Membranes during Oxidative Coupling of Methane
    Dorota Matras, Antonis Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, Vesna Middelkoop, Gavin Vaughan, Miren Agote Aran, Robert J. Cernik, and Andrew M. Beale
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020
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  28. Effect of Thermal Treatment on the Stability of Na–Mn–W/SiO2 Catalyst for the Oxidative Coupling of Methane
    Dorota Matras, Antonios Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, Nicolas Grosjean, Benjamin Rollins, Stephen Poulston, Gavin B. G. Stenning, Hamid R. Godini, Jakub Drnec, Robert J. Cernik, and Andrew M. Beale
    Faraday Discussions, 2020
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  29. X-ray Transparent Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Design for In Situ Wide and Small Angle Scattering Tomography
    Isaac Martens, Antonis Vamvakeros, Raphael Chattot, Maria V. Blanco, Miika Rasola, Janne Pusa, Simon D. M. Jacques, Dan Bizzotto, David P. Wilkinson, Bastian Ruffmann, Stefan Heidemann, Veijo Honkimäki, and Jakub Drnec
    Journal of Power Sources, 2019
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  30. 3D Printed Ni/Al2O3 Based Catalysts for CO2 Methanation: A Comparative and Operando XRD-CT Study
    Vesna Middelkoop, Antonis Vamvakeros, Dieter De Wit, Simon D. M. Jacques, Simge Danaci, Clement Jacquot, Yoran De Vos, Dorota Matras, Stephen W. T. Price, and Andrew M. Beale
    Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2019
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  31. Sustainable Iron-Based Oxygen Carriers for Hydrogen Production–Real-Time Operando Investigation
    Yoran De Vos, Antonis Vamvakeros, Dorota Matras, Marijke Jacobs, Pascal Van Der Voort, Isabel Van Driessche, Simon Jacques, Vesna Middelkoop, and An Verberckmoes
    International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2019
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  32. Spatially Resolving Lithiation in Silicon–Graphite Composite Electrodes via in Situ High-Energy X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography
    Donal P. Finegan, Antonis Vamvakeros, Lei Cao, Chun Tan, Thomas M. M. Heenan, Sohrab R. Daemi, Simon D. M. Jacques, Andrew M. Beale, Marco Di Michiel, Kandler Smith, Dan J. L. Brett, Paul R. Shearing, and Chunmei Ban
    Nano Letters, 2019
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  33. Design of Next-Generation Ceramic Fuel Cells and Real-Time Characterization with Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography
    Tao Li, Thomas M. M. Heenan, Mohamad F. Rabuni, Bo Wang, Nicholas M. Farandos, Geoff H. Kelsall, Dorota Matras, Chun Tan, Xuekun Lu, Simon D. M. Jacques, Dan J. L. Brett, Paul R. Shearing, Marco Di Michiel, Andrew M. Beale, Antonis Vamvakeros, and Kang Li
    Nature Communications, 2019
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  34. Operando and Postreaction Diffraction Imaging of the La–Sr/CaO Catalyst in the Oxidative Coupling of Methane Reaction
    Dorota Matras, Simon D. M. Jacques, Stephen Poulston, Nicolas Grosjean, Cristina Estruch Bosch, Benjamin Rollins, Jonathan Wright, Marco Di Michiel, Antonios Vamvakeros, Robert J. Cernik, and Andrew M. Beale
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019
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  35. 5D Operando Tomographic Diffraction Imaging of a Catalyst Bed
    Antonios Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, Marco Di Michiel, Dorota Matras, Vesna Middelkoop, I. Z. Ismagilov, E. V. Matus, V. V. Kuznetsov, Jakub Drnec, Pierre Senecal, and Andrew M. Beale
    Nature Communications, 2018
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  36. X-ray Physico-Chemical Imaging during Activation of Cobalt-Based Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis Catalysts
    Andrew M. Beale, Simon D. M. Jacques, Marco Di Michiel, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Stephen W. T. Price, Pierre Senecal, Antonios Vamvakeros, and James Paterson
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2018
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  37. Real-Time Scattering-Contrast Imaging of a Supported Cobalt-Based Catalyst Body during Activation and Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis Revealing Spatial Dependence of Particle Size and Phase on Catalytic Properties
    Pierre Senecal, Simon D. M. Jacques, Marco Di Michiel, Simon A. J. Kimber, Antonis Vamvakeros, Yaroslav Odarchenko, Ines Lezcano-Gonzalez, James Paterson, Ewen Ferguson, and Andrew M. Beale
    ACS Catalysis, 2017
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  38. Chemical Imaging of Fischer–Tropsch Catalysts under Operating Conditions
    Stephen W. T. Price, David J. Martin, Aaron D. Parsons, Wojciech A. Sławiński, Antonios Vamvakeros, Stephen J. Keylock, Andrew M. Beale, and J. Frederick W. Mosselmans
    Science Advances, 2017
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  39. Interlaced X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography
    Antonios Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, Marco Di Michiel, Pierre Senecal, Vesna Middelkoop, Robert J. Cernik, and Andrew M. Beale
    Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2016
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  40. Removing Multiple Outliers and Single-Crystal Artefacts from X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography Data
    Antonios Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, Marco Di Michiel, Vesna Middelkoop, Christopher K. Egan, Robert J. Cernik, and Andrew M. Beale
    Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2015
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  41. Real-Time Chemical Imaging of a Working Catalytic Membrane Reactor during Oxidative Coupling of Methane
    Antonios Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, Vesna Middelkoop, Marco Di Michiel, Christopher K. Egan, I. Z. Ismagilov, G. B. M. Vaughan, Fausto Gallucci, Martin Sint Annaland, Paul R. Shearing, Robert J. Cernik, and Andrew M. Beale
    Chemical Communications, 2015
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Book chapters

  1. Case Studies: Mapping Using X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) and Scattering Methods
    Dorota Matras, Antonis Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, and Andrew M. Beale
    In Springer Handbook of Advanced Catalyst Characterization, 2023
  2. Tomography in Catalyst Design
    Dorota Matras, Jay Pritchard, Antonios Vamvakeros, Simon D. M. Jacques, and Andrew M. Beale
    In Heterogeneous Catalysts: Advanced Design, Characterization and Applications, II, 2021