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most citedAmorphous to Crystalline Transformation: How Cluster Aggregation Drives the Multistep Nucleation of ZIF-8

29 citations · 99 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Competitive Adsorption of Toluene and Water in MFI-type Zeolites

Gavriel Arbiv, Sambhu Radhakrishnan, Alysson F. Morais +6

Competitive adsorption is a major challenge in understanding catalytic activity, selectivity and reaction mechanisms in confined environments such as zeolites. This study investiga…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Rietveld Refinement and NMR Crystallographic Investigations of Multicomponent Crystals Containing Alkali Metal Chlorides and Urea

Cameron S. Vojvodin, Sean T. Holmes, Christine E. A. Kirschhock +8

New mechanochemical preparations of three multicomponent crystals (MCCs) of the form MCl:urea.nH2O (M = Li+, Na+, and Cs+) are reported. Their structures were determined by an NMR…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 29 cited

Amorphous to Crystalline Transformation: How Cluster Aggregation Drives the Multistep Nucleation of ZIF-8

Sambhu Radhakrishnan, Flip de Jong, Estelle Becquevort +11

Nucleation, the pivotal first step of crystallization, governs essential characteristics of crystallization products, including size distribution, morphology, and polymorphism. Whi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 7 cited

Hydrated Silicate Ionic Liquids: Ionic Liquids for Silicate Material Synthesis

Dries Vandenabeele, Nikolaus Doppelhammer, Sambhu Radhakrishnan +7

The development of Hydrated Silicate Ionic Liquids, which are hypo-hydrated room temperature melts of alkali silicates, has created new opportunities for synthesizing porous silica…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 8 cited

A Simple Molecular Model for Hydrated Silicate Ionic Liquids, a Realistic Zeolite Precursor

Jelle Vekeman, Dries Vandenabeele, Nikolaus Doppelhammer +4

Despite the widespread use of zeolites in chemical industry, their formation process is not fully understood due to the complex and heterogeneous structure of traditional synthesis…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 7 cited

Can the combination of in situ differential impedance spectroscopy and 27Al NMR detect incongruent zeolite crystallization?

Dries Vandenabeele, Nikolaus Doppelhammer, Sambhu Radhakrishnan +4

Crystallizing zeolites with isotropic properties is critical to the chemical industry but can be extremely challenging as small deviations in the synthesis conditions can have extr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 17 cited

NMR crystallography reveals carbonate induced Al-ordering in ZnAl layered double hydroxide

Sambhu Radhakrishnan, Karl Lauwers, C. Vinod Chandran +5

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) serve a score of applications in catalysis, drug delivery, and environmental remediation. Smarter crystallography, combining X-ray diffraction and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 14 cited

Kinetics of intermediate-mediated self-assembly in nano-sized materials: a generic model

James F. Lutsko, Vasileios Basios, Gregoire Nicolis +5

We propose in this paper a generic model of a non-standard aggregation mechanism for self-assembly processes of a class of materials involving the mediation of intermediates consis…

cond-mat.stat-mech2007★ 12 cited

Prospects of Transition Interface Sampling simulations for the theoretical study of zeolite synthesis

Titus S. van Erp, Tom P. Caremans, Christine E. A. Kirschhock +1

The transition interface sampling (TIS) technique allows to overcome large free energy barriers within reasonable simulation time, which is impossible for straightforward molecular…