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

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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.soft2025★ 5 cited

High temperature 1H DOSY NMR reveals sourdough fermentation of wheat flour alters the molecular structure of water-extractable arabinoxylans

Pasquinel Weckx, Víctor González Alonso, Ewoud Vaneeckhaute +3

Arabinoxylans are constituents of wheat flour that contribute to the dietary fiber properties of wheat. They exist in water-extractable and water-unextractable forms and contribute…

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…

physics.ins-det2024★ 4 cited

Non-contact in situ multi-diagnostic NMR/dielectric spectroscopy

Alysson F. Morais, Sambhu Radhakrishnan, Gavriel Arbiv +5

Introduction of a dielectric material in an NMR probe head modifies the frequency response of the probe circuit, a phenomenon revealed by the detuning of the probe. For NMR spectro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 8 cited

PolySilicate Porous Organic Polymers (PSiPOPs), a new family of porous, ordered 3D reticular materials with polysilicate nodes and organic linkers

Jelle Jamoul, Sam Smet, Sambhu Radhakrishnan +3

Spherosilicate, consisting of a double 4-ring cyclosilicate core (D4R; Si8O20) with every corner functionalized with a dimethylsilyl chloride group (-SiMe2Cl), was used as node to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 25 cited

SI methane hydrate confined in C8-grafted SBA-15: A highly efficient storage system enabling ultrafast methane loading and unloading

Emile Jules Beckwée, Maarten Houlleberghs, Radu-George Ciocarlan +8

Confinement of water and methane in mesopores of hydrophobized SBA-15 is demonstrated to promote methane hydrate formation. In comparison to as-synthesized SBA-15, hydrophobization…

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…