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BEAMS Recent Publications

Check out some of the recent publications from the faculty, staff, and students of Beams below.


  1. X-ray Sensitive Doped CaF2 Based MRI Contrast Agents for Local Radiation Dose Measurement. Frencken, Adriaan; Richtsmeier, Devon; Leonard, Lee; Williams, Aleia ; Johnson, Charles; Johnson, Jacqueline Anne; Blasiak, Barbara; Orlef, Andrzej; Skorupa, Agnieszka; Sokol, Maria; Tomanek, Boguslaw; Beckham, Wayne; Bazalova-Carter, Magdalena; van Veggel, Frank. ACS Appl. Mater Interfaces. 16 13453 – 13465 (2024).
  2. Fe-carbide/Fe-oxide-based nanocomposites synthesized as magnetic nanomaterials via laser ablation synthesis in solution (LASiS). Elijah M. Davis, Erick L. Ribeiro, Saeed Kamali, Jianguo Wen, Charles Johnson, Jacqueline Johnson, Bamin Khomami, and Dibyendu Mukherjee. Applied Surface Science 658 (2024) 159682.
  3. One-Pot Synthesis of Iron Core – Iron Oxide Shell Nanoparticles for Magnetic Imaging Applications A. G. Williams, L. Liu, C. J. Johnson, and J. A. JohnsonJournal of Nanoparticle Research (2023) 25:201 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-023-05851-x
  4. Biocompatibility of antifogging SiO-doped Diamond-Like carbon laparoscope coatings. R.L. Leonard, A.B. Bull, F. Xue, C.P. Haycook, S.K. Gray, C.W. Bond, P.E. Bond, J.C. McDearman, D.P. Woods, J. Mayfield, L.R. Brown, T.D. Giorgio, and J. A. Johnson. Applied Surface Science 634 (2023) 157606.
  5. A Review on the Biocompatibility of Graphene Based Materials in Dental Applications Aleia Williams, Emily Moore, Austin Thomas, and Jacqueline Johnson International Journal of Biomaterials Volume 2023, Article ID 8803283, 18 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/8803283
  6. Antimony-modified soda-lime-silica glass: Towards low-cost radiation-resistant materials G. Gupta, T.-Y. Chen, P. Rautiyal, A.G. Williams, J.A. Johnson, C.E. Johnson, R. Edge, and P.A. Bingham. J. Non-Cryst. Solids 585 121526 (2022).
  7. Pulsed-laser deposited and structural evolution of BaF2 nanolayers in Eu-doped BaF2/Al2O3 layered optical nanocomposite thin films. Yu Jin, , Charles Bond, Pilar Gómez-Rodriguez, , Eva Nieto-Pinero, Russell Leonard, David Gosztola, Jacqueline Johnson, J. Gonzalo, Rosalia Serna and Amanda K. Petford-Long. Thin Solid Films 754 139298 (2022).
  8. Oxidation rate of Fe nanoparticles A.G. Williams, A.W. Evans, L. Liu, C. E. Johnson, and J. A. Johnson
    Nano Research & Applications 8 43 (2022)
  9. Mössbauer spectroscopy of superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles. H.Y. HahS. Gray, C.E. Johnson, J.A. Johnson, V. Kolesnichenko, P. Kucheryavy and G. Goloverda J. Mag. Mag. Materials 539 168382 (2021).
  10. Magnetic properties of the MRI enhancement agent Feridex from Mõssbauer spectra. H.Y. Hah, C.E. Johnson, J.A. JohnsonHyperfine Interactions 242, Article number: 11 (2021)
  11. Optical properties of differing nanolayered structures of europium doped BaF2 thin films synthesized by pulsed laser deposition C W Bond, Y Jin, P Gómez-Rodríguez, E Nieto-Pinero, R L Leonard, J Gonzalo, R Serna, A K Petford-Long, J A Johnson Optical Materials 122 111796 (2021).
  12. Magnetic Particle Imaging: Current and Future Applications, Synthesis Methods and Safety Measures
    Caroline Billings, Mitchell Langley, Gavin Warrington, Farzin Mashali and Jacqueline Anne Johnson
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 14 (2021).