Published Peer-Reviewed Papers
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Celestian, A. J., Powers, M.,* Rader, S.* In situ Raman spectroscopic study of transient polyhedral distortions during Cesium exchange into sitinakite. (accepted - in press) American Mineralogist.
Vakiti, R. K., Garabato, B. D., Schieber, N. P. Rucks, M. J.*, Cao, Y., Webb, C., Maddox, J. B., Celestian, A. J., Pan, W. P., Yan, B. (2012) Synthesis and characterization of two- and three- dimensional calcium coordination polymers built with benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate and/or pyrazine-2-carboxylate. Crystal Growth & Design 12 (8) 3937-3943. DOI: 10.1021/cg3003349
Kramer, S.*, Celestian, A. J. (2012) Effects of hydration during strontium exchange into nanoporous hydrogen niobium titanium silicate. Inorganic Chemistry. DOI: 10.1021/ic300463w
Fewox, C. S., Clearfield, A., Celestian, A. J. (2011) In situ x-ray diffraction study of Cs+ exchange in protonated zirconium trisilicate. Inorganic Chemistry 50 (8), 3596–3604. DOI: 10.1021/ic102546w (cover article).
Celestian, A. J., Parise, J. B. Clearfield, A. (2010) Crystal Growth and Ion Exchange in Titanium Silicates. Chapter 49 in Handbook of Crystal Growth, pp. 1637-1662, Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-74182-4
Celestian, A. J., Kubicki, J. D., Hanson, J., Clearfield, A., Parise, J. B. (2008) the mechanism responsible for extraordinary Cs-ion selectivity in crystalline silicotitanates. Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(35), 11689-11694. DOI: 10.1021/ja801134a
Celestian, A. J. and Clearfield, A. (2007) Science Highlight Article: The origin of ion exchange selectivity in a porous framework titanium silicate. Journal of Materials Chemistry (46), 4839-4842. DOI: 10.1039/B708309B
Lee, Yongjae, Kim S. J., Bull, I, Celestian, A. J., Parise, J. B., Kao, C., Vogt, T. (2007) Dehydration-induced water disordering and symmetry increase in synthetic potassium gallosilicate natrolite. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129(44), 13744-1374. DOI: 10.1021/ja075037z
Celestian, A. J., Parise, J. B., Smith, R., B. H. Toby, Clearfield, A. (2007) Role of the hydroxyl-water hydrogen-bond network in structural transitions and selectivity toward cesium in Cs0.38(D1.08H0.54)SiTi2O7 ∙ (D0.86H0.14)2O crystalline silicotitanate. Inorganic Chemistry 46(4), 1081-1089. DOI: 10.1021/ic0611387
Northrup, P., Lanzirotti, A., Celestian A. (2007) Growth of Environmental Science at the NSLS. Synchrotron Radiation News 20(3), 6-13. DOI: 10.1080/08940880701401110 (cover article)
Michel, F. M., Ehm, L., Liu, G., Han, W. Q., Antao, S. M., Chupas, P. J., Lee, P. L., Knorr, K., Eulert, H., Kim, J., Grey, C. P., Celestian, A. J., Gillow, J., Schoonen, M. A. A., Strongin, D. R., and Parise, J. B. (2007). Similarities in 2- and 6-line ferrihydrite based on pair distribution function analysis of X-ray total scattering. Chemistry of Materials 9(6), 1489-1496. DOI: 10.1021/cm062585n
Clearfield, A., Tripathi, A., Medvedev, D., Celestian, A. J., Parise, J. B. (2006) In situ type study of hydrothermally prepared titanates and silicotitanates. Journal of Materials Science 41(5), 1325-1333. DOI: 10.1007/s10853-006-7317-x
Nyman, M., Celestian, A. J., Holland, G. P., Alam, T. M., Parise, J. B. (2006) Solid-state structural characterization of a rigid framework of lacunary heteropolyniobates. Inorganic Chemistry 45(3), 1043-1052. DOI: 10.1021/ic051155g
Celestian, A. J., Medvedev, D. G., Tripathi, A., Parise, J. B., Clearfield, A. (2005) Optimizing synthesis of Na2Ti2SiO7∙2H2O (Na-CST) and ion exchange pathways for Cs0.4H1.6Ti2SiO7∙H2O (Cs-CST) determined from in situ synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction. Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms: Section B of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 238, 61-69. DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2005.06.019
Bonhomme, F., Alam, T. M., Celestian, A. J., Tallant D., Boyle, T. J., Cherry, B. R., Tissot, R. G., Rodriquez, M. A., Parise, J.B., Nyman, M. (2005) Tribasic lead maleate and lead maleate: synthesis, structural and spectroscopic characterizations. Inorganic Chemistry 44(21),7394-7402. DOI: 10.1021/ic050611y
Colligan, M., Lee, Y., Vogt, T., Celestian, A. J., Parise, J. B., Marshall, W., Hriljac, J. A. (2005) High-pressure neutron powder diffraction study of super hydrated natrolite. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109, 18223-18225. DOI: 10.1021/jp054142x
Celestian, A. J., Parise, J. B., Goodell, C., Tripathi, A., Hanson, J. (2004) Time resolved diffraction studies of ion exchange: K+ and Na+ exchange into (Al, Ge) gismondine (GIS) Na24Al24Ge24O96∙40H2O and K8Al8Ge8O32∙8H2O. Chemistry of Materials 16(11), 2244-2254. DOI: 10.1021/cm034746i
Medvedev, D. G., Tripathi, A., Clearfield, A., Celestian, A. J., Parise, J., Hanson, J. (2004) Crystallization of sodium titanium silicate with sitinakite topology: evolution from sodium nonatitanate phase. Chemistry of Materials 16(19), 3659-3666. DOI: 10.1021/cm049479a
Celestian, A. J., Parise, J. B., Tripathi, A., Kvick, A., Vaughan, G. M. B. (2003) (K4Li4)Al8Ge8O8∙8H2O: a Li+ -exchanged potassium aluminogermanate with the zeolite gismondine (GIS) topology. Acta Crystallographica C59, i74-i76. DOI: 10.1107/S0108270103011739
Cole, J. M., Nienstedt, J., Spataro, G., Rasbury, E. T., Lanzirotti, A., Celestian, A. J., Nilsson, M., Hanson, G. N. (2003) Use of phosphor imaging to map ppm levels of uranium and thorium in rocks and minerals. Chemical Geology 193, 127-136. DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(02)00223-1
Zhang, H., Celestian, A., Parise, J. B., Xu, H., Heaney, P. J. (2002) A new polymorph of eucryptite (LiAlSiO4), ε-eucryptite, and thermal expansion of α- and ε-eucryptite at high pressure. American Mineralogist 87, 566-571. Link
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