APS Profile Details

Kevin Beyer

Principal Beamline Specialist

Structural ScienceX-ray Science Division

Contact

Biography:

Project Management Professional (Project Management Institute #1850554)

Publications:

Petkov, V.; Maswadeh, Y.; Lu, A.; Shan, S.; Kareem, H.; Zhao, Y.; Luo, J.; Zhong, C.-J.; Beyer, K.; Chapman, K.  "Evolution  of  active  sites  in  pt-based  nanoalloy  catalysts  for  the  oxidation  of  carbonaceous  species  bycombined in situ infrared spectroscopy and total x-ray scattering." ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018,10,10870–10881

Romain Gaillac, Pluton Pullumbi, Kevin A. Beyer, Karena W. Chapman, David A. Keen, Thomas D. Bennett, François-Xavier Coudert , "Liquid metal–organic frameworks," Nat. Mater. 16, 1149-1154 (2017). DOI: 10.1038

Huw R. Marchbank, Adam H. Clark, Timothy I. Hyde, Helen Y. Playford, Matthew G. Tucker, David Thompsett, Janet M. Fisher, Karena W. Chapman, Kevin A. Beyer, Manuel Monte, Alessandro Longo, Gopinathan Sankar, "Structure of Nano-sized CeO2 Materials: Combined Scattering and Spectroscopic Investigations," Chem. Phys. Chem. 17 (21), 3494-3503 (2016). DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201600697 

Mikhail Feygenson, John C. Bauer, Zheng Gai, Carlos Marques, Meigan C. Aronson, Xiaowei Teng, Dong Su, Vesna Stanic, Volker S. Urban, Kevin A. Beyer, Sheng Dai, "Exchange bias effect in Au-Fe[subscript 3]O[subscript 4] dumbbell nanoparticles induced by the charge transfer from gold," Phys. Rev. B 92 (5), 054416-1-054416-13 (2015). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.054416 

Siyu Yao, Kumudu Mudiyanselage, Wenqian Xu, Aaron C. Johnston-Peck, Jonathan C. Hanson, Tianpin Wu, Dario Stacchiola, José A. Rodriguez, Haiyan Zhao, Kevin A. Beyer, Karena W. Chapman, Peter J. Chupas, Arturo Martínez-Arias, Rui Si, Trudy B. Bolin, Wenjian Liu, Sanjaya D. Senanayake "Unraveling the Dynamic Nature of a CuO/CeO2 Catalyst for CO Oxidation in Operando: A Combined Study of XANES (Fluorescence) and DRIFTS," ACS Catal.  4, 1650 (2014).

Beyer, K. A., Zhao, H., Borkiewicz, O. J., Newton, M. A., Chupas, P. J. & Chapman, K. W.
"Simultaneous diffuse reflection infrared spectroscopy and X-ray pair distribution function measurements"
J. Appl. Cryst. 47, 2014 doi:10.1107/S1600576713028410


Karena W. Chapman, Kevin A. Beyer, Haiyan Zhao, Peter J. Chupas
"Correlating structure and chemistry through simultaneous in situ pair distribution function and infrared spectroscopy measurements"
CrystEngComm, 2013,15, 9377-9381 DOI: 10.1039/C3CE41458B

Interests:

Simultaneous IR Spectroscopy and X-Ray Scattering measurements under varying operational conditions.

High Energy X-Ray Diffraction

Education:

Master of Science in Accelerator Physics, Michigan State University

Bachelor of Science with Honors in Physics, Loyola University of Chicago

Experience:
  • 2009 - present:   Principal Beamline Specialist, Structural Science Group, Argonne National Laboratory
  • 2007 - 2009: Scientific Specialist, Beamline Technical Support Group, Argonne National Laboratory
  • 1996 - 2007: Floor Coordinator/Floor Coordinator Manager, APS, Argonne National Laboratory
Awards and Honors
  • 2009 - present:   Principal Beamline Specialist, Structural Science Group, Argonne National Laboratory
  • 2007 - 2009: Scientific Specialist, Beamline Technical Support Group, Argonne National Laboratory
  • 1996 - 2007: Floor Coordinator/Floor Coordinator Manager, APS, Argonne National Laboratory
Additional

2006 - present:  Adjunct Instructor at Benedictine University