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Overview

Radovan Černý is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry. The subfields of study include materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, inorganic chemistry, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

Černý's work encompasses a variety of key topics within materials science. These topics include:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Hydrogen storage and materials
  • Advanced battery materials and technologies
  • Chemical synthesis and characterization
  • Advancements in battery materials
  • Inorganic chemistry and materials

The scientist has published extensively, with significant numbers of publications appearing in well-recognized venues. Frequent publication venues for Černý include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Černý are:

  • Fabrizio Murgia
  • Zbigniew Łodziana
  • Torben R. Jensen
  • Matteo Brighi
  • Emilie Didelot

Among the recent papers including Černý in the author list are:

  • The mechanism of Mg2+ conduction in ammine magnesium borohydride promoted by a neutral molecule, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Ammonia-assisted fast Li-ion conductivity in a new hemiammine lithium borohydride, LiBH4·1/2NH3, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Room-Temperature Solid-State Lithium-Ion Battery Using a LiBH4-MgO Composite Electrolyte, 2021, ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Closo-Hydroborate Sodium Salts as an Emerging Class of Room-Temperature Solid Electrolytes, 2020, Cell Reports Physical Science
  • Nido-Borate/Closo-Borate Mixed-Anion Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries, 2020, Chemistry of Materials

Best Publications

  • FOX, `free objects for crystallography': a modular approach to ab initio structure determination from powder diffraction

    Vincent Favre-Nicolin;Radovan Černý

  • Lithium boro-hydride LiBH4. I. Crystal structure

    J-Ph Soulié;G Renaudin;R Černý;K Yvon

  • Metal borohydrides and derivatives – synthesis, structure and properties

    Mark Paskevicius;Lars Haarh Jepsen;Pascal Schouwink;Radovan Černý

  • Photoelectrochemical Oxidation of Water at Transparent Ferric Oxide Film Electrodes

    Chantal Jorand Sartoretti;Bruce Alexander;Renata Solarska;Iwona Agnieszka Rutkowska

  • Structure and properties of complex hydride perovskite materials

    Pascal Schouwink;Morten B. Ley;Antoine Tissot;Hans Hagemann

  • Magnesium borohydride: synthesis and crystal structure.

    Radovan Černý;Yaroslav Filinchuk;Hans Hagemann;Klaus Yvon

  • Preparation and characterization of sterile sub-200 nm meso-tetra(4-hydroxylphenyl)porphyrin-loaded nanoparticles for photodynamic therapy.

    Yvette Niamien Konan;Radovan Cerny;Jocelyne Louise Favet;Myriam Berton

  • Insight into Mg(BH4)2 with synchrotron X-ray diffraction: Structure revision, crystal chemistry, and anomalous thermal expansion

    Yaroslav Filinchuk;Radovan Černý;Hans Hagemann

  • LiSc(BH4)4: a novel salt of Li+ and discrete Sc(BH4)4(-) complex anions.

    Hans Hagemann;Moïse Longhini;Jakub W Kaminski;Tomasz A Wesolowski

  • Lightest borohydride probed by synchrotron X-ray diffraction: Experiment calls for a new theoretical revision

    Yaroslav Filinchuk;Dmitry Chernyshov;Radovan Cerny

  • NaSc(BH4)4: A novel scandium-based borohydride

    Radovan Cerny;Godwin Severa;Dorthe B. Ravnsbæk;Yaroslav Filinchuk

  • Superionic Conduction of Sodium and Lithium in Anion-Mixed Hydroborates Na3BH4B12H12 and (Li0.7Na0.3)3BH4B12H12

    Yolanda Sadikin;Matteo Brighi;Pascal Schouwink;Radovan Černý

  • Effect of Fe excess on structural, magnetic and superconducting properties of single-crystalline Fe1+xTe1−ySey

    R. Viennois;E. Giannini;D. van der Marel;R. Černý

  • A better FOX: using flexible modelling and maximum likelihood to improve direct-space ab initio structure determination from powder diffraction

    Vincent Favre-Nicolin;Radovan Černý

  • Hydrogen cycling induced degradation in LaNi5-type materials

    J.-M Joubert;M Latroche;R Černý;A Percheron-Guégan

  • Self-sorting chiral subcomponent rearrangement during crystallization.

    Marie Hutin;Christopher J. Cramer;Laura Gagliardi;Abdul Rehaman Moughal Shahi

  • Rietveld refinement for indium nitride in the 105–295 K range

    W. Paszkowicz;R. Černý;S. Krukowski

  • The first crystallographic and spectroscopic characterization of a 3d-Metal borohydride: Mn(BH4)2

    Radovan Cerny;Nicolas Penin;Hans-Rudolf Hagemann;Yaroslav Filinchuk

  • Direct space methods of structure determination from powder diffraction: principles, guidelines and perspectives

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  • Structure and Characterization of KSc(BH4)4

    Radovan Cerny;Dorthe B. Ravnsbaek;Godwin Severa;Yaroslav Filinchuk

  • Synthetic approaches to inorganic borohydrides.

    Hans Hagemann;Radovan Černý

  • Thermal Polymorphism and Decomposition of Y(BH4)(3)

    Dorthe B. Ravnsbaek;Yaroslav Filinchuk;Radovan Cerny;Morlen B. Ley

  • The mechanism of Mg2+ conduction in ammine magnesium borohydride promoted by a neutral molecule.

    Yigang Yan;Wilke Dononelli;Mathias Jørgensen;Jakob B. Grinderslev

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Yvon
Klaus Yvon University of Geneva
Torben R. Jensen
Torben R. Jensen Aarhus University
Yaroslav Filinchuk
Yaroslav Filinchuk Université Catholique de Louvain
Michel Latroche
Michel Latroche Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
A. Percheron-Guégan
A. Percheron-Guégan Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Young Whan Cho
Young Whan Cho Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Guillaume Renaudin
Guillaume Renaudin University of Clermont Auvergne
Flemming Besenbacher
Flemming Besenbacher Aarhus University
Marcello Baricco
Marcello Baricco University of Turin
Bjørn C. Hauback
Bjørn C. Hauback University of Oslo

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