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i. The human factor: results of a small-angle scattering data analysis Round Robin 
B. R. Pauw, G. Smales et al., submitted (2023). arxiv: 2303.03772

2023

Magnetic Coupling in Cobalt-Doped Iron Oxide Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Exchange Pinning through Epitaxial Alignment 
D. Zákutná, N. Rouzbeh, D. Nižňanský, J. Duchoň, A. Qdemat, E. Kentzinger, D. Honecker, S. Disch*, Chem. Mater. 35, 2302 - 2311 (2023).
DOI 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02813

Introduction to the special issue on Magnetic small-angle neutron scattering – from nanoscale magnetism to long-range magnetic structures
S. Disch, S. Mühlbauer, A. Michels, E. P. Gilbert, J. Appl. Cryst. 56, 1 - 2 (2023).
DOI 10.1107/S1600576723000857

Structure, optical and magnetic properties of Two Isomeric 2-Bromomethylpyridine Cu(II) Complexes [Cu(C6H9NBr)2(NO3)2] with Very Different Binding Motives
F. Garci, H. Chebbi, N. Rouzbeh, L. Rochels, S. Disch, A. Haseloer, S. S. Sebastian, U. Ruschewitz, E. T. Anthony, A. Klein, M. F. Zid, Molecules 28, 731 (2023).
DOI 10.3390/molecules28020731

2022

Multiscale Magnetization in Cobalt-Doped Ferrite Nanocubes 
D. Zákutná, A. Fischer, D. Dresen, D. Nižňanský, D. Honecker, S. Disch*, J. Appl. Cryst. 55, 1622 - 1630 (2022).
DOI 10.1107/S1600576722010287

Shape-Induced Superstructure Formation in Concentrated Ferrofluids under Applied Magnetic Fields 
P. Bender, E. Wetterskog, G. Salazar-Alvarez, L. Bergström, R. Hermann, T. Brückel, A. Wiedenmann, S. Disch*, J. Appl. Cryst. 55, 1613 - 1621 (2022).
DOI 10.1107/S1600576722010093

Controlling the Rotation Modes of Hematite Nanospindles using Dynamic Magnetic Fields 
D. Honecker, P. Bender, Y. Falke, D. Dresen, M. Kundt, A. M. Schmidt, A. Tschöpe, M. Sztucki, M. Burghammer, S. Disch*, Nanoscale Adv. 4, 4535 - 4541 (2022).
DOI 10.1039/D2NA00522K

Structure, optical and magnetic properties of the pyridinium cobaltate (C6H9N2)2[CoCl4]
F. Garci, H. Chebbi, N. Rouzbeh, L. Rochels, S. Disch, A. Klein, M. F. Zid, Inorg. Chim. Acta 539, 121003 (2022).
DOI 10.1016/j.ica.2022.121003

Book Review: Magnetic Small-Angle Neutron Scattering. A Probe for Mesoscale Magnetism Analysis. By Andreas Michels.
S. Disch, J. Appl. Cryst. 55, 442 - 443 (2022).
DOI 10.1107/S1600576722001029

Smart Fluids – When Shear and Magnetic Forces Compete
D. Zákutná, K. Graef, D. Dresen, L. Porcar, D. Honecker, S. Disch, Neutron News (2022).
DOI 10.1080/10448632.2022.2035579

Using small-angle scattering to guide functional magnetic nanoparticle design
D. Honecker, M. Bersweiler, S. Erokhin, D. Berkov, K. Chesnel, D. Alba Venero, A. Qdemat,  S. Disch, J. K. Jochum, A. Michels, P. Bender, Nanoscale Adv. 4, 1026 (2022).
DOI 10.1039/d1na00482d

2021

Report on the 725. Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar: Magnetic Small-Angle Neutron Scattering – From Nanoscale Magnetism to Long-Range Magnetic Structures
S. Disch, S. Mühlbauer, A. Michels, Neutron News 32, 4 – 6 (2021).
DOI 10.1080/10448632.2021.1996853

Neither Sphere nor Cube - Analyzing the Particle Shape Using Small-Angle Scattering and the Superball Model
D. Dresen, A. Qdemat, S. Ulusoy, F. Mees, D. Zákutná, E. Wetterskog, E. Kentzinger, G. Salazar-Alvarez, S. Disch*, J. Phys. Chem. C 125, 23356 – 23363 (2021).
DOI 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06082

Embracing defects and disorder in magnetic nanoparticles
A. Lak*, S. Disch*, P. Bender*, Adv. Science 8, 2002682 (2021).
DOI 10.1002/advs.202002682

In-situ magnetorheological SANS setup at Institut Laue-Langevin
D. Zákutná, K. Graef, D. Dresen, L. Porcar, D. Honecker, S. Disch*, Colloid Polym Sci 299, 281 – 288 (2021).
DOI 10.1007/s00396-020-04713-5

2020

Field-Dependence of Magnetic Disorder in Nanoparticles
D. Zákutná, D. Nižňanský, L. C. Barnsley, E. Babcock, Z. Salhi, A. Feoktystov, D. Honecker, S. Disch*, Phys. Rev. X 10, 031019 (2020).
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031019
Highlighted in Surprising reaction of magnetic nanoparticles to magnetic fields Joint Annual Report of the MLZ and FRM II, 13 (2020).

Sub-Millisecond Time-Resolved SANS Measurements at NIST
C. Glinka, M. Bleuel, P. Tsai, D. Zákutná, D. Honecker, D. Dresen, F. Mees, S. Disch, J. Appl. Cryst. 53, 598 – 604 (2020).
DOI 10.1107/S1600576720004367
Highlighted in Techniques for time-resolved SANS measurements NIST Center for Neutron Research, Accomplishments and Opportunities, 48 (2020).

2019

Critical size limits for collinear and spin-spiral magnetism in CoCr2O4
D. Zákutná, A. Alemayehu, J. Vlcek, K. Nemkovski, C. P. Grams, D. Nižňanský, D. Honecker, S. Disch*, Phys. Rev. B 100, 184427 (2019).
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.184427
Highlighted in Critical size limits for magnetism in CoCr2O4 Joint Annual Report of the MLZ and FRM II, 30 (2019).

 Using the singular value decomposition to extract 2D correlation functions from scattering patterns
P. Bender, D. Zákutná, S. Disch, L. Marcano, D. Alba Venero, D. Honecker, Acta Cryst. A 75, 766 – 771 (2019).
DOI 10.1107/S205327331900891X

Morphological and crystallographic orientation of hematite spindles in an applied magnetic field
D. Zákutná, Y. Falke, D. Dresen, S. Prévost, P. Bender, D. Honecker, S. Disch*, Nanoscale 11, 7149 – 7156 (2019).
DOI 10.1039/c8nr09583c

Magnetic small-angle neutron scattering
S. Mühlbauer, D. Honecker, É. A. Périgo, F. Bergner, S. Disch, A. Heinemann, S. Erokhin, D. Berkov, C. Leighton, M. Eskildsen, A. Michels, Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 015004 (2019).
DOI 10.1103/RevModPhys.91.015004

Phase-transfer and stabilization of highly monodisperse ferrite nanoparticles into polar solvents by ligand exchange synthesis
D. Zákutná, D. Honecker, S. Disch*, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 19, 5048 – 5051 (2019).
DOI 10.1166/jnn.2019.16786

2018

Anhydrous Homoleptic Coordination Polymers of Composition 3[MII(tF-BDC)] with MII = Zn2+, Co2+ and tF-BDC2- = tetrafluoroterephthalate
C. Stastny, B. Dolfus, C. T. Brombach (née Seidel), D. Dresen, S. Disch, R. Glaum, U. Ruschewitz, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 644, 1423 – 1430 (2018).
DOI 10.1002/zaac.201800228

Non-Collinear Magnetism in Nanosized Cobalt Chromite
D. Zákutná, J. Vlcek, P. Fitl, K. Nemkovski, D. Honecker, D. Nižňanský, S. Disch*, Phys. Rev. B 98, 064407 (2018).
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.064407
 

2016

Dispersible cobalt chromite nanoparticles: facile synthesis and size driven collapse of magnetism
D. Zákutná, I. Matulkova, E. Kentzinger, R. Medlin, Y. Su, K. Nemkovski, S. Disch, J. Vejpravova, D. Nižňanský, RSC Adv. 6, 107659 (2016).
DOI 10.1039/c6ra21377d

Tuning the structure and habit of iron oxide mesocrystals
E. Wetterskog, A. Klapper, S. Disch, E. Josten, R. P. Hermann, U. Rücker, Th. Brückel, L. Bergström, G. Salazar-Alvarez, Nanoscale 8, 15571–15580 (2016).
DOI 10.1039/C6NR03776C

Spin disorder in maghemite nanoparticles investigated using polarized neutrons and nuclear resonant scattering
M. Herlitschke*, S. Disch*, I. Sergueev, K. Schlage, E. Wetterskog, L. Bergström, R. P. Hermann, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 711, 012002 (2016).
DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/711/1/012002
 

2015

Excitation of Ni nanorod colloids in oscillating magnetic fields: a new approach for nanosensing investigated by TISANE
P. Bender, A. Günther, D. Honecker, A. Wiedenmann, S. Disch, A. Tschöpe, A. Michels, R. Birringer, Nanoscale 7, 17122–17130 (2015).
DOI 10.1039/c5nr04243g

Directing the orientational alignment of anisotropic magnetic nanoparticles using dynamic magnetic fields
D. Hoffelner, M. Kundt, A. M. Schmidt, E. Kentzinger, P. Bender, S. Disch*, Faraday Discussions 181, 449–461 (2015).
DOI 10.1039/C4FD00242C

Preparation, formation, and structure of [(SnSe)1.04]m(MoSe2)n intergrowth compounds (0 < m,n < 32) from designed precursors
M. Beekman, S. Disch, N. Gunning, D. C. Johnson, Inorg. Chem. 54, 1091–1099 (2015).
DOI 10.1021/ic502427c
 

2014

Telluride Misfi t Layer Compounds: [(PbTe)1.17]m(TiTe2)n
D. B. Moore, M. Beekman, S. Disch, D. C. Johnson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53, 5672–5675 (2014); Angew. Chem. 126, 5778–5781 (2014).
DOI (English version) 10.1002/anie.201401022

Spin excitations in cubic maghemite nanoparticles studied by time-of-flight neutron spectroscopy
S. Disch, R. P. Hermann, E. Wetterskog, A. A. Podlesnyak, K. An, T. Hyeon, G. Salazar-Alvarez, L. Bergström, Th. Brückel, Phys. Rev. B 89, 064402 (2014).
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.064402
 

2013

Controlling size-induced phase transformations using chemically designed nanolaminates
Steuerung größeninduzierter Phasenumwandlungen durch chemisch konzipierte Nanolaminate
M. Beekman, S. Disch, S. Rouvimov, D. Kasinathan, K. Koepenik, H. Rosner, P. Zschack, W. S. Neumann, D. C. Johnson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52, 13211–13214 (2013); Angew. Chem. 125, 13452–13456 (2013).
DOI (English Version) 10.1002/anie.201305377
DOI (Deutsche Fassung) 10.1002/ange.201305377

Lattice instabilities in bulk EuTiO3
D. Bessas, K. Z. Rushchanskii, M. Kachlik, S. Disch, O. Gourdon, K. Maca, I. Sergueev, S. Kamba, M. Ležaić, R. P. Hermann, Phys. Rev. B 88, 144308 (2013).
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.144308

Synthesis, structure, and properties of turbostratically disordered (PbSe)1.18(TiSe2)2
D. B. Moore, M. Beekman, S. Disch, P. Zschack, I. Häusler, W. Neumann, D. C. Johnson, Chem. Mater. 25, 2404–2409 (2013).
DOI 10.1021/cm400090f

Synthesis, structure and electrical properties of a new tin vanadium selenide
R. Atkins, S. Disch, Z. Jones, I. Häusler, C. Grosse, S. Fischer, W. Neumann, P. Zschack, D. C. Johnson, J. Sol. State Chem. 202, 128–133 (2013).
DOI 10.1016/j.jssc.2013.03.008

Structural diversity in iron oxide nanoparticle assemblies as directed by particle morphology and orientation
S. Disch*, E. Wetterskog, R. P. Hermann, D. Korolkov, P. Busch, P. Boesecke, O. Lyon, U. Vainio, G. Salazar-Alvarez, L. Bergström, Th. Brückel, Nanoscale 5, 3969–3975 (2013).
DOI 10.1039/C3NR33282A
 

2012

Preparation and characterization of (PbSe)1.16TiSe2
D. B. Moore, M. J. Stolt, R. Atkins, L. Sitts, Z. Jones, S. Disch, M. Beekman, D. C. Johnson, Emerging Materials Research 1, 292–298 (2012).
DOI 10.1680/emr.12.00024

Paramagnetic nanoparticles as potential MRI contrast agents: characterization, relaxation, simulations and theory
Q. L. Vuong, S. Van Doorslaer, J.-L. Bridot, C. Argante, G. Alejandro, R. P. Hermann, S. Disch, C. Mattea, S. Stapf, Y. Gossuin, Magn. Reson. Mater. Phy. 25, 467–478 (2012).
DOI 10.1007/s10334-012-0326-7

Quantitative spatial magnetization distribution in iron oxide nanocubes and nanospheres by polarized small-angle neutron scattering
S. Disch, E. Wetterskog, R. P. Hermann, A. Wiedenmann, U. Vainio, G. Salazar-Alvarez, L. Bergström, Th. Brückel, New J. Phys. 14, 013025 (2012).
DOI 10.1088/1367-2630/14/1/013025
 

2011

Shape induced symmetry in self-assembled mesocrystals of iron oxide nanocubes
S. Disch, E.Wetterskog, R. P. Hermann, G. Salazar-Alvarez, P. Busch, Th. Brückel, L. Bergström, S. Kamali, Nano Letters 11, 1651–1656 (2011).
DOI 10.1021/nl200126v

Highlighted in Shape-induced symmetry in nanoparticle assemblies ESRF Highlights, 32-33 (2011).
 

2010

NMR relaxation and magnetic properties of superparamagnetic nanoworms
Y. Gossuin, S. Disch, Q. L. Vuong, P. Gillis, R. P. Hermann, J. H. Park, M. J. Sailor, Contrast Media Mol. Imaging 5, 318–322 (2010).
DOI 10.1002/cmmi.387
 

2008

Physico-chemical and NMR relaxometric characterization of gadolinium hydroxide and dysprosium oxide nanoparticles
Y. Gossuin, A. Hocq, Q. L. Vuong, S. Disch, R. P. Hermann, P. Gillis, Nanotechnology 19, 475102 (2008).
DOI 10.1088/0957-4484/19/47/475102

Formation of Unsaturated C3 Hydrocarbons by the Protolysis of Magnesium Sesquicarbide with Ammonium Halides
S. Disch, A. K. Cheetham, U. Ruschewitz, Inorg. Chem. 47, 969–973 (2008).
DOI 10.1021/ic701760s
 

2004

Ca[Cu(C2H)3] ⋅ 6NH3 und Rb2[Cu(C2H)3] ⋅ NH3: Zwei Ethinylocuprate mit einem trigonal planaren [Cu(C2H)3]2- -Anion
U. Cremer, S. Disch, U. Ruschewitz, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 630, 2304–2310 (2004).
DOI 10.1002/zaac.200400292