Post-doctoral scholar

Education & Employment


Max Planck Institute

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Stuttgart, Germany, 2017 - present

Columbia University

Graduate Research Assistant

New York, NY, 2013 - 2017

Columbia University

PhD in Materials Science

New York, NY, 2013 - 2017

Publications

  1. Maxwell W. Terban, and Simon J. L. Billinge. "Structural analysis of molecular materials using the pair distribution function". Chem. Rev. . 122 p. 1208–1272 Nov 2022 download doi
  2. Maxwell W. Terban, Leillah Madhau, Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza, Peter O. Okeyo, Martin Etter, Armin Schulz, Jukka Rantanen, Robert E. Dinnebier, Simon J. L. Billinge, Mariarosa Moneghini, and Dritan Hasa. "Controlling desolvation through polymer-assisted grinding". crystEngComm . 24 p. 2305-2313 Feb 2022 download doi
  3. Simon J. L. Billinge, Sandra H. Skjaervoe, Maxwell W. Terban, Songsheng Tao, Long Yang, Yevgeny Rakita, and Benjamin A. Frandsen. "Local structure determination using total scattering data". Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry III. Oct 2021 download doi
  4. Yang, Long, Juh\'{a}s, Pavol, Terban, Maxwell W., Tucker, Matthew G., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Structure-mining: screening structure models by automated fitting to the atomic pair distribution function over large numbers of models". Acta Crystallogr. A . 76 p. 395-409 May 2020 download doi
  5. Terban, Maxwell, Russo, Luca, Pham, Tran, Barich, Dewey, Sun, Yan, Burke, Matthew, Brum, Jeffrey, and Billinge, Simon. "Local structural effects due to micronization and amorphization on an HIV treatment active pharmaceutical ingredient". Molecular Pharmaceutics . 17 p. 2370-2389 April 2020 download doi
  6. Elizabeth A. Morrow, Maxwell W. Terban, Joo Won Lee, Leonard C. Thomas, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Shelly J. Schmidt. "Investigation of thermal decomposition as a critical factor inhibiting cold crystallization in amorphous sucrose prepared by melt-quenching: Effect of amorphization method on the physicochemical properties of amorphous sucrose". J. Food Eng. . 261 p. 87-99 Nov 2019 download doi
  7. Andy I. Nguyen, Kurt M. Van Allsburg, Maxwell W. Terban, Michal Bajdich, Julia Oktawiec, Jaruwan Amtawong, Micah S. Ziegler, James P. Dombrowski, K. V. Lakshmi, Walter S. Drisdell, Junko Yanoc, Simon J. L. Billinge, and T. Don Tilley. "Stabilization of reactive { Co$_{4}$O$_{4}$ } cubane oxygen-evolution catalysts within porous frameworks". PNAS . 116 p. 11630-11639 May 2019 download doi
  8. Morrow, Elizabeth A., Terban, Maxwell W., Thomas, Leonard C., Gray, Danielle L., Bowman, Michael J., Billinge, Simon J. L., and Schmidt, Shelly J.. "Effect of amorphization method on the physicochemical properties of amorphous sucrose". J. Food Eng. . 243 p. 125-141 Feb 2019 download doi
  9. Transue, Wesley J., Nava, Matthew, Terban, Maxwell W., Yang, Jing, Greenberg, Matthew W., Wu, Gang, Mustoe, Chantal L., Kennepohl, Pierre, Owen, Jonathan S., Billinge, Simon J. L., Kulik, Heather J., and Cummins, Christopher C.. "Anthracene as a launchpad for a phosphinidene sulfide and for generation of a phosphorus–sulfur material having the composition {P$_2$S}, a vulcanized red phosphorus that is yellow". J. Am. Chem. Soc. . 141 p. 431--440 Dec 2018 download doi
  10. Zhang, Boyuan, S\'{a}nchez, Ra\'{u}l H., Zhong, Yu, Ball, Melissa, Terban, Maxwell W., Paley, Daniel, Billinge, Simon J. L., Ng, Fay, Steigerwald, Michael L., and Nuckolls, Colin. "Hollow organic capsules assemble into cellular semiconductors". Nat. Commun. . 9 p. 1957 May 2018 download doi
  11. Terban, Maxwell W., Banerjee, Debasis, Ghose, Sanjit, Medasani, Bharat, Shukla, Anil, Legg, Benjamin A., Zhou, Yufan, Zhu, Zihua, Sushko, Maria L., Yoreo, Jim J. De, Liu, Jun, Thallapally, Praveen K., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Early stage structural development of prototypical zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) in solution". Nanoscale . 10 p. 4291--4300 Feb 2018 download doi
  12. Lewis, Crystal S., Moronta, Dominic, Terban, Maxwell W., Wang, Lei, Yue, Shiyu, Zhang, Cheng, Li, Qiang, Corrao, Adam, Billinge, Simon J. L., and Wong, Stanislaus S.. "Synthesis, characterization, and growth mechanism of motifs of ultrathin cobalt-substituted NaFeSi$_2$O$_6$ nanowires". CrystEngComm . 20 p. 223--236 Dec 2017 download doi
  13. Nakamura, Nathan, Terban, Maxwell W., Billinge, Simon J. L., and Jayan, B. Reeja. "Unlocking the structure of mixed amorphous-crystalline ceramic oxide films synthesized under low temperature electromagnetic excitation". J. Mater. Chem. A . 5 p. 18434--18441 Aug 2017 download doi
  14. Stein, Jennifer L., Steimle, Molly I., Terban, Maxwell W., Petrone, Alessio, Billinge, Simon J. L., Li, Xiaosong, and Cossairt, Brandi M.. "Cation exchange induced transformation of {InP} magic-sized clusters". Chem. Mater. . 29 p. 7984--7992 Aug 2017 download doi
  15. Terban, Maxwell W., Shi, Chenyang, Silbernagel, Rita, Clearfield, Abraham, and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Local environment of terbium(III) ions in layered nanocrystalline zirconium(IV) phosphonate–phosphate ion exchange materials". Inorg. Chem. . 56 p. 8837--8846 Jul 2017 download doi
  16. Bertolotti, Federica, Protesescu, Loredana, Kovalenko, Maksym V., Yakunin, Sergii, Cervellino, Antonio, Billinge, Simon J. L., Terban, Maxwell W., Pedersen, Jan Skov, Masciocchi, Norberto, and Guagliardi, Antonietta. "Coherent nanotwins and dynamic disorder in cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals". ACS Nano. . 11 p. 3819-3831 April 2017 download doi
  17. Gamez, Liliana, Terban, Maxwell W., Billinge, Simon J. L., and Martinez-Inesta, Maria. "Modelling and validation of particle size distributions of supported nanoparticles using the pair distribution function technique". J. Appl. Crystallogr. . 50 p. 741--748 April 2017 download doi
  18. Arinez-Soriano, Javier, Albalad, Jorge, Carne-Sanchez, Arnau, Bonnet, Celia S., Busque, Felix, Lorenzo, Julia, Juanhuix, Jordi, Terban, Maxwell W., Imaz, Inhar, Toth, Eva, and Maspoch, Daniel. "{pH}-responsive relaxometric behaviour of coordination polymer nanoparticles made of a gadolinium macrocyclic chelate". Chem.-Eur. J. . 22 p. 13162–-13170 (2016) download doi
  19. Beecher, Alexander N., Semonin, Octavi E., Skelton, Jonathan M., Frost, Jarvist M., Terban, Maxwell W., Zhai, Haowei, Alatas, Ahmet, Owen, Jonathan S., Walsh, Aron, and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Direct observation of dynamic symmetry breaking above room temperature in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite". ACS Energy Lett. . 1 p. 880–887 Sep 2016 download doi
  20. Frandsen, Benjamin A., Gong, Zizhou, Terban, Maxwell W., Banerjee, Soham, Chen, Bijuan, Jin, Changqing, Feygenson, Mikhail, Uemura, Yasutomo J., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Local atomic and magnetic structure of dilute magnetic semiconductor {(Ba,K)(Zn,Mn)$_2$As$_2$}". Phys. Rev. B . 94 p. 094102 Sep 2016 download doi
  21. Terban, Maxwell W., Dabbous, Rapha\"{e}l, Debellis, Anthony D., P\"{o}selt, Elmar, and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Structures of hard phases in thermoplastic polyurethanes". Macromolecules . 49 p. 7350--7358 Sep 2016 download doi
  22. Gary, Dylan C., Terban, Maxwell, Billinge, Simon J. L., and Cossairt, Brandi M.. "Two-step nucleation and growth of {InP} quantum dots via magic-sized cluster intermediates". Chem. Mater. . 27 p. 1432--1441 (2015) download doi
  23. Terban, Maxwell W., Cheung, Eugene Y., Krolikowski, Paul, and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Recrystallization, phase composition, and local structure of amorphous lactose from the total scattering pair distribution function". Cryst. Growth Des. . 16 p. 210–220 (2015) download doi
  24. Terban, Maxwell W., Johnson, Matthew, DiMichiel, Marco, and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Detection and characterization of nanoparticles in suspension at low concentrations using the x-ray total scattering pair distribution function technique". Nanoscale . 7 p. 5480--5487 Feb 2015 download doi