Acknowledgements
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
of Canada funded this project through a discovery grant awarded to
APG. MRR thanks the University of Saskatchewan for financial support.
The Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is thanked for
providing funds to purchase the PANalyticalEmpyreanpowderX-ray
diffractometer that was used in this project. Mr. Jack Hendriks is
thanked for carrying out the ion-implantation studies using the
Tandetron accelerator located at Interface ScienceWestern, University
of Western Ontario. J.R. Hayes and E.R. Aluri from the Department
of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan are thanked for help
in the collection of the XANES spectra presented in this study. Dr.
Yongfeng Hu, Ms. Aimee MacLennan, and Dr. Lucia Zuin of the CLS
are thanked for their support in carrying out XANES experiments at
beamlines 06B1-1 and 11ID-2. The CLS is supported by NSERC, the
National Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of
Health Research, the Province of Saskatchewan, Western Economic
Diversification Canada, and the University of Saskatchewan.