Paul Raithby

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Research interests

Our research is in inorganic and materials chemistry. We are developing new “smart” materials that have applications as switches and sensors. We use synthetic chemistry to design and build the new materials, characterise them using a range of experimental techniques including X-ray crystallography, X-ray powder diffraction, UV/visible spectroscopy, IR and NMR spectroscopy. We use computational chemistry techniques to support this research. With all these techniques we manipulate the materials to optimise the physical properties or chemical functions that we want in a cyclic process of “Make”, “Measure”, “Model” and “Manipulate” and we call this the “M4” project.

Within the M4 project the classes of materials that we are looking at include:

Coordination compounds that have chemical groups attached to the metal that can change the way that they bond to the metal when light is shone on them. When the light is turned off they switch back to their original structure. This switching of structure shows up easily because the compounds change colour.
Solid-state platinum-containing compounds that change colour when they detect low concentrations of volatile organic liquids or gases. The colour changes occur very quickly so that these compounds act as fast sensors.
Solid-state organic compounds that change colour when the temperature of the environment changes. Some of these materials switch colour back when the temperature changes again, while others remain changed, so that they give a record of whether a particular temperature has been reached.

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Projects

23 Finished

Understanding and Engineering Function in Switchable Molecular Crystals

Raithby, P.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

4/03/17 → 9/09/18

Project: Research council

Fellowship Briony Yorke: Hadamard Time-Resolved Crystallography: Investigating Fast Structural Dynamics using Synchotron Radiation

Raithby, P.

The Wellcome Trust

1/06/16 → 28/02/19

Project: UK charity

RCaH Impact Acceleration Fellowships and Workshops

Raithby, P.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

9/10/14 → 8/10/16

Project: Research council

Supporting Research Excellence in Chemistry at the University of Bath through Provision of Key Equipment Enhancements

Wilson, C., Lowe, J., Lubben, A. T., Mahon, M. & Raithby, P.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

11/03/14 → 10/06/14

Project: Research council

Understanding and Engineering Function in Switchable Molecular Crystals

Raithby, P.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

15/04/13 → 14/04/18

Project: Research council

Research Output

220 Article
3 Poster
3 Editorial
2 Chapter
5 More

A single component white electroluminescent device fabricated from a metallo-organic terbium complex

Ilmi, R., Khan, M. S., Sun, W., Zhou, L., Wong, W. Y. & Raithby, P. R., 28 Nov 2019, In : Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7, 44, p. 13966-13975 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

1 Citation (Scopus)

Exploring short strong hydrogen bonds engineered in organic acid molecular crystals for temperature dependent proton migration behaviour using single crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SCSXRD)

Saunders, L. K., Nowell, H., Hatcher, L. E., Shepherd, H. J., Teat, S. J., Allan, D. R., Raithby, P. R. & Wilson, C. C., 21 Sep 2019, In : CrystEngComm. 21, 35, p. 5249-5260 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Intrinsic flexibility of the EMT zeolite framework under pressure

Nearchou, A., Cornelius, M. L. U., Skelton, J. M., Jones, Z. L., Cairns, A. B., Collings, I. E., Raithby, P. R., Wells, S. A. & Sartbaeva, A., 12 Feb 2019, In : Molecules. 24, 3, 641.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

1 Citation (Scopus)

Living in the salt-cocrystal continuum: indecisive organic complexes with thermochromic behaviour

Raithby, P., Jones, C., Skelton, J., Parker, S., Walsh, A., Wilson, C. & Thomas, L., 14 Mar 2019, In : CrystEngComm. 21, 10, p. 1626-1634 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

3 Citations (Scopus)

25 Downloads (Pure)

New rhenium-tricarbonyl complexes bearing halogen-substituted bidentate ligands: Structural, computational and Hirshfeld surfaces studies

Kia, R., Mahmoudi, S. & Raithby, P., 7 Jan 2019, In : CrystEngComm. 21, 1, p. 77-93 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

2 Citations (Scopus)

17 Downloads (Pure)

Datasets

Dataset for "Intrinsic flexibility of the EMT zeolite framework under pressure"

Nearchou, A. (Creator), Cornelius, M. (Creator), Skelton, J. (Creator), University of Bath, 12 Feb 2019

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00560

Dataset

Data for "The Impact of the Alkyne Substitution Pattern and Metallation on the Photo-isomerization of Azobenzene-based Platinum(II) Di-ynes and Poly-ynes"

Al-Balushi, R. A. (Creator), Skelton, J. (Creator), University of Bath, 2016

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00287

Dataset

Data for "A rapidly-reversible absorptive and emissive vapochromic Pt(II) pincer-based chemical sensor"

Skelton, J. (Creator), University of Bath, 27 Nov 2017

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00440

Dataset

Dataset for "Pressure-induced symmetry changes in body-centred cubic zeolites"

Nearchou, A. (Creator), Cornelius, M. (Creator), University of Bath, 24 Jul 2019

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00580

Dataset

Raw Data for Azetidinium Lead Iodide for Perovskite Solar Cells

Pering, S. (Creator), Kubiak, P. (Creator), Deng, W. (Creator), Niemann, R. (Creator), Brivio, F. (Creator), Ghosh, D. (Creator), Troughton, J. R. (Creator), Jeffrey, F. (Creator), Johnson, A. (Creator), Lewis, S. (Creator), Walker, A. (Creator), Watson, T. M. (Creator), Islam, S. (Creator), Raithby, P. (Creator), Cameron, P. (Creator), University of Bath, 23 Jan 2018

DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00432

Dataset