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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
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Understanding and Engineering Function in Switchable Molecular Crystals
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
4/03/17 → 9/09/18
Project: Research council
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RCaH Impact Acceleration Fellowships and Workshops
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
9/10/14 → 8/10/16
Project: Research council
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Understanding and Engineering Function in Switchable Molecular Crystals
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
15/04/13 → 14/04/18
Project: Research council
Research Output
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Two is Better Than One? Investigating the Effect of Incorporating Re(CO)3Cl Side-Chains into Pt(II) Diynes and Polyynes
Haque, A., Al-balushi, R. A., Al-Busaidi, I. J., A-Rasbi, N., Al-Bahri, S., Al-Suti, M. K., Khan, M., Abou-Zied, O., Skelton, J. & Raithby, P., 18 Jan 2021, In: Inorganic Chemistry. 60, 2, DOI: .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bright and efficient red emitting electroluminescent devices fabricated from ternary europium complexes
Khan, M. S., Ilmi, R., Sun, W., Dutra, J. D. L., Oliveira, W. F., Zhou, L., Wong, W. Y. & Raithby, P. R., 28 Apr 2020, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8, 16, p. 5600-5612 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Differentiating the role of organic additives to assemble open framework aluminosilicates using INS spectroscopy
Nearchou, A., Armstrong, J., Butler, K. T., Raithby, P. R. & Sartbaeva, A., 6 Jul 2020, In: Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP. 22, 25, p. 14177-14186 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Instrument-model refinement in normalized reciprocal-vector space for X-ray Laue diffraction
Kamiński, R., Szarejko, D., Pedersen, M. N., Hatcher, L. E., Łaski, P., Raithby, P. R., Wulff, M. & Jarzembska, K. N., 1 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Applied Crystallography. 53, p. 1370-1375 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Monochromatic red electroluminescence from a homodinuclear europium(iii) complex of a β-diketone tethered by 2,2′-bipyrimidine
Ilmi, R., Sun, W., Dutra, J. D. L., Al-Rasbi, N. K., Zhou, L., Qian, P. C., Wong, W. Y., Raithby, P. R. & Khan, M. S., 7 Aug 2020, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8, 29, p. 9816-9827 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
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Dataset for "Intrinsic flexibility of the EMT zeolite framework under pressure"
Nearchou, A. (Creator), Cornelius, M. (Creator), Skelton, J. (Creator), Jones, Z. (Contributor), Cairns, A. (Contributor), Collings, I. (Contributor), Raithby, P. (Project Leader), Wells, S. (Other) & Sartbaeva, A. (Project Leader), University of Bath, 12 Feb 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00560
Dataset
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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
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Dataset for "Zeolites fit for a Crown: Probing Host-Guest Interactions with Thermogravimetric Methods"
Nearchou, A. (Creator), Sartbaeva, A. (Supervisor), Castaing, R. (Related Person) & Raithby, P. (Related Person), University of Bath, 29 Jul 2020
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00427
Dataset
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Data for "A rapidly-reversible absorptive and emissive vapochromic Pt(II) pincer-based chemical sensor"
Bryant, M. (Data Collector), Skelton, J. (Creator), Hatcher, L. (Project Member), Stubbs, C. (Project Member), Madrid, E. (Project Member), R. Pallipurath, A. (Project Member), Thomas, L. (Project Member), Woodall, C. (Project Member), Christensen, J. (Project Member), Fuertes, S. (Project Member), Robinson, T. (Project Member), Beavers, C. (Project Member), Teat, S. J. (Project Member), Warren, M. (Project Member), Pradaux-Caggiano, F. (Project Member), Walsh, A. (Project Member), Marken, F. (Project Member), Carbery, D. (Project Member), Parker, S. (Project Member), Mckeown, N. B. (Project Member), Malpass-evans, R. (Project Member), Carta, M. (Project Member) & Raithby, P. (Project Leader), University of Bath, 27 Nov 2017
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00440
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Dataset for "Pressure-induced symmetry changes in body-centred cubic zeolites"
Nearchou, A. (Creator), Cornelius, M. (Creator), Jones, Z. L. (Data Collector), Collings, I. (Other), Wells, S. (Other), Raithby, P. (Other) & Sartbaeva, A. (Supervisor), University of Bath, 24 Jul 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00580
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