Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

We are delighted to introduce the international scientists that are our Advisory Board Members!

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

From left to right: Amparo Fuertes, Saiful Islam, Paul Mulvaney, Linda Nazar, Markus Niederberger, Cheng-Yong Su and George (X S) Zhao.

Journal of Materials Chemistry B

From left to right: Etienne Duguet, Luis Liz-Marzan, George Malliaras and Jan van Hest

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

From left to right: From left to right: Top row: David Evans, Mark Green, Tomiki Ikeda, Takashi Kato, Kuang-Lieh Lu; Bottom row: Seth Marder, Paolo Samori, Ram Seshadri and Christoph Weder.

Stephen Skinner is a Reader in Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London with research interests in new materials for energy generation/storage technologies. He is primarily interested in the development of materials for solid oxide fuel cells and in understanding their transport properties, utilising a combination of diffraction and spectroscopic techniques. In-situ structural and electrical characterisation of oxides and the determination of the oxygen transport kinetics are key areas of interest. He is a member of the ISIS neutron source facility access panel, Diamond I20 working group and the Materials Chemistry Division Council of the RSC.

His recent papers include:

In situ compatibility studies of lanthanum nickelate with a ceria-based electrolyte for SOFC composite cathodes
R. Sayers, J. E. Parker, C. C. Tang and S. J. Skinner
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 3536-3543

Evidence for the catalytic oxidation of La₂NiO_4+δ
R. Sayers and S. J. Skinner
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 414-419

Structural properties of Ce-doped strontium titanate for fuel cell applications
Denis J. Cumming, John A. Kilner and Stephen Skinner
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 5021-5026

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Jeroen Cornelissen is Professor in Biomolecular Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. He studied chemistry in The Netherlands with a minor in polymer chemistry carried out at the Eindhoven University of Technology with Prof. E.W. Meijer and a major in Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis at the University of Nijmegen with Prof. R.J.M. Nolte. He received his PhD (cum laude) from the latter university in 2001 for research carried out under the supervision of Prof. R.J.M. Nolte. After post-doctoral work at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, U.S.A. he returned to Nijmegen, where he was appointed as an Assistant Professor until 2009. His current research interests are in well-defined polymer architectures, hybrid systems of synthetic macromolecules and biopolymers and the use of viruses as building blocks in functional materials.

His recent papers include:

Time-programmed helix inversion in phototunable liquid crystals
Sarah J. Aßhoff, Supitchaya Iamsaard, Alessandro Bosco, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Ben L. Feringa and Nathalie Katsonis
Chem. Commun., 2013, Advance Article

Relative size selection of a conjugated polyelectrolyte in virus-like protein structures
Melanie Brasch and Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen
Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 1446-1448

Solution scattering studies on a virus capsid protein as a building block for nanoscale assemblies
Marta Comellas-Aragonès, Friso D. Sikkema, Guillaume Delaittre, Ann E. Terry, Stephen M. King, Dirk Visser, Richard K. Heenan, Roeland J. M. Nolte, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen and Martin C. Feiters
Soft Matter, 2011,7, 11380-11391

Hydrogen bonding and chemical shift assignments in carbazole functionalized isocyanides from solid-state NMR and first-principles calculations
Chandrakala M. Gowda, Filipe Vasconcelos, Erik Schwartz, Ernst R. H. van Eck, Martijn Marsman, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Alan E. Rowan, Gilles A. de Wijs and Arno P. M. Kentgens
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011,13, 13082-13095

Electrostatic self-assembly of virus–polymer complexes
Mauri A. Kostiainen, Panu Hiekkataipale, Jose Á. de la Torre, Roeland J. M. Nolte and Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen
J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 2112-2117

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Natalie Stingelin is a Reader at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK, where she conducts research in the broad area of organic functional materials, including organic electronics, multifunctional inorganic/organic hybrids and smart, advanced optical systems based on organic matter. She has more than 70 papers, is an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, and in 2011 she received an ERC Young Investigator Award.

Her recent papers include:

Synthesis and charge transport studies of stable, soluble hexacenes
Balaji Purushothaman, Sean R. Parkin, Mark J. Kendrick, Daniel David, Jeremy W. Ward, Liyang Yu, Natalie Stingelin, Oana D. Jurchescu, Oksana Ostroverkhova and John E. Anthony
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 8261-8263

Solution-processed small molecule transistors with low operating voltages and high grain-boundary anisotropy
Liyang Yu, Xiaoran Li, Jeremy Smith, Steven Tierney, Richard Sweeney, B. K. Charlotte Kjellander, Gerwin H. Gelinck, Thomas D. Anthopoulos and Natalie Stingelin
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 9458-9461

A flexible n-type organic semiconductor for optoelectronics
Ke Gui, Karyn Mutkins, Paul E. Schwenn, Karsten B. Krueger, Almantas Pivrikas, Pascal Wolfer, Natalie Stingelin Stutzmann, Paul L. Burn and Paul Meredith
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 1800-1806

Fullerene crystallisation as a key driver of charge separation in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells
Fiona C. Jamieson, Ester Buchaca Domingo, Thomas McCarthy-Ward, Martin Heeney, Natalie Stingelin and James R. Durrant
Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 485-492

A low band gap co-polymer of dithienogermole and 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole by Suzuki polycondensation and its application in transistor and photovoltaic cells
Zhuping Fei, Jong Soo Kim, Jeremy Smith, Ester Buchaca Domingo, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Natalie Stingelin, Scott E. Watkins, Ji-Seon Kim and Martin Heeney
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 16257-16263

Low band gap selenophene–diketopyrrolopyrrole polymers exhibiting high and balanced ambipolar performance in bottom-gate transistors
Munazza Shahid, Thomas McCarthy-Ward, John Labram, Stephan Rossbauer, Ester Buchaca Domingo, Scott E. Watkins, Natalie Stingelin, Thomas D. Anthopoulos and Martin Heeney
Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 181-185

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