Materials Chemistry Frontiers Blog

Professor J. Paul Attfield FRSC from University of Edinburgh joined the editorial board of Materials Chemistry Frontiers in 2016. His research focuses on synthesis, structural studies, and property measurements for electronic and magnetic materials.

Paul Attfield holds a Chair in Materials Science at Extreme Conditions at the School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh and he is the Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions. He received B.A. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University, and he was a Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity at the University of Cambridge during 1991-2003. He received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Meldola and Corday-Morgan medals and Peter Day award, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2006 and of the Royal Society in 2014.

His early research contributions included pioneering resonant X-ray scattering experiments of cation and valence ordering, and studies of disorder effects in functional oxides. Current research is centred on electronic and magnetic materials; a recent highlight was the solution of the 70-year old ‘Verwey’ problem of charge order in magnetite – the original magnetic material.

Check some of his recent publications:

Competing antiferromagnetic orders in the double perovskite Mn₂MnReO₆ (Mn₃ReO₆)

A. M. Arévalo-López, F. Stegemann and J. P. Attfield

Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 5558-5560

Nitride tuning of lanthanide chromites

Black, A. P., Johnston, H. E., Oró-Solé, J., Bozzo, B., Ritter, C., Frontera, C., Attfield, J. P. & Fuertes, A.

Chem. Comm., 2016, 52, 23, 4317-20 4

The Verwey structure of a natural magnetite

G. Perversi, J. Cumby, E. Pachoud, J. P. Wright and J. P. Attfield

Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 4864-4867

Crystal and magnetic structures of the brownmillerite Ca₂Cr₂O₅

Angel M. Arevalo-Lopez and J. Paul Attfield

Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 10661-10664

Titanium migration driven by Li vacancies in Li1−xTi2O4 spinel

Kitada, A., Arevalo-lopez, A. M. & Attfield, J. P.

Chem. Comm., 2015, 51, 11359-11361

Learn more about the research carried out by Paul’s group, visit the webpage:

http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/paul-attfield(551161cb-6621-4464-9c56-475f4b67cf8c).html

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New journal: Materials Chemistry Frontiers – The international, high quality journal for topical and multi-disciplinary research on all aspect of materials chemistry.

Editor-in-Chief Ben Zhong Tang answers your questions about Materials Chemistry Frontiers.

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Professor Natalia Shustova from University of South Carolina joined the Editorial Board of Materials Chemistry Frontiers as Associate Editor. Her current research interests are graphitic hybrid materials for sustainable energy conversion, sensors, switches, and artificial biomimetic systems.

Natalia Shustova received her M.S. degree in Materials Science in 2004 from Moscow State University (MSU), Russia, and two Ph.D. degrees, the first in Physical Chemistry in 2005 from MSU and the second in Inorganic Chemistry in 2010 from Colorado State University. She then did postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2013 she joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, MIT Infinite Kilometer Postdoctoral Award, an MIT/Bruker Symposium Award, a German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Graduate Research Scholarship, an Electrochemical Society Herbert H. Uhlig Summer Fellowship, and a Humboldt University (Berlin) L. Euler Student Fellowship.

Check some of her recent publications:

Photophysics of GFP-related chromophores imposed by a scaffold design

E. A. Dolgopolova, T. M. Moore, W. B. Fellows, M. D. Smith and N. B. Shustova

Dalton Trans., 2016, Advance Article

Redox-active corannulene buckybowls in a crystalline hybrid scaffold

W. Brett Fellows, Allison M. Rice, Derek E. Williams, Ekaterina A. Dolgopolova, Aaron K. Vannucci, Perry J. Pellechia, Mark D. Smith, Jeanette A. Krause, Natalia B. Shustova

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 2195–2199

A Mimic of the Green Fluorescent Protein β-barrel: Photophysics and Dynamics of Confined Chromophores Defined by a Rigid Porous Scaffold

Williams, D. E.; Dolgopolova, E. A.; Pellechia, P.J.; Palukoshka, A.; Wilson, T. J.; Tan, R.; Maier, J. M.; Tan, R.; Greytak, A. B.; Smith, M. D.; Krause, J. A.;  Shustova, N. B.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 2223–2226.

A Bio-inspired Approach for Chromophore Communication: Ligand-to-Ligand and Host-to-Guest Energy Transfer in Hybrid Crystalline Scaffolds

Dolgopolova, E. A.; Williams, D. E.; Greytak, A. B.; Rice, A. M.; Smith, M. D.; Krause, J. A.; Shustova, N. B.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 13639–13643.

Active Sites in Copper-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks: Understanding Substrate Dynamics, Redox Processes, and Valence-Band Structure

Audrey S. Duke, Ekaterina A. Dolgopolova, Randima P. Galhenage, Salai C. Ammal, Andreas Heyden, Mark D. Smith, Donna A. Chen, and Natalia B. Shustova

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 27457–27466

Learn more about the research carried out by Natalia’s group, visit their group website: http://www.chem.sc.edu/faculty/shustova/site/Shustova_group.html.

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New journal: Materials Chemistry Frontiers – The international, high quality journal for topical and multi-disciplinary research on all aspect of materials chemistry.

Editor-in-Chief Ben Zhong Tang answers your questions about Materials Chemistry Frontiers.

Professor Dan Wang from Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, serves as Associate Editor of Materials Chemistry Frontiers. His current research focuses on the design and controllable synthesis of functional inorganic materials with porous or hollow structures, and their applications in solar cells, Li-ion batteries and photocatalyst and gas sensors, etc.

Born at Jilin, Jilin province in 1969.Graduate from Jilin University, China, Dan Wang received the Bachelor’s degree from Jilin University in 1994. He entered a master’s degree program at his alma mater in the same year. He obtained his Ph.D. from Yamanashi University in Japan in 2001. He was awarded by Hundred Talent Program of the CAS, and served as professor of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS in February 2004. And he earned the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2013.

He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and he sits on advisory boards for several international journals, such as Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Science, Advanced Materials Interface.

Research of his group is in the soft chemistry synthesis and application of inorganic functional materials including porous, layered and nano-sized materials. Emphases are placed on the development, design and application of the energy sources, catalyst and environment materials by self-assembly, surface modifying methods. Studies in the following fields are being performed: semiconductor metal oxide sensitive material, environmental friendly heat stabilizer for PVC, high efficient adsorbent for heavy metal ions, porous TiO₂ films for photocatalysis, and so on.

Check some of his recent publications:

Controllable synthesis of mesostructures from TiO₂ hollow to porous nanospheres with superior rate performance for lithium ion batteries

Hao Ren, Jiajia Sun, Ranbo Yu, Mei Yang, Lin Gu, Porun Liu, Huijun Zhao, David Kisailus and Dan Wang

Chem. Sci., 2016,7, 793-798
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC03203B, Edge Article

Multi-shelled LiMn₂O₄ hollow microspheres as superior cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries

Feng Wang, Jiangyan Wang, Hao Ren, Hongjie Tang, Ranbo Yu and Dan Wang

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016,3, 365-369
DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00213C, Research Article

Multi-shelled hollow micro-/nanostructures

Jian Qi, Xiaoyong Lai, Jiangyan Wang, Hongjie Tang, Hao Ren, Yu Yang, Quan Jin, Lijuan Zhang, Ranbo Yu, Guanghui Ma, Zhiguo Su, Huijun Zhao and Dan Wang

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015,44, 6749-6773
DOI: 10.1039/C5CS00344J, Review Article

An in situ vapour phase hydrothermal surface doping approach for fabrication of high performance Co₃O₄ electrocatalysts with an exceptionally high S-doped active surface

Zhijin Tan, Porun Liu, Haimin Zhang, Yun Wang, Mohammad Al-Mamun, Hua Gui Yang, Dan Wang, Zhiyong Tang and Huijun Zhao

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 5695-5697
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00661A, Communication