Research Guides

Local Structure and Dynamics in Functional Materials

We develop and study a range of advanced functional materials. Our principal aim is to understand and exploit the ways in which structural disorder can give rise to a variety of unusual physical properties of both scientific and commercial importance.

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Rational design of materials with extreme negative compressibility
J Am Chem Soc 134, 4454-4456 (2012) [link]

Empirical magnetic structure solution of frustrated spin systems
Phys Rev Lett 108, 017204 (2012) [link]

Applications of pair distribution function methods to contemporary problems in materials chemistry
J Mater Chem 21, 6464-6476 (2011) [link]

Structure determination of disordered materials from diffraction data
Phys Rev Lett 104, 125501 (2011) [link]

Structure and properties of an amorphous metal–organic framework
Phys Rev Lett 104, 115503 (2010) [link]

Colossal positive and negative thermal expansion in the framework material Ag₃[Co(CN)₆]
Science 319, 794-797 (2008) [link]