Research
Collaborations
Prof. Sharon Ashbrook (University of Saint-Andrews, UK) on the 17O enrichment of oxides for high resolution 17O NMR.
Dr. Thomas D. Bennett (University of Cambridge, UK) on metal organic frameworks.
Prof. Andrew I. Cooper FRS, University of Liverpool, UK: High throughput solid state NMR of polymeric materials.
Prof. Luming Peng (University of Nanjing, China) on the structural understanding of layered double hydroxides.
Prof. Matthew J. Rosseinsky FRS, University of Liverpool, UK: Li NMR conductivity and metal organic frameworks.
Prof. Stephen Skinner (Imperial College London, UK) on the NMR structural studies of new fast ion conductors.
Our work is focused around the use of solid state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy to tackle structural and dynamics problems in the field of inorganic chemistry and solid state chemistry that are challenging to solve by any other spectroscopic or analytical techniques. For example, we are studying the oxygen, lithium and proton conduction in solid state materials (for application as Li-ion batteries or fuel cells) using a combination of high field NMR and high temperature NMR measurements.
More recently, we have also started to focus on using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) enhanced solid state NMR spectroscopy in materials chemistry and energy materials. For example, we showed that natural abundance oxygen-17 NMR spectra and low gamma nuclei, such as yttrium-89, NMR spectra of oxides and related phases can be obtained in a few minutes with DNP. We also demonstrated that DNP allows high throughput characterization of polymeric materials prepared by combinatorial chemistry.
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