SOLLAY · Soft Chemical Control of the Physical Properties of Layered Solids
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2016-07-26 → 2018-07-25
- EU contribution
- €195,455
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Soft Chemical Control of the Physical Properties of Layered Solids
This research programme is fundamental solid state chemistry at the boundary with condensed matter physics. The overall objectives were the synthesis and characterisation new transition metal containing solids with layered crystal structures and other layered compounds, with the aim to put them on the world stage by exploiting the compositional tunability which is intrinsic to non-molecular systems. The chemical rationalisation of new composition-structure-property relationships is anticipated to lead eventually to future industrial developments in applications as wide ranging as superconductors, thermoelectric materials, magnetic materials, batteries and heterogeneous catalysis. The project will develop science and the fellow through the pursuit of ground-breaking and adventurous research directions at one of the forefronts of solid state chemistry and will develop the researcher as an independent group leader. The conclusion of the project is that there is great diversity and tunability in these layered systems and the most significant output from the research is the discovery of new intercalates of bismuth selenide.
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Project objective
This research programme is fundamental solid state chemistry at the boundary with condensed matter physics. It will discover new transition metal compounds with layered crystal structures and aims to put them on the world stage by exploiting the compositional tunability which is intrinsic to non-molecular systems. The discovery and chemical rationalisation of new composition-structure-property relationships is anticipated to lead eventually to future industrial developments in applications as wide ranging as superconductors, thermoelectric materials, magnetic materials, batteries and heterogeneous catalysis. Parallel to the research, the fellow’s outreach activities will centre on highlighting these “synthetic minerals” to the general public in a permanent exhibit. The host group and the fellow bring complementary expertise to the project and the career development of the fellow will be through the research and outreach and also in the development of collaborations with Oxford Physics, and the world-leading international facilities for neutron and synchrotron X-ray science at the local Harwell campus and in Grenoble.The project will develop science and the fellow through the pursuit of ground-breaking and adventurous research directions at one of the forefronts of solid state chemistry. It will be carried out in an internationally leading group in a chemistry department in the top handful in Europe.
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Participants
- THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OxfordCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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