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Black phosphorus with near-superhydrophobic properties and long-term stability in aqueous media. (2018)
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Lewis, D., O'Brien, P., Bissett, M., Haigh, S., Dryfe, R., Derby, B., …Zeng, N. (2018). Black phosphorus with near-superhydrophobic properties and long-term stability in aqueous media. Chemical Communications, 3831-3834. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CC01789A

Black phosphorus is a two-dimensional material that has potential applications in energy storage, high frequency electronics and sensing, yet it suffers from instability in oxygenated and/or aqueous systems. Here we present the use of a polymeric sta... Read More about Black phosphorus with near-superhydrophobic properties and long-term stability in aqueous media..

A simple route to complex materials: the synthesis of alkaline earth–transition metal sulfides (2017)
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Al-Shakban, M., Matthews, P., & O'Brien, P. (2017). A simple route to complex materials: the synthesis of alkaline earth–transition metal sulfides. Chemical Communications, 10058-10061. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC05643E

A simple, low-temperature synthesis of a family of alkaline earth metal chalcogenide thin films is reported. These materials have previously only been produced from demanding, high temperature, high pressure reactions. The decomposition of calcium, b... Read More about A simple route to complex materials: the synthesis of alkaline earth–transition metal sulfides.

Updating the road map to metal-halide perovskites for photovoltaics (2017)
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Matthews, P., Lewis, D., & O'Brien, P. (2017). Updating the road map to metal-halide perovskites for photovoltaics. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 17135-17150. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TA04544A

Metal-halide perovskites have revolutionised photovoltaics in a short space of time due to their large power-conversion efficiencies and flexibility in device processing. However, questions loom over the deployment of these materials in photovoltaic... Read More about Updating the road map to metal-halide perovskites for photovoltaics.

The synthesis and characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films from melt reactions using xanthate precursors (2017)
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Savjani, N., Zhong, X., Wang, Y., Missous, M., Al-Shakban, M., Matthews, P., & O'Brien, P. (2017). The synthesis and characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films from melt reactions using xanthate precursors. Journal of Materials Science, 12761 - 12771. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-1367-0

Kesterite, Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS), is a promising absorber layer for use in photovoltaic cells. We report the use of copper, zinc and tin xanthates in melt reactions to produce Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films. The phase of the as-produced CZTS is dependent on... Read More about The synthesis and characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films from melt reactions using xanthate precursors.

Novel xanthate complexes for the size-controlled synthesis of copper sulfide nanorods (2017)
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Matthews, P., Deogratius, G., McNaughter, P., Rafery, J., O'Brien, P., Vitorica-Yrezabal, I., …Al-Shakban, M. (2017). Novel xanthate complexes for the size-controlled synthesis of copper sulfide nanorods. Inorganic Chemistry, 9247-9254. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01288

We present a simple, easily scalable route to monodisperse copper sulfide nanocrystals by the hot injection of a series of novel copper(I) xanthate single-source precursors [(PPh3)2Cu(S2COR)] (R = isobutyl, 2-methoxyethyl, 2-ethoxyethyl, 1-methoxy-2-... Read More about Novel xanthate complexes for the size-controlled synthesis of copper sulfide nanorods.

A Modular Approach to Inorganic Phosphazane Macrocycles (2017)
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Plajer, A. J., García‐Rodríguez, R., Benson, C. G., Matthews, P. D., Bond, A. D., Singh, S., …Wright, D. S. (2017). A Modular Approach to Inorganic Phosphazane Macrocycles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56(31), 9087-9090. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201702558

Inorganic macrocycles, based on non-carbon backbones, present exciting synthetic challenges in the systematic assembly of inorganic molecules, as well as new avenues in host–guest and supramolecular chemistry. Here we demonstrate a new high-yielding... Read More about A Modular Approach to Inorganic Phosphazane Macrocycles.

Synthesis of Ca(PF6)2, formed via nitrosonium oxidation of calcium (2017)
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Keyzer, E., Matthews, P., Liu, Z., Bond, A., Grey, C., & Wright, D. (2017). Synthesis of Ca(PF6)2, formed via nitrosonium oxidation of calcium. Chemical Communications, 4573-4576. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC01938F

The development of rechargeable Ca-ion batteries as an alternative to Li systems has been limited by the availability of suitable electrolyte salts. We present the synthesis of complexes of Ca(PF6)2 (a key potential Ca battery electrolyte salt) via t... Read More about Synthesis of Ca(PF6)2, formed via nitrosonium oxidation of calcium.

Shining a light on transition metal chalcogenides for sustainable photovoltaics (2017)
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Matthews, P., McNaughter, P., Lewis, D., & O'Brien, P. (2017). Shining a light on transition metal chalcogenides for sustainable photovoltaics. Chemical Science, 4177-4187. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SC00642J

Transition metal chalcogenides are an important family of materials that have received significant interest in recent years as they have the potential for diverse applications ranging from use in electronics to industrial lubricants. One of their mos... Read More about Shining a light on transition metal chalcogenides for sustainable photovoltaics.

The influence of halides in polyoxotitanate cages; dipole moment, splitting and expansion of d-orbitals and electron–electron repulsion (2016)
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Li, N., Luo, H., Wright, D., Hanf, S., & Matthews, P. (2016). The influence of halides in polyoxotitanate cages; dipole moment, splitting and expansion of d-orbitals and electron–electron repulsion. Dalton Transactions, 578-585. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6dt04288k

Metal-doped polyoxotitanate (M-POT) cages have been shown to be efficient single-source precursors to metal-doped titania [TiO2(M)] (state-of-the-art photocatalytic materials) as well as molecular models for the behaviour of dopant metal ions in bulk... Read More about The influence of halides in polyoxotitanate cages; dipole moment, splitting and expansion of d-orbitals and electron–electron repulsion.

Synthetic routes to iron chalcogenide nanoparticles and thin films (2016)
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Matthews, P., Akhtar, M., Malik, M., Revaprasadu, N., & O'Brien, P. (2016). Synthetic routes to iron chalcogenide nanoparticles and thin films. Dalton Transactions, 18803-18812. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6DT03486A

Iron chalcogenides are earth abundant, cheap and environmentally benign materials that have seen extensive research directed toward a range of applications, most notably for photovoltaics. The most common forms of materials for these applications are... Read More about Synthetic routes to iron chalcogenide nanoparticles and thin films.