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Scott King

Supervisors: Steven Brown and John Hanna

PhD registration Period: Oct 2010 - March 2014


My research involves using solid state NMR techniques on a range of materials, mainly concentrating on disordered materials such as glasses. This involves a multinuclear approach, looking at both spin-½ and quadrupolar nuclei at a range of fields from 2.3 T up to 14.1 T.


J Couplings in Phosphate Glasses using the REINE pulse sequence

My current research involves utilising the REINE (Refocused INADEQUATE spin-Echo) (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2007, 9, 92-103) pulse sequence using 31P NMR on phosphate based glasses. From this technique distributions of J couplings present due to the large disorder throughout the glass structure can be determined. This is to be extended to series of glasses with the ultimate aim of obtaining better understanding of glass bonding in order to help build up a model of phosphate glass structure.


Mullites

NMR is also a widely used tool in the characterisation of ceramics. Owing to their favourable properties and their ability to incorporate large amounts of doping ions, determining the atomic structure of the aluminosilicate material mullite has been important, with NMR a vital tool. In my research various mullite structures are to be investigated using a multinuclear approach with a range of NMR experiments. With the overall aim to determine how doping with boron ions affects the mullite aluminosilicate structure.


Publications

Solution and mechanochemical syntheses, and spectroscopic and structural studies in the silver(I) (bi-)carbonate: triphenylphosphine system
Graham A. Bowmaker, Effendy, John V. Hanna, Peter C. Healy, Scott P. King, Claudio Pettinari, Brian W. Skelton and Allan H. White.
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 7210-7218. DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10416K

Structural characterization and physical properties of P2O5-CaO-Na2O-TiO2 glasses by FTIR, Raman and solid state MAS NMR
Azadeh Kiani, John V. Hanna, Scott P. King, Gregory J. Rees, Mark.E. Smith, Nima Roohpour, Vehid Salih and Jonathan C. Knowles.
Acta Biomaterialia, 2012, 8, 333-340. DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2011.08.25

Mechanochemical and solution synthesis, X-ray structure and IR and 31P solid state NMR spectroscopic studies of copper(I) thiocyanate adducts with bulky monodentate tertiary phosphine ligands
Graham A. Bowmaker , John V. Hanna , Robert D. Hart , Peter C. Healy , Scott P. King , Fabio Marchetti , Claudio Pettinari , Brian W. Skelton , Aurel Tabacaru and Allan H. White.
Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 7513-7525. DOI:10.1039/C2DT30579H

Titanium phosphate glass microspheres for bone tissue engineering
Nilay J. Lakhkar, Jeong-Hui Park, Nicola J. Mordan, Vehid Salih, Ivan B. Wall, Hae-Won Kim, Scott P. King, John V. Hanna, Richard A. Martin, Owen Addison, J.F.W. Mosselmans, Jonathan C. Knowles.
Acta Biomaterialia, 2012, 8, 4181–4190. DOI:10.1016/j.actbio.2012.07.023

Oligo-nuclear silver thiocyanate complexes with monodentate tertiary phosphine ligands, including novel ‘cubane’ and ‘step’ tetramer forms of AgSCN:PR3 (1:1)4
Graham A. Bowmaker , Corrado Di Nicola , Effendy , John V. Hanna , Peter C. Healy , Scott P. King , Fabio Marchetti , Claudio Pettinari , Ward T. Robinson , Brian W. Skelton , Alexandre N. Sobolev , Aurel Tăbăcaru and Allan H. White.
Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 277-291. DOI:10.1039/C2DT31853A

Structural study of Al2O3-Na2O-CaO-P2O5 bioactive glasses as a function of aluminium content
J.M. Smith, S. P. King , E. R. Barney, J. V. Hanna, R. J. Newport, and D. M. Pickup.
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013, 138, 034501. DOI:10.1063/1.4774330

Neutron diffraction and 11B solid state NMR studies of the crystal structure of B-doped mullite
Hanna Lührs, Scott P. King, John V. Hanna, Hartmut Schneider, and Reinhard X. Fischer.
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 2013, 228,457-466, DOI:10.1524/zkri.2013.1595

Ambient and high-pressure synthesis, composition, and crystal structure of B-mullites
H. Lührs, S. Soellradl, S. P. King, J. V. Hanna, J. Konzett, R. X. Fischer, and H. Schneider.
Cryst. Res.Technol, 2013, DOI:10.1002/crat.201300210


Conference Talks

'Multinuclear Solid State NMR Investigation into Speciation and Structure of Aluminium Doped Phosphate Bioglasses', Presented at the BRSG Christmas Meeting: Advances in Magnetic Resonance, Institute of Physics, Dec 2011

'A Multinuclear Solid-State NMR Study of Bioactive Glasses', Presented at Bruker Users' Meeting, Solid State NMR Seminar, Hilton Hotel Coventry, Tuesday 13th November 2012.


Posters Presented

'Exploiting the Rich Information Content in Solid-State NMR spectra to provide a New Insight into the Structure of Disordered Materials.' RSC NMR Discussion Group Postgraduate Meeting 2011, University of Birmingham.

'Multinuclear Solid-State NMR Investigation into Speciation and Structure of Aluminium Doped Phosphate Bioactive Glasses'. RSC NMR Discussion Group Postgraduate Meeting 2012, University of Bristol.

'Multinuclear Solid-State NMR Investigation into Speciation and Structure of Aluminium Doped Phosphate Bioactive Glasses'. Solid-State NMR Symposium. Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry, July 15-19, 2012, Copper Mountain, Colorado.

'Multinuclear Solid-State NMR Investigation into Speciation and Structure of Aluminium and Gallium Doped Phosphate Bioactive Glasses'. 18th ISMAR Meeting 2013, , May 19-24 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


Teaching

I mark second year undergraduate X-ray Crystallography lab (experiment P4) and demonstrate in the first year undergraduate Electronics Workshop.

Neutron diffraction and 11B solid state NMR studies of the crystal structure of B-doped mullite
Hanna Lührs, Anatoliy Senyshyn, Scott P. King, John V. Hanna, Hartmut Schneider, and Reinhard X. Fischer.Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 2013, 228,457-466, DOI:10.1524/zkri.2013.1595

Scott King

Solid State NMR Group
Department of Physics
Univeristy of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL