solid state

There has been an increase in the interest in fluoride materials over the last decade. This interest has focused on multiferroic materials and kagome lattices, to name but a few areas. This thesis focuses on the synthesis and crystallographic characterisation of selected transit…

This thesis is presented as three independent sections, all dealing with the interaction of light with organic materials in the solid state. Section 1, consisting of chapters 1 and 2, deals with molecular gyroscopes: a class of amphidynamic materials. Molecular gyroscopes mimic …

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The research presented in this thesis is a collection of many different, yet connected, parts that stemmed from the development of a new alternative material intended to be utilised as anode material in solid oxide fuel cells. The main part is the research conducted in the devel…