Scientific Interests & Expertise:

Chemistry: Crystal-chemistry of vanadium oxide open frameworks; Structure-properties relationship in metal oxide and metal phosphate materials; Structure and properties of battery materials; Nano-crystalline materials; Hydrothermal synthesis; Copper(I) π-complexes.

Crystallography: Crystal structure from powder and single crystal data; Structure determination from powder data; Rietveld refinement; Twinning; Disordered and Modulated Structures; Crystallographic Databases; CIF

Computing: Crystallographic software Crystal Structure Determination for Widows (WinCSD) (with L. Akselrud, Y. Grin and V. Pecharsky) for crystal structure determination (including incommensurate modulated and composite structure) and refinement from either powder or single crystal diffraction.