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Overview

Christopher L. Cahill is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with significant contributions to materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics of Cahill's work include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, radioactive element chemistry and processing, crystallography and molecular interactions, perovskite materials and applications, and metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications.

Cahill has an extensive publication record, particularly in the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Among recent papers authored in collaboration with other researchers are:

  • Low-Dimensional Hybrid Indium/Antimony Halide Perovskites: Supramolecular Assembly and Electronic Properties, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Supramolecular assembly of lanthanide-2,3,5,6-tetrafluoroterephthalic acid coordination polymers via fluorine⋯fluorine interactions: a platform for luminescent detection of Fe3+ and nitroaromatic compounds, 2020, New Journal of Chemistry
  • Structural, spectroscopic, and computational evaluations of cation-cation and halogen bonding interactions in heterometallic uranyl hybrid materials, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
  • Structural Diversity of Lanthanide 3-Nitrotrispyrazolylborates: Tunable Nuclearity and Intra-Ligand Charge Transfer Sensitization of Visible and NIR Ln3+ Emission, 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Pb-Oxo Interactions in Uranyl Hybrid Materials: A Combined Experimental and Computational Analysis of Bonding and Spectroscopic Properties, 2021, Inorganic Chemistry

Cahill frequently collaborates with other scientists, including Benjamin W. Walusiak, Jordan A. Herder, Aaron D. Nicholas, Mark H. Schofield, and Christopher H. Hossack.

Best Publications

  • Homo- and heterometallic coordination polymers from the f elements

    Christopher L. Cahill;Christopher L. Cahill;Daniel T. de Lill;Mark Frisch

  • Uranyl bearing hybrid materials: synthesis, speciation, and solid-state structures.

    Michael B. Andrews;Christopher L. Cahill

  • Exploring lanthanide luminescence in metal-organic frameworks: synthesis, structure, and guest-sensitized luminescence of a mixed europium/terbium-adipate framework and a terbium-adipate framework.

    Daniel T. de Lill;§ and Ana de Bettencourt-Dias;Christopher L. Cahill

  • Magnetic and structural properties of nickel zinc ferrite nanoparticles synthesized at room temperature

    Shannon A. Morrison;Christopher L. Cahill;Everett E. Carpenter;Scott Calvin

  • Toward templated metal-organic frameworks: synthesis, structures, thermal properties, and luminescence of three novel lanthanide-adipate frameworks.

    Daniel T. de Lill;Noel S. Gunning;Christopher L. Cahill

  • Syntheses, structures and fluorescent properties of two novel coordination polymers in the U-Cu-H3pdc system.

    Mark Frisch;Christopher L. Cahill;Christopher L. Cahill

  • Crystal Engineering with the Uranyl Cation II. Mixed Aliphatic Carboxylate/Aromatic Pyridyl Coordination Polymers: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Sensitized Luminescence

    Lauren A. Borkowski;Christopher L. Cahill

  • Synthesis, structure and fluorescent studies of novel uranium coordination polymers in the pyridinedicarboxylic acid system

    Mark Frisch;Christopher L. Cahill;Christopher L. Cahill

  • Mica surfaces stabilize pentavalent uranium.

    Eugene S Ilton;Anca Haiduc;Christopher L Cahill;Andrew R Felmy

  • Affinity of the highly preorganized ligand PDA (1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-dicarboxylic acid) for large metal ions of higher charge. A crystallographic and thermodynamic study of PDA complexes of thorium(IV) and the uranyl(VI) ion.

    Nolan E. Dean;Robert D. Hancock;Christopher L. Cahill;Mark Frisch

  • Topological Evolution in Uranyl Dicarboxylates: Synthesis and Structures of One-Dimensional UO2(C6H8O4)(H2O)2 and Three-Dimensional UO2(C6H8O4)

    Lauren A. Borkowski;Christopher L. Cahill

  • Influence of Dynamical Conditions on the Reduction of UVI at the Magnetite−Solution Interface

    Eugene S Ilton;Jean-François Boily;Edgar C Buck;Frances N Skomurski

  • Crystal Engineering with the Uranyl Cation I. Aliphatic Carboxylate Coordination Polymers: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Fluorescent Properties

    Lauren A. Borkowski;Christopher L. Cahill

  • A novel 3-dimensional open framework sulfide based upon the [In10S20]10- supertetrahedron : DMA-InS-SB1

    Christopher L. Cahill;Younghee Ko;John B. Parise

  • Uranyl sensitization of samarium (III) luminescence in a two-dimensional coordination polymer

    Karah E. Knope;Daniel T. de Lill;Clare E. Rowland;Paula M. Cantos

  • Lanthanide-2,3,5,6-Tetrabromoterephthalic Acid Metal–Organic Frameworks: Evolution of Halogen···Halogen Interactions across the Lanthanide Series and Their Potential as Selective Bifunctional Sensors for the Detection of Fe3+, Cu2+, and Nitroaromatics

    Jermaine A. Smith;Marvadeen A. Singh-Wilmot;Korey P. Carter;Christopher L. Cahill

  • On the formation of framework indium sulfides

    Christopher L. Cahill;J. B. Parise

  • Synthesis, structures, and luminescent properties of uranyl terpyridine aromatic carboxylate coordination polymers.

    Sonia G. Thangavelu;Michael B. Andrews;Simon J. A. Pope;Christopher L. Cahill

  • Synthesis and structure of MnGe4S10.(C6H14N2).3H2O : A novel sulfide framework analogous to zeolite Li-A(BW)

    Christopher L. Cahill;John B. Parise

  • An unusually high thermal stability within a novel lanthanide 1,3,5-cyclohexanetricarboxylate framework: synthesis, structure, and thermal data

    Daniel T. de Lill;Christopher L. Cahill;Christopher L. Cahill

Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Parise
John B. Parise Stony Brook University
Peter C. Burns
Peter C. Burns University of Notre Dame
Jochen Autschbach
Jochen Autschbach University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Simon J. A. Pope
Simon J. A. Pope Cardiff University
Sergey V. Krivovichev
Sergey V. Krivovichev Russian Academy of Sciences
Ray J. Butcher
Ray J. Butcher Howard University
Everett E. Carpenter
Everett E. Carpenter Virginia Commonwealth University
Vincent G. Harris
Vincent G. Harris Northeastern University
Andrew R. Felmy
Andrew R. Felmy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
George E. Harlow
George E. Harlow American Museum of Natural History

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