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David A. Keen is affiliated with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry as subfields. The scientist's work also touches on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Geophysics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Magnetism in Coordination Complexes
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Glass Properties and Applications

David A. Keen's recent publications highlight key advances in metal-organic frameworks and crystallography. Notable papers include:

  • "Halogenated Metal-Organic Framework Glasses and Liquids," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Ionic liquid facilitated melting of the metal-organic framework ZIF-8," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Melting of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites," 2021, Nature Chemistry
  • "Mixed hierarchical local structure in a disordered metal-organic framework," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Total scattering and the pair distribution function in crystallography," 2020, Crystallography Reviews

The scientist frequently publishes in several key venues. These include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemical Science
  • Chemical Communications
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

David A. Keen's collaboration network is notable for repeated coauthorship with several researchers, including:

  • Thomas D. Bennett
  • Adam F. Sapnik
  • Celia Castillo-Blas
  • Philip A. Chater
  • Lauren McHugh

Best Publications

  • Magnetoresistance measurements on the magnetic semiconductor Nd0.5Pb0.5MnO3

    R.M. Kusters;J. Singleton;D.A. Keen;R. McGreevy

  • A comparison of various commonly used correlation functions for describing total scattering

    David A. Keen

  • Colossal Positive and Negative Thermal Expansion in the Framework Material Ag3[Co(CN)6]

    Andrew L. Goodwin;Mark Calleja;Michael J. Conterio;Martin T. Dove

  • RMCProfile: reverse Monte Carlo for polycrystalline materials.

    Matthew G Tucker;David A Keen;Martin T Dove;Andrew L Goodwin

  • Structural modelling of glasses using reverse Monte Carlo simulation

    D. A. Keen;D. A. Keen;R. L. McGreevy

  • Melt-Quenched Glasses of Metal-Organic Frameworks.

    Thomas Douglas Bennett;Yuanzheng Yue;Yuanzheng Yue;Peng Li;Ang Qiao

  • The crystallography of correlated disorder

    David A. Keen;Andrew L. Goodwin

  • Structure and Properties of an Amorphous Metal-Organic Framework

    Thomas D. Bennett;Andrew L. Goodwin;Andrew L. Goodwin;Martin T. Dove;David A. Keen;David A. Keen

  • The missing boundary in the phase diagram of PbZr1−xTixO3

    N. Zhang;N. Zhang;H. Yokota;A. M. Glazer;A. M. Glazer;Z. Ren

  • Large negative linear compressibility of Ag3[Co(CN)6]

    Andrew L. Goodwin;David A. Keen;Matthew G. Tucker

  • Gel-based morphological design of zirconium metal-organic frameworks.

    Bart Bueken;Niels Van Velthoven;Tom Willhammar;Tom Willhammar;Timothée Stassin

  • High-pressure polymorphism of the copper(I) halides: A neutron-diffraction study to ∼10 GPa

    S. Hull;D. A. Keen

  • Liquid metal–organic frameworks

    Romain Gaillac;Pluton Pullumbi;Kevin A. Beyer;Karena W. Chapman

  • Reversible pressure-induced amorphization of a zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-4)

    Thomas D. Bennett;Petra Simoncic;Petra Simoncic;Stephen A. Moggach;Fabia Gozzo

  • Pressure-induced phase transitions in AgCl, AgBr, and AgI

    S. Hull;D. A. Keen

  • Ball-milling-induced amorphization of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) for the irreversible trapping of iodine.

    Thomas D. Bennett;Paul J. Saines;David A. Keen;Jin-Chong Tan

  • Facile Mechanosynthesis of Amorphous Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks

    Thomas D. Bennett;Shuai Cao;Jin Chong Tan;David A. Keen

  • Metal-organic framework glasses with permanent accessible porosity.

    Chao Zhou;Louis Longley;Andraž Krajnc;Glen J. Smales

  • Negative thermal expansion in ZrW2O8: mechanisms, rigid unit modes, and neutron total scattering.

    Matthew G. Tucker;Matthew G. Tucker;Andrew L. Goodwin;Martin T. Dove;David A. Keen;David A. Keen

  • Nanoporous Structure and Medium-Range Order in Synthetic Amorphous Calcium Carbonate

    Andrew L. Goodwin;F. Marc Michel;Brian L. Phillips;David A. Keen;David A. Keen

  • SXD – the single-crystal diffractometer at the ISIS spallation neutron source

    David A. Keen;Matthias J. Gutmann;Chick C. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew G. Tucker
Matthew G. Tucker Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Martin T. Dove
Martin T. Dove Sichuan University
Andrew L. Goodwin
Andrew L. Goodwin University of Oxford
Thomas D. Bennett
Thomas D. Bennett University of Cambridge
Yuanzheng Yue
Yuanzheng Yue Aalborg University
William Hayes
William Hayes University of Oxford
Anthony K. Cheetham
Anthony K. Cheetham University of Cambridge
Andrey Kovalevsky
Andrey Kovalevsky Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Paul Langan
Paul Langan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Paul A. Midgley
Paul A. Midgley University of Cambridge

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