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Floriana Tuna is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Materials Science, with a focus on several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry, and Catalysis.

The research topics covered in their work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

Floriana Tuna has frequently published in various scientific venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Nature Communications

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Direct photo-oxidation of methane to methanol over a mono-iron hydroxyl site" (2022, Nature Materials)
  • "High Ammonia Adsorption in MFM-300 Materials: Dynamics and Charge Transfer in Host-Guest Binding" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Atomically Dispersed Copper Sites in a Metal-Organic Framework for Reduction of Nitrogen Dioxide" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Quantitative Electro-Reduction of CO2 to Liquid Fuel over Electro-Synthesized Metal-Organic Frameworks" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Electro-reduction of carbon dioxide at low over-potential at a metal-organic framework decorated cathode" (2020, Nature Communications)

The scientist has collaborated extensively with colleagues such as:

  • Eric J. L. McInnes
  • Alena M. Sheveleva
  • Sihai Yang
  • Martin Schröder
  • Yinlin Chen

Best Publications

  • Magnetic relaxation pathways in lanthanide single-molecule magnets

    Robin J. Blagg;Liviu Ungur;Floriana Tuna;James Speak

  • Single Pyramid Magnets: Dy5 Pyramids with Slow Magnetic Relaxation to 40 K

    Robin J. Blagg;Christopher A. Muryn;Eric J. L. McInnes;Floriana Tuna

  • Engineering the coupling between molecular spin qubits by coordination chemistry

    Grigore A. Timco;Stefano Carretta;Filippo Troiani;Floriana Tuna

  • Limits on Intrinsic Magnetism in Graphene

    M. Sepioni;R. R. Nair;S. Rablen;J. Narayanan

  • Co-Ln mixed-metal phosphonate grids and cages as molecular magnetic refrigerants

    Yan Zhen Zheng;Marco Evangelisti;Floriana Tuna;Richard E P Winpenny

  • Lanthanide discs chill well and relax slowly

    Joseph W. Sharples;Yan Zhen Zheng;Floriana Tuna;Eric J L McInnes

  • The molecular basis of polysaccharide cleavage by lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

    Kristian E H Frandsen;Thomas J Simmons;Paul Dupree;Jens-Christian N. Poulsen

  • Molecular single-ion magnets based on lanthanides and actinides: Design considerations and new advances in the context of quantum technologies

    Simon G. McAdams;Ana Maria Ariciu;Andreas K. Kostopoulos;James P.S. Walsh

  • A dense metal-organic framework for enhanced magnetic refrigeration

    Giulia Lorusso;Joseph W. Sharples;Elias Palacios;Olivier Roubeau

  • A monometallic lanthanide bis(methanediide) single molecule magnet with a large energy barrier and complex spin relaxation behaviour

    Matthew Gregson;Nicholas F. Chilton;Ana Maria Ariciu;Floriana Tuna

  • Synthesis and Structure of a Terminal Uranium Nitride Complex

    David M. King;Floriana Tuna;Eric J. L. McInnes;Jonathan McMaster

  • Chemical Engineering of Molecular Qubits

    Christopher J. Wedge;G. A. Timco;E. T. Spielberg;R. E. George

  • A high anisotropy barrier in a sulfur-bridged organodysprosium single-molecule magnet.

    Floriana Tuna;Charlene A. Smith;Michael Bodensteiner;Liviu Ungur

  • Isolation and characterization of a uranium( VI )–nitride triple bond

    David M. King;Floriana Tuna;Eric J. L. McInnes;Jonathan McMaster

  • Toward Molecular 4f Single-Ion Magnet Qubits.

    Kasper Steen Pedersen;Ana-Maria Ariciu;Simon McAdams;Høgni Weihe

  • A modular design of molecular qubits to implement universal quantum gates

    Jesús Ferrando-Soria;Eufemio Moreno Pineda;Alessandro Chiesa;Antonio Fernandez

  • Direct photo-oxidation of methane to methanol over a mono-iron hydroxyl site

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  • Influence of the N-Bridging Ligand on Magnetic Relaxation in an Organometallic Dysprosium Single-Molecule Magnet

    Richard A. Layfield;Joseph J. W. McDouall;Scott A. Sulway;Floriana Tuna

  • Linking heterometallic rings for quantum information processing and amusement

    Grigore A. Timco;Thomas B. Faust;Floriana Tuna;Richard E. P. Winpenny

  • Synthesis of a Uranium(VI)-Carbene: Reductive Formation of Uranyl(V)-Methanides, Oxidative Preparation of a [R2C?U?O]2+ Analogue of the [O?U?O]2+ Uranyl Ion (R = Ph2PNSiMe3), and Comparison of the Nature of UIV?C, UV?C, and UVI?C Double Bonds

    David P. Mills;Oliver J. Cooper;Floriana Tuna;Eric J. L. McInnes

  • Reversible adsorption of nitrogen dioxide within a robust porous metal-organic framework

    Xue Han;Harry G. W. Godfrey;Lydia Briggs;Andrew J. Davies

  • Pentametallic lanthanide-alkoxide square-based pyramids: high energy barrier for thermal relaxation in a holmium single molecule magnet.

    Robin J. Blagg;Floriana Tuna;Eric J. L. McInnes;Richard E. P. Winpenny

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. P. Winpenny
Richard E. P. Winpenny University of Manchester
Eric J. L. McInnes
Eric J. L. McInnes University of Manchester
Grigore A. Timco
Grigore A. Timco University of Manchester
David Collison
David Collison University of Manchester
Stephen T. Liddle
Stephen T. Liddle University of Manchester
Christopher A. Muryn
Christopher A. Muryn University of Manchester
William Lewis
William Lewis University of Sydney
Marius Andruh
Marius Andruh University of Bucharest
Paul O'Brien
Paul O'Brien University of Manchester
Alexander J. Blake
Alexander J. Blake University of Nottingham

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