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J. A. Gareth Williams

J. A. Gareth Williams

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Chemistry

D-Index
86
Citations
21988
World Ranking
2598
National Ranking
133

Overview

J. A. Gareth Williams is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and has made contributions primarily in the field of Materials Science, with a strong focus on Materials Chemistry. Their published work spans subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Oncology.

Their research covers several specialized topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Williams has published extensively in several scientific journals, with notable frequent venues being:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Chemical Science
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Recent publications highlight a focus on luminescent materials, organometallic complexes, and photophysical properties of coordination compounds. Representative papers include:

  • Long-Lived Circularly Polarized Phosphorescence in Helicene-NHC Rhenium(I) Complexes: The Influence of Helicene, Halogen, and Stereochemistry on Emission Properties (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Extended ligand conjugation and dinuclearity as a route to efficient platinum-based near-infrared (NIR) triplet emitters and solution-processed NIR-OLEDs (2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C)
  • Exceptionally fast radiative decay of a dinuclear platinum complex through thermally activated delayed fluorescence (2021, Chemical Science)
  • The role of dinuclearity in promoting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) in cyclometallated, N^C^N-coordinated platinum(II) complexes (2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry C)
  • Dual-emission luminescence thermometry using LaGaO3:Cr3+, Nd3+ phosphors (2022, Journal of Materials Chemistry C)

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Dmitry S. Yufit
  • Nicolas Vanthuyne
  • Jeanne Crassous
  • Amit Sil
  • David E. Herbert

Best Publications

  • Non-radiative deactivation of the excited states of europium, terbium and ytterbium complexes by proximate energy-matched OH, NH and CH oscillators: an improved luminescence method for establishing solution hydration states

    Andrew Beeby;Ian M. Clarkson;Rachel S. Dickins;Stephen Faulkner

  • Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Platinum

    J. A. Gareth Williams

  • Optimising the luminescence of platinum(II) complexes and their application in organic light emitting devices (OLEDs)

    J.A. Gareth Williams;Stéphanie Develay;David L. Rochester;Lisa Murphy

  • Light-emitting devices based on organometallic platinum complexes as emitters

    Jan Kalinowski;Valeria Fattori;Massimo Cocchi;J.A. Gareth Williams

  • Lighting the way to see inside the live cell with luminescent transition metal complexes

    Elizabeth Baggaley;Julia A. Weinstein;J.A. Gareth Williams

  • An Alternative Route to Highly Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes: Cyclometalation with N∧C∧N-Coordinating Dipyridylbenzene Ligands

    J A Gareth Williams;Andrew Beeby;E Stephen Davies;Julia A Weinstein

  • The coordination chemistry of dipyridylbenzene: N-deficient terpyridine or panacea for brightly luminescent metal complexes?

    J. A. Gareth Williams

  • Getting excited about lanthanide complexation chemistry

    David Parker;J. A. Gareth Williams

  • Time-resolved and two-photon emission imaging microscopy of live cells with inert platinum complexes

    Stanley W. Botchway;Mirren Charnley;John W. Haycock;Anthony W. Parker

  • Controlling Emission Energy, Self-Quenching, and Excimer Formation in Highly Luminescent N∧C∧N-Coordinated Platinum(II) Complexes

    Sarah J Farley;David L Rochester;Amber L Thompson;Judith A K Howard

  • Light-emitting iridium complexes with tridentate ligands

    J. A. Gareth Williams;Andrew J. Wilkinson;Victoria L. Whittle

  • Luminescence imaging microscopy and lifetime mapping using kinetically stable lanthanide(III) complexes.

    Andrew Beeby;Stanley W. Botchway;Ian M. Clarkson;Stephen Faulkner

  • Improving the Performance of Pt(II) Complexes for Blue Light Emission by Enhancing the Molecular Rigidity

    A. F. Rausch;L. Murphy;J. A. G. Williams;Hartmut Yersin

  • Mixing of Excimer and Exciplex Emission: A New Way to Improve White Light Emitting Organic Electrophosphorescent Diodes

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  • Luminescent sensors for pH, pO2, halide and hydroxide ions using phenanthridine as a photosensitiser in macrocyclic europium and terbium complexes

    David Parker;P. Kanthi Senanayake;J. A. Gareth Williams

  • Phosphorescence vs Fluorescence in Cyclometalated Platinum(II) and Iridium(III) Complexes of (Oligo)thienylpyridines

    Dmitry N Kozhevnikov;Valery N Kozhevnikov;Marsel Z Shafikov;Anton M Prokhorov;Anton M Prokhorov

  • Porphyrin sensitization of circularly polarised near-IR lanthanide luminescence: enhanced emission with nucleic acid binding

    Andrew Beeby;Rachel S. Dickins;Simon FitzGerald;Linda J. Govenlock

  • Efficient sensitization of europium, ytterbium, and neodymium functionalized tris-dipicolinate lanthanide complexes through tunable charge-transfer excited states.

    Anthony D’Aléo;Alexandre Picot;Andrew Beeby;J. A. Gareth Williams

  • Synthesis, Time‐Resolved Luminescence, NMR Spectroscopy, Circular Dichroism and Circularly Polarised Luminescence Studies of Enantiopure Macrocyclic Lanthanide Tetraamide Complexes

    Rachel S. Dickins;Judith A. K. Howard;Christine L. Maupin;Janet M. Moloney

  • Excited state surfaces in density functional theory: a new twist on an old problem.

    Paul Wiggins;J. A. Gareth Williams;David J. Tozer

  • Long-lived metal complexes open up microsecond lifetime imaging microscopy under multiphoton excitation: from FLIM to PLIM and beyond

    Elizabeth Baggaley;Stanley W. Botchway;John W. Haycock;Hayley Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

David Parker
David Parker Durham University
Loïc Toupet
Loïc Toupet University of Rennes
Andrew Beeby
Andrew Beeby Durham University
Jeanne Crassous
Jeanne Crassous University of Rennes
Jochen Autschbach
Jochen Autschbach University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Dominique Roberto
Dominique Roberto University of Milan
Duncan W. Bruce
Duncan W. Bruce University of York
Stephen Faulkner
Stephen Faulkner University of Oxford
Judith A. K. Howard
Judith A. K. Howard Durham University
Christian Roussel
Christian Roussel Aix-Marseille University

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