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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 1998 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

J. Paul Attfield is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as electronic, optical and magnetic materials, materials chemistry, condensed matter physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including advanced condensed matter physics, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, multiferroics and related materials, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, thermal expansion and ionic conductivity, fuel cells and related materials, and gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors.

Their recent publications include:

  • Efficient and durable seawater electrolysis with a V 2O 3-protected catalyst, 2024, Science Advances
  • Metal nitrides for seawater electrolysis, 2023, Chemical Society Reviews
  • An ultra-low Pt metal nitride electrocatalyst for sustainable seawater hydrogen production, 2023, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Surface Functionalized Sensors for Humidity-Independent Gas Detection, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • A Surface-Oxide-Rich Activation Layer (SOAL) on Ni2Mo3N for a Rapid and Durable Oxygen Evolution Reaction, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with J. Paul Attfield include Minghui Yang, Elena Solana-Madruga, Ye Zhu, C. Ritter, and Haichuan Guo.

Their research contributions have been published predominantly in venues such as Physical Review B, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, The Cambridge Structural Database, and Nature Communications.

Over the course of their career, J. Paul Attfield has been recognized with awards including the Corday-Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1998 and has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Cation disorder and size effects in magnetoresistive manganese oxide perovskites.

    Rodriguez-Martinez Lm;Attfield Jp

  • Expanding frontiers in materials chemistry and physics with multiple anions

    Hiroshi Kageyama;Katsuro Hayashi;Kazuhiko Maeda;J. Paul Attfield

  • Charge order and three-site distortions in the Verwey structure of magnetite

    Mark S. Senn;Jon P. Wright;J. Paul Attfield

  • Colossal negative thermal expansion in BiNiO3 induced by intermetallic charge transfer

    Masaki Azuma;Masaki Azuma;Wei-tin Chen;Wei-tin Chen;Hayato Seki;Michal Czapski

  • Zirconium nitride catalysts surpass platinum for oxygen reduction

    Yao Yuan;Jiacheng Wang;Samira Adimi;Hangjia Shen

  • Charge ordered structure of magnetite Fe 3 O 4 below the Verwey transition

    Jon P. Wright;J. Paul Attfield;Paolo G. Radaelli

  • Long range charge ordering in magnetite below the Verwey transition.

    J. P. Wright;J. P. Attfield;P. G. Radaelli

  • Cation disorder and the metal-insulator transition temperature in manganese oxide perovskites

    Lide M. Rodriguez-Martinez;J. Paul Attfield

  • Structure and microstructure of the ferromagnetic superconductor RuSr 2 GdCu 2 O 8

    Abbie McLaughlin;W Zhou;J P Attfield;A N Fitch

  • Cation effects in doped La2CuO4 superconductors

    J. P. Attfield;A. L. Kharlanov;J. A. McAllister

  • Anion order in perovskite oxynitrides

    Minghui Yang;Judith Oró-Solé;Jennifer A. Rodgers;Ana Belén Jorge

  • Cation-Size-Mismatch Tuning of Photoluminescence in Oxynitride Phosphors

    Wei Ting Chen;Hwo Shuenn Sheu;Ru Shi Liu;J. Paul Attfield

  • Enhanced photoluminescence emission and thermal stability from introduced cation disorder in phosphors

    Chun Che Lin;Chun Che Lin;Yi Ting Tsai;Hannah E. Johnston;Mu Huai Fang

  • Disorder-induced orbital ordering in L 0.7 M 0.3 MnO 3 perovskites

    Lide M. Rodríguez-Martínez;J. Paul Attfield

  • Pressure-induced spin-state transition in BiCoO3.

    Kengo Oka;Masaki Azuma;Wei-tin Chen;Wei-tin Chen;Hitoshi Yusa

  • Solid State Sciences: Preface

    Franck Tessier;J. Paul Attfield;Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier;Shinichi Kikkawa

  • Metal nitrides for seawater electrolysis.

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  • A simple approach to lattice effects in conducting perovskite-type oxides

    J. Paul Attfield

  • An ionothermally prepared S = 1/2 vanadium oxyfluoride kagome lattice

    Farida H. Aidoudi;David W. Aldous;Richard J. Goff;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • Weak charge-lattice coupling requires reinterpretation of stripes of charge order in La1-xCaxMnO3.

    J. C. Loudon;S. Cox;A. J. Williams;J. P. Attfield

  • Gapless Spin Liquid Ground State in the S=1/2 Vanadium Oxyfluoride Kagome Antiferromagnet [NH4]2[C7H14N][V7O6F18]

    L. Clark;J. C. Orain;F. Bert;M. A. De Vries

  • Cation-size control of structural phase transitions in tin perovskites

    Elizabeth H Mountstevens;J Paul Attfield;Simon A T Redfern

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuichi Shimakawa
Yuichi Shimakawa Kyoto University
Clemens Ritter
Clemens Ritter University of Edinburgh
Minghui Yang
Minghui Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Takashi Saito
Takashi Saito Nagoya City University
Miguel A. G. Aranda
Miguel A. G. Aranda University of Malaga
Pascal Manuel
Pascal Manuel Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Masaki Azuma
Masaki Azuma Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ru-Shi Liu
Ru-Shi Liu National Taiwan University
Hwo-Shuenn Sheu
Hwo-Shuenn Sheu National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
Mark G. Blamire
Mark G. Blamire University of Cambridge

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