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Overview

Ronald I. Smith is affiliated with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with extensive work in materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. The scientist has contributed to the study of advanced battery materials and technologies, crystallization and solubility studies, and the magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials.

Their publication record spans numerous subfields, including electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, condensed matter physics, and inorganic chemistry. The research topics covered include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics

Ronald I. Smith has coauthored publications with frequent collaborators such as Nicholas P. Funnell, Andrew G. P. Maloney, Cameron J. G. Wilson, Simon Parsons, and Abbie C. Mclaughlin. Each of these coauthors has worked closely with Smith on multiple occasions, indicating robust and ongoing research partnerships.

Notable recent papers by Ronald I. Smith include:

  • A Series of Ternary Metal Chloride Superionic Conductors for High-Performance All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries, 2022, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Enhanced Oxygen Ion Conductivity and Mechanistic Understanding in Ba3Nb1-xVxMoO8.5, 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • Detection of trapped molecular O2 in a charged Li-rich cathode by Neutron PDF, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Li1.5La1.5MO6 (M = W6+, Te6+) as a new series of lithium-rich double perovskites for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Mechanochemical Synthesis and Structure of Lithium Tetrahaloaluminates, LiAlX4 (X = Cl, Br, I): A Family of Li-Ion Conducting Ternary Halides, 2021, ACS Materials Letters

Smith's frequent publication venues demonstrate consistency in specific journals and databases associated with materials science and chemistry. These venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A

The scientist's research contributions integrate rigorous crystallographic analysis, synthesis, and characterization techniques applied to functional materials relevant to energy storage and solid-state chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Er2Ti2O7: Evidence of quantum order by disorder in a frustrated antiferromagnet

    J. D. M. Champion;J. D. M. Champion;J. D. M. Champion;M. J. Harris;P. C. W. Holdsworth;A. S. Wills

  • Rietveld structure refinement of precipitated carbonate apatite using neutron diffraction data

    Rory M Wilson;James C Elliott;Stephanie E.P Dowker;Ron I Smith

  • Real time observation of the hydrothermal crystallization of barium titanate using in situ neutron powder diffraction.

    Richard I. Walton;Franck Millange;Ronald I. Smith;Thomas C. Hansen

  • Structural stability of the synthetic thermoelectric ternary and nickel-substituted tetrahedrite phases

    Tristan Barbier;Pierric Lemoine;Stéphanie Gascoin;Oleg I. Lebedev

  • Structural variations and cation distributions in Mn3−xCoxO4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 3) dense ceramics using neutron diffraction data

    H. Bordeneuve;C. Tenailleau;S. Guillemet-Fritsch;R. Smith

  • Magnetic properties of pure and diamagnetically doped jarosites: Model kagome antiferromagnets with variable coverage of the magnetic lattice

    A. S. Wills;A. Harrison;C. Ritter;R. I. Smith

  • A Series of Ternary Metal Chloride Superionic Conductors for High‐Performance All‐Solid‐State Lithium Batteries

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  • Structure and electrical properties of oxygen-deficient hexagonal BaTiO3

    Derek C. Sinclair;Janet M. S. Skakle;Finlay D. Morrison;Ronald I. Smith

  • Reorientation of magnetic dipoles at the antiferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition of Bi 1-x Nd x FeO 3 (0.15≤x≤0.25)

    Igor Levin;Sarah Karimi;Virgil Provenzano;Cindi L. Dennis

  • Displacive Phase Transitions and Magnetic Structures in Nd-Substituted BiFeO3

    I. Levin;M. G. Tucker;H. Wu;V. Provenzano

  • Oxide Ion Conductivity in the Hexagonal Perovskite Derivative Ba3MoNbO8.5.

    Sacha Fop;Janet M. S. Skakle;Abbie C. McLaughlin;Paul A. Connor

  • Solid solubilities of (La Nd,)2(Zr,Ti)2O7 phases deduced by neutron diffraction

    Elizabeth J. Harvey;Karl R. Whittle;Gregory R. Lumpkin;Ronald I. Smith

  • Crystal structures and phase transition in the system SrTiO3–La2/3TiO3

    Christopher J. Howard;Gregory R. Lumpkin;Gregory R. Lumpkin;Ronald I. Smith;Zhaoming Zhang

  • Topotactic Nitrogen Transfer: Structural Transformation in Cobalt Molybdenum Nitrides

    Stuart M. Hunter;David Mckay;Ronald I. Smith;Justin S. J. Hargreaves

  • In-situ study of the R3̅ to R3̅c phase transition in the ilmenite-hematite solid solution using time-of-flight neutron powder diffraction

    Richard J. Harrison;Simon A.T. Redfern;Ron I. Smith

  • The role of copper in the thermal conductivity of thermoelectric oxychalcogenides: do lone pairs matter?

    Paz Vaqueiro;R. A. R. Al Orabi;Son D. N. Luu;Son D. N. Luu;Gabin Guelou

  • The crystallography of the cubic to orthorhombic transformation in the alloy AuCu

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  • Ruthenium( V) Oxides from Low-Temperature Hydrothermal Synthesis**

    Craig I. Hiley;Martin R. Lees;Janet M. Fisher;David Thompsett

  • Stress-induced large Curie temperature enhancement in Fe 64 Ni 36 Invar alloy

    Pedro Gorria;David Martínez-Blanco;María J. Pérez;Jesús A. Blanco

  • Investigations of the superconducting states of noncentrosymmetric LaPdSi3 and LaPtSi3

    M. Smidman;A. D. Hillier;D. T. Adroja;D. T. Adroja;Martin R. Lees

  • Stability of the Jahn-Teller effect and magnetic study of LaMnO 3 under pressure

    L. Pinsard-Gaudart;J. Rodríguez-Carvajal;A. Daoud-Aladine;I. Goncharenko;I. Goncharenko

  • Cation ordering in Li containing garnets: synthesis and structural characterisation of the tetragonal system, Li7La3Sn2O12

    JD Percival;E Kendrick;RI Smith;PR Slater

  • The upgraded Polaris powder diffractometer at the ISIS neutron source.

    R. I. Smith;S. Hull;Matthew G. Tucker;Helen Y. Playford

  • Invar effect in fcc- FeCu solid solutions

    Pedro Gorria;David Martínez-Blanco;Jesús A. Blanco;Antonio Hernando

  • High Pressure Experimental and DFT-D Structural Studies of the Energetic Material FOX-7

    Steven Hunter;Paul L. Coster;Alistair J. Davidson;David I. A. Millar

  • Enhanced thermoelectric performance in TiNiSn-based half-Heuslers

    Ruth Amy Downie;Donald MacLaren;Ron Smith;Jan-Willem Bos

Frequent Co-Authors

Duncan H. Gregory
Duncan H. Gregory University of Glasgow
Kevin S. Knight
Kevin S. Knight University College London
Anthony R. West
Anthony R. West University of Sheffield
Richard I. Walton
Richard I. Walton University of Warwick
Martin R. Lees
Martin R. Lees University of Warwick
Peter R. Slater
Peter R. Slater University of Birmingham
David A. Keen
David A. Keen Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Dermot O'Hare
Dermot O'Hare University of Oxford
Stephen J. Skinner
Stephen J. Skinner Imperial College London
William I. F. David
William I. F. David University of Oxford

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