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  • 2008 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Stephen Faulkner is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has focused their research primarily in the field of Materials Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist has a significant publication record with various frequent coauthors such as Kirsten E. Christensen, Thomas Just Sørensen, Carlson Alexander, Alan M. Kenwright, and Bart Cornelissen. These collaborations reflect a broad and interdisciplinary research network.

Faulkner's recent papers cover diverse topics in chemistry and materials science. Notable publications include:

  • Understanding catalytic synergy in dinuclear polymerization catalysts for sustainable polymers (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Luminescent Lanthanides in Biorelated Applications: From Molecules to Nanoparticles and Diagnostic Probes to Therapeutics (2025, Chemical Reviews)
  • Two Color Imaging of Different Hypoxia Levels in Cancer Cells (2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Chelating chloride using binuclear lanthanide complexes in water (2022, Chemical Science)
  • Cell-permeable lanthanide-platinum(iv) anti-cancer prodrugs (2021, Dalton Transactions)

Faulkner frequently publishes in several scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database, Dalton Transactions, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, and Nature Chemistry.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics within their field. Main topics include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications

In 2008, Stephen Faulkner was awarded the Corday-Morgan Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).

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

  • Lanthanide Complexes for Luminescence Imaging Applications

    Stephen Faulkner;Simon J. A. Pope;Benjamin P. Burton-Pye

  • Pure Shift 1H NMR: A Resolution of the Resolution Problem?†

    Juan A. Aguilar;Stephen Faulkner;Mathias Nilsson;Gareth A. Morris

  • Lanthanide-Sensitized Lanthanide Luminescence: Terbium-Sensitized Ytterbium Luminescence in a Trinuclear Complex

    Stephen Faulkner;Simon J. A. Pope

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

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

  • Self-Assembly of Heterobimetallic d-f Hybrid Complexes: Sensitization of Lanthanide Luminescence by d-Block Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Excited States

    Simon J. A. Pope;Benjamin J. Coe;Stephen Faulkner;Elena V. Bichenkova

  • Long wavelength sensitizers for europium(III) luminescence based on acridone derivatives

    Anjum Dadabhoy;Stephen Faulkner;Peter G. Sammes

  • Sensitized near-infrared emission from complexes of YbIII, NdIII and ErIII by energy-transfer from covalently attached PtII-based antenna units.

    Nail M. Shavaleev;Lucy P. Moorcraft;Simon J. A. Pope;Zöe R. Bell

  • Luminescent PtII(bipyridyl)(diacetylide) Chromophores with Pendant Binding Sites as Energy Donors for Sensitised Near-Infrared Emission from Lanthanides: Structures and Photophysics of PtII/LnIII Assemblies

    Tanya K. Ronson;Theodore Lazarides;Harry Adams;Simon J. A. Pope

  • Structural and photophysical properties of coordination networks combining [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2- anions and lanthanide(III) cations: rates of photoinduced Ru-to-lanthanide energy transfer and sensitized near-infrared luminescence.

    Graham M. Davies;Simon J. A. Pope;Harry Adams;Stephen Faulkner

  • Luminescence from neodymium(III) in solution

    Andrew Beeby;Stephen Faulkner

  • Reversible Luminescence Switching of a Redox-Active Ferrocene–Europium Dyad

    Manuel Tropiano;Nathan L. Kilah;Michael Morten;Habibur Rahman

  • Sensitised luminescence in lanthanide containing arrays and d-f hybrids.

    Stephen Faulkner;Louise S. Natrajan;William S. Perry;Daniel Sykes

  • Sensitised near-infrared emission from lanthanides using a covalently-attached Pt(II) fragment as an antenna group.

    Nail M. Shavaleev;Lucy P. Moorcraft;Simon J. A. Pope;Zoee R. Bell

  • Sensitised luminescence from phenanthridine appended lanthanide complexes: analysis of triplet mediated energy transfer processes in terbium, europium and neodymium complexes

    Andrew Beeby;Stephen Faulkner;David Parker;J. A. Gareth Williams

  • On the mechanism of d-f energy transfer in RuII/LnIII and OsII/LnIII dyads: Dexter-type energy transfer over a distance of 20 A.

    Theodore Lazarides;Daniel Sykes;Stephen Faulkner;Andrea Barbieri

  • Visible-light sensitisation of near-infrared luminescence from Yb(III), Nd(III) and Er(III) complexes of 3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)tetrazine

    Nail M. Shavaleev;Simon J. A. Pope;Zöe R. Bell;Stephen Faulkner

  • Structural and Photophysical Properties of Coordination Networks Combining [Ru(Bpym)(CN)4]2- or [{Ru(CN)4}2(μ-bpym)]4- Anions (bpym = 2,2‘-Bipyrimidine) with Lanthanide(III) Cations: Sensitized Near-Infrared Luminescence from Yb(III), Nd(III), and Er(III) Following Ru-to-Lanthanide Energy Transfer

    Juan Manuel Herrera;Simon J A Pope;Harry Adams;Stephen Faulkner

  • Structural and near-IR photophysical studies on ternary lanthanide complexes containing poly(pyrazolyl)borate and 1,3-diketonate ligands.

    Graham M. Davies;Graham M. Davies;Rebecca J. Aarons;Graham R. Motson;John C. Jeffery

  • Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of a prototype single molecule dual imaging agent comprising a heterobimetallic rhenium-gadolinium complex

    Thelma Koullourou;Louise S. Natrajan;Hiren Bhavsar;Simon J.A. Pope

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon J. A. Pope
Simon J. A. Pope Cardiff University
Alan M. Kenwright
Alan M. Kenwright Durham University
Michael D. Ward
Michael D. Ward New York University
Paul D. Beer
Paul D. Beer University of Oxford
David Parker
David Parker Durham University
Harry Adams
Harry Adams University of Sheffield
Andrew Beeby
Andrew Beeby Durham University
Jason J. Davis
Jason J. Davis University of Oxford
J. A. Gareth Williams
J. A. Gareth Williams Durham University
John C. Jeffery
John C. Jeffery University of Bristol

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