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Stuart Robert Batten

Stuart Robert Batten

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Chemistry
Australia
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
97
Citations
37184
World Ranking
1455
National Ranking
41

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Stuart Robert Batten is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and is an active researcher in the field of Materials Science. Their research primarily focuses on Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry, with further work in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Oncology, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main research topics covered by Stuart Robert Batten include:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Crystal structures of chemical compounds

Their publication record shows a consistent focus on crystallographic studies and material frameworks. They have contributed to the development and enhancement of multicomponent metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), particularly for low pressure liquid organic hydrogen carrier separations, published in major journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Angewandte Chemie in 2020.

Other notable papers include:

  • Mixed donor, phenanthroline photoactive MOFs with favourable CO2 selectivity (2020, Chemical Communications)
  • Coordination polymers of a bis-isophthalate bridging ligand with single molecule magnet behaviour of the CoII analogue (2020, Dalton Transactions)
  • Highly connected framework materials from flexible tetra-isophthalate ligands (2022, CrystEngComm)

Stuart Robert Batten frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CrystEngComm
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Collaborations have been central to Batten's research, with frequent coauthors including David R. Turner, Ali Y. Chahine, Alan L. Chaffee, Gregory P. Knowles, and Lauren K. Macreadie. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications, contributing to the depth and scope of the research.

Best Publications

  • Interpenetrating Nets: Ordered, Periodic Entanglement.

    Stuart R. Batten;Richard Robson

  • Terminology of metal–organic frameworks and coordination polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)

    Stuart Robert Batten;Neil R Champness;Xiao-Ming Chen;Javier Garcia-Martinez

  • Coordination Polymers: Design, Analysis and Application

    Stuart Robert Batten;Suzanne M Neville;David Roger Turner

  • Structure and magnetism of coordination polymers containing dicyanamide and tricyanomethanide

    Stuart R Batten;Keith S Murray

  • Topology of interpenetration

    Stuart R. Batten

  • Coordination polymers, metal-organic frameworks and the need for terminology guidelines

    Stuart Robert Batten;Neil R Champness;Xio-Ming Chen;Javier Garcia-Martinez

  • A Neutral 3D Copper Coordination Polymer Showing 1D Open Channels and the First Interpenetrating NbO‐Type Network

    Xian-He Bu;Ming-Liang Tong;Ho-Chol Chang;Susumu Kitagawa

  • Einander durchdringende Netze: geordnete, periodische Verschlingung

    Stuart R. Batten;Richard Robson

  • An Exceptional 54-Fold Interpenetrated Coordination Polymer with 103-srs Network Topology

    Hua Wu;Jin Yang;Zhong-Min Su;Stuart R. Batten

  • Two Interpenetrating 3D Networks Which Generate Spacious Sealed-Off Compartments Enclosing of the Order of 20 Solvent Molecules in the Structures of Zn(CN)(NO3)(tpt)2/3.cntdot.solv (tpt = 2,4,6-tri(4-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine, solv = .apprx.3/4C2H2Cl4.cntdot.3/4CH3OH or .apprx.3/2CHCl3.cntdot.1/3CH3OH)

    Stuart R. Batten;Bernard F. Hoskins;Richard Robson

  • An unprecedented eight-connected self-penetrating network based on pentanuclear zinc cluster building blocks

    Xin-Long Wang;Chao Qin;En-Bo Wang;Zhong-Min Su

  • Structure and molecular magnetism of the rutile-related compounds M(dca)2, M = CoII, NiII, CuII, dca = dicyanamide, N(CN)2–

    Stuart R. Batten;Richard Robson;Paul Jensen;Boujemaa Moubaraki

  • Cu2+-mediated dehydrogenative coupling and hydroxylation of an N-heterocyclic ligand: from generation of a new tetratopic ligand to the designed assembly of three-dimensional copper(I) coordination polymers

    Sheng Hu;Jing-Cai Chen;Ming-Liang Tong;Bo Wang

  • Ni(tpt)(NO3 )2 -A Three-Dimensional Network with the Exceptional (12,3) Topology: A Self-Entangled Single Net.

    Brendan F. Abrahams;Stuart R. Batten;Martin J. Grannas;Hasan Hamit

  • Organic-Acid Effect on the Structures of a Series of Lead(II) Complexes

    Jin-Ming Yang;Jian-Fang Ma;Ying-Ying Liu;Ji-Cheng Ma

  • Interdigitation, Interpenetration and Intercalation in Layered Cuprous Tricyanomethanide Derivatives

    Stuart R. Batten;Bernard F. Hoskins;Richard Robson

  • Temperature-dependent synthesis of metal-organic frameworks based on a flexible tetradentate ligand with bidirectional coordination donors

    Yu-Bin Dong;You-Yun Jiang;Jie Li;Jian-Ping Ma

  • Coligand Modulated Six-, Eight-, and Ten-Connected Zn/ Cd-1,2,4-Triazolate Frameworks Based on Mono-, Bi-, Tri-, Penta-, and Heptanuclear Cluster Units

    Quan-Guo Zhai;Can-Zhong Lu;Xiaoyuan Wu;Stuart Robert Batten

  • A New Self-Penetrating Uniform Net, (8,4) (or 86), Containing Planar Four-Coordinate Nodes

    Ming-Liang Tong;Xiao-Ming Chen;Stuart R Batten

  • Unusual parallel and inclined interlocking modes in polyrotaxane-like metal–organic frameworks

    Jin Yang;Jian-Fang Ma;Stuart Robert Batten;Zhong-Min Su

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith S. Murray
Keith S. Murray Monash University
Boujemaa Moubaraki
Boujemaa Moubaraki Monash University
Glen B. Deacon
Glen B. Deacon Monash University
Richard Robson
Richard Robson University of Melbourne
Bernard F. Hoskins
Bernard F. Hoskins University of Melbourne
Samiran Mitra
Samiran Mitra Jadavpur University
Nicholas F. Chilton
Nicholas F. Chilton University of Manchester
Xian-He Bu
Xian-He Bu Nankai University
Miao Du
Miao Du Zhengzhou University of Light Industry
Leone Spiccia
Leone Spiccia Monash University

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