Dr Daniel Price
- Senior Lecturer (School of Chemistry)
telephone:
01413308794
email:
Daniel.Price@glasgow.ac.uk
C5-07, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Research interests
Research Interests
Dr Price has an interest in many areas of natural science and is a keen proponent for increased public understanding of science. He performs many demonstration lectures every year.
After the completion of a PhD at the University of Sheffield, he has held positions at the University of East Anglia, University of Edinburgh, Southampton University, and at the Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB), before taking his present position at the University of Glasgow. His research experience and activities have always been associated with the synthesis and characterisation of materials for magnetic, electronic, or optical applications.
In recent years, his research has largely focused on synthetic and structural characterisation of magnetic materials. Here a key part of successful synthesis are application many techniques that allow the formation of crystalline samples. Consequently, X-ray diffraction studies are pivotal to the structural characterisation and form a central part of his research interests. Magnetic characterisation is achieved by a combination of techniques including; SQUID magnetometry, neutron diffraction and muon spin rotation. In general, Dr Price’s interests are in controlling solid-state structures, in order to allow or optimise particular functional properties. In his magnetic materials low-dimensional and spin-frustrated magnetic behaviour are frequently observed, and ultimately a better understanding these novel and cooperative phase behaviours ranks highly in his ambitions.
More details are available on Dr Price’s personal Research Pages.
Research Topics
- Transition metal coordination chemistry
- Structural chemistry
- Molecular magnetism
- Magnetic interactions
- Low-dimensional magnetism
- Phase transitions and phase behaviour,
- Coordination networks
Picture urls
A http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2007/dt/b706829h
B http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejic.201200676/abstract
C http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200352406
D http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2012.07.091
E http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejic.201200676/abstract
F http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0DT01007C
Publication Highlights
- “Pseudo-polymorphism in a conformationally rigid copper helicate; Structural studies of a shape awkward system” M Martinez Belmonte and DJ Price, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2012) 4117-4130.
- "Domain wall spin dynamics in kagome antiferromagnets” E Lhotel, V Simonet, J Ortloff, B Canals, C Paulsen, E Suard, T Hansen, DJ Price, PT Wood, AK Powell and R Ballou, Phys. Rev. Lett.(2011) 107, 257205.
- “Structure and magnetism of new hybrid cobalt hydroxide materials built from decorated brucite layers”, TD Keene, ME Light, MB Hursrthouse and DJ Price, Dalton Trans. (2011) 40, 2983-2994.
- “Topological ferrimagnetism and superparamagnetic-like behaviour in a disordered homometalic coordination network” R Patel, DJ Price and MT Weller, Dalton Trans. (2007) 4034-4039.
- “Antiferromagnetic dimers of Ni(II) in the S=1 spin-ladder Na2Ni2(C2O4)3(H2O)2” C Mennerich, H-H Klauss, M Broekelmann, FJ Litterst, C Golze, R Klingeler, V Kataev, B Büchner, S-N Grossjohann, W Brenig, M Goiran, H Rakoto, J-M Broto, O Kataeva and DJ Price, Phys. Rev. B. (2006) 73, 174415.
- “One-dimensional magnetism in new anhydrous iron and cobalt ternary oxalates with rare trigonal prismatic metal coordination” MB Hursthouse, ME Light and DJ Price, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., (2004) 43, 472-475.
- “Hydrothermal synthesis, X-ray structure and complex magnetic behaviour of Ba4(C2O4)Cl2[{Fe(OH)(C2O4)}4]” DJ Price, S Tripp, AK Powell and PT Wood, Chem. Euro. J. (2001) 7, 200-208.
Teaching
Teaching
- Level-1
- The Periodic Table: Trends and Patterns
- Level-2
- Main Group Chemistry (X6)
- Head of Synthesis Laboratory
- Level-3
- Main Group Chemistry (I2)
- Class Head for Chemical Studies
- Chemical Studies Literature Project Coordinator
- Chemical Studies Practical Project Coordinator
- Essay Assignment Coordinator for the Masters Class
- Inorganic Presentations Coordinator for Masters Class
- Level-4
- F-Block Chemistry (C6)
Additional information
Awards
PhD (Sheffield), MRSC, MInstP
Selected professional activities and achievements
2012 "Recurrent H-bond graph motifs between metal tris-ethylenediamine cations and uncoordinated oxalate anions: Fitting a three pin plug into a two pin socket" TD Keene, MB Hursthouse and DJ Price, CrystEngComm (2012) 14, 116-123. Selected by Editor as a Hot Article and featured in the CrystEngComm journal blog.
2012 "Hydrothermal synthesis, structure and magnetism of [Co2(OH)(1,2,3-(O2C)3C6H3)(H2O)]. H2O and [Co2(OH)(1,2,3-(O2C)3C6H3)]: magnetic Δ-chains with mixed cobalt geometries" SOH Gutschke, DJ Price, AK Powell and PT Wood, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. (2001) 40, 1920-1923. After 10 years the article continues to see a year on year increase in its citation rate, which is now, is in excess of 150 citations.
2012 Appointed as an external referee to the Romanian National Research Council
2005 - present Very regular contributor to Glasgow Science Festival, Chemistry Salter’s Festivals, Chemistry Taster days, and to Glasgow University Open Days, frequently giving public demonstration lectures to audiences of more than 300.
2011 "Laboratory-based separation techniques for insoluble compound mixtures: methods for the purification of metal-organic framework materials" TD Keene, DJ Price and CJ Kepert, Dalton Trans. (2011) 40, 7122-7126. This Frontier Article was the most downloaded article of June 2011.
2011 Appointed as a member of the scientific advisory committee for a Dalton Discussion on Inorganic Magnetism to be held in Warwick in July 2013.
2005 – 2011 Elected as Dalton Representative of RSC West of Scotland Local Section
2010 The immortal memory, invited speaker by Glasgow University Alchemists Society.
2010 Chair of the plenary session of Scottish Dalton meeting, Glasgow.
2009 Conference Session Chair at the IUPAC - MC9 August 2009, SSC Glasgow.
2009 Geometric frustration in a large family of complex oxalates. Invited lecture to Glasgow University Structure and Materials Group.
2007 Invited public chemistry demonstration lecture as a prelude to the opening performance of “Oxygen”, by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann, G12 Theatre, Glasgow.
2007 Topological Ferrimagnetism and Superparamagnetic-like Behaviour in a Disordered Homometallic Coordination Network. Invited lecture to Glasgow University Structure and Materials Group.
2006 Order, structure and symmetry in magnetic materials, invited seminar, WestCHEM research day, University of Glasgow.
2006 Neutron scattering and magnetism, invited lecture, UK-Magnet Network Workshop, University of Edinburgh.
2006 Magnetic behaviour of BaMn(ox)2(H2O)4, invited seminar, Glasgow University Structure and Materials Group.
2006 Topology, dimensionality and magnetism, invited lecture at University College London
2005 Low Dimensional Magnetism part 1 and part 2, invited lectures, UK Magnet Network Workshop, University of Cambridge.
2005 Magnetic phase transitions in new transition metal oxalates. Phase Transitions Summer School, Zuoz, Switzerland.
2005 Magnetic neutron diffraction, invited lecture, UK-Magnet Network Workshop, University of Manchester.
2005 Low-dimensional magnetism in new transition metal oxalates, invited Seminar at Scottish Dalton (University of Glasgow).
1999- 2004 EPSRC Advance Research Fellow.
2004 Magnetism in new oxalate networks, invited seminar, University of Glasgow.
2003 The magnetism of some complex oxalates: New materials from old Reagents, invited lecture, University of Southampton.
2003 Cooperative behaviour in model magnets, invited seminar, University of Durham.
2001 Member of the Local Organising Committee of 8th Platinum Group Metals conference.
2001 RSC sponsored residential Spectroscopy Summer School for Teachers – Contributed Lectures and Workshops on theoretical and practical electronic spectroscopy.
2001 Magnetism in Complex Iron Oxalates, invited talk, University of Southampton.
2000 Magnetic ordering in a new iron(II) oxalate: Ba4Fe4(OH)4(C2O4)5Cl2, invited seminar, Neutron and Muon Users Meeting, University of Southampton.
2000 New transition metal oxalates as model magnets, invited seminar, University of Edinburgh.
