
Senior Lecturer
- About
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Room 157 Meston Building Meston Walk University of Aberdeen Old Aberdeen Scotland AB24 3UE
External Memberships
Treasurer of Royal Society of Chemistry Aberdeen and North East Scotland Local Section
Latest Publications
Spontaneous chirality through mixing achiral components: A twist-bend nematic phase driven by hydrogen-bonding between unlike components
Chemical Communications, vol. 54, no. 27, pp. 3383-3386Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStructure–property relationships in twist-bend nematogens: the influence of terminal groups
Liquid Crystals, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 68-83Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2016.1275303
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Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. The preparation and characterisation of the alpha,omega-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4 '-yl) alkanedioates
Liquid Crystals, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 471-483Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2014.888803
Synthesis and characterisation of side chain liquid crystal copolymers containing sulfonic acid groups
Polymer, vol. 53, no. 13, pp. 2604-2612Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2012.02.029
Cholesteryl-based liquid crystal dimers containing a sulfur-sulfur link in the flexible spacer
Liquid Crystals, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 259-268Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2011.641753
- Research
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Research Overview
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9334-538X
SCOPUS Author ID: 7202609020
Liquid Crystals
Synthesis and characterisation
Structure-property relationships in dimers and oligomers
New molecular architectures and mesophases
Ferro- and anti-ferroelectric materials for display applications
Biaxial nematic phase
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 5 year, September start
Courses
Teaching Responsibilities
Director of Undergraduate Pathways
Oversee recruitment and teaching, learning & assessment on undergraduate degree programmes.
I teach (lectures, labs, tutorials) on a variety of courses at all levels from Summer School through to taught postgraduate masters.
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
School Senior Personal Tutor
- Publications
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Spontaneous chirality through mixing achiral components: A twist-bend nematic phase driven by hydrogen-bonding between unlike components
Chemical Communications, vol. 54, no. 27, pp. 3383-3386Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStructure–property relationships in twist-bend nematogens: the influence of terminal groups
Liquid Crystals, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 68-83Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2016.1275303
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. The preparation and characterisation of the alpha,omega-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4 '-yl) alkanedioates
Liquid Crystals, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 471-483Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2014.888803
Synthesis and characterisation of side chain liquid crystal copolymers containing sulfonic acid groups
Polymer, vol. 53, no. 13, pp. 2604-2612Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2012.02.029
Cholesteryl-based liquid crystal dimers containing a sulfur-sulfur link in the flexible spacer
Liquid Crystals, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 259-268Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2011.641753
Methylene-linked liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase
Liquid Crystals, vol. 38, no. 11-12, pp. 1407-1414Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2011.624368
Non-symmetric chiral liquid crystal trimers
Liquid Crystals, vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 1331-1339Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2011.613265
Chiral liquid crystal tetramers
Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 21, no. 29, pp. 10935-10941Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/c1jm10992h
Symmetric and non-symmetric chiral liquid crystal dimers
Liquid Crystals, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 1097-1110Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2010.494412
Liquid crystal oligomers: going beyond dimers
Liquid Crystals, vol. 36, no. 6-7, pp. 755-777Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678290903157455
Liquid crystal dimers and higher oligomers: Between monomers and polymers
Chemical Society Reviews, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 2096-2124Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/b714102e
Orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystals containing biphenyl, terphenyl, or naphthyl mesogenic unit
Opto-electronics Review, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 32-36Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAntiferroelectric liquid crystals containing a naphthoate mesogenic unit
Ferroelectrics, vol. 343, no. 1, pp. 11-18Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00150190600961921
Methylene- and ether-linked liquid crystal dimers II. Effects of mesogenic linking unit and terminal chain length
Liquid Crystals, vol. 32, no. 11, pp. 1499-1513Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678290500284983
Non-symmetric liquid crystal trimers
Liquid Crystals, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 673-682Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678290500116235
Semiflexible liquid crystalline tetramers as models of structurally analogous copolymers
Macromolecules, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 3307-3311Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/ma0502304
Liquid crystal tetramers: influence of molecular shape on liquid crystal behaviour
Liquid Crystals, vol. 32, pp. 1531-1541Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678290500410620
Highly non-linear liquid crystal tetramers
Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 11, pp. 2722-2731Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B104490G
Methylene-linked liquid crystal dimers
Liquid Crystals, vol. 28, pp. 463-472Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678290010007558