People

Principal Investigator

Sir Anthony Cheetham

Title

Professor

Degree

PhD University of Oxford
BSc in Chemistry (First Class Honours) University of Oxford

Research Interests

Discovery, characterization and properties of novel inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic materials; diffraction methods; nuclear magnetic resonance, computer simulation.

Office Location

Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Biography

Prof Sir Anthony Cheetham is Distinguished Visiting Professor at NUS Materials Science and Engineering, Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Prof Sir Anthony is an international leader in materials chemistry with extensive experience in the translation of discovery into innovation.

He is renowned for the development of procedures to study the structures of materials and to deduce the bases of their mechanical and chemical properties. His work on novel inorganic and hybrid inorganic-organic materials has a remarkable range of applications in storing gases, in separating mixtures of gases, in magnetism and optoelectronics, and in catalysis. In the area of hybrid materials, he has led one of the most exciting aspects of chemistry in the last twenty years, creating novel crystalline structures of great diversity in composition and properties. This has enormous potential in energy conversion and storage, renewable energy.

Prof. Sir Anthony’s publications have received more than 22,000 citations from 2009 to 2019.

Selected Publications

  • Hybrid layered double perovskites halides of transition metals, P. Vishnoi, J. L. Zuo, X. T. Li, D. C. Binwal, K. E. Wyckoff, L. L. Mao, L. Kautzsch, G. Wu, S. D. Wilson, M. G. Kanatzidis, R. Seshadri and A. K. Cheetham, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 (2022) 6661—6666.
  • Stacking faults assist lithium-ion conduction in a halide-based superionic conductor, E. Sebti, H. A. Evans, H. Chen, P. M. Richardson, K. White, R. Giovine, K. Koirala, Y. Xu, E. Gonzalez-Correa, C. Wang, C. M. Brown, A. K. Cheetham, P. Canepa and R. J. Clément, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 5795—5811 (2022)
  • Liquid phase sintering of lead halide perovskites and metal-organic framework glasses, J. Hou, P. Chen, A. Shukla, A. Krajnc, T. S. Wang, X. M. Li, R. Doasa, L. H. G. Tizei, B. Chan, D. N. Johnstone, R. Lin, T. U. Schü&lli, I. Martens, D. Appadoo, M. S’Ari, Z. L. Wang, T. Wei, S.-C. Lo, M. Y. Lu, S. C. Li, E. B. Namdas, G. Mali, A. K. Cheetham, S. M. Collins, V. Chen, L. Z. Wang and T. D. Bennett, Science 374 (2021) 621—625.
  • Why are double perovskites iodides so rare? P. Vishnoi, R. Seshadri, and A. K. Cheetham, J. Phys. Chem. C 125 (2021) 11756—11764.
  • Chemical control of spin-orbit coupling and charge transfer in vacancy-ordered Ru(IV) halide perovskites, P. Vishnoi, J. L. Zuo, J. A. Cooley, L. Kautzsch, A. Gómez‐Torres, J. Murillo, S. Fortier, S. D. Wilson, R. Seshadri, A. K. Cheetham, Angew. Chemie Intl. Ed. Eng. 60 (2021) 5184—5188.
  • Hybrid ruthenium halide perovskites and related compounds, P. Vishnoi, J. L. Zhuo, T. A. Strom, G. Wu, S. D. Wilson, R. Seshadri, and A. K. Cheetham, Angew. Chemie Intl. Ed. Eng. 59 (2020) 8974—8981.
  • Design principles for improving the photoluminescence quantum yield in hybrid manganese bromides, L. L. Mao, P. Guo, S. Wang, A. K. Cheetham and R. Seshadri, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142 (2020) 13582—13589.
  • Perovskite-related ReO3 structures, H. A. Evans, Yue Wu, R. Seshadri and A. K. Cheetham, Nat. Rev. Mater. 5 (2020) 196–213.
    Chemical and structural diversity of hybrid layered double perovskite halides, L. L. Mao, S. Teicher, C. C. Stoumpos, R. M. Kennard, R. A. DeCrescent, G. Wu, J. A. Schuller, M. L. Chabinyc, A. K. Cheetham and R. Seshadri, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141 (2019) 19099–19109.
  • Guided assembly of microporous/mesoporous manganese phosphate by bifunctional organophosphonic acid etching and templating, Y. Hu, Y. Zhang, C. J. Li, L. Wang, Y. H. Du, G. Mo, X. Li, A. K. Cheetham, and J. Wang, Adv. Mater. 31 (2019) 1901124.
  • Polymorphism in M(H2PO2)3 (M = V, Al, Ga) compounds with the perovskite-related ReO3 structure, H. A. Evans, Z. Deng, I. E. Collings, Y. Wu, J. L. Andrews, K. Pilar, J. M. Tuffnell, G. Wu, J. Wang, S. E. Dutton, P. D. Bristowe, R. Seshadri, and A. K. Cheetham, Chem. Comm. 55 (2019) 2964–2967.
  • 3D-printing of pure metal-organic framework monoliths, G. J. H. Lim, Y. Wu, B. B. Shah, J. J. Koh, C. K. Liu, D. Zhao, A. K. Cheetham, J. Wang, and J. Ding, ACS Mater. Lett. 1 (2019) 147–153.
  • An unusual phase transition driven by vibrational entropy changes in a hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite, W. Wei, W. Li, K. T. Butler, G. Feng, C. J. Howard, S. Gao, M. A. Carpenter, P. Lu, A. Walsh and A. K. Cheetham, Angew. Chemie Intl. Ed. Eng. 57 (2018) 8932–8936.
  • Thermodynamic and kinetic effects in the crystallization of metal-organic frameworks, A. K. Cheetham, G. Kieslich and H. H.-Y. Yeung, Acc. Chem. Res. 51 (2018) 659–667.
  • Pore closure in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks under mechanical pressure, S. Henke, M. T. Wharmby, G. Kieslich, I. Hante, A. Schneemann, Y. Wu, D. Daisenberger and A. K. Cheetham, Chem. Sci. 9 (2018) 1654–1660.
  • [Am]Mn(H2POO)3: A new family of hybrid perovskites based on the hypophosphite ligand, Y. Wu, S. Shaker, F. Brivio, R. Murugavel, P. D. Bristowe and A. K. Cheetham, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139 (2017) 16999–17002.
  • The understanding of electrochemical mechanisms for CO2 capture and conversion into hydrocarbon fuels in transition-metal carbides (MXenes), N. Li, X. Chen, W.-J. Ong, D. R. MacFarlane, X. Zhao, A. K. Cheetham and C. Sun, ACS Nano 11 (2017) 10825–10833.
  • Oriented two-dimensional porous organic cage crystals, S. Jiang, Q. Song, A. Massey, S. Y. Chong, L. Chen, S. Sun, T. Hasell, R. Raval, A. G. Livingston, E. Sivaniah, A. K. Cheetham and A. I. Cooper, Angew. Chemie Int. Edn. 56 (2017) 9391–9395.
  • Synthesis and properties of a lead-free hybrid double perovskite: (CH3NH3)2AgBiBr6, F. Wei, Z. Deng, S. Sun, F. Zhang, D. M. Evans, G. Kieslich, S. Tominaka, M. A. Carpenter, P. D. Bristowe and A. K. Cheetham, Chem. Mater. 29 (2017) 1089–1094.
  • Chemically diverse and multifunctional hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites, W. Li, Z. Wang, F. Deschler, S. Gao, R. H. Friend and A. K. Cheetham, Nat. Rev. Mater. 2 (2017) 16099.
  • Interplay between defects, disorder and flexibility in metal-organic frameworks, T. D. Bennett, A. H. Fuchs, A. K. Cheetham and F. X. Coudert, Nat. Chem. 9 (2017) 11–16.
  • The synthesis, structure and electronic properties of a lead-free hybrid inorganic-organic double perovskite (MA)2KBiCl6 (MA = methylammonium), F. Wei, Z. Deng, S. Sun, F. Xie, G. Kieslich, D. M. Evans, M. A. Carpenter, P. D Bristowe and A. K. Cheetham, Mater. Horizons 3 (2016) 328–332.
  • Porous organic cage thin films and molecular-sieving membranes, Q. Song, S Jiang, T. Hasell, M Liu, S Sun, A. K. Cheetham, and E. Sivaniah and A. I. Cooper, Adv. Mater. 28 (2016) 2629–2637.
  • Melt-quenched glasses of metal-organic frameworks, T. D. Bennett, Y. Yue, P. Li, A. Qiao, H. Tao, G. N. Greaves, T. Richards, G. I. Lampronti, S. A. T. Redfern, O. K. Farha, J. T. Hupp, A. K. Cheetham, and D. A. Keen, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138 (2016) 3484–3492.
  • Amorphous metal-organic frameworks for drug delivery, C. Orellana-Tavra, E. F. Baxter, T. Tian, T. D. Bennett, N. K. H. Slater, A. K. Cheetham, and D. Fairen-Jimenez, Chem. Comm. 51 (2015) 13878–13881
  • Extreme flexibility in a zeolitic imidazolate framework: Porous to Dense phase transition in desolvated ZIF-4, M. T. Wharmby, S. Henke, T. D. Bennett, S. Bajpe, S. P. Thompson, C. Mellot-Draznieks, and A. K. Cheetham, Angew. Chem. Intl. Edn. 54 (2015) 6447–6451
  • Hybrid glasses from strong and fragile metal-organic framework liquids, T. D. Bennett, J. C. Tan, Y. Z. Yue, C. Ducati, N. Terrill, H.H.M. Yeung, Z. Zhou, S. Henke, A. K. Cheetham and G. N. Greaves, Nature Comm. 6 (2015) 8079.