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Daniel Price
Daniel Price was raised in Pill (Nr Bristol) and attended St Katherine’s School and Sixth form. He studied at the University of Sheffield, obtaining a BSc (2:1 honours) in chemistry, and stayed on to receive a PhD, under the supervision of Professor DW Bruce, with a thesis entitled “Hydrogen-bond induced mesomorphism in heteromeric systems and studies towards optically non-linear organometallic materials” in 1995. He took a post-doctoral research position at the CNRS institute the ICMCB in Bordeaux, France, working with the late legendary Professor Olivier Kahn on molecular based magnets. He followed this post with a 3 year post-doctoral position with Professor AK Powell and Dr PT Wood at the University of East Anglia (Norwich), before being awarded and EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, which was held at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Southampton. In 2004 Dr Price was appointed as a lecture in the department of Chemistry here at the University of Glasgow.
Dr Price has a broad interest in many aspects of physical science. He has worked equally in the synthesis of new materials, as well as in the characterisation of those materials and the measurements of their key physical properties. This included making organic and organometallic optically non-linear materials and using laser-based characterisation techniques. He has been involved in the synthesis of metal containing liquid crystals, and to a large extent in the use of supra-molecular hydrogen bonding interactions to induce mesomorphism in mixtures of organic compounds. In order to understand their phase behaviour and phase transitions such systems have been characterised by in-phase spectroscopic, diffraction and thermal methods. His work on molecular based magnets focused on the synthesis of coordination networks and their cooperative magnetic behaviour. This had enabled Dr Price to become both crystallographer and magneto-chemist, using both X-ray and neutron diffraction to study structure, while the characterisation of magnetic behaviour has required the use of static and dynamic magnetometry, heat capacity studies, Mössbauer, EPR, NMR and optical spectroscopies as well as magnetic neutron scattering and muon spin rotation experiments.
Address: School of Chemistry,
Joseph Black Building,
University Avenue,
Glasgow,
G128QQ, UK
Dr Price has a broad interest in many aspects of physical science. He has worked equally in the synthesis of new materials, as well as in the characterisation of those materials and the measurements of their key physical properties. This included making organic and organometallic optically non-linear materials and using laser-based characterisation techniques. He has been involved in the synthesis of metal containing liquid crystals, and to a large extent in the use of supra-molecular hydrogen bonding interactions to induce mesomorphism in mixtures of organic compounds. In order to understand their phase behaviour and phase transitions such systems have been characterised by in-phase spectroscopic, diffraction and thermal methods. His work on molecular based magnets focused on the synthesis of coordination networks and their cooperative magnetic behaviour. This had enabled Dr Price to become both crystallographer and magneto-chemist, using both X-ray and neutron diffraction to study structure, while the characterisation of magnetic behaviour has required the use of static and dynamic magnetometry, heat capacity studies, Mössbauer, EPR, NMR and optical spectroscopies as well as magnetic neutron scattering and muon spin rotation experiments.
Address: School of Chemistry,
Joseph Black Building,
University Avenue,
Glasgow,
G128QQ, UK
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