Paul Attfield

Paul Attfield
Born J. Paul Attfield
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater University of Oxford
Thesis The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds
Notable awards FRS (2014)[1]
Website
www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic-staff/professor-j-paul-attfield

J. Paul Attfield FRS is a Professor of Materials Science in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC).[2][3]

Education

Attfield was educated at the University of Oxford where he was a member of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry followed by a DPhil in 1987 for his work on chemical crystallography.[4]

Career

Following his DPhil, Attfield was a Lecturer, and later a Reader at the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 2003.[5]

Research

Attfield's research focuses on synthesis, structural studies, and property measurements for electronic materials such as transition metal oxides.[2][3][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] This research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[17]

Awards and honours

Attfield won the Meldola Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1991; the Corday-Morgan Medal of the RSC in 1998; and the Peter Day Award in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads:

“ Paul Attfield has made distinctive contributions to the experimental understanding of structure in the solid-state, in particular pioneering the use of resonant X-ray scattering to study cation and valence ordering effects and characterizing charge-order in strongly correlated systems such as magnetite. He introduced the cation-size variance as a concept to rationalize and predict disorder effects, with a substantial impact on the study and preparation of technologically important materials. He has synthesized and characterized new materials with novel electronic properties, including high-Tc superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and negative thermal expansion, including new developments in high pressure synthesis.[1] ”

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Professor Paul Attfield FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-06-17.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Paul Attfield's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  4. ↑ Attfield, J. Paul (1987). The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  5. ↑ Peter Day Award 2013 Winner Professor J. Paul Attfield Royal Society of Chemistry
  6. ↑ Rodriguez-Martinez, L.; Attfield, J.P. (1996). "Cation disorder and size effects in magnetoresistive manganese oxide perovskites". Physical Review B 54 (22): R15622. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.54.R15622.
  7. ↑ McLaughlin, A.; Zhou, W.; Attfield, J. P.; Fitch, A.; Tallon, J. (1999). "Structure and microstructure of the ferromagnetic superconductor RuSr₂GdCu₂O₈". Physical Review B 60 (10): 7512. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.60.7512.
  8. ↑ Wright, J. P.; Attfield, J. P.; Radaelli, P. G. (2001). "Long Range Charge Ordering in Magnetite Below the Verwey Transition". Physical Review Letters 87 (26). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.266401.
  9. ↑ Rodriguez-Martinez, L.; Attfield, J. (1998). "Cation disorder and the metal-insulator transition temperature in manganese oxide perovskites". Physical Review B 58 (5): 2426. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.58.2426.
  10. ↑ Wright, J. P.; Attfield, J. Paul; Radaelli, P. G. (2002). "Charge ordered structure of magnetite Fe₃O₄ below the Verwey transition". Physical Review B 66 (21). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.66.214422.
  11. ↑ Rodríguez-Martínez, L.; Attfield, J. Paul (2000). "Disorder-induced orbital ordering in L0.7M0.3MMnO3 perovskites". Physical Review B 63 (2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.63.024424.
  12. ↑ Attfield, J. P. (1998). "A Simple Approach to Lattice Effects in Conducting Perovskite-Type Oxides". Chemistry of Materials 10 (11): 3239. doi:10.1021/cm980221s.
  13. ↑ Attfield, J. P. (2011). "Condensed-matter physics: A fresh twist on shrinking materials". Nature 480 (7378): 465–6. doi:10.1038/480465a. PMID 22193098.
  14. ↑ Senn, M. S.; Wright, J. P.; Attfield, J. P. (2011). "Charge order and three-site distortions in the Verwey structure of magnetite". Nature 481 (7380): 173–6. doi:10.1038/nature10704. PMID 22190035.
  15. ↑ McLaughlin, A. C.; Sher, F; Attfield, J. P. (2005). "Retraction: Negative lattice expansion from the superconductivity-antiferromagnetism crossover in ruthenium copper oxides". Nature 437 (7061): 1057. doi:10.1038/nature04182. PMID 16222303.
  16. ↑ Chen, W. T.; Mizumaki, M; Seki, H; Senn, M. S.; Saito, T; Kan, D; Attfield, J. P.; Shimakawa, Y (2014). "A half-metallic A- and B-site-ordered quadruple perovskite oxide CaCu3Fe2Re2O12 with large magnetization and a high transition temperature". Nature Communications 5: 3909. doi:10.1038/ncomms4909. PMID 24849185.
  17. ↑ Grants awarded to Paul Attfield by the EPSRC