Dr Alexey Ganin

  • Senior Lecturer (School of Chemistry)

telephone: 0141 330 8404
email: Alexey.Ganin@glasgow.ac.uk

Joseph Black Building, Office C5-21, Glasgow, G12 8qq

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3754-5819

Research interests

ECOS group is looking for exceptional candidates interested in Energy research. A fully funded 3.5 years (UK only candidates) project titled "Exploring the Efficiency and Sustainability of Green Hydrogen Production: Utilizing Solid State Electrocatalysts and 3D printed cells in Water Electrolysis" is available from the 1st of October 2023. To learn more press HERE.

In the ElectroChemistry On Solids (ECOS) group we carry out the synthesis of solid state electrocatalysts and employ them in electrochemical systems to study processes that could help with the storage of the renewable electricity as fuels. We also employ thin film technology because we believe they are key to minimisation of the amount of materials used at the maximum surface capacity. We hope they may bring us a few steps closer to practical and dependable solution to future energy storage without increasing costs.

Below is the snapshot of activities across the group that may bring us closer to practical and dependable solution to future energy storage.

Storing Excess of Renewable Energy as Fuels

We believe green energy is great way to heat our homes but what happens when there is too much wind or sun? What to do with the excess of energy during max production almost as a big challenge as what do when there is too little. Storing the excess as fuels for later is our solution to address this challenge. We develop solid state electrocatalysts and deploy them in electrolysers (both commercial and in-house built) which are devices that could help us generate H2 or other products that can act as fuels from water and /or CO2. 

One of the most exciting applications of electrochemistry is the production of hydrogen, which is a clean and renewable fuel that can be used to power cars, buses, trains, and even airplanes. It can also be used to store excess renewable energy, making it a key technology for the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid. Producing hydrogen from water in electrolyser requires advanced materials to make sure it can be produced at reasonable cost before being stored and later fed into a fuel cell. Our core research is focused on production of solid state electrocalalyst (see the list of recent publications by pressing HERE to learn more) and understanding their electrochemical properties. For example, our recent research has shown that the activity towards HER in transition metal nitrides can be effectively controlled by effective choice of doping elements.

In this respect, 2D materials are particularly interesting subject because their surface is very easy to define making them attractive subjects for computational studies which allows for precise prediction of their properties for energy applications. We have taken a fresh approaches to the way we view the 2D catalysts for hydrogen evolution. In series of papers including one in Nature Comms. titled “The rapid electrochemical activation of MoTe2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction”  we proposed a method for producing hydrogen from electrolysis more effectively and more economically. The team discovered that electrodes covered with MoTe2 showed an increase in the amount of hydrogen gas produced during the electrolysis when a specific pattern of high-current pulses was applied. By optimizing the pulses of current through the acidic electrolyte, they could reduce the overpotential needed for hydrogen evolution by nearly 50% when compared with the non-activated material. Supported by computational studies we explained this dramatic improvement by relating it to the electronic structure of the catalyst. Since the level of catalytic enhancement is controlled by electric currents, the aim is to find the right combination of sequences (for example through machine learning) and also expand the work to similar 2D systems.

 

 

Another approach to achieving a substantial boost in H2 production is to tap into abundance of catalytic sites in molecular materials. Our recent work in collaboration with Dr. Miras at the University of Glasgow drew attention to polyoxochalcogenide (POC). Due to a simple design they can be immobilized on a solid substrate. That warrants their high stability as no significant loss in activity was observed which is helping the team to make an important step towards bringing molecular electrocatalysts into applications. The paper “Tuning and mechanistic insights of metal chalcogenide molecular catalysts for the hydrogen-evolution reaction” published in Nature Comms. was backed up by the comprehensive computational work which helped us to understand the mechanism of the reaction.

 

 

 

Electrochemistry on thin films

Together with Profs David Moran and Nikolaj Gadeegard from the School of Engineering, we aim at discovery of a universal process for the production of large area, multi-layer 2D metal chalcogenide films and their implementation in water electrolysis. Similar to graphene their surfaces look like East-Asian terraced rice paddies making for abundance of catalytic sites at atomically thin scale. We formed one of them directly on to a substrate material of choice from readily sourced materials as described in the paper "Selective phase growth and precise-layer control in MoTe2". Now funded by EPSRC on a project "Supported MoTe2: proving the viability of a 2D material to be employed in the PEM flow cell for the hydrogen production" we exploit the 2D feature and harvest the energy from the basal planes. We have been working on improving the electrode design since then by preparing atomically thin MoTe2 films and deploy them directly in electrolysers. 

Remarkably, MoTe2 is a promising SERS platform for biosensing  as we described recently in "Application of a 2D Molybdenum Telluride in SERS Detection of Biorelevant Molecules" together with our colleagues in Prague. 2D MoTe2 films detect lipophilic disease marker β-sitosterol with nanomolar sensitivity due to chemical enhancement which boosted Surface Enhance Raman Spectroscopy sensitivity. Using MoTe2 films, can help with detecting a disease marker called β-sitosterol at levels as low as nanomole. The SERS response from the films was also found to be homogeneous and reproducible, making them a promising new SERS platform for biosensing.

CO2 capture, storage and conversion

Although the primary goal of ECOS group is to convert CO2 to fuels electrochemically we also continue research in efficient ways of storing carbon dioxide. For example, the interdisciplinary work pursued together with Chemical Engineers at Heriot-Watt University led by Dr. Humphrey Yiu titled "Aminated poly(vinyl chloride) solid state adsorbents with hydrophobic function for post-combustion CO2 capture" showed how to employ general waste such as PVC as part of highly porous systems. We have successfully deposited PVC on mesoporous silicas to achieve good capacity for CO2 capture. Moreover, due to hydrophobic function the new solid state sorbent can be operated in humid environment without significant loss in capacity and be regenerated as low as 75oC.

 

 

 

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Number of items: 36.

2023

Mehek, R., Iqbal, N., Noor, T., Wang, Y. and Ganin, A. Y. (2023) Efficient electrochemical performance of MnO2 nanowires interknitted vanadium oxide intercalated nanoporous carbon network as cathode for aqueous zinc ion battery. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 123, pp. 150-157. (doi: 10.1016/j.jiec.2023.03.031)

Lau, E. C. H. T., Åhlén, M., Cheung, O., Ganin, A. Y. , Smith, D. G.E. and Yiu, H. H. P. (2023) Gold-iron oxide (Au/Fe3O4) magnetic nanoparticles as the nanoplatform for binding of bioactive molecules through self-assembly. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 10, 1143190. (doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2023.1143190) (PMID:37051321) (PMCID:PMC10083301)

Sun, Y., Sviridova, E., Kamp, M., Zhang, J., Kienle, L., Moran, D. A.J. , Guselnikova, O. and Ganin, A. Y. (2023) Elucidating catalytic sites governing the performance toward the hydrogen evolution reaction in ternary nitride electrocatalysts. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 6(3), pp. 1265-1273. (doi: 10.1021/acsaem.2c02941)

2022

Fraser, J. P. and Ganin, A. Y. (2022) The investigation of Mo3Sb7 and Mo3Sb7-xTex as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Results in Chemistry, 4, 100587. (doi: 10.1016/j.rechem.2022.100587)

Ganin, A. Y. and Symes, M. D. (2022) Towards the application of 2D metal dichalcogenides as hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts in proton exchange membrane electrolyzers. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 34, 101001. (doi: 10.1016/j.coelec.2022.101001)

Elliott, A., McAllister, J. , Masaityte, L., Segado Centellas, M., Long, D.-L. , Ganin, A. , Song, Y.-F., Bo, C. and Miras, H. N. (2022) Mechanistic insights of molecular metal polyselenides for catalytic hydrogen generation. Chemical Communications, 58(49), pp. 6906-6909. (doi: 10.1039/D2CC01226J) (PMID:35642784)

Chen, J.-J. et al. (2022) Effective storage of electrons in water by the formation of highly reduced polyoxometalate clusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(20), pp. 8951-8960. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c10584) (PMID:35536652)

Guselnikova, O., Fraser, J.P., Soldatova, N., Sviridova, E., Ivanov, A., Rodriguez, R., Ganin, A.Y. and Postnikov, P. (2022) The covalent functionalization of few-layered MoTe2 thin films with iodonium salts. Materials Today Chemistry, 24, 100846. (doi: 10.1016/j.mtchem.2022.100846)

Sun, Y., Wang, L., Guselnikova, O., Semyonov, O., Fraser, J., Zhou, Y., López, N. and Ganin, A. Y. (2022) Revealing the activity of Co3Mo3N and Co3Mo3N0.5 as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(2), pp. 855-861. (doi: 10.1039/D1TA08389A)

2020

Best, M. G., Cunha-Reis, C., Ganin, A. Y. , Sousa, A., Johnston, J., Oliveira, A. L., Smith, D. G. E., Yiu, H. H. P. and Cooper, I. R. (2020) Antimicrobial properties of gallium(III)- and iron(III)-loaded polysaccharides affecting the growth of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, in vitro. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3(11), pp. 7589-7597. (doi: 10.1021/acsabm.0c00811)

Fraser, J. P., Postnikov, P., Miliutina, E., Kolska, Z., Valiev, R., Švorčík, V., Lyutakov, O., Ganin, A. Y. and Guselnikova, O. (2020) Application of a 2D molybdenum telluride in SERS-detection of biorelevant molecules. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(42), pp. 47774-47783. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c11231) (PMID:32985181)

Sun, Y. and Ganin, A. Y. (2020) The synergistic effects of alloying on the performance and stability of Co3Mo and Co7Mo6 for the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction. Hydrogen, 1(1), pp. 11-21. (doi: 10.3390/hydrogen1010002)

McGlynn, J. C., Friskey, M. and Ganin, A. Y. (2020) Parameter optimisation for electrochemically activated MoTe2. Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 4(9), pp. 4473-4477. (doi: 10.1039/D0SE00684J)

Fraser, J. P. et al. (2020) Selective phase growth and precise-layer control in MoTe2. Communications Materials, 1, 48. (doi: 10.1038/s43246-020-00048-4)

Lau, E. C.H.T., Carvalho, L. B., Pereira, A. E.S., Montanha, G. S., Corrêa, C. G., Carvalho, H. W.P., Ganin, A. Y. , Fraceto, L. and Yiu, H. H.P. (2020) Localization of coated iron oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles on tomato seeds and their effects on growth. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3(7), pp. 4109-4117. (doi: 10.1021/acsabm.0c00216)

Tevlek, A., Atya, A. M.N., Almemar, M., Duman, M., Gokcen, D., Ganin, A. Y. , Yiu, H. H.P. and Aydin, H. M. (2020) Synthesis of conductive carbon aerogels decorated with β-tricalcium phosphate nanocrystallites. Scientific Reports, 10, 5758. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62822-1) (PMID:32238872) (PMCID:PMC7113289)

Lomax, B. A., Conti, M., Khan, N., Bennett, N. S., Ganin, A. Y. and Symes, M. D. (2020) Proving the viability of an electrochemical process for the simultaneous extraction of oxygen and production of metal alloys from lunar regolith. Planetary and Space Science, 180, 104748. (doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2019.104748)

2019

McGlynn, J. C. et al. (2019) The rapid electrochemical activation of MoTe2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Nature Communications, 10, 4916. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12831-0) (PMID:31664018) (PMCID:PMC6820771)

McAllister, J., Bandeira, N. A.G., McGlynn, J. C., Ganin, A. Y. , Song, Y.-F., Bo, C. and Miras, H. N. (2019) Tuning and mechanistic insights of metal chalcogenide molecular catalysts for the hydrogen-evolution reaction. Nature Communications, 10, 370. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-08208-4) (PMID:30670694) (PMCID:PMC6342911)

2018

Koltsov, I., Smalc-Koziorowska, J., Prześniak-Welenc, M., Małysa, M., Kimmel, G., McGlynn, J., Ganin, A. and Stelmakh, S. (2018) Mechanism of reduced sintering temperature of Al2O3–ZrO2 nanocomposites obtained by microwave hydrothermal synthesis. Materials, 11(5), 829. (doi: 10.3390/ma11050829)

Crawford, K. G. , Qi, D., McGlynn, J., Ivanov, T. G., Shah, P. B., Weil, J., Tallaire, A., Ganin, A. Y. and Moran, D. A.J. (2018) Thermally stable, high performance transfer doping of diamond using transition metal oxides. Scientific Reports, 8, 3342. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21579-4) (PMID:29463823) (PMCID:PMC5820251)

McGlynn, J. C., Cascallana-Matías, I., Fraser, J. P., Roger, I., McAllister, J. , Miras, H. N. , Symes, M. D. and Ganin, A. Y. (2018) Molybdenum ditelluride rendered into an efficient and stable electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction by polymorphic control. Energy Technology, 6(2), pp. 345-350. (doi: 10.1002/ente.201700489)

2017

Romero, F. D. et al. (2017) Redox-controlled potassium intercalation into two polyaromatic hydrocarbon solids. Nature Chemistry, 9(7), pp. 644-652. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2765)

Sneddon, G., McGlynn, J. C., Neumann, M. S., Aydin, H. M., Yiu, H. H.P. and Ganin, A. Y. (2017) Aminated poly(vinyl chloride) solid state adsorbents with hydrophobic function for post-combustion CO2 capture. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(23), pp. 11864-11872. (doi: 10.1039/C7TA00389G)

Roger, I., Moca, R., Miras, H. , Crawford, K. G., Moran, D. A.J. , Ganin, A. Y. and Symes, M. D. (2017) The direct hydrothermal deposition of cobalt-doped MoS2 onto fluorine-doped SnO2 substrates for catalysis of the electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(4), pp. 1472-1480. (doi: 10.1039/C6TA08287D)

2015

Sneddon, G., Ganin, A. Y. and Yiu, H. H.P. (2015) Sustainable CO2 adsorbents prepared by coating chitosan onto mesoporous silicas for large-scale carbon capture technology. Energy Technology, 3(3), pp. 249-258. (doi: 10.1002/ente.201402211)

Zadik, R. H. et al. (2015) Optimized unconventional superconductivity in a molecular Jahn-Teller metal. Science Advances, 1(3), e1500059. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1500059)

2014

Kasahara, Y., Takeuchi, Y., Itou, T., Zadik, R.H., Takabayashi, Y., Ganin, A.Y. , Arčon, D., Rosseinsky, M.J., Prassides, K. and Iwasa, Y. (2014) Spin frustration and magnetic ordering in theS=12molecular antiferromagnetfcc−Cs3C60. Physical Review B, 90, 014413. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.014413)

McLennan, A. G., Ganin, A. Y. , Takabayashi, Y., Colman, R. H., Zadik, R. H., Rosseinsky, M. J. and Prassides, K. (2014) Synthesis of face-centred cubic Cs3C60 in THF. Faraday Discussions, 173, pp. 95-103. (doi: 10.1039/C4FD00085D) (PMID:25324044)

Potocnick, A., Ganin, A.Y. , Takabayashi, Y., McDonald, M.T., Heinmaa, I., Jeglic, P., Stern, R., Rosseinsky, M.J., Prassides, K. and Arcon, D. (2014) Jahn-Teller orbital glass state in the expanded fcc Cs3C60 fulleride. Chemical Science, 5(8), pp. 3008-3017. (doi: 10.1039/c4sc00670d)

Potocnik, A., Krajnc, A., Jeglic, P., Takabayashi, Y., Ganin, A. , Prassides, K., Rosseninsky, M. J. and Arcon, D. (2014) Size and symmetry of the superconducting gap in the f.c.c. Cs3C60 polymorph close to the metal-Mott insulator boundary. Scientific Reports, 4, 4265. (doi: 10.1038/srep04265) (PMID:24584087) (PMCID:PMC3939459)

2011

Bacsa, J., Ganin, A.Y. , Takabayashi, Y., Christensen, K.E., Prassides, K., Rosseinsky, M.J. and Claridge, J.B. (2011) Cation vacancy order in the K0.8+xFe1.6−ySe2 system: five-fold cell expansion accommodates 20% tetrahedral vacancies. Chemical Science, 2(6), pp. 1054-1058. (doi: 10.1039/c1sc00070e)

2010

Rabone, J. et al. (2010) An adaptable peptide-based porous material. Science, 329(5995), pp. 1053-1057. (doi: 10.1126/science.1190672)

Ganin, A.Y. et al. (2010) Polymorphism control of superconductivity and magnetism in Cs3C60 close to the Mott transition. Nature, 466(7303), pp. 221-225. (doi: 10.1038/nature09120)

2009

Takabayashi, Y. et al. (2009) The disorder-free non-BCS superconductor Cs3C60 emerges from an antiferromagnetic insulator parent state. Science, 323(5921), pp. 1585-1590. (doi: 10.1126/science.1169163)

2008

Ganin, A.Y. , Takabayashi, Y., Khimyak, Y.Z., Margadonna, S., Tamai, A., Rosseinsky, M.J. and Prassides, K. (2008) Bulk superconductivity at 38 K in a molecular system. Nature Materials, 7(5), pp. 367-371. (doi: 10.1038/nmat2179)

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Articles

Mehek, R., Iqbal, N., Noor, T., Wang, Y. and Ganin, A. Y. (2023) Efficient electrochemical performance of MnO2 nanowires interknitted vanadium oxide intercalated nanoporous carbon network as cathode for aqueous zinc ion battery. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 123, pp. 150-157. (doi: 10.1016/j.jiec.2023.03.031)

Lau, E. C. H. T., Åhlén, M., Cheung, O., Ganin, A. Y. , Smith, D. G.E. and Yiu, H. H. P. (2023) Gold-iron oxide (Au/Fe3O4) magnetic nanoparticles as the nanoplatform for binding of bioactive molecules through self-assembly. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 10, 1143190. (doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2023.1143190) (PMID:37051321) (PMCID:PMC10083301)

Sun, Y., Sviridova, E., Kamp, M., Zhang, J., Kienle, L., Moran, D. A.J. , Guselnikova, O. and Ganin, A. Y. (2023) Elucidating catalytic sites governing the performance toward the hydrogen evolution reaction in ternary nitride electrocatalysts. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 6(3), pp. 1265-1273. (doi: 10.1021/acsaem.2c02941)

Fraser, J. P. and Ganin, A. Y. (2022) The investigation of Mo3Sb7 and Mo3Sb7-xTex as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Results in Chemistry, 4, 100587. (doi: 10.1016/j.rechem.2022.100587)

Ganin, A. Y. and Symes, M. D. (2022) Towards the application of 2D metal dichalcogenides as hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts in proton exchange membrane electrolyzers. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 34, 101001. (doi: 10.1016/j.coelec.2022.101001)

Elliott, A., McAllister, J. , Masaityte, L., Segado Centellas, M., Long, D.-L. , Ganin, A. , Song, Y.-F., Bo, C. and Miras, H. N. (2022) Mechanistic insights of molecular metal polyselenides for catalytic hydrogen generation. Chemical Communications, 58(49), pp. 6906-6909. (doi: 10.1039/D2CC01226J) (PMID:35642784)

Chen, J.-J. et al. (2022) Effective storage of electrons in water by the formation of highly reduced polyoxometalate clusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(20), pp. 8951-8960. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c10584) (PMID:35536652)

Guselnikova, O., Fraser, J.P., Soldatova, N., Sviridova, E., Ivanov, A., Rodriguez, R., Ganin, A.Y. and Postnikov, P. (2022) The covalent functionalization of few-layered MoTe2 thin films with iodonium salts. Materials Today Chemistry, 24, 100846. (doi: 10.1016/j.mtchem.2022.100846)

Sun, Y., Wang, L., Guselnikova, O., Semyonov, O., Fraser, J., Zhou, Y., López, N. and Ganin, A. Y. (2022) Revealing the activity of Co3Mo3N and Co3Mo3N0.5 as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(2), pp. 855-861. (doi: 10.1039/D1TA08389A)

Best, M. G., Cunha-Reis, C., Ganin, A. Y. , Sousa, A., Johnston, J., Oliveira, A. L., Smith, D. G. E., Yiu, H. H. P. and Cooper, I. R. (2020) Antimicrobial properties of gallium(III)- and iron(III)-loaded polysaccharides affecting the growth of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, in vitro. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3(11), pp. 7589-7597. (doi: 10.1021/acsabm.0c00811)

Fraser, J. P., Postnikov, P., Miliutina, E., Kolska, Z., Valiev, R., Švorčík, V., Lyutakov, O., Ganin, A. Y. and Guselnikova, O. (2020) Application of a 2D molybdenum telluride in SERS-detection of biorelevant molecules. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(42), pp. 47774-47783. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c11231) (PMID:32985181)

Sun, Y. and Ganin, A. Y. (2020) The synergistic effects of alloying on the performance and stability of Co3Mo and Co7Mo6 for the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction. Hydrogen, 1(1), pp. 11-21. (doi: 10.3390/hydrogen1010002)

McGlynn, J. C., Friskey, M. and Ganin, A. Y. (2020) Parameter optimisation for electrochemically activated MoTe2. Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 4(9), pp. 4473-4477. (doi: 10.1039/D0SE00684J)

Fraser, J. P. et al. (2020) Selective phase growth and precise-layer control in MoTe2. Communications Materials, 1, 48. (doi: 10.1038/s43246-020-00048-4)

Lau, E. C.H.T., Carvalho, L. B., Pereira, A. E.S., Montanha, G. S., Corrêa, C. G., Carvalho, H. W.P., Ganin, A. Y. , Fraceto, L. and Yiu, H. H.P. (2020) Localization of coated iron oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles on tomato seeds and their effects on growth. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3(7), pp. 4109-4117. (doi: 10.1021/acsabm.0c00216)

Tevlek, A., Atya, A. M.N., Almemar, M., Duman, M., Gokcen, D., Ganin, A. Y. , Yiu, H. H.P. and Aydin, H. M. (2020) Synthesis of conductive carbon aerogels decorated with β-tricalcium phosphate nanocrystallites. Scientific Reports, 10, 5758. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62822-1) (PMID:32238872) (PMCID:PMC7113289)

Lomax, B. A., Conti, M., Khan, N., Bennett, N. S., Ganin, A. Y. and Symes, M. D. (2020) Proving the viability of an electrochemical process for the simultaneous extraction of oxygen and production of metal alloys from lunar regolith. Planetary and Space Science, 180, 104748. (doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2019.104748)

McGlynn, J. C. et al. (2019) The rapid electrochemical activation of MoTe2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Nature Communications, 10, 4916. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12831-0) (PMID:31664018) (PMCID:PMC6820771)

McAllister, J., Bandeira, N. A.G., McGlynn, J. C., Ganin, A. Y. , Song, Y.-F., Bo, C. and Miras, H. N. (2019) Tuning and mechanistic insights of metal chalcogenide molecular catalysts for the hydrogen-evolution reaction. Nature Communications, 10, 370. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-08208-4) (PMID:30670694) (PMCID:PMC6342911)

Koltsov, I., Smalc-Koziorowska, J., Prześniak-Welenc, M., Małysa, M., Kimmel, G., McGlynn, J., Ganin, A. and Stelmakh, S. (2018) Mechanism of reduced sintering temperature of Al2O3–ZrO2 nanocomposites obtained by microwave hydrothermal synthesis. Materials, 11(5), 829. (doi: 10.3390/ma11050829)

Crawford, K. G. , Qi, D., McGlynn, J., Ivanov, T. G., Shah, P. B., Weil, J., Tallaire, A., Ganin, A. Y. and Moran, D. A.J. (2018) Thermally stable, high performance transfer doping of diamond using transition metal oxides. Scientific Reports, 8, 3342. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21579-4) (PMID:29463823) (PMCID:PMC5820251)

McGlynn, J. C., Cascallana-Matías, I., Fraser, J. P., Roger, I., McAllister, J. , Miras, H. N. , Symes, M. D. and Ganin, A. Y. (2018) Molybdenum ditelluride rendered into an efficient and stable electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction by polymorphic control. Energy Technology, 6(2), pp. 345-350. (doi: 10.1002/ente.201700489)

Romero, F. D. et al. (2017) Redox-controlled potassium intercalation into two polyaromatic hydrocarbon solids. Nature Chemistry, 9(7), pp. 644-652. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2765)

Sneddon, G., McGlynn, J. C., Neumann, M. S., Aydin, H. M., Yiu, H. H.P. and Ganin, A. Y. (2017) Aminated poly(vinyl chloride) solid state adsorbents with hydrophobic function for post-combustion CO2 capture. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(23), pp. 11864-11872. (doi: 10.1039/C7TA00389G)

Roger, I., Moca, R., Miras, H. , Crawford, K. G., Moran, D. A.J. , Ganin, A. Y. and Symes, M. D. (2017) The direct hydrothermal deposition of cobalt-doped MoS2 onto fluorine-doped SnO2 substrates for catalysis of the electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(4), pp. 1472-1480. (doi: 10.1039/C6TA08287D)

Sneddon, G., Ganin, A. Y. and Yiu, H. H.P. (2015) Sustainable CO2 adsorbents prepared by coating chitosan onto mesoporous silicas for large-scale carbon capture technology. Energy Technology, 3(3), pp. 249-258. (doi: 10.1002/ente.201402211)

Zadik, R. H. et al. (2015) Optimized unconventional superconductivity in a molecular Jahn-Teller metal. Science Advances, 1(3), e1500059. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1500059)

Kasahara, Y., Takeuchi, Y., Itou, T., Zadik, R.H., Takabayashi, Y., Ganin, A.Y. , Arčon, D., Rosseinsky, M.J., Prassides, K. and Iwasa, Y. (2014) Spin frustration and magnetic ordering in theS=12molecular antiferromagnetfcc−Cs3C60. Physical Review B, 90, 014413. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.014413)

McLennan, A. G., Ganin, A. Y. , Takabayashi, Y., Colman, R. H., Zadik, R. H., Rosseinsky, M. J. and Prassides, K. (2014) Synthesis of face-centred cubic Cs3C60 in THF. Faraday Discussions, 173, pp. 95-103. (doi: 10.1039/C4FD00085D) (PMID:25324044)

Potocnick, A., Ganin, A.Y. , Takabayashi, Y., McDonald, M.T., Heinmaa, I., Jeglic, P., Stern, R., Rosseinsky, M.J., Prassides, K. and Arcon, D. (2014) Jahn-Teller orbital glass state in the expanded fcc Cs3C60 fulleride. Chemical Science, 5(8), pp. 3008-3017. (doi: 10.1039/c4sc00670d)

Potocnik, A., Krajnc, A., Jeglic, P., Takabayashi, Y., Ganin, A. , Prassides, K., Rosseninsky, M. J. and Arcon, D. (2014) Size and symmetry of the superconducting gap in the f.c.c. Cs3C60 polymorph close to the metal-Mott insulator boundary. Scientific Reports, 4, 4265. (doi: 10.1038/srep04265) (PMID:24584087) (PMCID:PMC3939459)

Bacsa, J., Ganin, A.Y. , Takabayashi, Y., Christensen, K.E., Prassides, K., Rosseinsky, M.J. and Claridge, J.B. (2011) Cation vacancy order in the K0.8+xFe1.6−ySe2 system: five-fold cell expansion accommodates 20% tetrahedral vacancies. Chemical Science, 2(6), pp. 1054-1058. (doi: 10.1039/c1sc00070e)

Rabone, J. et al. (2010) An adaptable peptide-based porous material. Science, 329(5995), pp. 1053-1057. (doi: 10.1126/science.1190672)

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Ganin, A.Y. , Takabayashi, Y., Khimyak, Y.Z., Margadonna, S., Tamai, A., Rosseinsky, M.J. and Prassides, K. (2008) Bulk superconductivity at 38 K in a molecular system. Nature Materials, 7(5), pp. 367-371. (doi: 10.1038/nmat2179)

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Grants

EP/W03333X/1 "Supported MoTe2: proving the viability of a 2D material to be employed in the PEM flow cell for the hydrogen production"

NZTC, Spark-2069 “Membrane Free Electrolysis of Seawater with direct CO2 capture”

EP/P001653/1: "Modular assembly of high temperature superconductors from dimensionally reduced iron-based chalcogenide blocks"

 

Supervision

  • Khungwa, Jessie
    Carbon nanomaterials and transition metal chalcogenides for energy conversion and storage
  • Maini, Isha
    Development of advanced transfer doping processes in diamond for high performance electronic applications
  • McFadzean, Ross
    Microwaves in situ; rapid materials synthesis probed in real time with neutrons
  • Qu, Chunlin
    Hydrogen-terminated diamond based electronic devices
  • Zhang, Jingyi
    Production and characterization of new 2D materials for electronic applications

Teaching

Head of Materials Chemistry Programme

Research datasets

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Number of items: 2.

2019

McGlynn, J., Dankwort, T., Keinle, L., Bandeira, N. A.G., Fraser, J. P., Gibson, E. K., Cascallana-Matias, I., Kamaras, K., Symes, M. , Miras, H. N. and Ganin, A. (2019) The rapid electrochemical activation of MoTe2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction. [Data Collection]

2016

Roger, I., Moca, R., Moiras, H., Crawford, K. G., Moran, D., Ganin, A. and Symes, M. (2016) The Direct Hydrothermal Deposition of Cobalt-Doped MoS2 onto Fluorine-Doped SnO2 Substrates for Catalysis of the Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)

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