School of Chemistry

Dr Laia Vila-Nadal

Lecturer in Molecular Metal Oxide Chemistry (School of Chemistry)

telephone: 01413303454
email: Laia.Vila-Nadal@glasgow.ac.uk

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7718-7227

Research interests

A 3.5 years PhD studentship is currently available to work in LVN group applying the concept of ‘materials by design’ to metal oxide chemistry synthesis. For further details, please follow the link. Deadline 8 March. Start October 2020. UK-home/EU applicants only. We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated person with good interpersonal skills and a keen interest in research.

Research in the LVN group centres in understanding the self-assembly mechanisms of inorganic metal oxide materials, aiming to design new materials with diverse applications, for instance, in energy storage, molecular electronics and sensing, etc. We aim to combine theory and simulations with experimental research to discover new molecules, describing their electronic structure, and describing new properties. We are interested in using robotics and 3D-printed reactionware with inorganic systems, with the ultimate goal of being able to program the assembly of new materials with properties (e.g. water oxidation catalysis and energy storage materials). We would like to combine those novel synthetic methods with theoretical predictions of some parameters, such as IR, UV-vis, together with real time measurements. That approach would mean achieving an effective navigation through the chemical space, defined by the chemical reactants, and allow for a greater parameter control in the synthesis, and ultimately the digitalization of chemistry.

We are constantly seeking new members with a broad range of experience – please contact Dr Vilà-Nadal by email for more information and see our website for current vacancies.

Selected publications:

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 9379–9382. (link)
Nat. Rev. Mat., 2017,2, 17054. (link)
J. Am. Chem. Soc.,2016,28, 8765–8773. (link)
Nature,2014, 515, 545–549. (link)
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 5452–5456. (link)

Publications

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Number of items: 33.

2019

Zhan, C.-H., Zheng, Q., Long, D.-L. , Vila-Nadal, L. and Cronin, L. (2019) Controlling the reactivity of the [P8W48O184]40– inorganic ring and its assembly into POMZite inorganic frameworks with silver ions. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), (doi: 10.1002/ange.201911170) (PMID:31538679) (Early Online Publication)

Janusson, E. , de Kler, N., Vilà-Nadal, L. , Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2019) Synthesis of polyoxometalate clusters using carbohydrates as reducing agents leads to isomer-selection. Chemical Communications, 55(41), pp. 5797-5800. (doi: 10.1039/C9CC02361E) (PMID:31041957)

2018

Miras, H. N. , Vilà-Nadal, L. and Cronin, L. (2018) Correction: Polyoxometalate based open-frameworks (POM-OFs). Chemical Society Reviews, 47(17), p. 6890. (doi: 10.1039/c8cs90091d) (PMID:30067251)

Christie, L. G. , Asche, S., Mathieson, J. S., Vila-Nadal, L. and Cronin, L. (2018) Investigating the formation of giant {Pd72}Prop and {Pd84}Gly macrocycles using NMR, HPLC and mass spectrometry. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(30), pp. 9379-9382. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b05059) (PMID:30005574)

Georgiev, V. P. , Vila-Nadal, L. , Cronin, L. and Asenov, A. (2018) Molecular Based Flash Cell for Low Power Flash Application: Optimization and Variability Evaluation. In: IEEE 12th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC 2017), Singapore, 2-4 Oct 2017, pp. 64-65. ISBN 9781538627723 (doi:10.1109/NMDC.2017.8350505)

Martin-Sabi, M., Soriano-López, J., Winter, R. S., Chen, J.-J., Vilà-Nadal, L. , Long, D.-L. , Galán-Mascarós, J. R. and Cronin, L. (2018) Redox tuning the Weakley-type polyoxometalate archetype for the oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Catalysis, 1(3), pp. 208-213. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-018-0037-1) (PMID:30079397) (PMCID:PMC6075698)

Zheng, Q., Vilà-Nadal, L. , Lang, Z., Chen, J.-j., Long, D.-L. , Mathieson, J. S., Poblet, J. M. and Cronin, L. (2018) Self-sorting of heteroanions in the assembly of cross-shaped polyoxometalate clusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(7), pp. 2595-2601. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b11982) (PMID:29359931) (PMCID:PMC6075695)

2017

Vilà-Nadal, L. and Cronin, L. (2017) Design and synthesis of polyoxometalate-framework materials from cluster precursors. Nature Reviews Materials, 2, 17054. (doi: 10.1038/natrevmats.2017.54)

Vila-Nadal, L. and Cronin, L. (2017) Self-assembly of molecular metal oxide nanoclusters. In: Dronskowski, R., Kikkawa, S. and Stein, A. (eds.) Handbook of Solid State Chemistry. Wiley: Weinheim. ISBN 9783527325870 (doi:10.1002/9783527691036.hsscvol4003)

Zhan, C. et al. (2017) A metamorphic inorganic framework that can be switched between eight single-crystalline states. Nature Communications, 8, 14185. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms14185) (PMID:28194009) (PMCID:PMC5316803)

2016

Cameron, J. M., Vilà-Nadal, L. , Winter, R. S., Iijima, F., Murillo, J. C., Rodríguez-Fortea, A., Oshio, H., Poblet, J. M. and Cronin, L. (2016) Investigating the transformations of polyoxoanions using mass spectrometry and molecular dynamics. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(28), pp. 8765-8773. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b02245) (PMID:27321042)

2015

Sartzi, H., Miras, H. N. , Vila-Nadal, L. , Long, D. L. and Cronin, L. (2015) Trapping the δ isomer of the polyoxometalate-based Keggin cluster with a tripodal ligand. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 54(51), pp. 15488-15492. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201505377) (PMID:26511859)

Zheng, Q., Vila-Nadal, L. , Busche, C., Mathieson, J. S., Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2015) Following the reaction of heteroanions inside a {W18O56} polyoxometalate nanocage by NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 127(27), pp. 8006-8010. (doi: 10.1002/ange.201502295)

Georgiev, V. P. , Amoroso, S. M., Ali, T. M., Vila-Nadal, L. , Busche, C., Cronin, L. and Asenov, A. (2015) Comparison between bulk and FDSOI POM flash cell: a multiscale simulation study. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 62(2), pp. 680-684. (doi: 10.1109/TED.2014.2378378)

2014

Busche, C. et al. (2014) Design and fabrication of memory devices based on nanoscale polyoxometalate clusters. Nature, 515(7528), pp. 545-549. (doi: 10.1038/nature13951) (PMID:25409147)

Miras, H. N. , Vilà-Nadal, L. and Cronin, L. (2014) Polyoxometalate based open-frameworks (POM-OFs). Chemical Society Reviews, 43(16), pp. 5679-5699. (doi: 10.1039/c4cs00097h) (PMID:25005364)

Georgiev, V. P. , Markov, S., Vila-Nadal, L. , Busche, C., Cronin, L. and Asenov, A. (2014) Optimization and evaluation of variability in the programming window of a flash cell with molecular metal-oxide storage. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 61(6), pp. 2019-2026. (doi: 10.1109/TED.2014.2315520)

Cameron, J. M., Gao, J., Vila-Nadal, L. , Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2014) Formation, self-assembly and transformation of a transient selenotungstate building block into clusters, chains and macrocycles. Chemical Communications, 50(17), pp. 2155-2157. (doi: 10.1039/C3CC49293A)

Georgiev, V. P. , Amoroso, S. M., Vila-Nadal, L. , Busche, C., Cronin, L. and Asenov, A. (2014) FDSOI Molecular Flash Cell with Reduced Variability for Low Power Flash Applications. In: 44th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC), Venice, Italy, 22-26 Sep 2014, pp. 353-356. ISBN 9781479943760 (doi:10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948833)

2013

Vilà-Nadal, L. , Mitchell, S. G., Markov, S., Busche, C., Georgiev, V. , Asenov, A. and Cronin, L. (2013) Towards polyoxometalate-cluster-based nano-electronics. Chemistry: A European Journal, 19(49), pp. 16502-16511. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201301631)

Vilà-Nadal, L. , Peuntinger, K., Busche, C., Yan, J., Lüders, D., Long, D. , Poblet, J.M., Guldi, D.M. and Cronin, L. (2013) Polyoxometalate {W18O56XO6} clusters with embedded redox-active main-group templates as localized inner-cluster radicals. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 52(37), pp. 9695-9699. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201303126)

Georgiev, V. P. , Markov, S., Vilà-Nadal, L. , Asenov, A. and Cronin, L. (2013) Molecular-Metal-Oxide-nanoelectronicS (M-MOS): Achieving the Molecular Limit. In: 16th International Workshop on Computational Electronics, Nara, Japan, 4-7 June 2013, ISBN 9783901578267

Georgiev, V. P. , Markov, S., Vila-Nadal, L. , Busche, C., Cronin, L. and Asenov, A. (2013) Multi-scale computational framework for the evaluation of variability in the programing window of a flash cell with molecular storage. In: 2013 Proceedings of the European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC), Bucharest, Romania, 16-20 Sep 2013, pp. 230-233. (doi:10.1109/ESSDERC.2013.6818861)

2012

Vilà-Nadal, L. , Romo, S., López, X. and Poblet, J. M. (2012) Structural and electronic features of Wells-Dawson polyoxometalates. In: Hill, C. and Musaev, D. G. (eds.) Complexity in Chemistry and Beyond: Interplay Theory and Experiment. Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, pp. 171-183. ISBN 9789400755475 (doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5548-2_10)

Vilá-Nadal, L. , Mitchell, S.G., Long, D.L. , Rodríguez-Fortea, A., López, X., Poblet, J.M. and Cronin, L. (2012) Exploring the rotational isomerism in non-classical Wells–Dawson anions {W18X}:: a combined theoretical and mass spectrometry study. Dalton Transactions, 41(8), pp. 2264-2271. (doi: 10.1039/c2dt11919f)

2011

Vila-Nadal, L. , Wilson, E.F., Miras, H.N. , Rodriguez-Fortea, A., Cronin, L. and Poblet, J.M. (2011) Combined theoretical and mass spectrometry study of the formation-fragmentation of small polyoxomolybdates. Inorganic Chemistry, 50(16), pp. 7811-7819. (doi: 10.1021/ic200969h)

Vilà-Nadal, L. , Mitchell, S.G., Rodríguez-Fortea, A., Miras, H.N. , Cronin, L. and Poblet, J.M. (2011) Connecting theory with experiment to understand the initial nucleation steps of heteropolyoxometalate clusters. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(45), pp. 20136-20145. (doi: 10.1039/c1cp21209e)

2010

Vilà-Nadal, L. , Sarasa, J. P., Rodríguez-Fortea, A., Igual, J., Kazansky, L. P. and Poblet, J. M. (2010) Towards the accurate calculation of 183W NMR chemical shifts in polyoxometalates: the relevance of the structure. Chemistry: An Asian Journal, 5(1), pp. 97-104. (doi: 10.1002/asia.200900263)

López, X., Vilà-Nadal, L. , Aparicio-Anglès, X. and Poblet, J. M. (2010) Theoretical view on the origin and implications of structural distortions in polyoxometalates. Physics Procedia, 8, pp. 94-103. (doi: 10.1016/j.phpro.2010.10.018)

McGlone, T., Vilà-Nadal, L. , Miras, H.N. , Long, D.L. , Poblet, J.M. and Cronin, L. (2010) Assembly of titanium embedded polyoxometalates with unprecedented structural features. Dalton Transactions, 39(48), pp. 11599-11604. (doi: 10.1039/c0dt01327g)

2009

Vilà-Nadal, L. , Rodríguez-Fortea, A. and Poblet, J. M. (2009) Theoretical analysis of the possible intermediates in the formation of [W6O19]2–. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2009(34), pp. 5125-5133. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.200900714)

Vilá-Nadal, L. , Rodriguez-Fortea, A., Yan, L.K., Wilson, E.F., Cronin, L. and Poblet, J.M. (2009) Nucleation mechanisms of molecular oxides: a study of the assembly-dissassembly of [W6O19]2- by theory and mass spectrometry. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 48(30), pp. 5452-5456. (doi: 10.1002/anie.200901348)

2008

Rodríguez-Fortea, A., Vilà-Nadal, L. and Poblet, J. M. (2008) Hydration of hydrogentungstate anions at different pH conditions: a Car−Parrinello molecular dynamics study. Inorganic Chemistry, 47(17), pp. 7745-7750. (doi: 10.1021/ic8007766)

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