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A National Electron Diffraction Facility For Nanomaterial Structural Studies

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Simon Coles

Professor of Structural Chemistry
Research interests
  • The work we do is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary and can broadly be split into th…
  • 1) National Crystallography Service (NCS, www.ncs.ac.uk) & Physical Sciences Data-science…
  • 2) Structural Chemistry We have an interest in determining the mechanisms of solid-state rea…
Connect with Simon

Email: sjc5@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Mark Light

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Single crystal X-ray diffraction
  • Powder and materials X-ray diffraction
  • Total scattering and pair distribution function analysis
Connect with Mark

Email: M.E.Light@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

A flexible copper MOF as a carboxylate-specific crystalline sponge for structure solution using X-ray and electron diffraction
Russell M. Main, Daniel N. Rainer, Marta Bauzá, Romy Ettlinger, Nicole L. Kelly, Simon J. Coles, Sharon E. Ashbrook & Russell E. Morris, 2026, Chemical Science, 17(2), 1116-1126
DOI: 10.1039/d5sc05651a
Type: article
Crystallizing the ncrystallizable: Insights from extensive screening of PROTACs
Martin A. Screen, James F. McCabe, Sean Askin, Jamie L. Guest, Paul Hodgkinson, Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza, Toby J. Blundell, Daniel N. Rainer, Simon J. Coles, Alexandra Longcake, Michael R. Probert, Clare S. Mahon, Mark R. Wilson & Jonathan W. Steed, 2025, JACS AU, 147(31), 28056–28072
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c07977
Type: article
Structure-property relationships in disodium anthracene dicarboxylate for sodium-ion storage via 3D electron diffraction
Aamod V. Desai, Heitor S. Seleghini, Daniel N. Rainer, Maximillian G. Stanzione, David B. Cordes, Oxana V. Magdysyuk, Aidan P. McKay, Simon J. Coles, Sharon E. Ashbrook, Russell E. Morris & A. Robert Armstrong, 2025, Chemical Communications, 61(61), 11433-11436
DOI: 10.1039/d5cc03175c
Type: article
Synthesis and crystal structures of two related Co and Mn complexes: a celebration of collaboration between the universities of Dakar and Southampton
James B. Orton, Ngone Diouf, Rokhaya S. Gueye, Mohamed Gaye, Ibrahima Elhadji Thiam & Simon J. Coles, 2023, Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, 79(Pt 12), 1109-1114
DOI: 10.1107/S2056989023009805
Type: article