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EPSRC Grant success for Emma McCabe and John Evans

(29 February 2012)

Congratulations to John Evans and Emma McCabe for winning a £360k EPSRC grant in collaboration with Stewart Clark from Physics and partners from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US.  This grant continues earlier EPSRC-funded work on the electronic and magnetic properties of new oxychalcogenide phases for a further 3 years.

The project will build on work in John's group on the synthesis of various new oxychalcogenide materials such as Bi₂YO₄Cu₂Se₂ (see figure), Ln₂O₂Q₂M₂O (Ln = lanthanide, Q = S/Se, M = transition metal) and Ln₂O₂Q₂M systems.  Several of these materials are closely related to the LnOFeAs iron-based superconductors, which have superconducting critical temperatures up to ~56 K.  The team will aim to prepare new materials and use a combination of experimental and theoretical methods to elucidate their structural, electronic and magnetic properties.