skip to content
Home

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

Professor Jacek Klinowski

Our main interest is in the relationship between the structure and properties of solids. We study the geometric reasons for the chemical activity of solids and the relationship between local order and physical properties, using mathematical techniques and computer graphics. We use solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) to examine molecular sieves, minerals, layered materials, fullerenes, ceramics and biological materials.

The G minimal surface divides space into two interpenetrating labyrinths (coloured red and green).

Specific projects:

  • Periodic minimal surfaces (surfaces with zero mean curvature), which appear in a variety of inorganic, organic and biological structures, and the associated mathematical problems.
  • Morphogenesis (the origin of shape and form).
  • Systematic enumeration of crystalline networks using mathematical tiling theory.
  • Graphite, graphite oxide and graphene.
  • Synthesis and characterization of microporous and mesoporous molecular sieves.
  • Synthesis and characterization of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

Selected Publications

Hypothetical zeolitic frameworks: In search of potential heterogeneous catalysts. J. Phys. Chem. 112, 1040 (2008)

Low-temperature thermal decomposition of large single crystals of ammonium perchlorate. Chem. Phys. Lett. 454, 233 (2008)

Simulating self-assembly of ZnS nanoparticles into mesoporous materials. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 15283 (2006)

Cross-polarization in the solid state. A guide for chemists. Chem. Rev. 102, 613 (2002)

Synthesis and characterization of a new layered compound of trimesic acid. New Journal of Chemistry 26, 381 (2002)

Exact computation of the triply periodic G ('gyroid") minimal surface. Chem. Phys. Lett. 321, 363 (2000)

Systematic enumeration of crystalline networks. Nature 400, 644 (1999)

Structural studies of tabasheer, an opal of plant origin. Phil. Mag. A 77, 201 (1998)

Structure of graphite oxide revisited. J. Phys. Chem. B102, 4477 (1998)

Solid-state NMR studies of fullerene C60/benzene solvates. J. Phys. Chem. B101, 117 (1997)

New rapidly convergent series representations for z (2 n + 1). Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 125, 1263 (1997)

Directing the pore dimensions in the mesoporous molecular sieve MCM-41. Chem. Phys. Lett. 263, 247 (1996)

Taboo Search: an approach to the multiple-minima problem. Science, 267, 664 (1995)

Publications

Solid‐state NMR studies of the structure and reactivity of molecular sieve catalysts
J KLINOWSKI, MW ANDERSON
– Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry
(2005)
28,
S68
(doi: 10.1002/mrc.1260281313)
Synthesis, characterisation and magnetic properties of cobalt (II) complexes with 3-hydroxypicolinic acid (HpicOH): [Co(picOH)2(H 2O)2] and mer-[N(CH3)4][Co(picOH) 3]·H2O
PI Girginova, FAA Paz, HIS Nogueira, NJO Silva, VS Amaral, J Klinowski, T Trindade
– Polyhedron
(2005)
24,
563
(doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2005.01.002)
Synthesis, characterisation and magnetic properties of copper(II) complexes with 3-hydroxypicolinic acid (HpicOH): The crystal structure of [Cu(picOH) 2(BPE)]2·[Cu(picOH)2(BPE) 2]·8H2O
PI Girginova, FAA Paz, HIS Nogueira, NJO Silva, VS Amaral, J Klinowski, T Trindade
– Journal of Molecular Structure
(2005)
737,
221
(doi: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2004.10.035)
Synthesis and characterisation of a new vanadyl oxalatophosphate compound: (C10H10N2)[(VO)(HPO4)](2)(C2O4)
FN Shi, FAA Paz, J Rocha, J Klinowski, T Trindade
– Inorganica Chimica Acta
(2005)
358,
927
(doi: 10.1016/j.ica.2004.10.017)
A lanthanum(III) complex with a lacunary polyoxotungstate: Na-2(NH4)(7)[La(W5O18)(2)]center dot 16H(2)O
FAA Paz, MSS Balula, AMV Cavaleiro, J Klinowski, HIS Nogueira
– Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications
(2005)
61,
i28
(doi: 10.1107/s1600536805003557)
Characterisation and evaluation of hypothetical zeolite frameworks
RG Bell, MD Foster, A Simperler, J Klinowski
– Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis
(2004)
154 B,
1222
(link to publication)
13C and 2DWISE NMR studies of the host mobility in two aromatic complexes of p-tert-butyl-calixarene
F Benevelli, YZ Khimyak, J Klinowski
– Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry
(2004)
49,
211
(doi: 10.1023/b:jiph.0000048308.83216.ac)
Magic-angle spinning: a historical perspective.
JW Hennel, J Klinowski
– Top Curr Chem
(2004)
246,
1
(doi: 10.1007/b98646)
Novel cerium(IV) heteropolyoxotungstate containing two types of lacunary Keggin anions
FL Sousa, FA Almeida Paz, AMV Cavaleiro, J Klinowski, HIS Nogueira
– Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2004)
2656
(doi: 10.1039/b409034a)
Hydrothermal synthesis and structural characterization of a novel cadmium-organic framework
FAA Paz, J Klinowski
– Journal of Solid State Chemistry
(2004)
177,
3423
(doi: 10.1016/j.jssc.2004.05.022)
  • <
  • 7 of 47
  • >

Research Group

Email address

jk18@cam.ac.uk

College

Peterhouse

    Study at Cambridge

    About the University

    Research at Cambridge