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Richard Winpenny obtained both his degrees from Imperial College, London. His PhD research was carried out with Prof David Goodgame and looked at metal-organic frameworks before they were called metal-organic frameworks. His post-doctoral work was carried out with Prof John Fackler, Jr at Texas A&M University, in 1988 and 1989, and involved the mass spectrometry of gold clusters.
He joined the academic staff at Edinburgh in 1990, and moved to Manchester in 2000 as the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry.
Associate Dean for Research within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences from Sept 2008 to April 2010.
Director of the Photon Science Institute from October 2009 to April 2014.
Head of School of Chemistry from August 2014 to April 2018.
Awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award in 2009 and the RSC Tilden Medal in 2011. Elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2016. Winner of three RSC Prizes - the Tilden Prize (2011), Ludwig Mond Medal (2016) and the RSC Prize for Emerging Technologies in the area of materials (2016).
Awarded an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship from January 2018 - December 2022 and an ERC Advanced Fellowship September 2018 - August 2022.
Research interests
Our research involves the synthesis and study of polymetallic cage complexes. Much of our work involves molecular magnetism, and we have developed many 3d- and 4f-single molecule magnets. We have also developed heterometallic rings as possible qubits for quantum information processing. More recently we have been using this skill to model corrosion and inhibition processes.
Keywords: coordination chemistry; molecular magnetism; inorganic synthesis; chromium; lanthanides; supramolecular chemistry; nanoscience
Much more detail and pretty pictures are given on the Molecular Magnets homepage:
http://www.molmag.manchester.ac.uk/
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Manchester Energy
- Energy
- Digital Futures
- Photon Science Institute
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Direct characterisation of mJ = ± 15/2 ground state in octahedral Dy(III) single-molecule magnets
Parmar, V. S., Gransbury, G. K., Corner, S. C., Chou, W.-H., Hill, S., Winpenny, R. E. P., Chilton, N. F. & Mills, D. P., 17 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Dalton Transactions.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rare Earth Benzene Tetraanion-Bridged Amidinate Complexes
Jin, P.-B., Luo, Q.-C., Gransbury, G., Winpenny, R., Mills, D. & Zheng, Y.-Z., 1 Jan 2025, In: Chemical Science.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Structural Characterisation and Dynamics of a Paramagnetic {Cr12Ni3} Seahorse in Non-Crystalline Phases
Geue, N., Hicks, E., Lockyer, S., Nawaz, S., Churchill, O., Whitehead, G., Timco, G., Burton, N., Barran, P. & Winpenny, R., 15 Feb 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Characterizing X-ray and Solution State Conformations for a Model Qubit System: {Cr7Ni} Ring Rotaxanes on a Mixed Metal Triangle
Loci, L., Lockyer, S., Bennett, T., Rogers, C., Brookfield, A., Timco, G., Whitehead, G., Nawaz, S., Miller, J. J., Winpenny, R. & Bowen, A., 22 Oct 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Inorganic Chemistry .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Citric acid is more effective than sodium thiosulfate in chelating calcium in a dissolution model of calcinosis
Burgess, K., Winpenny, R., Saiani, A., Miller, A., Herrick, A. & Watson, R., 28 Dec 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 30645.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Direct Writing of Nanodevices: A Sustainable Route to Nanofabrication
Lewis, D. (PI), Boland, J. (CoI), Winpenny, R. (CoI) & Spink, G. (Support team)
1/05/23 → 30/04/26
Project: Research
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CCDC 1016990: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Novikov, V. V. (Creator), Pavlov, A. A. (Creator), Nelyubina, Y. V. (Creator), Boulon, M.-E. (Creator), Varzatskii, O. A. (Creator), Voloshin, Y. Z. (Creator) & Winpenny, R. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 30 Jul 2014
DOI: 10.5517/cc13484n
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CCDC 1021140: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Larsen, F. K. (Creator), Overgaard, J. (Creator), Christensen, M. (Creator), McIntyre, G. J. (Creator), Timco, G. (Creator) & Winpenny, R. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 25 Aug 2014
DOI: 10.5517/cc138l0z
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CCDC 1048485: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Overgaard, J. (Creator), Walsh, J. (Creator), Hathwar, V. R. (Creator), Hoffman, C. (Creator), Platts, J. A. (Creator), Piltz, R. (Creator) & Winpenny, R. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 5 Feb 2015
DOI: 10.5517/cc14613h
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CCDC 990656: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Chiesa, A. (Creator), Whitehead, G. (Creator), Carretta, S. (Creator), Carthy, L. (Creator), Timco, G. (Creator), Teat, S. J. (Creator), Amoretti, G. (Creator), Pavarini, E. (Creator), Winpenny, R. (Creator) & Santini, P. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 7 Mar 2014
DOI: 10.5517/cc127vnt
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CCDC 156925: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Thompson, L. K. (Contributor), Matthews, C. J. (Contributor), Zhao, L. (Contributor), Xu, Z. (Contributor), Miller, D. O. (Contributor), Wilson, C. (Contributor), Leech, M. A. (Contributor), Howard, J. A. K. (Contributor), Heath, S. (Contributor), Whittaker, A. G. (Contributor) & Winpenny, R. (Contributor), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 1 Jan 2001
DOI: 10.5517/cc5893t, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/cc5893t&sid=DataCite
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