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Biography
Dr Stephen Argent obtained a PhD on the topic of Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry at the Universities of Bristol and Sheffield. He obtained his MNatSci (Chem) at the University of Birmingham. He previously held positions as a Senior Research Fellow at the Universities of Nottingham and Warwick. He has been the manager of the Chemical Crystallography Service and lecturer in Solid State Chemistry at the University of Nottingham since 2019.
Expertise Summary
Crystallography for characterisation of small molecules and materials
X-Ray Diffraction
Coordination Chemistry
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
Metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs)
Metallo-coordination cages
Supramolecular Chemistry
Porous materials for gas adsorption and separation
Teaching Summary
Current courses
CHEM2017 (Solid State Chemistry)
Previous courses
CHEM3003 (Supramolecular Metal Coordination Chemistry)
Research Summary
My current role is to assist and collaborate with researchers in the School of Chemistry with their work requiring single crystal and powder crystalline X-ray diffraction methods. My personal… read more
Selected Publications
ARGENT, S. P., GREENAWAY, A., GIMENEZ-LOPEZ, M. D., LEWIS, W., NOWELL, H., KHLOBYSTOV, A. N., BLAKE, A. J., CHAMPNESS, N. R. and SCHRODER, M., 2012. High-Nuclearity Metal-Organic Nanospheres: A Cd-66 Ball Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(1), 55-58 ARGENT, STEPHEN P., ADAMS, HARRY, RIIS-JOHANNESSEN, THOMAS, JEFFERY, JOHN C., HARDING, LINDSAY P. and WARD, MICHAEL D., 2006. High-nuclearity Homoleptic and Heteroleptic Coordination Cages Based on Tetra-Capped Truncated Tetrahedral and Cuboctahedral Metal Frameworks: J. Am. Chem. Soc. J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 128(1), 72-73 ARGENT, S. P., TARASSOVA, I., GREENAWAY, A., NOWELL, H., BARNETT, S. A., WARREN, M. R., TANG, C. C., MORRIS, C. G., LEWIS, W., CHAMPNESS, N. R., SCHRODER, M. and BLAKE, A. J., 2016. Assembly of high nuclearity clusters from a family of tripodal tris-carboxylate ligands Polyhedron. 120, 18-29 ARGENT, STEPHEN P., JACKSON, FIONA C., CHAN, HO MAN, MEYRICK, SAM, TAYLOR, CHRISTOPHER G. P., RONSON, TANYA K., ROURKE, JONATHAN P. and WARD, MICHAEL D., 2020. A family of diastereomeric dodecanuclear coordination cages based on inversion of chirality of individual triangular cyclic helicate faces: Chem. Sci. Chem. Sci.. 11(37), 10167-10174
Current Research
My current role is to assist and collaborate with researchers in the School of Chemistry with their work requiring single crystal and powder crystalline X-ray diffraction methods. My personal interest is in the self-assembly of metallo-supramolecular coordination molecules and materials.
Past Research
I have previously worked in the reserch groups of Prof. Michael D. Ward (Sheffield and Warwick), Prof. Neil R. Champness (Nottingham), Prof. Martin Schröder (Nottingham) and Prof. Alexander J. Blake (Nottingham).