Jacqui Cole Explained

Jacqui Cole
Birth Name:Jacqueline Manina Cole
Alma Mater:Durham University (BSc, PhD)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Open University (BEng)
Fields:Molecular engineering
Dye-sensitized solar cells
Non linear optical materials
Photoisomerism
Optomechanical transduction
Thesis Title:Structural studies of organic and organometallic compounds using x-ray and neutron techniques
Thesis Url:http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5031/
Thesis Year:1997
Awards:Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2001)[1]
Doctoral Advisor:Judith Howard
Workplaces:University of Cambridge
University of Kent

Jacqueline Manina Cole is the Head of the Molecular Engineering group in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Her research considers the design of functional materials for optoelectronic applications.

Early life and education

Cole earned her first degree in chemistry at Durham University in 1994. She remained there for her graduate studies, completing a PhD in 1997 (Grey College).[2] Her thesis, Structural studies of organic and organometallic compounds using x-ray and neutron techniques, described the structure-property relationships of non-linear optical materials, including studies of transition metal complexes.[3] [4] She was supervised by Judith Howard.

Cole was appointed a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Kent, where she worked on the structure of amorphous materials.[5] Cole moved to the University of Cambridge as a Junior Research Fellow in St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 2001.[6] Here she began to investigate photo-crystallography. In her spare time, Cole completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the Open University. After the bachelor's degree in mathematics, Cole earned diplomas in statistics (2004), physics (2008) and astronomy (2006) as well as a second bachelor's degree in engineering (2014) from the Open University. Cole earned a second doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge in 2010.[7]

Career and research

As a Royal Society University Research Fellow,[1] Cole developed a new analytical approach to establish the photo-induced structures of optoelectronic materials. Photo-crystallography permits the 4D structural determination of photo-activated states.[8] Photo-activation can result in structural changes that are irreversible, reversible, long-lived (microsecond lifetimes) and very short-lived (nanosecond lifetimes). Cole uses single-crystal X-ray crystallography to monitor the minute structural changes that occur during photo-excitation. Photo-crystallography allows the visualisation of switching processes in single crystals.[9] In 2008 she was appointed Vice-Chancellor's Research Chair at the University of New Brunswick.[10]

Cole is interested in dye-sensitized solar cells, nonlinear optics and optical data storage. In dye-sensitized solar cells, the dye absorbs sunlight, injecting electrons into titanium dioxide nanoparticles and starting an electric circuit. Cole worked on the design of organic fluorophores in an effort to improve the performance of the dye.[11] [12] She investigated how data mining and Quantum chemical calculations could be used to predict which dyes might perform best.[13] She uses the EPSRC National Service for Computational Chemistry Software.[14] She has looked to use some of the dyes, in particular p-phenylene, as a laser.[15]

Whilst inorganic materials dominate the photonic device industry, the need for high-speed telecommunications has exceed their limitations. Organic electronic materials have a significantly faster response time. Whilst working at the Argonne National Laboratory, Cole used in situ neutron reflectometry to study the interaction between the electrolytes and electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells.[16] She designed cells that used metal-free organic dyes and achieve a 14.3% efficiency.[17] [18] The cells incorporated an organic sensitiser, MK-44, and an organic dye, MK-2, based on thiophenylcyanoacrylate.[19] Cole optimised the anchoring characteristics of the dye on titanium dioxide nanoparticles to improve charge-transfer pathways.[19] [20]

Her early work considered how molecular structure impacted second-harmonic generation.[21] Cole studied the origins of the nonlinear optics observed in N-methylurea, where solid-state intermolecular interactions and electron-donation from the methyl group separate it from the reference material urea.[22] She has investigated the molecular design rules of organometallic second-harmonic generation active materials.[23]

In 2018 Cole was appointed a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow.[24] The fellowship is a collaboration between the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), BASF and ISIS neutron source to discover functional materials systematically.[25] As of 2019, Cole leads the Molecular Engineering group in the Cavendish Laboratory. She works with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on data science and buried interfaces. She has recently designed new databases of magnetic materials.[26]

Awards and honours

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jacqueline Cole. Royal Society. London. Anon. 2001. royalsociety.org. 6 February 2019. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
  2. Web site: Class Notes . Dunelm . 20 December 2019.
  3. Structural studies of organic and organometallic compounds using x-ray and neutron techniques. Durham University. . 1997. PhD. Jacqueline Manina. Cole. 498562279.
  4. Cole. Jacqueline M.. Copley. Royston C. B.. McIntyre. Garry J.. Howard. Judith A. K.. Szablewski. Marek. Cross. Graham H.. 2002. Charge-density study of the nonlinear optical precursor DED-TCNQ at 20 K. Physical Review B. 65. 12. 125107 . 10.1103/physrevb.65.125107. 2002PhRvB..65l5107C . 0163-1829.
  5. Web site: Professor Jacqueline Cole: Molecular Engineering Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. www.mole.phy.cam.ac.uk. 2019-02-05.
  6. Web site: Reporter 5/10/00: ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE. www.admin.cam.ac.uk. 2019-02-06.
  7. Fray. Derek J.. Cole. Jacqueline M.. Hoex. Bram. Peters. Marius. Coxon. Paul R.. Liu. Xiaogang. 2014-09-17. Black silicon: fabrication methods, properties and solar energy applications. Energy & Environmental Science. en. 7. 10. 3223–3263. 10.1039/C4EE01152J. 1754-5706. free.
  8. Cole. Jacqueline M.. 2011. A new form of analytical chemistry: distinguishing the molecular structure of photo-induced states from ground-states. Analyst. en. 136. 3. 448–455. 10.1039/C0AN00584C. 21127793. 2011Ana...136..448C . 1364-5528.
  9. Warren. Mark R.. Easun. Timothy L.. Brayshaw. Simon K.. Deeth. Robert J.. George. Michael W.. Johnson. Andrew L.. Schiffers. Stefanie. Teat. Simon J.. Warren. Anna J.. 2014. Solid-State Interconversions: Unique 100 % Reversible Transformations between the Ground and Metastable States in Single-Crystals of a Series of Nickel(II) Nitro Complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 20. 18. 5468–5477. 10.1002/chem.201302053. 24644042. 4164279. 0947-6539.
  10. Web site: Dr. Jacqui Cole – Department of Physics. kla29@cam.ac.uk. www.phy.cam.ac.uk. 18 July 2013 . en. 2019-02-05.
  11. Liu. Xiaogang. Xu. Zhaochao. Cole. Jacqueline M.. 2013. Molecular Design of UV–vis Absorption and Emission Properties in Organic Fluorophores: Toward Larger Bathochromic Shifts, Enhanced Molar Extinction Coefficients, and Greater Stokes Shifts. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117. 32. 16584–16595. 10.1021/jp404170w. 1932-7447.
  12. Basheer. Bismi. Robert. Temina Mary. Vijayalakshmi. K. P.. Mathew. Dona. Solar cells sensitised by push–pull azo dyes: dependence of photovoltaic performance on electronic structure, geometry and conformation of the sensitizer. International Journal of Ambient Energy. 39. 5. 2017. 433–440. 0143-0750. 10.1080/01430750.2017.1303639. 135980944 .
  13. Cole. Jacqueline M.. Simos. Theodore E.. Psihoyios. George. Tsitouras. Ch.. Anastassi. Zacharias. 2011. Systematic Prediction of Dyes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Data-mining via Molecular Charge-Transfer Algorithms. Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics Icnaam 2011: International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics . 999–1002. AIP. 10.1063/1.3637778. AIP Conference Proceedings. 1389 . 1 . 2011AIPC.1389..999C .
  14. Web site: EPSRC UK National Service for Computational Chemistry Software. www.nsccs.ac.uk. 2019-02-05.
  15. Merz. Tyler A.. Waddell. Paul G.. Cole. Jacqueline M.. 2013. Systematic Molecular Design of p-Phenylene Lasing Properties. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117. 16. 8429–8436. 10.1021/jp401004m. 1932-7447.
  16. Web site: Solar cell discovery opens a new window to powering tomorrow's cities Argonne National Laboratory. www.anl.gov. 22 November 2017 . en. 2019-02-05.
  17. Gong. Yun. Evans. Peter J.. Holt. Stephen A.. Cole. Jacqueline M.. McCree-Grey. Jonathan. 2017. Dye⋯TiO2 interfacial structure of dye-sensitised solar cell working electrodes buried under a solution of I−/I3− redox electrolyte. Nanoscale. en. 9. 32. 11793–11805. 28786471 . 10.1039/C7NR03936K. 2040-3372.
  18. Web site: Solar cell discovery opens a new window to powering tomorrow's cities. 2017-12-01. Off Grid Energy Independence. 2019-02-05.
  19. Cole. Jacqueline M.. Blood-Forsythe. Martin A.. Lin. Tze-Chia. Pattison. Philip. Gong. Yun. Vázquez-Mayagoitia. Álvaro. Waddell. Paul G.. Zhang. Lei. Koumura. Nagatoshi. 2017. Discovery of S···C≡N Intramolecular Bonding in a Thiophenylcyanoacrylate-Based Dye: Realizing Charge Transfer Pathways and Dye···TiO2 Anchoring Characteristics for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9. 31. 25952–25961. 10.1021/acsami.7b03522. 28692246. 1944-8244.
  20. McCree-Grey. Jonathan. Cole. Jacqueline M.. Evans. Peter J.. 2015. Preferred Molecular Orientation of Coumarin 343 on TiO2 Surfaces: Application to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 7. 30. 16404–16409. 10.1021/acsami.5b03572. 26159229. 1944-8244. subscription.
  21. Cole. Jacqueline M.. Organic materials for second-harmonic generation: advances in relating structure to function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 361. 1813. 2003. 2751–2770. 10.1098/rsta.2003.1271. 14667296. 2003RSPTA.361.2751C . 21048345 .
  22. Cole. Jacqueline M.. Waddell. Paul G.. Wilson. Chick C.. Howard. Judith A. K.. 2013. Molecular and Supramolecular Origins of Optical Nonlinearity in N-Methylurea. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117. 48. 25669–25676. 10.1021/jp4088699. 1932-7447.
  23. Cole. Jacqueline M.. Ashcroft. Christopher M.. 2019. Generic Classification Scheme for Second-Order Dipolar Nonlinear Optical Organometallic Complexes That Exhibit Second Harmonic Generation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 123. 3. 702–714. 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b11687. 30580522. 2019JPCA..123..702C . 58561514 . 1089-5639.
  24. Web site: STFC engineer awarded prestigious Royal Academy Senior Research Fellowship – Science and Technology Facilities Council. stfc.ukri.org. 2019-02-05.
  25. Web site: ISIS BASF & Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship in Data Driven Molecular Engineering of Functional Material. isis.stfc.ac.uk. 2019-02-05.
  26. Jacqueline M. Cole. Court. Callum J.. 2018. Auto-generated materials database of Curie and Néel temperatures via semi-supervised relationship extraction. Scientific Data. en. 5. 180111. 10.1038/sdata.2018.111. 2052-4463. 29917013 . 6007086 . 2018NatSD...580111C .
  27. Web site: BCA Group Prizes – British Crystallographic Association. en-US. 2019-02-05. 2019-02-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190207015454/https://www.crystallography.org.uk/prizes/bca-group-prizes/. dead.
  28. Web site: SAC Silver Medal. Rsc.org. 2019-02-05.
  29. Web site: Science Continuum – Archives. unb.ca. 2019-02-05.
  30. Web site: Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture Royal Society. 2021-08-24. royalsociety.org. en-gb.

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