Simon Hall (chemist) explained

Professor Simon Hall
Birth Place:Stratford-Upon-Avon
Alma Mater:The Open University (BSc Hons.)University of Bristol (PhD)
Thesis Title:Template Control of the Structure of Minerals (2000)
Doctoral Advisor:Professor Stephen Mann
Awards:2021 - Professorship

2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

2015 - Matsumae International Fellowship

2015 - Nanotechnology Platform Japan Prize - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

2013 - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

2004 - Royal Society University Research Fellowship

Website:https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Simon-Hall-92acafd8-81e2-4e92-9eab-3ea597cc049a/

Simon Robert Hall (born 3 November 1969) FRSC FHEA is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bristol. He is currently the Head of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry.

Education

Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Hall grew up in Tiverton, Devon. He attended Tiverton Comprehensive School (now Tiverton High School), where he played rhythm guitar in the band of future 3 Colours Red frontman Pete Vuckovic. On leaving school, he worked for Reuters Ltd. as a stocks and bonds pricing analyst, simultaneously studying for a BSc degree with the Open University. On graduating with a 2:1 degree in Chemistry with Geology in 1997, he joined the laboratories of Professor Stephen Mann at the University of Bristol to read for a PhD in Materials Chemistry. His doctoral research degree involved the creation of novel nanomaterials using a biomimetic approach and also the first ever electron diffraction study on the phylum Bryozoa.[1]

Research

Hall's research is concerned with the control of crystal growth, both organic and inorganic.[2] [3] [4] [5] His research activities include biomimetic materials chemistry,[6] synthesis of nanoscale functional materials[7] [8] and control of organic crystal growth.[9] In 2006, he published the first synthesis of single-crystal, high-temperature superconductor nanowires.[10] Subsequent work on these systems led to his demonstration of the microcrucible growth mechanism; a nanowire growth mechanism that had been predicted, but never observed up until that point.[11] His current work is focused on the creation of novel organic crystals for pharmaceutical[12] and optoelectronic[13] research and in the creation of novel forms of high temperature superconductors.[14] Hall has published over 130 scientific papers with a current h-index of 33 and over 5,000 citations.[15]

Professor Hall delivered his Inaugural Lecture in the Wills Memorial building on October 24, 2023, titled "Unexpected Crystals in the Bragging Area". The lecture can be viewed on YouTube by clicking on the lecture title above.

Awards and memberships

Hall was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2018. In the same year, he was made a Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. In 2016, he was made a Visiting Professor of Materials Science at Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. In 2015, Hall was awarded the Matsumae Foundation International Fellowship; one of only 12 awarded Worldwide in the Natural Sciences in that year. In the same year he won the Nanotechnology Platform Japan Prize from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, (Japanese Government), for his discovery of the microcrucible growth mechanism in nanowires. In 2013 he was made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2004, Hall was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for his proposal on ‘Biotemplated Routes to Advanced Superconductors’.

References

  1. Hall. Simon R.. Taylor. Paul D.. Davis. Sean A.. Mann. Stephen. 2002-02-01. Electron diffraction studies of the calcareous skeletons of bryozoans. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 30th Anniversary. en. 88. 3. 410–419. 10.1016/S0162-0134(01)00359-2. 11897358. 0162-0134.
  2. Potticary. Jason. Hall. Charlie. Hamilton. Victoria. McCabe. James F.. Hall. Simon R.. 2020-05-06. Crystallization from Volatile Deep Eutectic Solvents. Crystal Growth & Design. en. 20. 5. 2877–2884. 10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00399. 1528-7483. 1902.08376. 1983/3de0d442-d91d-4a04-ba97-a97ed23d03fb . 212726517.
  3. Andrusenko. Iryna. Hamilton. Victoria. Mugnaioli. Enrico. Lanza. Arianna. Hall. Charlie. Potticary. Jason. Hall. Simon R.. Gemmi. Mauro. 2019-08-05. The Crystal Structure of Orthocetamol Solved by 3D Electron Diffraction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. en. 58. 32. 10919–10922. 10.1002/anie.201904564. 31210373. 1433-7851. 1983/c72542f0-aa7c-43c2-8231-6aa7173f5dd9. 190536078 . free.
  4. Potticary. Jason. Terry. Lui R.. Bell. Christopher. Papanikolopoulos. Alexandros N.. Christianen. Peter C. M.. Engelkamp. Hans. Collins. Andrew M.. Fontanesi. Claudio. Kociok-Köhn. Gabriele. Crampin. Simon. Da Como. Enrico. 2016-05-10. An unforeseen polymorph of coronene by the application of magnetic fields during crystal growth. Nature Communications. en. 7. 1. 11555. 10.1038/ncomms11555. 2041-1723. 4866376. 27161600. 1509.04120. 2016NatCo...711555P.
  5. Danks. A. E.. Hall. S. R.. Schnepp. Z.. 2016. The evolution of 'sol–gel' chemistry as a technique for materials synthesis. Materials Horizons. en. 3. 2. 91–112. 10.1039/C5MH00260E. 2051-6347. free. 1983/ef8857e7-53bd-4b32-b61f-dc5c41bc45f5. free.
  6. Hall. Simon R.. Collins. Andrew M.. Wood. Natalie J.. Ogasawara. Wataru. Morad. Moataz. Miedziak. Peter J.. Sankar. Meenakshisundaram. Knight. David W.. Hutchings. Graham J.. 2012. Biotemplated synthesis of catalytic Au–Pd nanoparticles. RSC Advances. en. 2. 6. 2217. 10.1039/c2ra01336c. 2012RSCAd...2.2217H . 2046-2069.
  7. Green. David C.. Glatzel. Stefan. Collins. Andrew M.. Patil. Avinash J.. Hall. Simon R.. 2012-11-08. A New General Synthetic Strategy for Phase-Pure Complex Functional Materials. Advanced Materials. en. 24. 42. 5767–5772. 10.1002/adma.201202683. 22927336. 205246887 .
  8. Sayle. Thi X. T.. Cantoni. Michelle. Bhatta. Umananda M.. Parker. Stephen C.. Hall. Simon R.. Möbus. Günter. Molinari. Marco. Reid. David. Seal. Sudipta. Sayle. Dean C.. 2012-05-22. Strain and Architecture-Tuned Reactivity in Ceria Nanostructures; Enhanced Catalytic Oxidation of CO to CO 2. Chemistry of Materials. en. 24. 10. 1811–1821. 10.1021/cm3003436. 0897-4756.
  9. Hall. Charlie L.. Potticary. Jason. Hamilton. Victoria. Gaisford. Simon. Buanz. Asma. Hall. Simon R.. 2020. Metastable crystalline phase formation in deep eutectic systems revealed by simultaneous synchrotron XRD and DSC. Chemical Communications. en. 56. 73. 10726–10729. 10.1039/D0CC04696E. 32789371. 1359-7345. free. 1983/34958593-4d39-4195-aa35-43f909e0cf31. free.
  10. Hall. S. R.. 2006. Biomimetic Synthesis of High-Tc, Type-II Superconductor Nanowires. Advanced Materials. 18. 4. 487–490. 10.1002/adma.200501971. 138726914 . 1521-4095.
  11. Boston. Rebecca. Schnepp. Zoe. Nemoto. Yoshihiro. Sakka. Yoshio. Hall. Simon R.. 2014-05-09. In Situ TEM Observation of a Microcrucible Mechanism of Nanowire Growth. Science. en. 344. 6184. 623–626. 10.1126/science.1251594. 0036-8075. 24812400. 2014Sci...344..623B. 206555658. 1983/8f23c618-23f8-46e1-a1d9-960a0b491b1f. free.
  12. Cookman. J.. Hamilton. V.. Hall. S. R.. Bangert. U.. 2020-11-05. Non-classical crystallisation pathway directly observed for a pharmaceutical crystal via liquid phase electron microscopy. Scientific Reports. en. 10. 1. 19156. 10.1038/s41598-020-75937-2. 2045-2322. 7644682. 33154480. 2020NatSR..1019156C.
  13. Potticary. Jason. Jensen. Torsten T.. Hall. Simon R.. 2017-08-29. Nanostructural origin of blue fluorescence in the mineral karpatite. Scientific Reports. en. 7. 1. 9867. 10.1038/s41598-017-10261-w. 2045-2322. 5575318. 28852091. 2017NatSR...7.9867P.
  14. Gómez Rojas. Omar. Sudoh. Iori. Nakayama. Tadachika. Hall. Simon R.. 2018. The role of ionic liquids in the synthesis of the high-temperature superconductor YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ. CrystEngComm. en. 20. 38. 5814–5821. 10.1039/C8CE01275J. 1983/35a6f222-1665-4834-9b20-fd611df49a05 . 1466-8033. free.
  15. Web site: Simon R. Hall . 2023-01-25 . scholar.google.com.

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