List of works - John Meurig Thomas

A conquering man of genius

scientific article published in Nature

A high-performance selective oxidation system for the facile production of fine chemicals

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

A major advance in characterizing nanoporous solids using a complementary triad of existing techniques

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

A new approach to the investigation of nanoparticles: electron tomography with compressed sensing.

scientific article

A revolution in electron microscopy

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

A significant structural advance using STEM

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

An investigation of the first-order spin-state transition in Fe(Phen)2(NCS)2 EXAFS and infrared spectroscopy

An omnivorous curiosity, a sense of wonder, and a taste for the spectacular.

scientific article published in June 2002

Anomalous diffusion of single metal atoms on a graphene oxide support ⬇️

Application of EXAFS spectroscopy to probe structural properties of solid inclusion compounds containing halogenoalkane guest molecules within the catena-[(1,2-diaminopropane)cadmium(II) tetra-µ-cyanonickelate(II)] host structure

Argon and the non-inert pair: Rayleigh and Ramsay

scientific article

Argon und das nichtinerte Paar: Rayleigh und Ramsay

Atomic Resolution of Oxygen in Solid Oxides by Electron Microscopy: What Next? ⬇️

scientific article published on September 15, 2003

Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts Anchored Inside Mesoporous Silica

article published in 1997

Bimetallic Ru-Sn nanoparticle catalysts for the solvent-free selective hydrogenation of 1,5,9-cyclododecatriene to cyclododecene

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Bimetallic clusters supported on mesoporous silica: the effects of support interactions on cluster morphology

article published in 2001

Bimetallic nanocatalysts for the conversion of muconic acid to adipic acid.

scientific article published in May 2003

Bronsted, Lewis, and Redox Centers on CoAPO-18 Catalysts. 1. Vibrational Modes of Adsorbed Water

article

Can a Single Atom Serve as the Active Site in Some Heterogeneous Catalysts?

article

Catalysis: principles, progress, prospects

scientific article

Centenary: The birth of X-ray crystallography

scientific article published in November 2012

Chemistry with the electron microscope: some highlights in a lifetime's journey

scientific article

Computational and EXAFS Study of the Nature of the Ti(IV) Active Sites in Mesoporous Titanosilicate Catalysts

Computational-chemical assessments of well characterised uniform catalysts

Concluding remarks: Time-resolved chemistry: from structure to function. A summary

scientific article

Constraining asymmetric organometallic catalysts within mesoporous supports boosts their enantioselectivity

scientific article (publication date: 10 December 2003)

De novo design of structure-directing agents for the synthesis of microporous solids

scientific article published in Nature

Design of Highly Selective Platinum Nanoparticle Catalysts for the Aerobic Oxidation of KA-Oil using Continuous-Flow Chemistry.

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

Design of a "green" one-step catalytic production of epsilon-caprolactam (precursor of nylon-6)

scientific article

Designing a Solid Catalyst for the Selective Low-Temperature Oxidation of Cyclohexane to Cyclohexanone

Determining the structure of active sites, transition states and intermediates in heterogeneously catalysed reactions

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Direct visualisation, by aberration-corrected electron microscopy, of the crystallisation of bimetallic nanoparticle catalysts

scientific article published on 20 October 2005

Dissolved Alkali Metals in Zeolites

scientific article published in January 1996

Efficient hydrogenation over single-site bimetallic RuSn clusters.

scientific article

Ein Durchbruch in der Elektronenmikroskopie

Electron Holography for the Study of Magnetic Nanomaterials

article

Electron Tomography of Nanoparticle Catalysts on Porous Supports: A New Technique Based on Rutherford Scattering

scientific article published in August 2001

Electronic state and three-dimensional structure of Mn(III) active sites in manganese-containing aluminophosphate molecular sieve catalysts for the oxyfunctionalisation of alkanes

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Energetic Victorians

scientific article published in Nature

Enhancing the enantioselectivity of novel homogeneous organometallic hydrogenation catalysts

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Exploiting nanospace for asymmetric catalysis: confinement of immobilized, single-site chiral catalysts enhances enantioselectivity

scientific article published in June 2008

Facile, one-step production of niacin (vitamin B3) and other nitrogen-containing pharmaceutical chemicals with a single-site heterogeneous catalyst

scientific article

Faraday and Franklin

scientific article

Faraway Faraday

scientific article published in Nature

Femtosecond diffraction

scientific article published in Nature

Following the formation of nanometer-sized clusters by time-resolved SAXS and EXAFS techniques

scientific article

From structure to structural dynamics: Ahmed Zewail's legacy

scientific article published on July 2017

Gas–solid interactions studied by quantitative powder X-ray diffraction analysis

Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–96)

scientific article published in Nature

Gold in a metallic divided state--from Faraday to present-day nanoscience

scientific article published in January 2007

Heterogeneous Dinuclear Rhodium(II) Hydroformylation Catalysts-Performance Evaluation and Silsesquioxane-Based Chemical Modeling M.N. gratefully acknowledges two successive Senior Research Fellowships from Universitat de Valencia and T.U. Delft and

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

Heterogeneous catalysis and the challenges of powering the planet, securing chemicals for civilised life, and clean efficient utilization of renewable feedstocks

scientific article published on 02 July 2014

Heterogeneous catalysis: enigmas, illusions, challenges, realities, and emergent strategies of design

scientific article

Heterogeneous catalysts obtained by grafting metallocene complexes onto mesoporous silica

scientific article published in Nature

High-performance nanocatalysts for single-step hydrogenations.

scientific article published in January 2003

High-resolution transmission electron microscopy: the ultimate nanoanalytical technique

scientific article published on 7 May 2004

Highly efficient catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitro-substituted aromatics

scientific article published on 28 February 2005

Highly efficient one-step conversion of cyclohexane to adipic acid using single-site heterogeneous catalysts

scientific article

Hiroshi Inose, 5 January 1927 · 11 October 2000

scientific article

Hydrotalcite-derived mixed oxides containing copper: catalysts for the removal of nitric oxide

Improved CO oxidation activity in the presence and absence of hydrogen over cluster-derived PtFe/SiO2 catalysts

scientific article published in May 2006

In situ solid-state (1)H NMR studies of hydration of the solid acid catalyst ZSM-5 in its ammonium form

scientific article

Incorporation of platinum nanoparticles in ordered mesoporous carbon

scientific article published on 5 October 2006

Intellectual freedom in academic scientific research under threat

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

J. J. Thomson: winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 1906.

scientific article published in October 2006

JOHN H. SINFELT: 18 FEBRUARY 1931 - 28 MAY 2011.

scientific article published in September 2014

Lord Rutherford (1871-1937): the Newton of the atom and the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry, 1908.

scientific article published in January 2008

Mapping the evolution of adsorption of water in nanoporous silica by in situ solid-state 1H NMR spectroscopy

scientific article

Max Perutz: chemist, molecular biologist, human rights activist

scientific article published on 18 July 2005

Max Perutz: chemist, molecular biologist, human rights activist

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Mechanistic insights into the conversion of cyclohexene to adipic acid by H2O2 in the presence of a TAPO-5 catalyst.

scientific article published in April 2003

Merging Single-Atom-Dispersed Silver and Carbon Nitride to a Joint Electronic System via Copolymerization with Silver Tricyanomethanide

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Metallocene-derived, isolated MoVI active centres on mesoporous silica for the catalytic dehydrogenation of methanol

article published in 1998

Modelling the active sites of heterogeneous titanium-centred epoxidation catalysts with soluble silsesquioxane analogues

scholarly article by Thomas Maschmeyer et al published 1997 in Chemical Communications

Molecular-sieve catalysts for the selective oxidation of linear alkanes by molecular oxygen

scientific article published in Nature

Mono-, Bi- and Multifunctional Single-Sites: Exploring the Interface Between Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis

article

Multi-dimensional electron microscopy

scientific article published on 11 June 2014

Nanoporous oxidic solids: the confluence of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis

scientific article (publication date: 28 April 2009)

Nanoscale electron tomography and atomic scale high-resolution electron microscopy of nanoparticles and nanoclusters: A short surveyNanoscale electron tomography and atomic scale high-resolution electron microscopy of nanoparticles and nanoclusters:

Nanotomography in the chemical, biological and materials sciences

scientific article (publication date: 2007)

Nelson J. Leonard 1 September 1916 · 9 October 2006

scientific article

New catalytic liquid-phase ammoxidation approach to the preparation of niacin (vitamin B3).

scientific article

New microcrystalline catalysts

On the Nature of the Active Site in a CoAPO-18 Solid Acid Catalyst

On the atomic environment and the mode of action of the catalytic centre in an intercalated oxo–molybdenum complex [MoO2{O2CC(S)Ph2}2]2–for oxygen-transfer reactions

On the dynamical nature of the active center in a single-site photocatalyst visualized by 4D ultrafast electron microscopy.

scientific article

Oxidic materials: an endless frontier ⬇️

scientific article published on August 28, 2013

Preface

Preparation, Characterisation and Performance of Encapsulated Copper-Ruthenium Bimetallic Catalysts Derived from Molecular Cluster Carbonyl Precursors

article

Probing Changes in the Structure and Performance of a Lithium Nickel Oxide Catalyst by in situ X-Ray Diffraction During the High-Temperature Oxidative Coupling of Methane

scholarly article by Ingrid J Pickering et al published June 1989 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Probing active sites in solid catalysts for the liquid-phase epoxidation of alkenes

Probing changes in the structure and performance of a lithium nickel oxide catalyst by in situ X-ray diffraction during the high temperature oxidative coupling of methane

scholarly article by Ingrid J Pickering et al published 1989 in Advanced Materials

Probing solid catalysts under operating conditions: electrons or X-rays?

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Probing the Nature of Acetylene Bound to the Active Site of a NiNa−Zeolite Y Catalyst by in situ Neutron Scattering

article by John F. C. Turner et al published August 2000 in Journal of Physical Chemistry

Probing the Spatial Distribution and Morphology of Supported Nanoparticles Using Rutherford-Scattered Electron Imaging

scientific article published on 18 October 2002

Probing the Titanium Sites in Ti−MCM41 by Diffuse Reflectance and Photoluminescence UV−Vis Spectroscopies

scholarly article by Leonardo Marchese et al published October 1997 in Journal of Physical Chemistry

Probing the evolution of adsorption on nanoporous solids by in situ solid-state NMR spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Probing the structural changes in the phase transitions of a Bi2MoO6 catalyst: the nature of the intermediate-temperature phase

Providing sustainable catalytic solutions for a rapidly changing world: a summary and recommendations for urgent future action.

scientific article

Quantitative studies of gas–solid reactions by powder X-ray diffraction: stoichiometric and catalytic conversion of CO to CO2over YBa2Cu3O6 +x

Rapid Production of High-Purity Hydrogen Fuel through Microwave-Promoted Deep Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Liquid Alkanes with Abundant Metals

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Recent advances in the application of electron tomography to materials chemistry.

scientific article published on 17 August 2012

Reflections on the value of electron microscopy in the study of heterogeneous catalysts.

scientific article

Reprint of "Egon Matijević and The Royal Institution" [J. Colloid Interface Sci. 309 (2007) 189-191]

scientific article published on 07 April 2007

Revolutionary Developments from Atomic to Extended Structural Imaging

scientific article (publication date: May 2008)

Rumford's Remarkable Creation

STEM Electron Tomography for Nanoscale Materials Science

scientific article published in August 2004

Scientist, social reformer, soldier, spy

scientific article published in Nature

Single atom catalysis

Single-Step, Highly Active, and Highly Selective Nanoparticle Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of Key Organic Compounds We gratefully acknowledge the support (by a rolling grant to J.M.T. and an award to B.F.G.J.) of EPSRC (UK), of the Cambridge Over

scientific article published in December 2001

Single-site heterogeneous catalysts

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Single-site photocatalytic solids for the decomposition of undesirable molecules

scientific article

Single-step conversion of dimethyl terephthalate into cyclohexanedimethanol with Ru5PtSn, a trimetallic nanoparticle catalyst

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Sir Humphry Davy and the coal miners of the world: a commentary on Davy (1816) 'An account of an invention for giving light in explosive mixtures of fire-damp in coal mines'.

scientific article

Sir John Meurig Thomas ⬇️

scientific article published on May 31, 2013

Solid-state NMR studies of MCM-41 supported with a highly catalytically active cluster

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Solvent-Free, Low-Temperature, Selective Hydrogenation of Polyenes using a Bimetallic Nanoparticle Ru-Sn Catalyst We thank Dr. R. G. Bell for assistance with the computer graphics, Drs. P. A. Midgeley, V. Keast, and M. Weyland for help with STEM, an

scientific article published in April 2001

Some Turning Points in the Chemical Electron Microscopic Study of Heterogeneous Catalysts

Stabilization of Single Metal Atoms on Graphitic Carbon Nitride ⬇️

article by Zupeng Chen et al published 13 January 2017 in Advanced Functional Materials

Structural Elucidation of Pt-Ru Heterogeneous Catalysts by Electron Tomography

scientific article published in August 2004

Structural aspects of the chlorocyclohexane/thiourea inclusion system

Structure–functionality relationships of grafted Ti-MCM41 silicas. Spectroscopic and catalytic studies

Summarizing comments on the discussion and a prospectus for urgent future action

scientific article

Superior performance of a chiral catalyst confined within mesoporous silica

Synthesis and characterisation by X-ray absorption spectroscopy of a suite of seven mesoporous catalysts containing metal ions in framework sites

Synthesis, characterisation and catalytic performance of the solid acid DAF-1

Synthesis, characterization, electronic structure and catalytic performance of bimetallic and trimetallic nanoparticles containing tin.

scientific article published in January 2008

Tens of thousands of atoms replaced by one

scientific article published in Nature

The Chemical Application of High-Resolution Electron Tomography: Bright Field or Dark Field?

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

The Identity in Atomic Structure and Performance of Active Sites in Heterogeneous and Homogeneous, Titanium−Silica Epoxidation Catalysts

scholarly article by John Meurig Thomas et al published October 1999 in Journal of Physical Chemistry

The Local Structure of Tetrahedral Co(III): A Detailed Crystal Structure Investigation of K5CoIIIW12O40·20H2O

scholarly article

The RSC Faraday prize lecture of 1989 on platinum

scientific article published on 7 August 2017

The Titanium(IV)-Catalyzed Epoxidation of Alkenes bytert-Alkyl Hydroperoxides

scholarly article by Richard D. Oldroyd et al published December 1996 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The advantages and future potential of single-site heterogeneous catalysts

scientific article (publication date: November 2006)

The architecture of catalytically active centers in titanosilicate (TS-1) and related selective-oxidation catalysts

article by David Gleeson et al published 2000 in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The chemistry of crystalline sponges

scientific article published in Nature

The concept, reality and utility of single-site heterogeneous catalysts (SSHCs).

scientific article

The extraordinary impact of Michael Faraday on chemistry and related subjects

scientific article published on 7 August 2017

The many faces of carbon

journal article; published in Nature on 2008-10-08

The modern electron microscope: A cornucopia of chemico-physical insights

scientific article (publication date: June 2011)

The principles of solid state chemistry hold the key to the successful design of heterogeneous catalysts for environmentally responsible processes

article

The scientific and humane legacy of Max Perutz (1914-2002).

scientific article published in September 2002

The siting, energetics and mobility of saturated hydrocarbons inside zeolitic cages: methane in zeolite Y

scientific article published in Nature

Toward less dependence on platinum group metal catalysts: the merits of utilizing tin.

scientific article published on 9 August 2008

Tracing the conversion of aurichalcite to a copper catalyst by combined X-ray absorption and diffraction

scientific article (publication date: 12 December 1991)

Transmission Electron Microscopy

scholarly article

Ultrafast Elemental and Oxidation-State Mapping of Hematite by 4D Electron Microscopy

scientific article published on 8 March 2017

Ultrafast electron crystallography: the dawn of a new era

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Vitalii I. Gol'danskii, 18 June 1923 · 14 January 2001

scientific article

W.R. Grove and the fuel cell

William Lawrence Bragg: The Pioneer of X‐ray Crystallography and His Pervasive Influence ⬇️

scientific article published on 04 December 2012

Z-Contrast tomography: a technique in three-dimensional nanostructural analysis based on Rutherford scattering

article

List of works by John Meurig Thomas

A conquering man of genius

A high-performance selective oxidation system for the facile production of fine chemicals

A major advance in characterizing nanoporous solids using a complementary triad of existing techniques

A new approach to the investigation of nanoparticles: electron tomography with compressed sensing.

A revolution in electron microscopy

A significant structural advance using STEM

An investigation of the first-order spin-state transition in Fe(Phen)2(NCS)2 EXAFS and infrared spectroscopy

An omnivorous curiosity, a sense of wonder, and a taste for the spectacular.

Anomalous diffusion of single metal atoms on a graphene oxide support ⬇️

Application of EXAFS spectroscopy to probe structural properties of solid inclusion compounds containing halogenoalkane guest molecules within the catena-[(1,2-diaminopropane)cadmium(II) tetra-µ-cyanonickelate(II)] host structure

Argon and the non-inert pair: Rayleigh and Ramsay

Argon und das nichtinerte Paar: Rayleigh und Ramsay

Atomic Resolution of Oxygen in Solid Oxides by Electron Microscopy: What Next? ⬇️

Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts Anchored Inside Mesoporous Silica

Bimetallic Ru-Sn nanoparticle catalysts for the solvent-free selective hydrogenation of 1,5,9-cyclododecatriene to cyclododecene

Bimetallic clusters supported on mesoporous silica: the effects of support interactions on cluster morphology

Bimetallic nanocatalysts for the conversion of muconic acid to adipic acid.

Bronsted, Lewis, and Redox Centers on CoAPO-18 Catalysts. 1. Vibrational Modes of Adsorbed Water

Can a Single Atom Serve as the Active Site in Some Heterogeneous Catalysts?

Catalysis: principles, progress, prospects

Centenary: The birth of X-ray crystallography

Chemistry with the electron microscope: some highlights in a lifetime's journey

Computational and EXAFS Study of the Nature of the Ti(IV) Active Sites in Mesoporous Titanosilicate Catalysts

Computational-chemical assessments of well characterised uniform catalysts

Concluding remarks: Time-resolved chemistry: from structure to function. A summary

Constraining asymmetric organometallic catalysts within mesoporous supports boosts their enantioselectivity

De novo design of structure-directing agents for the synthesis of microporous solids

Design of Highly Selective Platinum Nanoparticle Catalysts for the Aerobic Oxidation of KA-Oil using Continuous-Flow Chemistry.

Design of a "green" one-step catalytic production of epsilon-caprolactam (precursor of nylon-6)

Designing a Solid Catalyst for the Selective Low-Temperature Oxidation of Cyclohexane to Cyclohexanone

Determining the structure of active sites, transition states and intermediates in heterogeneously catalysed reactions

Direct visualisation, by aberration-corrected electron microscopy, of the crystallisation of bimetallic nanoparticle catalysts

Dissolved Alkali Metals in Zeolites

Efficient hydrogenation over single-site bimetallic RuSn clusters.

Ein Durchbruch in der Elektronenmikroskopie

Electron Holography for the Study of Magnetic Nanomaterials

Electron Tomography of Nanoparticle Catalysts on Porous Supports: A New Technique Based on Rutherford Scattering

Electronic state and three-dimensional structure of Mn(III) active sites in manganese-containing aluminophosphate molecular sieve catalysts for the oxyfunctionalisation of alkanes

Energetic Victorians

Enhancing the enantioselectivity of novel homogeneous organometallic hydrogenation catalysts

Exploiting nanospace for asymmetric catalysis: confinement of immobilized, single-site chiral catalysts enhances enantioselectivity

Facile, one-step production of niacin (vitamin B3) and other nitrogen-containing pharmaceutical chemicals with a single-site heterogeneous catalyst

Faraday and Franklin

Faraway Faraday

Femtosecond diffraction

Following the formation of nanometer-sized clusters by time-resolved SAXS and EXAFS techniques

From structure to structural dynamics: Ahmed Zewail's legacy

Gas–solid interactions studied by quantitative powder X-ray diffraction analysis

Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–96)

Gold in a metallic divided state--from Faraday to present-day nanoscience

Heterogeneous Dinuclear Rhodium(II) Hydroformylation Catalysts-Performance Evaluation and Silsesquioxane-Based Chemical Modeling M.N. gratefully acknowledges two successive Senior Research Fellowships from Universitat de Valencia and T.U. Delft and

Heterogeneous catalysis and the challenges of powering the planet, securing chemicals for civilised life, and clean efficient utilization of renewable feedstocks

Heterogeneous catalysis: enigmas, illusions, challenges, realities, and emergent strategies of design

Heterogeneous catalysts obtained by grafting metallocene complexes onto mesoporous silica

High-performance nanocatalysts for single-step hydrogenations.

High-resolution transmission electron microscopy: the ultimate nanoanalytical technique

Highly efficient catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitro-substituted aromatics

Highly efficient one-step conversion of cyclohexane to adipic acid using single-site heterogeneous catalysts

Hiroshi Inose, 5 January 1927 · 11 October 2000

Hydrotalcite-derived mixed oxides containing copper: catalysts for the removal of nitric oxide

Improved CO oxidation activity in the presence and absence of hydrogen over cluster-derived PtFe/SiO2 catalysts

In situ solid-state (1)H NMR studies of hydration of the solid acid catalyst ZSM-5 in its ammonium form

Incorporation of platinum nanoparticles in ordered mesoporous carbon

Intellectual freedom in academic scientific research under threat

J. J. Thomson: winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 1906.

JOHN H. SINFELT: 18 FEBRUARY 1931 - 28 MAY 2011.

Lord Rutherford (1871-1937): the Newton of the atom and the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry, 1908.

Mapping the evolution of adsorption of water in nanoporous silica by in situ solid-state 1H NMR spectroscopy

Max Perutz: chemist, molecular biologist, human rights activist

Max Perutz: chemist, molecular biologist, human rights activist

Mechanistic insights into the conversion of cyclohexene to adipic acid by H2O2 in the presence of a TAPO-5 catalyst.

Merging Single-Atom-Dispersed Silver and Carbon Nitride to a Joint Electronic System via Copolymerization with Silver Tricyanomethanide

Metallocene-derived, isolated MoVI active centres on mesoporous silica for the catalytic dehydrogenation of methanol

Modelling the active sites of heterogeneous titanium-centred epoxidation catalysts with soluble silsesquioxane analogues

Molecular-sieve catalysts for the selective oxidation of linear alkanes by molecular oxygen

Mono-, Bi- and Multifunctional Single-Sites: Exploring the Interface Between Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis

Multi-dimensional electron microscopy

Nanoporous oxidic solids: the confluence of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis

Nanoscale electron tomography and atomic scale high-resolution electron microscopy of nanoparticles and nanoclusters: A short surveyNanoscale electron tomography and atomic scale high-resolution electron microscopy of nanoparticles and nanoclusters: