个人简介

Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara

研究领域

Solid-state and materials chemistry.

Our research revolves around understanding and controlling the formation of materials, their structure and their properties, i.e., materials by design. We focus on manipulating and understanding local chemical environments and their influences on electronic properties (e.g., magnetism) in new materials. Details of the atomistic structures of materials are obtained from advanced synchrotron X-ray and time-of-flight neutron scattering and spectroscopic methods. The overarching theme is correlating structural details of materials with their functional behavior in the development of new and efficient materials of relevance to energy conversion and conservation, for example, new hard magnetic materials and semiconductors for solar energy conversion. The approach is based on asking the question: How does one selectively position (and then find) atoms within a bulk solid? The same overarching chemical perspectives apply to the area of biomineralization as well, particularly to that of bone remodeling. This is an interdisciplinary problem fundamentally rooted in inorganic chemistry, and with profound implications for human and animal disease.

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A. J. Martinolich, J. A. Kurzman, J. R. Neilson, Polymorph Selectivity of Superconducting CuSe Through Kinetic Control of Solid-State Metathesis, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (2015), ASAP. [doi] A. E. Maughan, J. A. Kurzman, J. R. Neilson, Hybrid Inorganic−Organic Materials with an Optoelectronically Active Aromatic Cation: (C7H7)2SnI6 and C7H7PbI3, Inorg. Chem. (2015), 54(1), 370-378. [doi] J. P. Sheckleton, J. R. Neilson, T. M. McQueen, Electronic tunability of the frustrated triangular-lattice cluster magnet LiZn2-xMo3O8, Mater. Horiz., (2015), 2, 76-80. [doi] A. J. Martinolich, J. R. Neilson, Pyrite Formation via Kinetic Intermediates Through Low-Temperature Solid-State Metathesis, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (2014), 136(44), 15654–15659. [doi] J. R. Neilson, N. C. George, M. M. Murr, R. Seshadri, D. E. Morse, Mesostructure from hydration gradients in demosponge biosilica, Chem. Eur. J., (2014) 20(17), 4956-4965. [doi] P. Cottingham, D. C. Miller, J. P. Sheckelton, J. R. Neilson, M. Feygenson, A. Huq, T. M. McQueen, Dynamic charge disproportionation in the 1D chain material PdTeI. J. Mater. Chem. C, (2014), 4, 3238-3246. [doi] L. Tao, G. Rousse, J. R. Neilson, B. C. Melot, T. M. McQueen, C. Masquelier, Magnetic Structures of LiMBO3 (M = Mn, Fe, Co) lithiated transition metal borates, Inorg. Chem., (2013), 52 (20), 11966-11974. [doi] W. A. Phelan, D. C. Wallace, K. E. Arpino, J. R. Neilson, K. J. Livi, C. R. Seabourne, A. J. Scott, T. M. McQueen, Stacking Variants and Superconductivity in the Bi-O-S System. J. Amer. Chem. Soc., (2013), 135 (14) 5372-5374. [doi] J. R. Neilson, A. Llobet, J. Wen, M. R. Suchomel, and T. M. McQueen, Charge density wave fluctuations, heavy electrons, and superconductivity in KNi2S2, accepted Phys. Rev. B (2013), 87, 045124. [doi] J. R. Neilson, A. Llobet, A. V. Stier, L. Wu, J.-J. Wen, J. Tao, Y. Zhu, Z. B. Tesanovic, N. P. Armitage, and T. M. McQueen, Mixed-valence-driven heavy-fermion behavior and superconductivity in KNi2Se2, Phys. Rev. B (2012), 86, 054512. [doi] L. A. Bawazer, M. Izumi, D. Kolodin, J. R. Neilson, B. Schwenzer, D. E. Morse, Evolutionary selection of enzymatically synthesized semiconductors from biomimetic mineralization vesicles, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2012), 109 (26), E1705-E1714. [doi] J. P. Sheckelton, J. R. Neilson, D. G. Soltan, T. M. McQueen, Possible valence bond condensation in the frustrated cluster magnet LiZn2Mo3O8, Nature Materials (2012), 11, 493-496. [doi] J. M. Caron, J. R. Neilson, D. C. Miller, K. Arpino, A. Llobet, T. M. McQueen, Orbital Selective Magnetism in the Spin-Ladder Iron Selenides Ba1-xKxFe2Se3, Phys. Rev. B, (2012), 85, 180405(R). [doi] J. R. Neilson, T. M. McQueen, Bonding, ion mobility, and rate-limiting steps in deintercalation reactions with ThCr2Si2-type KNi2Se2, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. (2012), 134 (18), 7750-7757. [doi] J. M. Caron, J. R. Neilson, D. C. Miller, A. Llobet, T. M. McQueen, Iron Displacements and Magnetoelastic Coupling in the Spin-Ladder Compound BaFe2Se3, Phys. Rev. B, (2011), 84, 180409(R). [doi] J. R. Neilson, J. Kurzman, R. Seshadri, D. E. Morse, Ordering double perovskite hydroxides by kinetically controlled aqueous hydrolysis, Inorg. Chem., (2011), 50, 3003-3009. [doi] J. R. Neilson, B. C. Melot, D. P. Shoemaker, J. Kurzman, R. Seshadri, D. E. Morse, Understanding complex magnetic order in disordered cobalt hydroxides through analysis of the local structure, Phys. Rev. B, (2011), 80, 094418. [doi] B. Schwenzer, J. R. Neilson, S. M. Jeffries, D. E. Morse, Cd1−x ZnxO [0.05 ≤ x ≤ 0.26] synthesized by vapor-diffusion induced co-nucleation from aqueous metal salt solutions, Dalton Trans., (2011), 40 (6), 1295-1301. [doi] H. L. Zhang, J. R. Neilson, D. E. Morse, Vapor-diffusion-controlled sol-gel synthesis of flaky lithium vanadium oxide and its electrochemical behavior, J. Phys. Chem. C, (2010), 114 (45), 19550-19555. [doi] K. Niesz, C. Reji, J. R. Neilson, R. C. Vargas, D. E. Morse, Unusual evolution of ceria nanocrystal morphologies promoted by a low-temperature vapor diffusion based process, Cryst. Growth Des., (2010), 10 (10), 4485- 4490. [doi] J. R. Neilson, J. A. Kurzman, R. Seshadri, D. E. Morse, Cobalt coordination and clustering in α-Co(OH)2 revealed by synchrotron X-ray total scattering, Chem. Eur. J. (2010), 16 (33), 9998-10006.