个人简介

Professor of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, 8/92 – present. (Head of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Section, 10/95-9/97; 8/02-7/11). Previous appointments: Reader in Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, 8/90 - 7/92. Lecturer in Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, 8/84 - 7/90. Research Associate in Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, 10/81 - 7/84. Guy Newton Junior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford, Academic qualifications: Ph.D. University of Birmingham (Department of Chemistry), 1978. B.Sc. (Hons) University of Birmingham, 1975.

研究领域

Advancing photochemistry, diamond chemical vapour deposition and oxide nanorod growth

Detailed studies of the UV photochemistry and photophysics of isolated gas phase molecules using a variety of state-of-the-art laser based techniques including H atom photofragment translational spectroscopy and velocity map ion imaging. Current activities involve extension of these methods to allow study of larger, less volatile (bio)molecules in the gas phase, and the development and use of ultrafast time-resolved pump-probe methods to explore the photophysics of such molecules in solution. Growth and characterisation of diamond thin films grown by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). Current interest centres on exploring the gas phase and gas-surface chemistry that underpins CVD of diamond (and doped diamond) in microwave reactors using a range of laser spectroscopies and mass spectrometry, plasma modelling, and QM/MM modelling of the gas-surface reactions. Pulsed laser ablation and deposition as a route to forming nanostructured thin films, with particular emphasis on exploring the chemical physics underpinning transfer of material from a target to a substrate (by, e.g., temporal, spatial and wavelength resolved optical emission spectroscopy) and developing diffusive pulsed laser deposition (DPLD) as a route to forming nanorod arrays (of, e.g., ZnO) with exceptional aspect ratio.

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Murdock, D, Clark, IP & Ashfold, MNR, 2016, ‘Probing Photochemically and Thermally Induced Isomerization Reactions in α-Pyrone’. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol 120., pp. 7249-7254 Liu, X, Du, B, Sun, Y, Yu, M, Yin, Y, Tang, W, Chen, C, Sun, L, Yang, B, Cao, W & Ashfold, MNR, 2016, ‘Sensitive Room Temperature Photoluminescence-Based Sensing of H2S with Novel CuO–ZnO Nanorods’. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol 8., pp. 16379?16385 Grubb, M, Coulter, P, Marroux, H, Hornung, B, McMullen, R, Orr-Ewing, A & Ashfold, M, 2016, ‘The translational, rotational and vibrational relaxation dynamics of a solute molecule’. Nature Chemistry. Truscott, BS, Kelly, MW, Potter, K, Ashfold, M & Mankelevich, YA, 2016, ‘Microwave plasma-activated chemical vapour deposition of nitrogen-doped diamond, II: CH4/N2/H2 plasmas’. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Liu, H, Truscott, BS & Ashfold, MNR, 2016, ‘Determination of Stark parameters by cross-calibration in a multi-element laser-induced plasma’. Scientific Reports, vol 6. Baker, LA, Grosvenor, LC, Ashfold, MN & Stavros, VG, 2016, ‘Ultrafast Photophysical Studies of a Multicomponent Sunscreen: Oxybenzone – Titanium Dioxide Mixtures’. Chemical Physics Letters. Ingle, R, Karsili, TNV, Dennis, GJ, Staniforth, M, Stavros, VG & Ashfold, MN, 2016, ‘Extreme population inversion in the fragments formed by UV photoinduced S-H bond fission in 2-thiophenethiol’. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol 18., pp. 11401-10 Marchetti, B, Karsili, TNV, Ashfold, MNR & Domcke, W, 2016, ‘A ‘bottom up’, ab initio computational approach to understanding fundamental photophysical processes in nitrogen containing heterocycles, DNA bases and base pairs’. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol 18., pp. 20007-20027 Wu, G, Neville, SP, Schalk, O, Sekikawa, T, Ashfold, MNR, Worth, GA & Stolow, A, 2016, ‘Excited state non-adiabatic dynamics of N-methylpyrrole: A time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum dynamics study’. Journal of Chemical Physics, vol 144. Ulmeanu, M, Petkov, P, Ursescu, D, Maraloiu, VA, Jipa, F, Brousseau, E & Ashfold, MNR, 2015, ‘Pattern formation on silicon by laser-initiated liquid-assisted colloidal lithography’. Nanotechnology, vol 26. Baker, LA, Horbury, MD, Greenough, SE, Ashfold, MNR & Stavros, VG, 2015, ‘Broadband ultrafast photoprotection by oxybenzone across the UVB and UVC spectral regions’. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, vol 14., pp. 1814-1820 Baker, LA, Horbury, MD, Greenough, SE, Coulter, PM, Karsili, TNV, Roberts, GM, Orr-Ewing, AJ, Ashfold, MNR & Stavros, VG, 2015, ‘Probing the ultrafast energy dissipation mechanism of the sunscreen oxybenzone after UVA irradiation’. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol 6., pp. 1363-1368