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Dr suzanne neville


Contact Details

ARC Australian Research Fellow
Room 516
School of Chemistry, Building F11
The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
E: suzanne.neville@sydney.edu.au
T: +61 2 9351 4425
F: +61 2 9351 3329

Career Profile:

  • BSc (hons), The University of Sydney, 2000
  • PhD, The University of Sydney, 2005
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Magnetism Group, Monash University, 2006-2008
  • Marie Curie Fellow, Institut de Chemie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, France, 2009
  • X-ray Diffraction Laboratory Manager, Process Science and Engineering, CSIRO, Melbourne, 2010
  • ARC Australian Research Fellow, Monash University, 2011-2012
  • ARC Australian Research Fellow, The University of Sydney, 2013-2016

Areas of Interests:

  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry
  • Thermal-, light- and guest-induced spin crossover
  • Spin crossover materials with advanced function
  • Spin crossover nanoparticles/nanocrystals
  • Coordination polymers and porous materials

Research:

The primary focus of the group is to develop novel inorganic complexes which contain metal centres able to undergo magnetic switching (spin crossover). We use a range of functionalised bridging organic ligands to form mononuclear species, dinuclear species, one-dimensional chains and higher dimensional coordination polymers. We are aiming to miniaturise these spin crossover materials (nanoparticles, nanocrystals) for integration into devices. These studies are also leading towards interesting fundamental studies of spin crossover material structure and property relationships.

Spin Crossover One-Dimensional Chains

Some of the earliest examples of spin crossover materials with room temperature magnetic switching included one-dimensional iron(II) 1,2,4-triazole chains ([Fe(1,2,4-triazole)3](anion)2). Since then many groups have looked at the effect of incorporating functionalised 1,2,4-triazole ligands and a range of different anions. We are exploring functionalised amino-triazole ligands to promote greater interactions in the solid state towards improving and tuning their spin crossover properties.


 

Nanoscale Spin Crossover

With much of the fundamental knowledge about spin crossover established and several examples of spin crossover materials which show transitions at room temperature known, focus has shifted towards preparing materials in a way suitable for integration into devices. A number of methods for forming spin crossover nanoparticles, nanocrystals and thin films have been reported and investigations are now underway to understand the effect this miniaturisation has on the thermal- and light-induced magnetic switching properties.

 


Publications (2009- 2013):

  1. Scott, HS; Ross, TM; Moubaraki, B; Murray, KS and Neville, SM. Spin crossover in polymeric materials using Schiff base functionalized triazole ligands. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, (5-6), 803-812, 2013. DOI:10.1002/ejic.201201071

  2. Neville, SM; Halder, GJ; Murray, KS; Moubaraki, B and Kepert, CJ. A family of three-dimensional molecular framework materials containing the three-connecting ligands 2,4,6-tris(n´-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine: 3-tpt and 4tpt. Australian Journal of Chemistry, 66 (4), 452-463, 2013. DOI: 10.1071/CH12444

  3. Bonnitcha, PD; Kim, BJ; Hocking, RK; Clegg, JK; Turner, P; Neville, SM and Hambley, TW. Cobalt complexes with tripodal ligands: Implications for the design of drug chaperones. Dalton Transactions, 41 (37), 11293-11304, 2012. DOI: 10.1039/c2dt30727h

  4. Buriska, MB; Neville, SM; Moubaraki, B; Murray, KS; Balde, C; Létard, J-F; Kepert, CJ and Batten, SR. A family of discrete magnetically switchable nanoballs. ChemPlusChem, 77 (8), 616-23, 2012. DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201200123

  5. Scott, HA; Ross, TM; Batten, SR; Gass, IA; Moubaraki, B; Neville, SM and Murray, KS. Iron(II) mononuclear materials containing functionalised dipyridylamino-substituted triazine ligands: structure, magnetism and spin crossover. Australian Journal of Chemistry, 65 (7), 874-82, 2012. DOI: 10.1071/CH12052

  6. Chainok, K; Neville, SM; Forsyth, C; Gee, WJ; Murray, KS and Batten, SR. Supramolecular architecture of silver(I) coordination polymers containing polydentate N-donor ligands. CrystEngComm., 14, 3717-26, 2012. DOI: 10.1039/c2ce25225b

  7. Ross, TM; Moubaraki, B; Neville, SM; Batten, SR and Murray, KS. Polymorphism and spin crossover in mononuclear FeII species containing new dipyridylamino-substituted s-triazine ligand. Dalton Transactilons, 41, 1512-1523, 2012. DOI: 10.1039/c1dt11597a

  8. Ross, TM; Moubaraki, B; Turner, DR; Halder, GJ; Chastanet, G; Neville, SM; Cashion, JD; Létard, J-F; Batten, SR and Murray, KS. Spin crossover and solvate effects in 1D FeII chain compunds containing bis(dipyridylamine)-linked triazine ligands. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, (9), 1395-1417, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201000876

  9. Grey, IE; Mumme, WG; Neville, SM; Wilson, NC and Birch, WD. Jahnsite – whiteite solid solutions and associated minerals in the phosphate pegmatite at Hagendorf-Süd, Bavaria, Germany. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (6), 969-78, 2010. DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2010.074.6.969 9

  10. Amoore, JJM; Neville, SM; Moubaraki, B; Iremonger, SS; Murray, KS; Létard, J-F and Kepert, CJ. Thermal- and light-induced spin crossover in a guest-dependent dinuclear iron(II) system. Chem. Eur. J., 16 (6), 1973-1982, 2010. DOI: 10.1002/chem.200901809

  11. Chainok, K; Neville, S; Moubaraki, B; Batten, S; Murray, K; Forsyth, C and Cashion, J. Synthesis, structures and spin crossover properties of infinite 3D frameworks of iron(II) containing organodinitrile bridging ligands. Dalton Transactions, 39, 45, 10900-10909, 2010. DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00447b

  12. Clegg, JK; Hayter, MJ; Jolliffe, KA; Lindoy, LF; McMurtrie, JC; Meehan, GV; Neville, SM; Parsons, S; Tasker, PA; Turner, P and White, FJ. New discrete and polymeric supramolecular architectures derived from dinuclear Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes of aryl-linked bis-beta-diketonato ligands and nitrogen bases: Synthetic, structural and high pressure studies. Dalton Transactions, 39 (11), 2804-2815, 2010. DOI: 10.1039/b920199h

  13. Neville, SM; Etrillard, C; Asthana, S and Létard, J-F. Light-induced stored information in spin crossover nanoparticles. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, (2), 282-288, 2010. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.200900937

  14. Ross, TM; Neville, SM; Innes, DS; Moubaraki, B and Murray, KS. Spin crossover in iron(III) Schiff-base 1-D chain complexes. Dalton Transactions, 39 (1), 149-159, 2010. DOI: 10.1039/b913234a

  15. Chesman, A; Turner, DR; Ross, TM; Neville, SM; Lu, JZ; Murray, KS and Batten, SR. Chains, helices, sheets and unusual 3D nets: Diverse structures of the flexible, ditopic ligand 1,2-bis(3-(4-pyridyl)pyrazolyl)ethane. Polyhedron, 29 (1), 2-9, 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2009.05.029

  16. Duriska, MB; Neville, SM and Batten, SR. Variable length ligands: a new class of bridging ligand for supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering. Chemical Communications, (37), 5579–5581, 2009. DOI: 10.1039/b910994c

  17. Duriska, MB; Neville, SM; Lu, J; Iremonger, SS; Boas, JF; Kepert, CJ and Batten, SR. Systematic metal variation and solvent and hydrogen-gas storage in supramolecular nanoballs. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48 (47), 8919-8922, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/anie.200903863

  18. Neville, SM; Halder, GJ; Chapman, KW; Duriska, MB; Moubaraki, B; Murray, KS and Kepert, CJ. Guest tunable structure and spin crossover properties in a nanoporous coordination framework material. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131 (34), 12106-12108, 2009. DOI: 10.1021/ja905360g

  19. Nielsen, P; Toftlund, H; Bond, AD; Boas, JF; Pilbrow, JR; Hanson, GR; Noble, C; Riley, MJ; Neville, SM; Moubaraki, B and Murray, KS. Systematic study of spin crossover and structure in [Co(terpyRX)(2)](Y)(2) Systems (terpyRX=4 '-alkoxy-2,2 ':6 ',2 ''-terpyridine, X=4, 8, 12, Y = BF(4)(-), ClO(4)(-), PF(6)(-), BPh(4)(-)). Inorganic Chemistry, 48 (15), 7033-7047, 2009. DOI: 10.1021/ic802252k

  20. Duriska, MB; Neville, SM; Moubaraki, B; Cashion, JA; Halder, GJ; Chapman, KW; Balde, C; Letard, JF; Murray, KS; Kepert, CJ and Batten, SR. A nanoscale molecular switch triggered by thermal, light, and guest perturbation. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 48 (14), 2549-2552, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/anie.200805178