Dr Sam Duyker

BSc (Hons), University of Sydney, 2006
PhD, University of Sydney, 2011
Postdoctoral Fellow, ANSTO, 2011-2014
Endeavour Research Fellow, University of Oxford, 2015

The design and characterisation of structures that respond to external stimuli such as heat, pressure, and the presence of guest molecules; Negative Thermal Expansion (NTE) materials, highly compressible networks, lithium-ion battery materials, and metal-organic frameworks for gas separation; Neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering, and DFT/molecular dynamics calculations for investigating these materials

1. J.E. Auckett, S.H. Ogilvie, S.G. Duyker, P.D. Southon, C.J. Kepert, V.K. Peterson, Flexible yttrium coordination geometry inhibits “bare-metal” guest-interactions in the metal-organic framework Y(btc), Energies, 2016, 9(10), 836. doi:10.3390/en9100836
   
   
2. S.G. Duyker, V.K. Peterson, G.J. Kearley, A.J. Studer, C.J. Kepert, Extreme compressibility in LnFe(CN)₆ coordination framework materials via molecular gears and torsion springs, Nature Chem., 2016, 8, 270–275. DOI:10.1038/nchem.2431
   
   
3. L.J. McCormick, S.G. Duyker, A.W. Thornton, C.S. Hawes, M.R. Hill, V.K. Peterson, S.R. Batten, D.R. Turner, Ultramicroporous MOF with high concentration of vacant Cu^II sites, Chem. Mater., 2014, 26(15), 4640–4646. DOI:10.1021/cm502189c
   
   
4. S.G. Duyker, G.J. Halder, P.D. Southon, D.J. Price, A.J. Edwards, V.K. Peterson, C.J. Kepert, Topotactic structural conversion and hydration-dependent thermal expansion in robust LnM^III(CN)₆·nH₂O and flexible ALnFe^II(CN)₆·nH₂O frameworks (A = Li, Na, K; Ln = La-Lu, Y; M = Co, Fe; 0 < n < 5), Chem. Sci., 2014, 5, 3409–3417. DOI:10.1039/C4SC00809J
   
   
5. S.H. Ogilvie, S.G. Duyker, P.D. Southon, V.K. Peterson, C.J. Kepert, Identification of bridged CO₂ binding in a Prussian blue analogue using neutron powder diffraction, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49(82), 9404–9406. DOI:10.1039/C3CC46019C
   
   
6. S.G. Duyker, V.K. Peterson, G.J. Kearley, A.J. Ramirez-Cuesta, C.J. Kepert, Negative thermal expansion in LnCo(CN)₆ (Ln = La, Pr, Sm, Ho, Lu, Y): mechanisms and compositional trends, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 125(20), 5374–5378. DOI:10.1002/anie.201300619