CHEETHAM, Anthony K

Education

• D.Phil. University of Oxford
• M.A. University of Oxford
• BA (Hons) 1^st Class, Chemistry, University of Oxford

Awards and Honours

• 2020    Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the UK, named in the Queen’s 2020 New Year Honours List as a Knight Bachelor
• 2019    Elected a Foreign Fellow, Indian National Science Academy
• 2018    Elected a Honorary Fellow, Singapore National Academy of Science
• 2017    Elected a Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, England
• 2017    Basolo Medal, Northwestern University
• 2017    International Gold Medal for Materials Science and Technology, MRSI, India
• 2012 – 2017    Treasurer and Vice-President (Fellow of the Royal Society, London)

Research Interests

• Synthesis and Characterisation of Functional Inorganic and Hybrid Materials
• Development of Advanced Methods for the Chemical and Structural Characterisation of Polycrystalline Materials
• Study of Zeolite Catalysts, Molecular Sieves, and Optical Materials
• Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks and Hybrid Perovskites

Selected Publications

A. K. Cheetham, G. Kieslich and H. H.-Y. Yeung. Thermodynamic and Kinetic Effects in the Crystallization of Metal-Organic Frameworks. cc. Chem. Res. 2018, 51, 3, 659-667. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00497

N. Li, X. Chen, W.-J. Ong, D. R. MacFarlane, X. Zhao, A. K. Cheetham, and C. Sun. The understanding of electrochemical mechanisms for CO₂ capture and conversion into hydrocarbon fuels in transition-metal carbides (MXenes). ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 10825-10833. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b03738

T. D. Bennett, A. H. Fuchs, A. K. Cheetham and F. X. Coudert. Interplay between defects, disorder and flexibility in metal-organic frameworks. Nature Chem, 2017, 9, 11-16. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2691

B. K. Chang, P. D Bristowe and A.K. Cheetham. Computational studies on the adsorption of CO₂ in the flexible perfluorinated metal- organicframework zinc 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane tetrafluoroterephthalate. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 176-182. https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CP43093B

A. Thirumurugan, W. Li and A. K. Cheetham. Hybrid bismuth 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylates: Assembly of coordination molecular units into coordination polymers, CO₂sorption and photoluminescent properties. Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 4126-4134. https://doi.org/10.1039/C2DT12330D

A.T . Ashcroft, A.K. Cheetham, M.L.H. Green and P.D.F. Vernon. Partial oxidation of methane to synthesis gas using carbon dioxide. Nature, 1991, 352, 225-226. https://doi.org/10.1038/352225a0

A.T. Ashcroft, A.K. Cheetham, J.S. Foord, M.L.H. Green, C.P. Grey, A.J. Murrell and P.D.F. Vernon. Selective oxidation of methane to synthesis gas using transition metal catalysts. Nature, 1990, 344, 319-321. https://doi.org/10.1038/344319a0