Richard Winpenny

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Richard Winpenny
Born
Richard Eric Parry Winpenny

Port Talbot, Wales, UK
Education Sandfields Comprehensive School, Port Talbot
Alma mater Imperial College London [1] (Bsc., PhD)
Known for Single-molecule magnetism
Inorganic synthesis
Supramolecular chemistry
Polymetallic caged complexes
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Inorganic chemistry
Magnetochemistry
InstitutionsThe University of Manchester
Thesis New heterometallic polynuclear complexes  (1988)
Doctoral advisor David Goodgame
Doctoral students Nicholas F. Chilton [7]

Richard Eric Parry Winpenny FRSC FLSW is a British chemist and a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. [1] Winpenny's research is within the fields of inorganic chemistry and magnetochemistry, specifically the areas of single-molecule magnetism, inorganic synthesis, supramolecular chemistry and polymetallic caged complexes. [8]

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Education

Winpenny was educated at Sandfields Comprehensive School, Port Talbot, where he was influenced by his excellent chemistry teachers, John Hardie and Vivien Davies, to study chemistry at university. [9] He thus completed both his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree at Imperial College London in 1985 and 1988 respectively. [9] His PhD on New heterometallic polynuclear complexes was supervised by David Goodgame. [9] [10]

Research and career

Upon completing his PhD, Winpenny completed his postdoctoral research with John Fackler, Jr at Texas A&M University from 1988 to 1989 where he researched on mass spectrometry of gold clusters. [1] In 1990, he joined the University of Edinburgh as an academic, and in 2000, moved to The University of Manchester as the chair of inorganic chemistry. [9]

Winpenny was the Associate Dean for Research in the University of Manchester Faculty of Science and Engineering from September 2008 to April 2010. [9] He was also the director of the Photon Science Institute from October 2009 to April 2014. [11] Winpenny was also the head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester from August 2014 to April 2018, and is the director and chief scientific officer at Sci-Tron(Ltd.). [9] He was also awarded Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Established Career Fellowship (January 2018 to December 2022) and also holds a European Research Council Advanced Fellowship from September 2018 to August 2022. [12]

Notable work

Winpenny is classed as one of the leading synthetic chemists of polymetallic cage complexes. [6] He has developed a wide range of heterometallic rings as a new class of molecular magnets, [6] which have been exploited to develop new physics and techniques with proposals to use them in quantum information processing. These rings also show unique capabilities to act as resist materials for electron beam lithography (EBL).

A wide range of literature has been published by Winpenny on the synthesis, structural and property analysis of heterometallic rings, polymetallic cages, single molecule magnets, and f-block and d-block metal complexes. [13] [14] [15] The published work by Winpenny has gained more than 24,000 citations as of 2020. [8]

In 2007, Winpenny also reported the first intrinsic spin-lattice (T1) and phasecoherence (T2) relaxation times in molecular nanomagnets. The results showed that the value of T2 in deuterated samples were of several orders of magnitude longer than the duration of spin manipulations which satisfies the prerequisite for the deployment of molecular nanomagnets in quantum information applications. [16]

In 2016, a research led by Winpenny, Nicholas F. Chilton and Yan‐Zhen Zheng was able to report a monometallic dysprosium complex which showed the largest effective energy barrier to magnetic relaxation of Ueff = 1815 K. [17] The research also showed the largest blocking temperature (TB) for a monometallic complex.

Awards and nominations

Major reviews and publications

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  7. ↑ Chilton, Nicholas Frederick (2015). Magnetic anisotropy of transition metal complexes. manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC   1064594612. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.647392. Lock-green.svg
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  10. ↑ Winpenny, Richard E P (1988). New heterometallic polynuclear complexes (PhD thesis). hdl:10044/1/47309.(subscription required)
  11. ↑ "Photon Science Institute" . Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  12. ↑ Royal Society of Chemistry. "UK-India Symposium on Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, Prof. Richard Winpenny (Profile)" . Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  13. ↑ Winpenny, Richard E.P. (2006). "Single-Molecule Magnets and Related Phenomena". In Mingos, D.M.P. (ed.). Structure and Bonding. Springer-Verlag, Germany. pp. 100–110. ISBN   978-3-540-33239-8.
  14. ↑ Winpenny, Richard E.P. (1998). "The structures and magnetic properties of complexes containing 3d- and 4f metals". Chem. Soc. Rev. 27 (6): 447–452. doi:10.1039/A827447Z . Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  15. ↑ Winpenny, Richard E.P.; Woodruff, Daniel N.; Zheng, Yan-Zhen (2013). "Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets". Chem. Rev. 113 (7): 5110–5148. doi:10.1021/cr400018q. PMID   23550940 . Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  16. ↑ Ardavan, Arzhang; Winpenny, Richard E.P.; Rival, Olivier; Morton, John J. L.; Blundell, Stephen J.; Tyryshkin, Alexei M.; Timco, Grigore A. (2007). "Will Spin-Relaxation Times in Molecular Magnets Permit Quantum Information Processing?". Physical Review Letters. 98 (5): 057201. arXiv: quant-ph/0609143 . Bibcode:2007PhRvL..98e7201A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.057201. PMID   17358891. S2CID   26827633 . Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  17. ↑ Ding, You-Song; Winpenny, Richard E.P.; Chilton, Nicholas F.; Layfield, Richard A. (2016). "On Approaching the Limit of Molecular Magnetic Anisotropy: A Near-Perfect Pentagonal Bipyramidal Dysprosium(III) Single-Molecule Magnet". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55 (52): 16071–16074. doi:10.1002/anie.201609685. PMID   27874236 . Retrieved 13 June 2020.
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