All Outputs (8)

Microflow synthesis of a formulation of phosphorus fertiliser to enhance the P content in soil and P uptake in wheat (2023)
Journal Article
Nguyen Quang Le, T., Robertson, K., Escribà-Gelonch, M., Marschner, P., Nghiep Tran, N., Williams, P. M., …Hessel, V. (2023). Microflow synthesis of a formulation of phosphorus fertiliser to enhance the P content in soil and P uptake in wheat. Green Chemistry, 25(22), 9422-9437. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3gc02859c

Highly soluble commercial phosphorus (P) fertilisers have been the most common form of P applied in agriculture for decades, but their releasing efficiency can be low because phosphate ions can easily bind with cations in the soil to form precipitate... Read More about Microflow synthesis of a formulation of phosphorus fertiliser to enhance the P content in soil and P uptake in wheat.

PDI-functionalised glass beads: efficient, metal-free heterogeneous photocatalysts suitable for flow photochemistry (2023)
Working Paper
Ali, H., Ahmed, I., Robertson, K., & Lanterna, A. PDI-functionalised glass beads: efficient, metal-free heterogeneous photocatalysts suitable for flow photochemistry

Perylene diimides (PDI) have an extraordinary ability to activate both energy and electron transfer process upon light excitation, however, their extremely low solubility has hindered their wide use as photocatalysts. Here, we show a series of suppor... Read More about PDI-functionalised glass beads: efficient, metal-free heterogeneous photocatalysts suitable for flow photochemistry.

Quid Pro Flow (2023)
Journal Article
Laybourn, A., Robertson, K., & Slater, A. G. (2023). Quid Pro Flow. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(8), 4355–4365. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c13670

How do you get into flow? We trained in flow chemistry during postdoctoral research and are now applying it in new areas: materials chemistry, crystallization, and supramolecular synthesis. Typically, when researchers think of “flow”, they are consid... Read More about Quid Pro Flow.

Rapid optimisation of API crystallisation in a segmented flow reactor with a continuous, variable temperature gradient (2022)
Journal Article
Robertson, K., Seeberger, P. H., & Gilmore, K. (2022). Rapid optimisation of API crystallisation in a segmented flow reactor with a continuous, variable temperature gradient. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2re00183g

The reproducible crystallisation of small molecules can be difficult due to the myriad of factors influencing crystallisation events and growth as well as the inhomogeneity of traditional approaches. While continuous flow approaches can increase repr... Read More about Rapid optimisation of API crystallisation in a segmented flow reactor with a continuous, variable temperature gradient.

Serial small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering with laboratory sources (2022)
Journal Article
Levenstein, M. A., Robertson, K., Turner, T. D., Hunter, L., O'Brien, C., O'Shaughnessy, C., …Meldrum, F. C. (2022). Serial small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering with laboratory sources. IUCrJ, 9(5), 538-543. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252522007631

Recent advances in X-ray instrumentation and sample injection systems have enabled serial crystallography of protein nanocrystals and the rapid structural analysis of dynamic processes. However, this progress has been restricted to large-scale X-ray... Read More about Serial small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering with laboratory sources.

In situ non-invasive Raman spectroscopic characterisation of succinic acid polymorphism during segmented flow crystallisation (2019)
Journal Article
Pallipurath, A. R., Flandrin, P., Wayment, L. E., Wilson, C. C., & Robertson, K. (2019). In situ non-invasive Raman spectroscopic characterisation of succinic acid polymorphism during segmented flow crystallisation. Molecular Systems Design and Engineering, 5, 294-303. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9me00103d

The kinetically regulated automated input crystalliser for Raman spectroscopy (KRAIC-R) combines highly controlled crystallisation environments, via tri segmented flow, with non-invasive confocal Raman spectroscopy. Taking advantage of the highly rep... Read More about In situ non-invasive Raman spectroscopic characterisation of succinic acid polymorphism during segmented flow crystallisation.

Continuous-flow crystallisation in 3D-printed compact devices (2019)
Journal Article
Okafor, O., Robertson, K., Goodridge, R., & Sans, V. (2019). Continuous-flow crystallisation in 3D-printed compact devices. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, 4(9), 1682-1688. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9re00188c

© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. A flexible and cost-effective methodology to develop compact flow devices with heat exchange ability is presented here. Additive manufacturing techniques allow the rapid design and manufacture of modular jackete... Read More about Continuous-flow crystallisation in 3D-printed compact devices.

Anion···π Interactions and Metastability: Structural Transformations in a Silver–Pyrazine Network (2017)
Journal Article
Gee, W. J., Robertson, K., & Skelton, J. M. (2017). Anion···π Interactions and Metastability: Structural Transformations in a Silver–Pyrazine Network. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2017(19), 2628-2636. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201700505

Structural evidence of anion···π interactions influencing single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) transformations is demonstrated herein with a metastable silver–pyrazine system. A cascade of SCSC transformations driven by changes to anion···π stabil... Read More about Anion···π Interactions and Metastability: Structural Transformations in a Silver–Pyrazine Network.