Dr Richard Mole
Staff Profile
Role at ANSTO
Dr Richard Mole is an instrument scientist co-responsible for the cold-neutron Time-of-Flight spectrometer PELICAN.
His expertise includes chemical physics, inorganic and materials chemistry, in particular the application of neutron diffraction and spectroscopy to the study of molecular magnetism.
Richard completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2006, using neutron and muon techniques, in conjunction with bulk magnetometry, to study a range of molecule-based magnetic materials. Since 2006 Richard has worked at the research reactor FRM II in Munich, as co-responsible for the PUMA triple-axis spectrometer. As well as his duties as a local contact he also pursued research projects looking at the magnetic behaviour of a range of cobalt(II)-based magnetic materials.
Qualifications & achievements:
- PhD at the University of Cambridge studying molecular magnetism.
- BA and MSci from the University of Cambridge
- Post-doctoral position at the neutron source FRM II
- Presented work at major international conferences on neutron scattering and molecular magnetism.
- Received the BP, Cambridge Inorganic Chemistry award (2005)
- Appointed visiting fellow at UNSW@ADFA (2011)
- Appointed visiting fellow at UNSW chemistry (Kensington) 2011-08-19
Publications
Richard A. Mole, John A. Stride, Paul F. Henry, Markus Hoelzel, Anatoliy Senyshyn, Antonio Alberola, Carlos J. Gomez Garcia, Paul R. Raithby, Paul T. Wood, Inorganic Chemistry, 2011, 50, 2246
Angelika B. Boeer, Anne-Laure Barra, Liviu F. Chibotaru, David Collison, Eric J. L. McInnes, Richard A. Mole, Giovanna G. Simeoni, Grigore A. Timco, Liviu Ungur, Tobias Unruh, Richard E. P. Winpenny, Angewandte Chemie, Angewandte Chemie, 2011, 50, 4007
Andreas Eichhöfer, Gernot Buth, Francesco Dolci, Karin Fink, Richard. A. Mole, Paul T. Wood, Dalton Trans, 2011, 40, 7022 Hidden magnetic excitation in the pseudogap phase of a cuprate superconductor
Y. Li, V. Balédent, G. Yu, N. Barišic, K. Hradil, R.A. Mole, Y. Sidis, P. Steffens, X. Zhao, P. Bourges, M. Greven. Nature 2010, 468, 283 (accepted)
Magnetic resonance in the model high-temperature superconductor HgBa2CuO4+d Guichuan Yu, Yuan Li, Eugene M. Motoyama, X. Zhao, N. Barisic, Y. Cho, Phillipe Bourges, Klaudia Hradil, Richard A. Mole Martin Greven. Physical Review B 2010, 81, 064518
Mixed Alkali Metal/Transition Metal Anionic Coordination Polymers with the Mellitic Acid Hexaanion: 2-Dimensional Hexagonal Magnetic Nets. Simon M. Humphrey, Richard A. Mole, Richard I. Thompson and Paul T. Wood Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 49, 3441
Non classical behaviour in a S = 5/2 chain with next nearest neighbour interactions. Richard A. Mole, John A. Stride, Tobias Unruh, Paul T. Wood, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 2009, 21, 076003.
Synthesis, Structure and Physical Properties of the Manganese(II) selenide/selenolate cluster complexes [Mn32Se14(SePh)36(PnPr3)4] and [Na(benzene-15-crown-5)(C4H8O)2]2[Mn8Se(SePh)16]. Andreas Eichhofer, Raghaven Viswanath, Paul T. Wood, Richard A. Mole Chem. Commun. 2007, 13, 1596
Hydrothermal synthesis and magnetic properties of novel Mn(II) and Zn(II) materials with thiolato-carboxylate donor ligand frameworks. Simon M. Humphrey, Richard A. Mole, Jeremy M. Rawson and Paul T. Wood, Dalton Trans. 2004, 1670-1678.
Isolated magnetic clusters of Co(II) and Ni(II) within 3-dimensional organic frameworks of 6-mercaptonicotinic acid: unique structural topologies based on selectivity for hard and soft coordination environments. Simon M. Humphery, Richard A. Mole, Mary McPartlin, Eric J. L. McInnes and Paul T. Wood, Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 5981-5983
Structural and Magnetic Studies of the Tris-Cyclopentadienylmanganese(II) “Paddle-Wheel” Anions [Cp3-n(MeCp)nMn]- (n= 0-3, MeCp = C5H4CH3, Cp = C5H5). Carmen Soria Alvarez, Alan Bashall, Eric McInnes, Richard A. Mole, Richard A. Layfield, Mary Mcpartlin, Jeremy M. Rawson, Paul T. Wood and Dominic S. Wright, Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 12, 3053
Synthesis, structure and magnetic behaviour of Manganese(II) selenolate complexes (1)(infinity) [Mn(SePh)2], [Mn(SePh)2(bipy)2] and [Mn(SePh)2(phen)2] go (bipy = bipyridyl, phen = phenanthroline).
Andreas Eichhofer, Paul T. Wood, Raghaven Viswanath, Richard A Mole, European J. Inorg. Chem, 2007, 30 4794