Dr John Stride

Bragg fellow

Phone +61 (02) 9385 4672 (at UNSW)
Phone +61 (02) 9717 7223 (at ANSTO)
Email  j.stride@unsw.edu.au

Dr John Stride is a UNSW (Chemistry) Bragg Fellow, having research interests primarily in molecule-based magnetic materials and nanotechnology. He is actively engaged in the design of the PELICAN Time-of-Flight spectrometer.

His expertise includes chemical physics, inorganic and materials chemistry.

John completed his PhD in 1995 at the University of East Anglia, UK, using neutron and muon techniques to probe the magnetic and dynamic nature of molecular systems. This naturally led on to a postdoctoral position in the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin, Germany, where he worked on the development of new instrumentation. From there he moved to the Laboratoire Lon Brillouin in Saclay, France, for hands-on experience of polarised neutron diffraction. In 2000 he moved to the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, working as an instrument scientist at the world's most intense neutron source. In all of this time he pursued his research interests in materials and in particular magnetic molecular systems.

Qualifications & Achievements:

• Author or co-author of over 50 refereed scientific papers and has presented his work at several international conferences and specialist workshops
• PhD at the University of East Anglia, UK, using neutron and muon techniques to probe the magnetic and dynamic nature of molecular systems

Key Publications

M. Choucair, P. Thordarson, and J. A. Stride, Gram-scale production of graphene based on solvothermal synthesis and sonication, Nat. Nanotechnol., 4(1), 30-33 (2009).

M. C. C. Ng, D. J. Craig, J. B. Harper, L. Van-Eijck, and J. A. Stride, The Central Atom Size Effect on the Structure of Group 14 Tetratolyls, Chem.-Eur. J., 15(27), 6569-6572 (2009).magnetic interactions

B. Gillon, A. Goujon, S. Willemin, J. Larionova, C. Desplanches, E. Ruiz, G. Andre, J. A. Stride, and C. Guerin, Neutron Diffraction and Theoretical DFT Studies of Two Dimensional Molecular-Based Magnet K₂[Mn(H₂O)₂]₃[Mo(CN)₇]₂•6H₂O, Inorg. Chem. 46, 1090 (2007).

E. Ruiz, G. Rajaraman, S. Alvarez, B. Gillon, J. Stride, R. Clrac, J. Larionova and S. Decurtins, Symmetry and Topology Determine the MoV-CN-MnII Exchange Interactions in High Spin Molecules. Angew. Chem. 44, 2711 (2005).

S. J. Blundell, J.A. Stride, C.A. Steer, P.D. Battle and M.J. Rosseinsky, Magnetic excitations in a single- and bi-layered brownmillerite, J. Phys. Cond. Mat., 17, 99 (2005).

S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, T. Guidi, R. Caciuffo, A. Candini, A. Cornia, D. Gatteschi, M. Plazanet and J. A. Stride, Intra- and inter-multiplet magnetic excitations in a tetrairon(III) molecular cluster, Phys. Rev. B, 70, 214403 (2004).

J. A. Stride, U. A. Jayasooriya, R. D. Cannon, J. P. Bourke, D. R. Rosseinsky, R. Ballou and S. P. Cottrell, Observation of Antiferromagnetic Coupling Between Distant Metal Centres in K₃(MnO₄)₂ by Muon Spin Relaxation Measurements, ChemPhysChem., 2, 683 (2001).

J. A. Stride, B. Gillon, A. Goukassov, J. Larionova and O. Kahn, Determination of the Nuclear Structure and Spin Density Distribution in the Cyano-Bridged Molecular Based Magnet K₂Mn₃(H₂O)₆[Mo(CN)₇]₂.6H₂O , C. R. Acad. Sci. II C., 4, 105 (2001).

intermolecular interactions

G. F. Syrykh, A. S. Ivanov, N. A. Klimenko, Y. V. Lisichkin, H. Mutka, and J. A. Stride, Propagating vibrational modes in the Zr-Be metallic glasses, J. Phys.-Condes. Matter, 20(10), Art. No. 104241 (2008).

J. A. Stride, Determination of the Low Temperature Structure of Hexamethylbenzene , Acta Cryst. B, 61, 200 (2005).

G. J. Kearley, T.J. Dingemans, O. Kruglova, J. Stride and F. . Mulder, The Origin of Heterogeneous Relaxation in a Random Copolyester, Macromolecules, 37, 9855 (2004).

J. A. Stride, U. A. Jayasooriya and P. H. Dallin, Intermolecular Fermi-Resonance, J. Chem. Phys., 119, 2747 (2003).

F. M. Mulder, J. Stride, S. J. Picken, P. H. J. Kouwer, M. P. de Haas, L. D. A. Siebbeles and G. J. Kearley, Dynamics of a Triphenylene Discotic Molecule, HAT6, in the Columnar and Isotropic Liquid Phases, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 3860 (2003).

J. A. Stride, U. A. Jayasooriya, N. Mbogo, R. P. White, B. Nicola? and G. J. Kearley, Hydrogen-bonding in the Self-Organising System 3,5-Dimethylpyrazole , New J. Chem., 25, 1069 (2001).

neutron instrumentation

N. Magnani, A. Paoluzi, L. Pareti, and J. A. Stride, Inelastic neutron scattering study of Pr₂Co₁₂Fe₅, J. Phys.-Condes. Matter, 20(10), Art. No. 104222 (2008).

J. A. Stride, K. H. Andersen, A. P. Murani, H. Mutka, H. Schober and J. R. Stewart, Toward polarization analysis on a thermal time-of-flight spectrometer , Physica B, 356, 146 (2005).

J. A. Stride, D. Wechsler, F. Mezei and H.-J. Bleif, Powder Diffraction at a Long Pulse Spallation Source, Nuc. Inst. Meth. Phys. A, 451, 480 (2000).