IFM staff

Dr Luke O'Dell

Research interests:

Luke's research expertise is in the technique of solid-state NMR spectroscopy, a useful and versatile experimental tool for the molecular scale characterisation of structure and dynamics in materials. He has used this method to study a wide variety of materials, including nanocrystals, silicate glasses, anionic conductors, phosphate ceramics, and hydrogen storage materials. In addition to this, he has also been involved in the development of new experimental methods, with a particular focus on insensitive "quadrupolar" nuclei that are generally more difficult to study than their spin-half counterparts. At Deakin, Luke will continue to develop solid-state NMR methods and applications, and will be involved in a range of collaborative projects with other Deakin researchers.

Qualifications:

• PhD (University of Warwick, UK, 2007)
• MPhys (University of Warwick, UK, 2003)

Relevant employment history:

2012 - present: Senior Lecturer, Deakin University

2009 - 2012: Research Associate, National Research Council, Canada

2008 - 2009: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Windsor, Canada

2007 - 2008: Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Warwick, UK

A list of the ten most significant relevant publications for the last five years:

1. Variable Temperature ¹⁷O NMR Studies Allow Quantitative Evaluation of Molecular Dynamics in Organic Solids - Kong X., O'Dell L.A., Terskikh V.V., Ye E., Wang R., and Wu G., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134 (2012) 14609-14617
2. Crystal Structure Based Design of Signal Enhancement Schemes for Solid-state NMR of Insensitive Half-integer Quadrupolar Nuclei - O'Dell L.A. and Ratcliffe C.I., J. Phys. Chem. A 115 (2011) 747-752
3. Direct Detection of Nitrogen-14 in Solid-state NMR Spectroscopy - O'Dell L.A., Prog. Nucl. Magn. Reson. Spec. 59 (2011) 295-318
4. ¹⁴N Magic Angle Spinning Overtone NMR Spectra - O'Dell L.A. and Ratcliffe C.I., Chem. Phys. Lett. 514 (2011) 168-173
5. Interaction Tensors and Local Dynamics in Common Structural Motifs of Nitrogen: A Solid-state ¹⁴N NMR and DFT Study - O'Dell L.A., Schurko R.W., Harris K.J., Autschbach J. and Ratcliffe C.I., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133 (2011) 527-546
6. Ultra-wideline ¹⁴N NMR Spectroscopy as a Probe of Molecular Dynamics - O'Dell L.A. and Ratcliffe C.I., Chem. Commun. 46 (2010) 6774-6776
7. Fast and Simple Acquisition of Solid-State ¹⁴N NMR Spectra with Signal Enhancement via Population Transfer - O'Dell L.A. and Schurko R.W., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131 (2009) 6658-6659
8. Static Solid-State ¹⁴N NMR and Computational Studies of Nitrogen EFG Tensors in Some Crystalline Amino Acids - O'Dell L.A. and Schurko R.W., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11 (2009) 7069-7077
9. QCPMG Using Adiabatic Pulses for Faster Acquisition of Ultra-Wideline NMR Spectra - O'Dell L.A. and Schurko R.W., Chem. Phys. Lett. 464 (2008) 97-102
10. Variable-Temperature ¹⁷O NMR Study of Oxygen Motion in the Anionic Conductor Bi₂₆Mo₁₀O₆₉ - Holmes L., Peng L., Heinmaa I., O'Dell, L.A., Smith M.E., Vannier R.-N. and Grey C.P., Chem. Mater. 20 (2008) 3638-3648

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