Arthur Mar
chemistry
University of Alberta
Canada
Biography
Arthur Mar received a B.Sc. (Hons.) from the University of British Columbia in 1988 and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1992 (under the supervision of James A. Ibers); he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut des Matériaux de Nantes in 1993–1994 (under the supervision of Jean Rouxel and Yves Piffard). He is currently full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta, leading a research group in inorganic solid state and materials chemistry. He has received the Faculty of Science Research award and numerous teaching awards at the University of Alberta. He has previously served on the editorial boards of Chem. Mater. and Acta Cryst. E, and currently serves on the editorial board of J. Solid State Chem.
Research Interest
Our group focuses on the synthesis, characterization, and applications of inorganic solid state materials. The research interests straddle the traditional boundaries in chemistry (inorganic, physical) and science (crystallography, condensed matter physics, materials science). The motivations are both to discover fundamentally new structures and reactivities of the elements, and to develop applications of these compounds by exploiting their electrical and magnetic properties.
Publications
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Noncentrosymmetric rare-earth copper gallium chalcogenides RE3CuGaCh7 (RE = La–Nd; Ch = S, Se): An unexpected combination.
