Peter Battle
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Biography
Peter Battle was an undergraduate student at the University of Bristol before coming to Oxford in 1976 to work as a graduate student with Tony Cheetham, himself an alumnus of the College. He then spent four years as a CEGB Research Fellow at St. Catherine's before taking up a lecturership at Leeds University in 1984. He returned to the College as a Tutorial Fellow in 1989. He was given the title of Professor of Chemistry in 2002; he had previously held visiting professorships in France at Caen (1988) and Bordeaux (1995).
Research Interest
Peter Battle's research interest lies in the field of solid-state chemistry, with an emphasis on the relationship between the crystal structure and the electrical and magnetic properties of mixed-metal oxides and nitrides, for example La18Li8 Fe5O39 and Fe1.25Pt0.75Mo3N.
Publications
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Battle PD, Evers SI, Hunter EC, Westwood M. La3Ni2SbO9: a Relaxor Ferromagnet. Inorganic chemistry. 2013 May 20;52(11):6648-53.
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Battle PD, Sviridov LA, Woolley RJ, Grandjean F, Long GJ, Catlow CR, Sokol AA, Walsh A, Woodley SM. Magnetic properties of Fe 2 GeMo 3 N; an experimental and computational study. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2012;22(31):15606-13.
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Bahout M, Tonus F, Prestipino C, Pelloquin D, Hansen T, Fonda E, Battle PD. High-temperature redox chemistry of Pr 0.5 Sr 1.5 Cr 0.5 Mn 0.5 O 4− δ investigated in situ by neutron diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy under reducing and oxidizing gas flows. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2012;22(21):10560-70.
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Thammajak N, Battle PD, Grandjean F, Long GJ, Ramos S. Structural chemistry and spin-glass behaviour of Nd 18 Li 8 Fe 4 TiO 39. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 2012 Mar 31;187:75-82.
