AG ESR Spectroscopy

Research

Room Temperature MASERs

The MASER (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is the forerunner of the Laser, but is less well know and developed due to technical challenges. Recently, together with colleagues at Imperial College London, we have been developing a MASER based on the lowest excited triplet state of pentacene in p-terphenyl (Salvadori et al, Scientific Reports 2017, Breeze et al, Quantum Information 2017) and NV- centres in diamond that works at room temperature (Breeze et al, Nature 2018).

Structural Biology

Combining X-ray crystallography, molecular dynamics and nitroxide spin-labeling EPR spectroscopy to obtain and verify structures of proteins in solution (Ilangovan et al, Cell 2017, Bagneris et al Nature Communications 2013, Webster et al Nucleic Acids Research 2012, Phan et al Nature, 2011, Grohmann et al Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010).