Jacqui Cole

Jacqui Cole
Jacqui Cole at Argonne National Laboratory in 2015
Born
Jacqueline Manina Cole
Alma materDurham University (BSc, PhD)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Open University (BEng)
AwardsRoyal Society University Research Fellowship (2001)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular engineering
Dye-sensitized solar cells
Non linear optical materials
Photoisomerism
Optomechanical transduction[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Kent
ThesisStructural studies of organic and organometallic compounds using x-ray and neutron techniques (1997)
Doctoral advisorJudith Howard
Websitewww.mole.phy.cam.ac.uk/people/jmc.php

Jacqueline Manina Cole is the Head of the Molecular Engineering group in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Her research considers the design of functional materials for optoelectronic applications.[2]

Early life and education

Cole earned her first degree in chemistry at Durham University in 1994. She remained there for her graduate studies, completing a PhD in 1997 (Grey College).[3] Her thesis, Structural studies of organic and organometallic compounds using x-ray and neutron techniques, described the structure-property relationships of non-linear optical materials, including studies of transition metal complexes.[4][5] She was supervised by Judith Howard.[4]

Cole was appointed a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Kent, where she worked on the structure of amorphous materials.[6] Cole moved to the University of Cambridge as a Junior Research Fellow in St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 2001.[7] Here she began to investigate photo-crystallography. In her spare time, Cole completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the Open University. After the bachelor's degree in mathematics, Cole earned diplomas in statistics (2004), physics (2008) and astronomy (2006) as well as a second bachelor's degree in engineering (2014) from the Open University. Cole earned a second doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge in 2010.[8]

Career and research

As a Royal Society University Research Fellow,[1] Cole developed a new analytical approach to establish the photo-induced structures of optoelectronic materials.[6] Photo-crystallography permits the 4D structural determination of photo-activated states.[6][9] Photo-activation can result in structural changes that are irreversible, reversible, long-lived (microsecond lifetimes) and very short-lived (nanosecond lifetimes).[6] Cole uses single-crystal X-ray crystallography to monitor the minute structural changes that occur during photo-excitation.[6] Photo-crystallography allows the visualisation of switching processes in single crystals.[10] In 2008 she was appointed Vice-Chancellor's Research Chair at the University of New Brunswick.[11]

Cole is interested in dye-sensitized solar cells, nonlinear optics and optical data storage.[2][11] In dye-sensitized solar cells, the dye absorbs sunlight, injecting electrons into titanium dioxide nanoparticles and starting an electric circuit. Cole worked on the design of organic fluorophores in an effort to improve the performance of the dye.[12][13] She investigated how data mining and Quantum chemical calculations could be used to predict which dyes might perform best.[14] She uses the EPSRC National Service for Computational Chemistry Software.[15] She has looked to use some of the dyes, in particular p-phenylene, as a laser.[16]

Whilst inorganic materials dominate the photonic device industry, the need for high-speed telecommunications has exceed their limitations. Organic electronic materials have a significantly faster response time.[15] Whilst working at the Argonne National Laboratory, Cole used in situ neutron reflectometry to study the interaction between the electrolytes and electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells.[17] She designed cells that used metal-free organic dyes and achieve a 14.3% efficiency.[17][18][19] The cells incorporated an organic sensitiser, MK-44, and an organic dye, MK-2, based on thiophenylcyanoacrylate.[20] Cole optimised the anchoring characteristics of the dye on titanium dioxide nanoparticles to improve charge-transfer pathways.[20][21]

Her early work considered how molecular structure impacted second-harmonic generation.[22] Cole studied the origins of the nonlinear optics observed in N-methylurea, where solid-state intermolecular interactions and electron-donation from the methyl group separate it from the reference material urea.[23] She has investigated the molecular design rules of organometallic second-harmonic generation active materials.[24]

In 2018 Cole was appointed a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow.[25] The fellowship is a collaboration between the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), BASF and ISIS neutron source to discover functional materials systematically.[26] As of 2019, Cole leads the Molecular Engineering group in the Cavendish Laboratory.[6] She works with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on data science and buried interfaces. She has recently designed new databases of magnetic materials.[27]

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^ a b c Anon (2001). "Jacqueline Cole". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Retrieved 6 February 2019. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  2. ^ a b c Jacqui Cole publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "Class Notes". Dunelm. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b Cole, Jacqueline Manina (1997). Structural studies of organic and organometallic compounds using x-ray and neutron techniques (PhD thesis). Durham University. OCLC 498562279. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.246419. Free access icon
  5. ^ Cole, Jacqueline M.; Copley, Royston C. B.; McIntyre, Garry J.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Szablewski, Marek; Cross, Graham H. (2002). "Charge-density study of the nonlinear optical precursor DED-TCNQ at 20 K" (PDF). Physical Review B. 65 (12): 125107. Bibcode:2002PhRvB..65l5107C. doi:10.1103/physrevb.65.125107. ISSN 0163-1829.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "Professor Jacqueline Cole: Molecular Engineering Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge". www.mole.phy.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  7. ^ "Reporter 5/10/00: ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE". www.admin.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  8. ^ Fray, Derek J.; Cole, Jacqueline M.; Hoex, Bram; Peters, Marius; Coxon, Paul R.; Liu, Xiaogang (2014-09-17). "Black silicon: fabrication methods, properties and solar energy applications". Energy & Environmental Science. 7 (10): 3223–3263. doi:10.1039/C4EE01152J. ISSN 1754-5706.
  9. ^ Cole, Jacqueline M. (2011). "A new form of analytical chemistry: distinguishing the molecular structure of photo-induced states from ground-states". Analyst. 136 (3): 448–455. Bibcode:2011Ana...136..448C. doi:10.1039/C0AN00584C. ISSN 1364-5528. PMID 21127793.
  10. ^ Warren, Mark R.; Easun, Timothy L.; Brayshaw, Simon K.; Deeth, Robert J.; George, Michael W.; Johnson, Andrew L.; Schiffers, Stefanie; Teat, Simon J.; Warren, Anna J. (2014). "Solid-State Interconversions: Unique 100 % Reversible Transformations between the Ground and Metastable States in Single-Crystals of a Series of Nickel(II) Nitro Complexes". Chemistry - A European Journal. 20 (18): 5468–5477. doi:10.1002/chem.201302053. ISSN 0947-6539. PMC 4164279. PMID 24644042.
  11. ^ a b [email protected] (18 July 2013). "Dr. Jacqui Cole – Department of Physics". www.phy.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Liu, Xiaogang; Xu, Zhaochao; Cole, Jacqueline M. (2013). "Molecular Design of UV–vis Absorption and Emission Properties in Organic Fluorophores: Toward Larger Bathochromic Shifts, Enhanced Molar Extinction Coefficients, and Greater Stokes Shifts". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117 (32): 16584–16595. doi:10.1021/jp404170w. ISSN 1932-7447.
  13. ^ Basheer, Bismi; Robert, Temina Mary; Vijayalakshmi, K. P.; Mathew, Dona (2017). "Solar cells sensitised by push–pull azo dyes: dependence of photovoltaic performance on electronic structure, geometry and conformation of the sensitizer". International Journal of Ambient Energy. 39 (5): 433–440. doi:10.1080/01430750.2017.1303639. ISSN 0143-0750. S2CID 135980944.
  14. ^ Cole, Jacqueline M.; Simos, Theodore E.; Psihoyios, George; Tsitouras, Ch.; Anastassi, Zacharias (2011). "Systematic Prediction of Dyes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Data-mining via Molecular Charge-Transfer Algorithms". Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics Icnaam 2011: International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics. AIP Conference Proceedings. 1389 (1). AIP: 999–1002. Bibcode:2011AIPC.1389..999C. doi:10.1063/1.3637778.
  15. ^ a b "EPSRC UK National Service for Computational Chemistry Software". www.nsccs.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  16. ^ Merz, Tyler A.; Waddell, Paul G.; Cole, Jacqueline M. (2013). "Systematic Molecular Design of p-Phenylene Lasing Properties". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117 (16): 8429–8436. doi:10.1021/jp401004m. ISSN 1932-7447.
  17. ^ a b "Solar cell discovery opens a new window to powering tomorrow's cities | Argonne National Laboratory". www.anl.gov. 22 November 2017. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  18. ^ Gong, Yun; Evans, Peter J.; Holt, Stephen A.; Cole, Jacqueline M.; McCree-Grey, Jonathan (2017). "Dye⋯TiO2 interfacial structure of dye-sensitised solar cell working electrodes buried under a solution of I−/I3− redox electrolyte" (PDF). Nanoscale. 9 (32): 11793–11805. doi:10.1039/C7NR03936K. ISSN 2040-3372. PMID 28786471.
  19. ^ "Solar cell discovery opens a new window to powering tomorrow's cities". Off Grid Energy Independence. 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  20. ^ a b Cole, Jacqueline M.; Blood-Forsythe, Martin A.; Lin, Tze-Chia; Pattison, Philip; Gong, Yun; Vázquez-Mayagoitia, Álvaro; Waddell, Paul G.; Zhang, Lei; Koumura, Nagatoshi (2017). "Discovery of S···C≡N Intramolecular Bonding in a Thiophenylcyanoacrylate-Based Dye: Realizing Charge Transfer Pathways and Dye···TiO2 Anchoring Characteristics for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9 (31): 25952–25961. doi:10.1021/acsami.7b03522. ISSN 1944-8244. PMID 28692246.
  21. ^ McCree-Grey, Jonathan; Cole, Jacqueline M.; Evans, Peter J. (2015). "Preferred Molecular Orientation of Coumarin 343 on TiO2 Surfaces: Application to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 7 (30): 16404–16409. doi:10.1021/acsami.5b03572. ISSN 1944-8244. PMID 26159229.
  22. ^ Cole, Jacqueline M. (2003). "Organic materials for second-harmonic generation: advances in relating structure to function". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 361 (1813): 2751–2770. Bibcode:2003RSPTA.361.2751C. doi:10.1098/rsta.2003.1271. PMID 14667296. S2CID 21048345.
  23. ^ Cole, Jacqueline M.; Waddell, Paul G.; Wilson, Chick C.; Howard, Judith A. K. (2013). "Molecular and Supramolecular Origins of Optical Nonlinearity in N-Methylurea". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117 (48): 25669–25676. doi:10.1021/jp4088699. ISSN 1932-7447.
  24. ^ Cole, Jacqueline M.; Ashcroft, Christopher M. (2019). "Generic Classification Scheme for Second-Order Dipolar Nonlinear Optical Organometallic Complexes That Exhibit Second Harmonic Generation". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 123 (3): 702–714. Bibcode:2019JPCA..123..702C. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.8b11687. ISSN 1089-5639. PMID 30580522. S2CID 58561514.
  25. ^ "STFC engineer awarded prestigious Royal Academy Senior Research Fellowship – Science and Technology Facilities Council". stfc.ukri.org. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  26. ^ "ISIS BASF & Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship in Data Driven Molecular Engineering of Functional Material". isis.stfc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  27. ^ Jacqueline M. Cole; Court, Callum J. (2018). "Auto-generated materials database of Curie and Néel temperatures via semi-supervised relationship extraction". Scientific Data. 5: 180111. Bibcode:2018NatSD...580111C. doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.111. ISSN 2052-4463. PMC 6007086. PMID 29917013.
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  29. ^ "SAC Silver Medal". Rsc.org. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
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  31. ^ "Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-08-24.