Prof John Irvine

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3817

Email

jtsi@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My research interests are in the study of inorganic materials, at the interface between solid state chemistry, condensed matter physics and ceramics. The major themes of this research are as follows:

1. Synthesis and development of new inorganic solids with useful and important electrochemical, electrical and magnetic properties. 2. Study of the relationships between stoichiometry, structure and electronic and ionic transport properties. 3. Optimisation of properties by control of composition and microstructure and development of improved materials for important applications in energy technology.

PhD supervision

• Mina Ardani
• Sarah Bogan
• Manikandan Chithravelu
• Jiaxin Ding
• Eleanor Gladders
• Kashif Iqbal
• Byeongyun Jeong
• Ziming Ji
• Su Ji Kim
• Alexandra Knebel
• Blaine Manning
• Ziming Peng
• Debbie Redpath
• Ned Sawdy
• Megan Smeaton
• Grant Stone
• Demeke Fantaw Tegegne
• Huseyin Unsal
• Timothy Weiss
• Haodong Wu
• Zhi Xia
• Bo Yu
• Naicai Zhang
• Zhanyu Zhang

Selected publications

• Open access

  Addressing degradation of Ni/YSZ cermet fuel electrode in reversible solid oxide cells

  Nowicki, K., Savaniu, C., Mukhopadhyay, M., Niemczyk, A., Kluczowski, R., Kupecki, J. & Irvine, J., 15 Aug 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Energy Materials. Early View, 12 p., e03379.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Corrigendum to “Strontium-free Ruddlesden–Popper cuprates (La_1.7Ca_0.3Cu_0.75M_0.25O_4+δ, M = Fe, Co, Ni) as cathode materials for high-performance solid oxide fuel cells”

  Shin, S., Huang, X., Oh, M. Y., Ye, Y. J., Lee, J., Irvine, J. T. S., Lee, S. & Shin, T. H., 1 Jun 2025, In: Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 45, 6, 1 p., 117165.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Defective perovskite supported palladium-nickel nanocatalyst for effective electrochemical nitrate reduction

  Xu, M., Dong, S., Guo, H., Tao, Z., Jeon, Y., Zhang, Z., Chen, Z., Su, H., Liu, Z., Lin, Y., Irvine, J. T. S., Li, T. & Chen, D., 15 Oct 2025, In: Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy. 375, 12 p., 125433.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Enhancement of catalytic performance in Zr_0.1Ce_0.9O_2-δ through transition metal doping and exsolution

  Wu, H., Yu, B., Ni, C., Yue, X. & Irvine, J. T. S., 1 Jul 2025, In: Solid State Ionics. 425, 9 p., 116868.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Heteroanionic synthesis of lanthanum/neodymium-based titanium oxycarbide: a novel approach with multiple objectives for clean energy and pollutant-free environment

  Subramanian, Y., Le Minh, T., Bahruji, H., Sarifuddin, W. S., Mahadi, A. H., Gubendiran, R. K., Ali S. A., M., Raj, V., Yassin, H., Irvine, J. T. S. & Azad, A. K., 1 Feb 2025, In: Clean Energy. 9, 1, p. 89-107 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• In situ growth of Cu⁰-modified oxynitride for optimized photocatalytic nitric oxide oxidation

  Yuan, X., Wang, C., Ni, J., Irvine, J. T. S. & Ni, C., 5 Jun 2025, In: Journal of Hazardous Materials . 489, 10 p., 137633.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Interface engineering strategies for realizing anode-free sodium batteries: a review

  Dong, Y., Xu, C., Zhao, H., Chen, L., Shi, W., Irvine, J. & Lei, Y., 1 Jun 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Energy Materials. Early View, 26 p., 2500407.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  NH₃ synthesis with Ca₂NH supported Ru catalyst under mild conditions

  Akkas Boynuegri, T., Irvine, G. J., Jowitt, S., Magdysyuk, O. V., Unsal, H., Long, A. & Irvine, J. T. S., 5 Jan 2026, In: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 197, 8 p., 152552.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Nucleation-density-regulated dimensional evolution of growth unit from 2D nanosheets to 1D nanoneedles in self-assembled hierarchical NiCo₂O₄ for enhanced lithium storage

  Zhou, X., Wen, J., Shen, D., He, H., Liao, M., Wang, Y., Li, Y., Shi, H., Qiu, S., Jiang, C., Ma, J. & Irvine, J. T. S., 28 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13, 16, p. 11834-11847 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Optimisation of a P3 phase with superior high voltage reversibility

  Linnell, S. F., Choi, Y.-S., Liao, Y., Pateli, I. M., Naden, A. B., Irvine, J. T. S., House, R. A., Scanlon, D. O. & Armstrong, A. R., 21 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13, 7, p. 5017-5032 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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