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
• Nur Faezah Ibadat
• Kashif Iqbal
• Byeongyun Jeong
• Ziming Ji
• Jameel Khan
• Su Ji Kim
• Alexandra Knebel
• Blaine Manning
• Ziming Peng
• Debbie Redpath
• Ned Sawdy
• Megan Smeaton
• Demeke Fantaw Tegegne
• Huseyin Unsal
• Timothy Weiss
• Haodong Wu
• Zhi Xia
• Bo Yu
• Naicai Zhang

Selected publications

• Open access

  Engineering site disorder to give rise to enhanced conductivity in a scandia-stabilised zirconia electrolyte via disruption of short-range ordering

  Zhang, S., Veronese, A., Miller, D. N., Savaniu, C. D. & Irvine, J. T. S., 1 May 2026, In: Solid State Ionics. 439, 12 p., 117162.

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

• Open access

  Investigation into the electrochemical performance of micron- and nanosized tin in diglyme and carbonate electrolytes in sodium ion batteries

  Murugesan, C., Naden, A. B., Connor, P. A., Armstrong, A. R. & Irvine, J. T. S., 30 Apr 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Energy Materials. Early View, 18 p., e71023.

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

• Open access

  Iron doped magnesium chromite spinel and LSM coating to diminish chromium poisoning in the SOFC cathode environment

  Unsal, H., Majee, R., Veronese, A., Ozkan, S., Connor, P., Naden, A., Akkas Boynuegri, T., Savaniu, C. & Irvine, J. T. S., 25 Feb 2026, In: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 212, 9 p., 153708.

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

• Open access

  MWCNTs growth and low-carbon H₂ synthesis in the catalytic CH₄ decomposition reaction

  Akkas-Boynuegri, T., Savaniu, C. & Irvine, J. T., 14 Apr 2026, In: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 225, 15 p., 154512.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › 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

• Open access

  Study of the effect of replacing Sm³⁺ by divalent cations on the structure and electrical properties of Sm₂TiO₅

  Chavez-Cardenas, H., Savaniu, C. & Irvine, J. T. S., 1 Jul 2026, In: Solid State Ionics. 441, 8 p., 117195.

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

• Open access

  Valence state and defect modulation in reduced Sr-site deficient Pt/Sr_0.95Ti_0.9Cr_0.1O_3-δ perovskite for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production

  Liao, Y., Fu, Y., Sun, F., Wang, Y., Lloyd, D. C., Zhao, Z., Wan, Z., Grillo, F., Ruseckas, A., Ogugu, E. B. & Irvine, J. T. S., 15 Jun 2026, In: Applied Surface Science. 731, 12 p., 166370.

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

• 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

 

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