Dr Ben Alston
Manager, Leverhulme Centre for Functional Material Design Chemistry
- Work email Ben.Alston@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal WebsiteLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design
Publications
2020
A mobile robotic chemist (Journal article)
Burger, B., Maffettone, P. M., Gusev, V. V., Aitchison, C. M., Bai, Y., Wang, X., . . . Cooper, A. I. (2020). A mobile robotic chemist. Nature, 583(7815), 237-241. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2442-2
2019
Accelerated robotic discovery of type II porous liquids (Journal article)
Kearsey, R. J., Alston, B. M., Briggs, M. E., Greenaway, R. L., & Cooper, A. I. (2019). Accelerated robotic discovery of type II porous liquids. CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 10(41), 9454-9465. doi:10.1039/c9sc03316e
From Concept to Crystals via Prediction: Multi-Component Organic Cage Pots by Social Self-Sorting (Journal article)
Greenaway, R. L., Santolini, V., Pulido, A., Little, M. A., Alston, B., Briggs, M., . . . Jelfs, K. E. (2019). From Concept to Crystals via Prediction: Multi-Component Organic Cage Pots by Social Self-Sorting. Angewandte Chemie (German version), 131(45), 16421-16427. doi:10.1002/ange.201909237
From Concept to Crystals via Prediction: Multi-Component Organic Cage Pots by Social Self-Sorting (Journal article)
Greenaway, R. L., Santolini, V., Pulido, A., Little, M. A., Alston, B. M., Briggs, M. E., . . . Jelfs, K. E. (2019). From Concept to Crystals via Prediction: Multi-Component Organic Cage Pots by Social Self-Sorting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58(45), 16275-16281. doi:10.1002/anie.201909237
Mining predicted crystal structure landscapes with high throughput crystallisation: old molecules, new insights (Journal article)
Cui, P., McMahon, D. P., Spackman, P. R., Alston, B. M., Little, M. A., Day, G. M., & Cooper, A. I. (2019). Mining predicted crystal structure landscapes with high throughput crystallisation: old molecules, new insights. CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 10(43), 9988-9997. doi:10.1039/c9sc02832c
2018
Computationally-inspired discovery of an unsymmetrical porous organic cage (Journal article)
Berardo, E., Greenaway, R. L., Turcani, L., Alston, B. M., Bennison, M. J., Miklitz, M., . . . Jelfs, K. E. (2018). Computationally-inspired discovery of an unsymmetrical porous organic cage. NANOSCALE, 10(47), 22381-22388. doi:10.1039/c8nr06868b
Functionalised microscale nanoband edge electrode (MNEE) arrays: the systematic quantitative study of hydrogels grown on nanoelectrode biosensor arrays for enhanced sensing in biological media (Journal article)
Piper, A., Alston, B. M., Adams, D. J., & Mount, A. R. (2018). Functionalised microscale nanoband edge electrode (MNEE) arrays: the systematic quantitative study of hydrogels grown on nanoelectrode biosensor arrays for enhanced sensing in biological media. FARADAY DISCUSSIONS, 210, 201-217. doi:10.1039/c8fd00063h
High-throughput discovery of organic cages and catenanes using computational screening fused with robotic synthesis (Journal article)
Greenaway, R. L., Santolini, V., Bennison, M. J., Alston, B. A., Pugh, C. J., Little, M. A., . . . Cooper, A. I. (2018). High-throughput discovery of organic cages and catenanes using computational screening fused with robotic synthesis. Nature Communications, 9. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05271-9
Maximising the hydrogen evolution activity in organic photocatalysts by co-polymerisation (Journal article)
Sprick, R. S., Aitchison, C. M., Berardo, E., Turcani, L., Wilbraham, L., Alston, B. M., . . . Cooper, A. I. (2018). Maximising the hydrogen evolution activity in organic photocatalysts by co-polymerisation. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 6(25), 11994-12003. doi:10.1039/c8ta04186e
2017
Computationally-Guided Synthetic Control over Pore Size in Isostructural Porous Organic Cages (Journal article)
Slater, A. G., Reiss, P. S., Pulido, A., Little, M. A., Holden, D. L., Chen, L., . . . Cooper, A. I. (2017). Computationally-Guided Synthetic Control over Pore Size in Isostructural Porous Organic Cages. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE, 3(7), 734-742. doi:10.1021/acscentsci.7b00145
2016
Porosity-engineered carbons for supercapacitive energy storage using conjugated microporous polymer precursors (Journal article)
Lee, J. -S. M., Wu, T. -H., Alston, B. M., Briggs, M. E., Hasell, T., & Cooper, A. I. (2016). Porosity-engineered carbons for supercapacitive energy storage using conjugated microporous polymer precursors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(20), 7665-7673. doi:10.1039/c6ta02319c
2015
Polymerization of low molecular weight hydrogelators to form electrochromic polymers (Journal article)
Kubiak, P. S., Awhida, S., Hotchen, C., Deng, W., Alston, B., McDonald, T. O., . . . Cameron, P. J. (2015). Polymerization of low molecular weight hydrogelators to form electrochromic polymers. CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 51(52), 10427-10430. doi:10.1039/c5cc03053f
Novel Lipophilic Probe for Detecting Near-Membrane Reactive Oxygen Species Responses and Its Application for Studies of Pancreatic Acinar Cells: Effects of Pyocyanin and L-Ornithine (Journal article)
Chvanov, M., Huang, W., Jin, T., Wen, L., Armstrong, J., Elliot, V., . . . Tepikin, A. (2015). Novel Lipophilic Probe for Detecting Near-Membrane Reactive Oxygen Species Responses and Its Application for Studies of Pancreatic Acinar Cells: Effects of Pyocyanin and L-Ornithine. Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, 22(6), 451-464. doi:10.1089/ars.2013.5589
2014
Electrochemically-triggered spatially and temporally resolved multi-component gels (Journal article)
Raeburn, J., Alston, B., Kroeger, J., McDonald, T. O., Howse, J. R., Cameron, P. J., & Adams, D. J. (2014). Electrochemically-triggered spatially and temporally resolved multi-component gels. Materials Horizons, 1(2), 241-246. doi:10.1039/c3mh00150d