Dr Caroline Kirk

Senior Lecturer

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University of Edinburgh
Joseph Black Building
David Brewster Road
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Research summary

We are interested in studying materials with applications in the areas of environment and energy. We target natural systems and carry out careful and controlled laboratory studies to investigate formation processes. Many of the materials we investigate the stabilities at either elevated temperatures or under different conditions of pH. Most of the dynamic work we carry out at central facilities, such as the Diamond Light Source or ISIS Spallation Source, both located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, UK.

Current Projects Include

  • Development of thin film Ni(OH)2 electrochromic materials
  • Incorporation of Co into synthetic Fe oxyhydroxide systems - implications for natural systems.
  • Investigating the environmental stability and ion exchange capability of synthetic analogues of metatorbernite-type (Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2.8H2O) minerals

  1. Synthesis and Assembly of Gold and Iron Oxide Particles Within an Emulsion Droplet; Facile Production of Core@ Shell Particles, S. Sachdev, R. Maugi, C. Kirk, Z. Zhou, S.D.R. Christie, M. Platt, Colloid and Interface Science Communications, 2017, 16, 14-18
  2. J rgkellerite, Na3Mn3+3(PO4)2(CO3)O2.5H2O, a new layered phosphate-carbonate mineral from the Oldoinyo Lengai volcano, Gregory rift, northern Tanzania, A.N. Zaitsev, S.N. Britvin, A. Kearsley, T. Wenzel, C. Kirk, Mineralogy and Petrology, 2016
  3. Synthesis and structural characterisation of new ettringite and thaumasite type phases: Ca6[Ga(OH)6.12H2O]2(SO4)3.2H2O and Ca6[M(OH)6.12H2O]2(SO4)2(CO3)2, M=Mn, Sn, R. L. Norman, S.E. Dann , S. C. Hogg  and C. A. Kirk, Solid State Sciences, 2013 25, 110-117
  4. Electrochromic and Colorimetric Properties of Nickel(II) Oxide Thin Films Prepared by Aerosol-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition, Applied Materials & Interfaces,  M. Sialvi, R. Mortimer, G. D. Wilcox, A. Teridi, T. Varley, K. G. Wijayantha, C. Kirk, Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2013, 5, 5675-5682
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