Dr Dean C Sayle
Senior Lecturer
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: d.c.sayle@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785264
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Dean Sayle is a lecturer in chemistry and is an active researcher in nanomaterials. Specifically, atomistic simulation using High Performance Computing, performed in partnership with various international experimental groups. Areas include:• Nucleation and crystallisation of thin films and nanomaterials
• Self-Assembly of nanoparticles into superstructures
• Nanoporous materials with framework architectures
• Simulating microstructure (dislocations, grain-boundaries, epitaxy etc.)
• Calculating the influence of microstructure on material properties
Applications: Catalysis, solid oxide fuel cells, energy storage and battery materials, nanoabrasives, microelectronics and sensor.
Background
• Degree Chemistry, University of Bath.
• PhD in Chemistry, University of Bath; supervision Prof. Stephen Parker.
• Post doctoral fellowship, The Royal Institution of Great Britain and Rhone-Poulenc (Paris) under Prof. Richard Catlow.
• Currently Senior Lecturer in Chemistry.
Selected publications
Converting ceria polyhedral nanoparticles into single-crystal nanospheres Feng XD, Sayle DC, Wang ZL et al. SCIENCE 312 (5779): 1504-1508 2006Atomistic Modelling of Multilayered Ceria Nanotubes P. Martin, S.C. Parker, D.C. Sayle and G.W. Watson, Nano Letters, 7,543- 546, 2007
‘Simulating Synthesis’; Ceria Nanosphere Self-Assembly into Nanorods and Framework Architectures, Dean C. Sayle, Xiangdong Feng, Yong Ding, Zhong Lin Wang, Thi X. T. Sayle, Journal of the American Chemical Society 129, 7924 - 7935 2007
Simulating Self-Assembly of ZnS Nanoparticles into Mesoporous Materials, D. C. Sayle, B. C. Mangili, J. Klinowski and T. X. T. Sayle, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 15283-15391, 2006
Modelling MnO2 Nanoparticles using Simulated Amorphisation and Recrystallisation, T.X.T. Sayle, C. R. A. Catlow, R. R.Maphanga, P. E. Ngoepe, and D. C. Sayle, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127(37), 12828 – 12837, 2005
Atomistic Models for CeO2(111), (110) and (100) Nanoparticles, Supported on Yttrium Stabilised Zirconia, Dean C. Sayle, S. Andrada Maicaneanu and Graeme W. Watson, Journal of the American Chemical Society 124, 11429-11439, 2002
