The group of Richard Walton have this week published a paper in Angewandte Chemie describing a new synthesis approach to oxides of ruthenium, including new structures, and materials with unusual magnetic properties. The work was performed by PhD student Craig Hiley in collaboration with industrial partner Johnson Matthey, as part of an ongoing study into the chemistry of precious-metal containing materials.

“Ruthenium (V) Oxides from Low Temperature Hydrothermal Synthesis” C.I. Hiley, M.R. Lees, J.M. Fisher, D. Thompsett, S. Agrestini, R.I. Smith and R.I. Walton, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53 (2014) 4423–4427, April 22, 2014

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201310110/abstract