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Fiona Meldrum

April 09, 2024

Fiona C. Meldrum is a British scientist who is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Leeds[1] where she works on bio-inspired materials and crystallisation processes.[2] She won the 2017 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize.[3]

Fiona Meldrum
Born
Fiona C. Meldrum
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
University of Bath (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsCrystallization
Calcium carbonate
Mineralization[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
Queen Mary, University of London
Australian National University
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Syracuse University
ThesisNanoscale synthesis in organised organic assemblies (1992)
Websitephysicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/staff/202/professor-fiona-meldrum

Education edit

Meldrum studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1989.[3] She joined the University of Bath for her postgraduate studies, working on bio-inspired systems where she completed her PhD on nanoscale synthesis in 1992.[4]

Career and research edit

Meldrum was appointed a postdoctoral research fellow at Syracuse University, where she worked on nanoparticle assembly with Janos Fendler.[5] Whilst there, she contributed to the book Biomimetic Materials Chemistry.[6]

Meldrum was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, working on crystallisation using surface plasmon spectroscopy with Wolfgang Knoll.[7] She explored chemical deposition of PbS on gold using self-assembled monolayers.[8][9] Following this position, she worked at the Australian National University on biomineralisation.[10]

Meldrum joined Queen Mary University of London as a lecturer in 1998.[10] She moved to the University of Bristol in 2003, where she established new techniques to control crystal morphologies.[11] In 2009 Meldrum was appointed as a Professor at the University of Leeds.[7]

Meldrum was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Fellowship in 2010.[12] Her fellowship considers confined crystallisation in biological systems.[12] She studied the crystallisation of calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate and their behaviour in confined systems.[12] She demonstrated that confinement slows crystallisation, stabilising metaphases.[13] Confined crystallisation can be used to control the polycrystalline structure of crystals. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust, Meldrum showed that even nanoscale confinement can template crystallisation.[14][15] Meldrum looks to use biology to guide crystal growth, demonstrating precipitation with mould and via an amorphous precursor phase.[7][16][17] She also looked how water-soluble block copolymers can influence the crystallisation of barium sulfate and calcium carbonate.[18]

Meldrum's work uses nature as an inspiration for materials design.[19][20] She focuses on biominerals such as bones, teeth and shells.[19] She monitors the amorphous and precursor phases of biological crystal formation.[21] Meldrum uses nanoparticles as additives in crystal growth, using the particle surface chemistry to tune particle occlusion. Amongst several organic additives, Meldrum has incorporated amino acids into calcite.[22] The choice of additive is guided by genetic algorithms, resulting in the production of crystals with desired properties.[23][24] She has evaluated how the surface topography impacts ice crystallisation, showing acute geometries give rise to a confined crystalline, which is followed by the formation of a bulk phase.[25]

The Meldrum group develop microfluidic devices to monitor crystallisation processes.[21] Crystallisation is usually difficult to monitor, as precipitation occurs very rapidly and is severely impacted by impurities. Microfluidic devices offer more control of the crystallisation rate, providing reproducible conditions for crystal growth and the potential to analyse the growth in situ.[21] Meldrum developed a Crystal Hotel to study crystallisation in a variety of environments and equilibrium conditions.[21] Meldrum has developed a range of experimental techniques; including Bragg coherent diffraction imaging, Brewster angle microscopy, liquid-cell Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Infrared spectroscopy.[26][27]

Awards and honours edit

Meldrum was appointed lead editor of the Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin in 2016.[28] In 2017, she was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize.[3] She was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant in 2018.[29]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Fiona Meldrum publications indexed by Google Scholar  
  2. ^ Fiona Meldrum publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. ^ a b c "RSC Interdisciplinary Prize 2017 Winner". rsc.org. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  4. ^ Meldrum, Fiona C. (1992). Nanoscale Synthesis in Organised Organic Assemblies. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Bath. OCLC 257967254. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.305061.
  5. ^ Fendler, Janos H.; Meldrum, Fiona C. (1995). "The Colloid Chemical Approach to Nanostructured Materials**". Advanced Materials. 7 (7): 607–632. Bibcode:1995AdM.....7..607F. doi:10.1002/adma.19950070703. ISSN 1521-4095.
  6. ^ Mann, Stephen (1995-12-28). Biomimetic Materials Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471185970.
  7. ^ a b c Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Physical. "Professor Fiona Meldrum | School of Chemistry | University of Leeds". physicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  8. ^ Knoll, Wolfgang; Flath, Johannes; Meldrum, Fiona C. (1999). "Chemical deposition of PbS on a series of ω-functionalised self-assembled monolayers". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 9 (3): 711–723. doi:10.1039/A807100D.
  9. ^ Meldrum, Fiona C.; Flath, Johannes; Knoll, Wolfgang (1997-04-01). "Chemical Deposition of PbS on Self-Assembled Monolayers of 16-Mercaptohexadecanoic Acid". Langmuir. 13 (7): 2033–2049. doi:10.1021/la9608369. ISSN 0743-7463.
  10. ^ a b "Fiona Meldrum - EPSRC". epsrc.ukri.org. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  11. ^ Meldrum, Fiona C.; Cölfen, Helmut (2008-11-12). "Controlling Mineral Morphologies and Structures in Biological and Synthetic Systems". Chemical Reviews. 108 (11): 4332–4432. doi:10.1021/cr8002856. ISSN 0009-2665. PMID 19006397.
  12. ^ a b c Anon. "Crystallisation in Confinement - A Biological Perspective". epsrc.ukri.org. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  13. ^ Wang, Yunwei; Zeng, Muling; Meldrum, Fiona C.; Christenson, Hugo K. (2017). "Using Confinement To Study the Crystallization Pathway of Calcium Carbonate". Crystal Growth & Design. 17 (12): 6787–6792. doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01359. ISSN 1528-7483.
  14. ^ "Understanding confinement effects on crystallisation using an imaging approach". leverhulme.ac.uk. The Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  15. ^ "Research Project Grants 2017". leverhulme.ac.uk. The Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  16. ^ Meldrum, Fiona C.; Kulak, Alex N.; Yue, Wenbo (2006). "Growth of single crystals in structured templates". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 16 (4): 408–416. doi:10.1039/B513802G. ISSN 1364-5501.
  17. ^ Yashina, Alexandra; Meldrum, Fiona; Demello, Andrew (2012). "Calcium carbonate polymorph control using droplet-based microfluidics". Biomicrofluidics. 6 (2): 22001–2200110. doi:10.1063/1.3683162. PMC 3360709. PMID 22655005.
  18. ^ Loste, Eva; Meldrum, Fiona C. (2001). "Control of calcium carbonate morphology by transformation of an amorphous precursor in a constrained volume". Chemical Communications (10): 901–902. doi:10.1039/b101563j. ISSN 1359-7345.
  19. ^ a b "Home Page Materials Chemistry". chem.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  20. ^ Wucher, Barbara; Yue, Wenbo; Kulak, Alex N.; Meldrum, Fiona C. (2007). "Designer Crystals: Single Crystals with Complex Morphologies". Chemistry of Materials. 19 (5): 1111–1119. doi:10.1021/cm0620640. ISSN 0897-4756.
  21. ^ a b c d "Research Overview Materials Chemistry". chem.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  22. ^ Hanisch, Andreas; Yang, Pengcheng; Kulak, Alexander N.; Fielding, Lee A.; Meldrum, Fiona C.; Armes, Steven P. (2016-01-12). "Phosphonic Acid-Functionalized Diblock Copolymer Nano-Objects via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly: Synthesis, Characterization, and Occlusion into Calcite Crystals". Macromolecules. 49 (1): 192–204. Bibcode:2016MaMol..49..192H. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02212. ISSN 0024-9297.
  23. ^ Akwei, Kimberley. "Bio-Inspired Approaches to Functional Nanocomposites". physicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  24. ^ Cantaert, Bram; Verch, Andreas; Kim, Yi-Yeoun; Ludwig, Henning; Paunov, Vesselin N.; Kröger, Roland; Meldrum, Fiona C. (2013). "Formation and Structure of Calcium Carbonate Thin Films and Nanofibers Precipitated in the Presence of Poly(Allylamine Hydrochloride) and Magnesium Ions". Chemistry of Materials. 25 (24): 4994–5003. doi:10.1021/cm403497g. ISSN 0897-4756. PMC 3903342. PMID 24489438.
  25. ^ Christenson, Hugo K.; Meldrum, Fiona C.; Campbell, James M. (2016). "Observing the formation of ice and organic crystals in active sites". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (5): 810–815. doi:10.1073/pnas.1617717114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5293020. PMID 27994140.
  26. ^ Meldrum, Fiona C.; Robinson, Ian K.; Ashbrook, Sharon E.; Tang, Chiu C.; Harder, Ross J.; Holden, Mark A.; Kim, Yi-Yeoun; Kanwal, Nasima; Clark, Jesse N. (2018). "Visualization of the effect of additives on the nanostructures of individual bio-inspired calcite crystals". Chemical Science. 10 (4): 1176–1185. doi:10.1039/C8SC03733G. ISSN 2041-6539. PMC 6349071. PMID 30774916.
  27. ^ "Dr Fiona Meldrum". ccp14.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  28. ^ "Fiona Meldrum to lead MRS Bulletin Editorial Board" (PDF). MRS Bulletin. 2016. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  29. ^ "Speakers - 9th International Colloids Conference - Elsevier". elsevier.com. Retrieved 2019-01-16.

April 09, 2024
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Fiona C Meldrum is a British scientist who is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Leeds 1 where she works on bio inspired materials and crystallisation processes 2 She won the 2017 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize 3 Fiona MeldrumBornFiona C MeldrumAlma materUniversity of Cambridge BA University of Bath PhD Scientific careerFieldsCrystallizationCalcium carbonateMineralization 1 InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds Queen Mary University of London Australian National University Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Syracuse UniversityThesisNanoscale synthesis in organised organic assemblies 1992 Websitephysicalsciences wbr leeds wbr ac wbr uk wbr staff wbr 202 wbr professor fiona meldrum Contents 1 Education 2 Career and research 2 1 Awards and honours 3 ReferencesEducation editMeldrum studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge graduating in 1989 3 She joined the University of Bath for her postgraduate studies working on bio inspired systems where she completed her PhD on nanoscale synthesis in 1992 4 Career and research editMeldrum was appointed a postdoctoral research fellow at Syracuse University where she worked on nanoparticle assembly with Janos Fendler 5 Whilst there she contributed to the book Biomimetic Materials Chemistry 6 Meldrum was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research working on crystallisation using surface plasmon spectroscopy with Wolfgang Knoll 7 She explored chemical deposition of PbS on gold using self assembled monolayers 8 9 Following this position she worked at the Australian National University on biomineralisation 10 Meldrum joined Queen Mary University of London as a lecturer in 1998 10 She moved to the University of Bristol in 2003 where she established new techniques to control crystal morphologies 11 In 2009 Meldrum was appointed as a Professor at the University of Leeds 7 Meldrum was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Fellowship in 2010 12 Her fellowship considers confined crystallisation in biological systems 12 She studied the crystallisation of calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate and their behaviour in confined systems 12 She demonstrated that confinement slows crystallisation stabilising metaphases 13 Confined crystallisation can be used to control the polycrystalline structure of crystals Supported by the Leverhulme Trust Meldrum showed that even nanoscale confinement can template crystallisation 14 15 Meldrum looks to use biology to guide crystal growth demonstrating precipitation with mould and via an amorphous precursor phase 7 16 17 She also looked how water soluble block copolymers can influence the crystallisation of barium sulfate and calcium carbonate 18 Meldrum s work uses nature as an inspiration for materials design 19 20 She focuses on biominerals such as bones teeth and shells 19 She monitors the amorphous and precursor phases of biological crystal formation 21 Meldrum uses nanoparticles as additives in crystal growth using the particle surface chemistry to tune particle occlusion Amongst several organic additives Meldrum has incorporated amino acids into calcite 22 The choice of additive is guided by genetic algorithms resulting in the production of crystals with desired properties 23 24 She has evaluated how the surface topography impacts ice crystallisation showing acute geometries give rise to a confined crystalline which is followed by the formation of a bulk phase 25 The Meldrum group develop microfluidic devices to monitor crystallisation processes 21 Crystallisation is usually difficult to monitor as precipitation occurs very rapidly and is severely impacted by impurities Microfluidic devices offer more control of the crystallisation rate providing reproducible conditions for crystal growth and the potential to analyse the growth in situ 21 Meldrum developed a Crystal Hotel to study crystallisation in a variety of environments and equilibrium conditions 21 Meldrum has developed a range of experimental techniques including Bragg coherent diffraction imaging Brewster angle microscopy liquid cell Atomic force microscopy AFM and Infrared spectroscopy 26 27 Awards and honours edit Meldrum was appointed lead editor of the Materials Research Society MRS Bulletin in 2016 28 In 2017 she was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize 3 She was awarded a European Research Council ERC advanced grant in 2018 29 References edit a b Fiona Meldrum publications indexed by Google Scholar nbsp Fiona Meldrum publications from Europe PubMed Central a b c RSC Interdisciplinary Prize 2017 Winner rsc org Retrieved 2019 01 16 Meldrum Fiona C 1992 Nanoscale Synthesis in Organised Organic Assemblies jisc ac uk PhD thesis University of Bath OCLC 257967254 EThOS uk bl ethos 305061 Fendler Janos H Meldrum Fiona C 1995 The Colloid Chemical Approach to Nanostructured Materials Advanced Materials 7 7 607 632 Bibcode 1995AdM 7 607F doi 10 1002 adma 19950070703 ISSN 1521 4095 Mann Stephen 1995 12 28 Biomimetic Materials Chemistry John Wiley amp Sons ISBN 9780471185970 a b c Sciences Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Professor Fiona Meldrum School of Chemistry University of Leeds physicalsciences leeds ac uk Retrieved 2019 01 16 Knoll Wolfgang Flath Johannes Meldrum Fiona C 1999 Chemical deposition of PbS on a series of w functionalised self assembled monolayers Journal of Materials Chemistry 9 3 711 723 doi 10 1039 A807100D Meldrum Fiona C Flath Johannes Knoll Wolfgang 1997 04 01 Chemical Deposition of PbS on Self Assembled Monolayers of 16 Mercaptohexadecanoic Acid Langmuir 13 7 2033 2049 doi 10 1021 la9608369 ISSN 0743 7463 a b Fiona Meldrum EPSRC epsrc ukri org Retrieved 2019 01 16 Meldrum Fiona C Colfen Helmut 2008 11 12 Controlling Mineral Morphologies and Structures in Biological and Synthetic Systems Chemical Reviews 108 11 4332 4432 doi 10 1021 cr8002856 ISSN 0009 2665 PMID 19006397 a b c Anon Crystallisation in Confinement A Biological Perspective epsrc ukri org Retrieved 2019 01 16 Wang Yunwei Zeng Muling Meldrum Fiona C Christenson Hugo K 2017 Using Confinement To Study the Crystallization Pathway of Calcium Carbonate Crystal Growth amp Design 17 12 6787 6792 doi 10 1021 acs cgd 7b01359 ISSN 1528 7483 Understanding confinement effects on crystallisation using an imaging approach leverhulme ac uk The Leverhulme Trust Retrieved 2019 01 16 Research Project Grants 2017 leverhulme ac uk The Leverhulme Trust Retrieved 2019 01 16 Meldrum Fiona C Kulak Alex N Yue Wenbo 2006 Growth of single crystals in structured templates Journal of Materials Chemistry 16 4 408 416 doi 10 1039 B513802G ISSN 1364 5501 Yashina Alexandra Meldrum Fiona Demello Andrew 2012 Calcium carbonate polymorph control using droplet based microfluidics Biomicrofluidics 6 2 22001 2200110 doi 10 1063 1 3683162 PMC 3360709 PMID 22655005 Loste Eva Meldrum Fiona C 2001 Control of calcium carbonate morphology by transformation of an amorphous precursor in a constrained volume Chemical Communications 10 901 902 doi 10 1039 b101563j ISSN 1359 7345 a b Home Page Materials Chemistry chem leeds ac uk Retrieved 2019 01 16 Wucher Barbara Yue Wenbo Kulak Alex N Meldrum Fiona C 2007 Designer Crystals Single Crystals with Complex Morphologies Chemistry of Materials 19 5 1111 1119 doi 10 1021 cm0620640 ISSN 0897 4756 a b c d Research Overview Materials Chemistry chem leeds ac uk Retrieved 2019 01 16 Hanisch Andreas Yang Pengcheng Kulak Alexander N Fielding Lee A Meldrum Fiona C Armes Steven P 2016 01 12 Phosphonic Acid Functionalized Diblock Copolymer Nano Objects via Polymerization Induced Self Assembly Synthesis Characterization and Occlusion into Calcite Crystals Macromolecules 49 1 192 204 Bibcode 2016MaMol 49 192H doi 10 1021 acs macromol 5b02212 ISSN 0024 9297 Akwei Kimberley Bio Inspired Approaches to Functional Nanocomposites physicalsciences leeds ac uk Retrieved 2019 01 16 Cantaert Bram Verch Andreas Kim Yi Yeoun Ludwig Henning Paunov Vesselin N Kroger Roland Meldrum Fiona C 2013 Formation and Structure of Calcium Carbonate Thin Films and Nanofibers Precipitated in the Presence of Poly Allylamine Hydrochloride and Magnesium Ions Chemistry of Materials 25 24 4994 5003 doi 10 1021 cm403497g ISSN 0897 4756 PMC 3903342 PMID 24489438 Christenson Hugo K Meldrum Fiona C Campbell James M 2016 Observing the formation of ice and organic crystals in active sites Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 5 810 815 doi 10 1073 pnas 1617717114 ISSN 0027 8424 PMC 5293020 PMID 27994140 Meldrum Fiona C Robinson Ian K Ashbrook Sharon E Tang Chiu C Harder Ross J Holden Mark A Kim Yi Yeoun Kanwal Nasima Clark Jesse N 2018 Visualization of the effect of additives on the nanostructures of individual bio inspired calcite crystals Chemical Science 10 4 1176 1185 doi 10 1039 C8SC03733G ISSN 2041 6539 PMC 6349071 PMID 30774916 Dr Fiona Meldrum ccp14 ac uk Retrieved 2019 01 16 Fiona Meldrum 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