Dr Isaac Abrahams

Isaac Abrahams

Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry
Head of The Department of Chemistry

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
+44 20 7882 3235
www.qmul.ac.uk/spcs/staff/academics/profiles/isaacabrahams.html
Centre for Chemical Research
Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics
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Research

Solid State Ionics, Defect structure, Neutron diffraction, Structural chemistry, Ferroelectrics, Inorganic glasses

Interests

Dr Abrahams' main area of research can broadly be defined as solid state and structural chemistry with over 280 papers published in this area. Much of his work has been in the field of solid state ionics focusing on ionically conducting solids for application as electrolytes or electrodes in batteries, fuel cells and gas sensors. More recently his work has extended to dielectric materials including ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics with the development of new materials for energy storage. In addition to the synthesis of new materials, he has developed expertise in defect structure determination using neutron and X-ray powder diffraction techniques, solid state NMR, EXAFS and a.c. impedance spectroscopy. Although much of his work has been on crystalline solids, Dr Abrahams has made use of his background in structural inorganic chemistry in the study of amorphous solids for applications such as biomedical materials.