Group account for Baker Group research @UoMChemistry: X-ray & neutron spectroscopy; electronic structure and magnetism of d- and f-elements
Joined March 2022
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22 Apr 2025
Last week, we welcomed the first external users (University of Glasgow) of our cryostat for actinide samples. The team conducted HERFD using I18 and the Active Materials Lab at Diamond Light Source @DiamondLightSou
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14 Apr 2025
Thank you to the team at ID20 for supporting our Th RIXS this week; excellent beamline with impressive resolution @esrfsynchrotron
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11 Apr 2025
Years in the making – 3-centre-1-electron trithorium metal-metal bonding. Out now in @NatureChemistry !
nature.com/articles/s41557-0…
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13 Aug 2024
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of @OfficialUoM, we've brought together a special collection highlighting research from @UoMChemistry!
Read the full collection here 👉 buff.ly/3SLjidE
Learn more about the bicentenary celebrations here 👉 buff.ly/3yyiH8p
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1 Aug 2024
So excited to finally have this work out there! Lots of hard work went into this from everyone involved, so huge thanks to everyone!
Keep your eyes peeled for more exciting RIXS to come! ☢️🧪
1 Aug 2024
We are super pleased to share our latest research, where we present M4,5-edge RIXS as a new method for probing actinide-ligand bond covalency!
Check it out here!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
#actinides #felements #RIXS #synchrotrons
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1 Aug 2024
🎉 Now in '@J_A_C_S:
Determination of Uranium Central-Field Covalency with 3d4f Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
🔗pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
Very pleased to contribute to this spectacular project spearheaded by @MLBakerLab.
#actinides #uranium #covalency
Check it out👇
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1 Aug 2024
We are super pleased to share our latest research, where we present M4,5-edge RIXS as a new method for probing actinide-ligand bond covalency!
Check it out here!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
#actinides #felements #RIXS #synchrotrons
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1 Aug 2024
Huge thanks to all those involved: Tim Burrow, @nalcock42, @MSHuzan_PhD, @Johnseedo, @majdunstan, @kasperspedersen, & Jesper Bendix - as well as everyone at ID26 @esrfsynchrotron and MARS @synchroSOLEIL!
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16 Jul 2024
Enjoying the fantastic early career Research in Progress meeting @UoMSciEng organised by @EMG_minsoc and @RSC_Radiochem . Thanks to everyone for great talks, posters and lively discussions 👏
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MLBaker Group retweeted
23 Jun 2024
Very excited to be back @esrfsynchrotron for a week of beamtime at ID26! Looking forward to seeing what we discover as the week unfolds ☢️🧪
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22 Jun 2024
And congratulations to @MSHuzan_PhD for his poster prize at the @DiamondLightSou Magnetism Group meeting! That makes 3 for 3 Baker Group winners this month! 🏆
7 Jun 2024
🏅And 1st place goes to Myron Huzan for their poster on 'Quantifying the influence of 3d-4s mixing on linearly coordinated metal ions.'
Congratulations, Myron. 👏
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22 Jun 2024
Congratulations to PhD student Alan Qi, who recently won a poster prize at the @DiamondLightSou Spectroscopy Group meeting for his work on probing non-Aufbau divalent lanthanides with RXES!
14 Jun 2024
🧵 Zhibo Qi for their poster on 'Unravelling the electronic structure of Non-Aufbau divalent lanthanide with Resonant X-ray Emission Spectroscopy'.
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20 Jun 2024
Really happy to have presented some of my recent research at the @UoMChemistry PGR Conference 2024!
Thanks to everyone who has worked hard to make all of this happen - @MLBakerLab, Tim Burrow, @MSHuzan_PhD, @Johnseedo, @majdunstan, @kasperspedersen!
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21 Jun 2024
Very well done @nalcock42 on a fantastic talk, and congratulations for winning Best Presentation Prize! 🏆 🥇☢️⚛️
20 Jun 2024
Really happy to have presented some of my recent research at the @UoMChemistry PGR Conference 2024!
Thanks to everyone who has worked hard to make all of this happen - @MLBakerLab, Tim Burrow, @MSHuzan_PhD, @Johnseedo, @majdunstan, @kasperspedersen!
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MLBaker Group retweeted
14 Jun 2024
🌐This week we welcomed over 120 scientists from across our international community for our Spectroscopy Group User Meeting 2024.
🤝Thank you to everyone who joined us to showcase the recent scientific results and the latest developments across the Spectroscopy Group.
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7 Jun 2024
🏅And 1st place goes to Myron Huzan for their poster on 'Quantifying the influence of 3d-4s mixing on linearly coordinated metal ions.'
Congratulations, Myron. 👏
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27 Feb 2024
Excellent week of beamtime at @DiamondLightSou, putting our new active materials cryostat well and truly to the test! ☢️💎❄️
Some tremendous results from the upgraded I20-Scanning RIXS spectrometer. Big thanks to Shu, Alan, @Johnseedo, @MSHuzan_PhD and @nalcock42! #actinideRIXS
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20 Feb 2024
This is a joint spectroscopy / theory project between:
@MLBakerLab (mlbakerlab.co.uk);
@GoodwinRadChem (capgoodwin.com);
Prof. Han-Shi Hu (x-mol.com/groups/HanshiHU);
Prof. Jun Li (junlilab.org/index.html)
(Note, Manchester is rarely as sunny as shown above).
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20 Feb 2024
Ever considered doing a #PhDposition in another country? What about two countries?
See se.manchester.ac.uk/phds-sci…
For a joint @Tsinghua_Uni @OfficialUoM PhD studentship on advanced X-ray spectroscopy to unravel the properties of rare-earth complexes in unusual oxidation states.
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