Dr Chippindale's research interests lie in solid-state inorganic chemistry, focussing on the synthesis and structural characterisation of materials with interesting chemical and physical properties. Current solids under investigation include transition-metal cyanides, some of which undergo fascinating structural transformations on heating. Single-crystal and powder diffraction techniques are used to determine the structures and phase changes of these materials either 'in house' or at National Facilities such as the X-ray synchrotron at Diamond or the neutron source at ISIS, both of which are close to Reading.

Lees, R. J. E., Powell, A. V. and Chippindale, A. M. (2016) Transition-metal linkage of antimony-sulfide chains in [M(dien)2]{Sb18S30[M(dien)]2} (M = Mn, Fe, Co). Zeitschrift Fur Anorganische Und Allgemeine Chemie, 642 (23). pp. 1402-1407. ISSN 0044-2313 doi: 10.1002/zaac.201600376 (Special issue dedicated toProfessor A. K. Cheetham FRS, on the occasion of his 70th birthday) Lampkin, J. D., Powell, A. V. and Chippindale, A. M. (2016) Solvothermal synthesis of a new 3-D mixed-metal sulfide framework, (H1.33tren)[In2.67Sb1.33S8]∙tren. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 243. pp. 44-49. ISSN 0022-4596 doi: 10.1016/j.jssc.2016.08.007 Feula, A., Tang, X., Giannakopoulos, I., Chippindale, A. M. , Hamley, I. W., Greco, F., Buckley, C.P., Siviour, C. R. and Hayes, W. (2016) An adhesive elastomeric supramolecular polyurethane healable at body temperature. Chemical Science, 7 (7). pp. 4291-4300. ISSN 2041-6539 doi: 10.1039/C5SC04864H Mishra, S. K. , Mittal, R. , Zbiri, M., Roa, R., Goel, P., Hibble, S. J., Chippindale, A. M., Hansen, T., Schober, H. and Chaplot, S. L. (2016) New insights into the compressibility and high-pressure stability of Ni(CN)2: a combined study of neutron diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and inelastic neutron scattering. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 28 (4). 045402. ISSN 0953-8984 doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/4/045402 Feula, A., Pethybridge, A., Giannakopoulos, I., Tang, X., Chippindale, A., Siviour, C.R., Buckley, C.P., Hamley, I. and Hayes, W. (2015) A thermoreversible supramolecular polyurethane with excellent healing ability at 45 °C. Macromolecules, 48 (17). pp. 6132-6141. ISSN 0024-9297 doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01162 Chippindale, A. M., Hibble, S. J., Marelli, E., Bilbe, E. J., Hannon, A. C. and Zbiri, M. (2015) Chemistry and structure by design: ordered CuNi(CN)4 sheets with copper(II) in a square-planar environment. Dalton Transactions, 44 (28). pp. 12502-12506. ISSN 1364-5447 doi: 10.1039/c5dt01127b