Matthew A. Wright

Quantum Foundry Postdoctoral Associate

Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Research Expertise

Materials Science
Crystallography
Energy Storage
Solid State Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry

About

I received my PhD from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, supervised by [Professor Matthew J Rosseinsky OBE FRS](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/chemistry/research/rosseinsky-group/) and [Professor Laurence Hardwick](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/chemistry/research/hardwick-group/about/), where I focused on the design and mechanistic study of next-generation electrode materials. In 2024 I joined the [Materials Department](https://www.materials.ucsb.edu/) at the University of California Santa Barbara. My research aims to connect the chemistry of energy materials with the physics of correlated and quantum systems, revealing new pathways for designing multifunctional materials. I utilize X-ray and neutron crystallography, pair distribution function analysis, and spectroscopy (NMR, Raman, IR, XAS, XPS) to uncover structure–property relationships which aid in the design of advanced functional materials. I am also interested in using electrochemistry to provide dynamic control over emergent electronic and magnetic behavior in solid materials.

Publications

A database of experimentally measured lithium solid electrolyte conductivities evaluated with machine learning
npj Computational Materials
2023
One Site, Two Cations, Three Environments: s2 and s0 Electronic Configurations Generate Pb-Free Relaxor Behavior in a Perovskite Oxide
Unknown Venue
Porous and Amorphous MnxMo3S13 Chalcogel Electrode for High-Capacity Conversion-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2025
Accessing Mg‐Ion Storage in V2PS10 via Combined Cationic‐Anionic Redox with Selective Bond Cleavage
Angewandte Chemie
2024
Fast Mg-ion insertion kinetics in V2Se9
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2024
Pyrolyzed “Black Mass” Feedstocks and Their Synthetic Proxies Relevant to Li-Ion Battery Recycling
ACS Omega
2025
Rapid Microwave Preparation of AlNb11O29 and Ti2Nb10O29 Wadsley–Roth Lithium–Ion Anode Compounds from Parent Oxides
ACS Applied Energy Materials
2025
Semiconducting ZnxMo3S13-GO Chalcocarbogel: A High-Capacity and Stable Sulfur-Equivalent Conversion-Based Electrode for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Unknown Venue
Navigation through high-dimensional chemical space: discovery of Ba5Y13[SiO4]8O8.5 and Ba3Y2[Si2O7]2
Chemical Science
2024
Direct Microwave Pyrolysis of Cellulose to Hard Carbon Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Chemistry of Materials
2026
Strong, Yet Split Hydrogen Bonding with Ice Rules in Delafossite (H/D)RhO 2
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2025
Revealing the Mg-Ion Storage Mechanism within a Covalent Organic Framework Electrode
ACS Applied Energy Materials
2025
Linking battery electrode science with correlated and quantum materials
Physical Review Materials
2025
Accessing polyanionic redox in high voltage Li-rich thiophosphate-type materials
Unknown Venue
2025
Navigation through high-dimensional chemical space: discovery of two Ba–Y silicates
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
2024
Assumption on the optimization direction of positive electrode materials and new methods for recycling electrode materials in lithium-ion batteries
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
2024
Separation of K+ and Bi3+ displacements in a Pb-free, monoclinic piezoelectric at the morphotropic phase boundary
Acta Materialia
2024
Strong, Yet Split Hydrogen Bonding with Ice Rules in Delafossite (H/D)RhO 2
Angewandte Chemie
2025
Accessing Mg‐Ion Storage in V2PS10 via Combined Cationic‐Anionic Redox with Selective Bond Cleavage
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2024
One Site, Two Cations, Three Environments: s2 and s0 Electronic Configurations Generate Pb-Free Relaxor Behavior in a Perovskite Oxide
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2021
Selective Phase Stabilization in Microwave-Prepared Nasicon Solid Electrolytes through Potassium Ion Exchange
ECS Meeting Abstracts
2025
Lattice Dynamics and Phonon Anharmonicity in Cs2BBX6 (B = Ag, Na; B = Bi, In; X = Cl, Br) Halide Double Perovskites
Unknown Venue
Semiconducting ZnxMo3S13-GO Chalcocarbogel: A High-Capacity and Stable Sulfur-Equivalent Conversion-Based Electrode for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Chemistry of Materials
2025
Rapid Microwave Preparation of AlNb11O29 and Ti2Nb10O29 WadsleyRoth LithiumIon Anode Compounds from Parent Oxides
Unknown Venue
Navigation through High-dimensional Chemical Space: Discovery of Ba5Y13[SiO4]8O8.5 and Ba3Y2[Si2O7]2
Unknown Venue
2024
Li6SiO4Cl2: A Hexagonal Argyrodite Based on Antiperovskite Layer Stacking
Chemistry of Materials
2021
High energy density and micrometer-sized d0-free disordered rocksalt cathodes
Energy & Environmental Science
2025

Education

University of Liverpool

PhD, Chemistry Department / September, 2023

Liverpool

University of Liverpool

MChem, Chemistry Department / May, 2019

Liverpool

University of Liverpool

Ph. D. in Solid-State Chemistry / 2023

University of Liverpool

MChem (Hons) in Chemistry / 2019

Experience

University of California, Santa Barbara

Post Doctoral Research Fellow / April, 2024Present

University of Liverpool

Post Doctoral Research Associate / June, 2023December, 2023

Faraday Institute postdoctoral associate / January, 2023December, 2024

Uncovering ion-insertion mechanisms in covalent organic framework materials.

University of California Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral scholar / January, 2024December, 2026

Designed and synthesized functional oxides exhibiting emergent behavior and developed rapid microwave-assisted synthesis routes to functional battery materials.

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