Staff profile

Prof. Evans was awarded 1st class M. Chem. and PhD degrees in chemistry from Oxford University. After postdoctoral research with Prof Art Sleight in the US and an 1851 Fellowship at Oxford he moved to Durham as a lecturer in Chemistry in 1998. He was promoted to Reader in 2003 and Chair in 2007. He served as Head of Department from 2009-2014.

• Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

• Functional Molecules and Materials

• Durham TOPAS tutorials and resources
• Durham TOPAS User Forum
• Durham TOPAS wiki
• Google scholar
• YouTube channel

Authored book

• Woodward, Patrick M., Karen, Pavel, Evans, John S. O. & Vogt, Thomas (2021). Solid State Materials Chemistry.
• Dinnebier, Robert E., Leineweber, Andreas & Evans, John S.O. (2018). Rietveld Refinement.

Chapter in book

• Evans, John S.O. (2010). Advanced Input Files & Parametric Quantitative Analysis Using Topas. In Extending the Reach of Powder Diffraction Modelling by User Defined Macros. Scardi, P. & Dinnebier, R.E. 651: 1-9.

Journal Article

• Thompson, Sam Y., Devenney, Lauren A., Yufit, Dmitry S. & Evans, John S.O. (2023). Extensive Polymorphism in the Molecular Ferroelectric 18-Crown-6 Oxonium Tetrachloro-Gallium(III). Crystal Growth & Design 23(4): 2860-2869.
• Fleming, Rafael Oliveira, Gonçalves, Sofia, Davarpanah, Amin, Radulov, Iliya, Pfeuffer, Lukas, Beckmann, Benedikt, Skokov, Konstantin, Ren, Yang, Li, Tianyi, Evans, John, Amaral, João, Almeida, Rafael, Lopes, Armandina, Oliveira, Gonçalo, Araújo, João Pedro, Apolinário, Arlete & Belo, João Horta (2022). Tailoring Negative Thermal Expansion via Tunable Induced Strain in La–Fe–Si-Based Multifunctional Material. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14(38): 43498-43507.
• Fuller, Chloe A., Gutmann, Matthias J., Ling, Chris D., Wang, Chun-Hai, Zhang, Weiguo, Halasyamani, P. Shiv, Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic & Evans, John S. O. (2022). Defects and disorder in apatite-type silicate oxide ion conductors: implications for conductivity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10(27):
• Fuller, Chloe A., Murrell, James Iain, Blom, Douglas A., Vogt, Thomas, Zhang, Weiguo, Halasyamani, P. Shiv, Radosavljevic Evans, Ivana & Evans, John S. O. (2022). Oxide ion conductivity, proton conductivity and phase transitions in perovskite-derived Ba3–xSrxYGa2O7.5 0  x  3 materials. Chemistry of Materials 34(7): 3185-3196.
• Fuller, Chloe A., Blom, Douglas A., Vogt, Thomas, Radosavljevic Evans, Ivana & Evans, John S. O. (2022). Oxide Ion and Proton Conductivity in a Family of Highly Oxygen-Deficient Perovskite Derivatives. Journal of the American Chemical Society 144(1): 615-624.
• de Leeuwe, Christopher, Hu, Wenting, Evans, John, von Stosch, Moritz & Metcalfe, Ian S (2021). Production of high purity H2 through chemical-looping water–gas shift at reforming temperatures – The importance of non-stoichiometric oxygen carriers. Chemical Engineering Journal 423: 130174.
• de Leeuwe, Christopher, Hu, Wenting, Neagu, Dragos, Papaioannou, Evangelos I., Pramana, Stevin, Ray, Brian, Evans, John S.O. & Metcalfe, Ian S. (2021). Revisiting the thermal and chemical expansion and stability of La0.6Sr0.4FeO3−. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 293: 121838.
• Evans, John S. O. & Radosavljevic Evans, Ivana (2021). Structure Analysis from Powder Diffraction Data: Rietveld Refinement in Excel. Journal of Chemical Education 98(2): 495-505.
• Rahim, Warda, Skelton, Jonathan M., Savory, Christopher N., Evans, Ivana R., Evans, John S. O., Walsh, Aron & Scanlon, David O. (2020). Polymorph exploration of bismuth stannate using first-principles phonon mode mapping. Chemical Science 11(30): 7904-7909.
• Halukeerthi, Siriney O., Shephard, Jacob J., Talewar, Sukhpreet K., Evans, John S. O., Rosu-Finsen, Alexander & Salzmann, Christoph G (2020). Amorphous Mixtures of Ice and C60 Fullerene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 124(24): 5015-5022.
• Fuller, Chloe A., Berrod, Quentin, Frick, Bernhard, Johnson, Mark R., Avdeev, Maxim, Evans, John S. O. & Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic (2020). Oxide Ion and Proton Conductivity in Highly Oxygen-Deficient Cubic Perovskite SrSc0.3Zn0.2Ga0.5O2.4. Chemistry of Materials 32(10): 4347-4357.
• Chambers, Matthew S., Chater, Philip A., Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic & Evans, John S. O. (2019). Average and Local Structure of Apatite-Type Germanates and Implications for Oxide Ion Conductivity. Inorganic Chemistry 58(21): 14853-14862.
• Shephard, Jacob J., Evans, John S. O. & Salzmann, Christoph G. (2019). Local structure and orientational ordering in liquid bromoform. Molecular Physics 117(22): 3337-3344.
• Jiang, Shan, Cox, Harrison, Papaioannou, Evangelos, Tang, Chenyang, Liu, Huiyu, Murdoch, Billy J, Gibson, Emma K, Metcalfe, Ian, Evans, John S O & Beaumont, Simon Kenneth (2019). Shape-Persistent Porous Organic Cage Supported Palladium Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Catalytic Materials. Nanoscale 11(31): 14929-14936.
• Liu, Huiyu, Gutmann, Matthias J, Stokes, Harold T., Campbell, Branton J, Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic & Evans, John S. O. (2019). Super-colossal uniaxial negative thermal expansion in chloranilic acid pyrazine, CA-Pyz. Chemistry of Materials 31(12): 4514-4523.
• Metcalfe, Ian S., Ray, Brian, Dejoie, Catherine, Hu, Wenting, de Leeuwe, Christopher, Dueso, Cristina, García-García, Francisco R., Mak, Cheuk-Man, Papaioannou, Evangelos I., Thompson, Claire R. & Evans, John S. O. (2019). Overcoming chemical equilibrium limitations using a thermodynamically reversible chemical reactor. Nature Chemistry 11: 638–643.
• Štefančič, A., Moody, S. H., Hicken, T. J., Birch, M. T., Balakrishnan, G., Barnett, S. A., Crisanti, M., Evans, J. S. O., Holt, S. J. R., Franke, K. J. A., Hatton, P. D., Huddart, B. M., Lees, M. R., Pratt, F. L., Tang, C. C., Wilson, M. N., Xiao, F. & Lancaster, T. (2018). Origin of skyrmion lattice phase splitting in Zn-substituted Cu2OSeO3. Physical Review Materials 2(11): 111402(R).
• Liu, Huiyu, Zhang, Weiguo, Halasyamani, P. Shiv, Stokes, Harold T., Campbell, Branton J., Evans, John S. O. & Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic (2018). Understanding the Behavior of the Above-Room-Temperature Molecular Ferroelectric 5,6-Dichloro-2-methylbenzimidazole Using Symmetry Adapted Distortion Mode Analysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 140(41): 13441-13448.
• Araujo, Luiza R., Gallington, Leighanne C., Wilkinson, Angus P. & Evans, John S.O. (2018). Phase behaviour, thermal expansion and compressibility of SnMo 2 O 8. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 258: 885-893.
• Oogarah, R. K., Stockdale, C. P. J., Stock, C., Evans, J. S. O., Wills, A. S., Taylor, J. W. & McCabe, E. E. (2017). Crystal field excitations and magnons: Their roles in oxyselenides Pr2O2M2OSe2 (M = Mn, Fe). Physical Review B 95(17): 174441.
• Skotnicki, M., Apperley, D. C., Aguilar, J. A., Milanowski, B., Pyda, M. & Hodgkinson, P. (2016). Characterization of Two Distinct Amorphous Forms of Valsartan by Solid-State NMR. Molecular Pharmaceutics 13(1): 211-222.
• Coelho, A.A., Evans, J.S.O. & Lewis, J.W. (2016). Averaging the intensity of many-layered structures for accurate stacking-fault analysis using Rietveld refinement. Journal of Applied Crystallography 49(5): 1740-1749.
• Shephard, J.J., Callear, S.K., Imberti, S., Evans, J.S.O. & Salzmann, C.G. (2016). Microstructures of negative and positive azeotropes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18(28): 19227-19235.
• Lewis, James W., Payne, Julia L., Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic, Stokes, Harold T., Campbell, Branton J. & Evans, John S. O. (2016). An Exhaustive Symmetry Approach to Structure Determination: Phase Transitions in Bi2Sn2O7. Journal of the American Chemical Society 138(25): 8031-8042.
• Ainsworth, C.M., Lewis, J.W., Wang, C.H., Coelho, A.A., Johnson, H.E., Brand, H.E.A. & Evans, J.S.O. (2016). 3D Transition Metal Ordering and Rietveld Stacking Fault Quantification in the New Oxychalcogenides La2O2Cu2–4xCd2xSe2. Chemistry of Materials 28(9): 3184-3195.
• Ainsworth, Chris M., Wang, Chun-Hai, Johnston, Hannah E., McCabe, Emma E., Tucker, Matthew G., Brand, Helen E. A. & Evans, John S. O. (2015). Infinitely Adaptive Transition-Metal Ordering in Ln2O2MSe2-Type Oxychalcogenides. Inorganic Chemistry 54(15): 7230-7238.
• Wang, Chun-Hai, Ainsworth, Chris M., Gui, Dong-Yun, McCabe, Emma E., Tucker, Matthew G., Evans, Ivana R. & Evans, John S. O. (2015). Infinitely Adaptive Transition Metal Oxychalcogenides: The Modulated Structures of Ce2O2MnSe2 and (Ce0.78La0.22)2O2MnSe2. Chemistry of Materials 27(8): 3121-3134.
• Shephard, J. J., Soper, A. K., Callear, S. K., Imberti, S., Evans, J. S. O. & Salzmann, C. G. (2015). Polar stacking of molecules in liquid chloroform. Chemical Communications 51(23): 4770-4773.
• Ainsworth, Chris M., Wang, Chun-Hai, Tucker, Matthew G. & Evans, John S. O. (2015). Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Physical Properties of the New Transition Metal Oxyselenide Ce2O2ZnSe2. Inorganic Chemistry 54(4): 1563-1571.
• Tuxworth, Andrew J., Wang, Chun-Hai & Evans, John S. O. (2015). Synthesis, characterisation and properties of rare earth oxyselenides A4O4Se3 (A = Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb and Y). Dalton Transactions 44(7): 3009-3019.
• Nunes, Sayonara Eliziario, Wang, Chun-Hai, So, Karwei, Evans, John S.O. & Evans, Ivana Radosavljević (2015). Bismuth zinc vanadate, BiZn2VO6: New crystal structure type and electronic structure. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 222: 12-17.
• Evans, I.R., Evans, J.S.O., Davies, H.G., Haworth, A.R. & Tate, M.L. (2014). On Sr1−xNaxSiO3−0.5x New Superior Fast Ion Conductors. Chemistry of Materials 26(18): 5187-5189.
• Tuxworth, A. J. & Evans, J. S. O. (2014). Synthesis, structure and properties of the oxychalcogenide series A4O4TiSe4 (A=Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er and Y). Journal of Solid State Chemistry 210(1): 188-194.
• McCabe, E. E., Stock, C., Rodriguez, E. E., Wills, A. S., Taylor, J. W. & Evans, J. S. O. (2014). Weak spin interactions in Mott insulating La2O2Fe2OSe2. Physical Review B 89(10): 100402(R).
• McCabe, E. E., Stock, C., Bettis Jr., J. L. Whangbo, M. H. & Evans, J. S. O. (2014). Magnetism of the Fe2+ and Ce3+ sublattices in Ce2O2FeSe2: A combined neutron powder diffraction, inelastic neutron scattering, and density functional study. Physical Review B: condensed matter and materials physics 90(23): 235115.
• McCabe, E. E., Wills, A. S., Chapon, L., Manuel, P. & Evans, J. S. O. (2014). Structural and magnetic characterization of iron oxyselenides Ce2O2Fe2OSe2 and Nd2O2Fe2OSe2. Physical Review B: condensed matter and materials physics 90(16): 165111.
• Tallentire, SE, Child, F, Fall, I, Vella-Zarb, L, Evans, IR, Tucker, MG, Keen, DA, Wilson, C & Evans, JSO (2013). Systematic and Controllable Negative, Zero, and Positive Thermal Expansion in Cubic Zr1–xSnxMo2O8. Journal of the American Chemical Society 135(34): 12849-12856.
• Shephard, Jacob J., Evans, John S. O. & Salzmann, Christoph G. (2013). Structural Relaxation of Low-Density Amorphous Ice upon Thermal Annealing. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 4(21): 3672-3676.
• Tuxworth, Andrew J., McCabe, Emma E., Free, David G., Clark, Stewart J. & Evans, John S. O. (2013). Structural Characterization and Physical Properties of the New Transition Metal Oxyselenide La2O2ZnSe2. Inorganic Chemistry 52(4): 2078-2085.
• Wood, T.J., Hurst, G.A., Schofield, W.C.E., Thompson, R.L., Oswald, G., Evans, J.S.O., Sharples, G.J., Pearson, C., Petty, M.C. & Badyal, J.P.S. (2012). Electroless deposition of multi-functional zinc oxide surfaces displaying photoconductive, superhydrophobic, photowetting, and antibacterial properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry 22(9): 3859-3867.
• Kerman, Sean, Campbell, Branton J., Satyavarapu, Kiran K., Stokes, Harold T., Perselli, Francesca & Evans, John S. O. (2012). The superstructure determination of displacive distortions via symmetry-mode analysis. Acta Crystallographica Section A 68(2): 222-234.
• Coelho, A. A., Evans, John S. O., Evans, Ivana R., Kern, A. & Parsons, S. (2011). The TOPAS symbolic computation system. Powder Diffraction 26(S1): S22-S25.
• Free, DG, Withers, ND, Hickey, PJ & Evans, JSO (2011). Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Several New Oxychalcogenide Materials with the General Formula A2O2M2OSe2 (A = La-Sm, M = Fe, Mn). Chemistry of Materials 23(6): 1625-1635.
• McCabe, Emma E., Free, David G. & Evans, John S. O. (2011). A new iron oxyselenide Ce2O2FeSe2: synthesis and characterisation. Chemical Communications 47(4): 1261-1263.
• Free, David G. & Evans, John S. O. (2010). Low-temperature nuclear and magnetic structures of La2O2Fe2OSe2 from x-ray and neutron diffraction measurements. Physical Review B 81(21): 214433.
• Lister, S.E., Soleilhavoup, A., Withers, R.L., Hodgkinson, P. & Evans, J.S.O. (2010). Structures and Phase Transitions in (MoO2)2P2O7. Inorganic Chemistry 49(5): 2290-2301.
• EE McCabe, DG Free, BG Mendis, JS Higgins & JSO Evans (2010). Preparation, Characterization, and Structural Phase Transitions in a New Family of Semiconducting Transition Metal Oxychalcogenides beta-La(2)O(2)MSe(2) (M = Mn, Fe). Chemistry of Materials 22(22): 6171-6182.
• Lister, Sarah E., Rixom, Victoria J. & Evans, John S. O. (2010). Structural and Mechanistic Studies of the Dehydration of MoO2PO3OH center dot H2O and the In situ Identification of Two New Molybdenum Phosphates. Chemistry of Materials 22(18): 5279-5289.
• Keen, David A., Dove, Martin T., Evans, John S. O., Goodwin, Andrew L., Peters, Lars & Tucker, Matthew G. (2010). The hydrogen-bonding transition and isotope-dependent negative thermal expansion in H3Co(CN)(6). Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 22(40).
• Xiao, B., Byrne, P.J., Wheatley, P.S., Wragg, D.S., Zhao, X., Fletcher, A.J., Thomas, K.M., Peters, L., Evans, J.S.O., Warren, J.E., Zhou, W. & Morris, R.E. (2009). Chemically blockable transformation and ultraselective low-pressure gas adsorption in a non-porous metal organic framework. Nature Chemistry 1(4): 289-294.
• Scarlett, Nicola V. Y., Madsen, Ian C., Evans, John S. O., Coelho, Alan A., McGregor, Katherine, Rowles, Matthew, Lanyon, Marshall R. & Urban, Andrew J. (2009). Energy-dispersive diffraction studies of inert anodes. Journal of Applied Crystallography 42(3): 502-512.
• Readman, JE Lister, SE Peters, L Wright, J & Evans, JSO (2009). Direct Synthesis of Cubic ZrMo2O8 Followed by Ultrafast In Situ Powder Diffraction. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(48): 17560–17562.
• Lister, Sarah E., Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic & Evans, John S. O. (2009). Complex Superstructures of Mo2P4O15. Inorganic Chemistry 48(19): 9271-9281.
• Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic, Howard, Judith A. K., Evans, John S. O., Postlethwaite, Stella R. & Johnson, Mark R. (2008). Polymorphism and hydrogen bonding in cinchomeronic acid: a variable temperature experimental and computational study. CrystEngComm 10(10): 1404-1409.
• Conterio, Michael J., Goodwin, Andrew L., Tucker, Matthew G., Keen, David A., Dove, Martin T., Peters, Lars & Evans, John S. O. (2008). Local structure in Ag3[Co(CN)6]: colossal thermal expansion, rigid unit modes and argentophilic interactions. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 20(25): 255225.
• Crossland, Clare J., Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic & Evans, John S. O. (2008). Structural chemistry of (PPh4)2M(WS4)2 materials. Dalton Transactions (12): 1597-1601.
• Goodwin, Andrew L., Keen, David A., Tucker, Matthew G., Dove, Martin T., Peters, Lars & Evans, John S. O. (2008). Argentophilicity-Dependent Colossal Thermal Expansion in Extended Prussian Blue Analogues. Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(30): 9660-9661.
• Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic, Howard, Judith A. K. & Evans, John S. O. (2008). Structural ferroelectric phase transition and polymorphism in 2-aminopyridine dihydrogen phosphate. Crystal Growth and Design 8(5): 1635-1639.
• Goodwin, A.L., Calleja, M., Conterio, M.J., Dove, M.T., Evans, J.S.O., Keen, D.A., Peters, L. & Tucker, M.G. (2008). Colossal Positive and Negative Thermal Expansion in the Framework Material Ag3[Co(CN)6]. Science 319(5864): 794-797.
• G. W. Stinton & J. S. O. Evans (2007). Parametric Rietveld refinement. Journal of Applied Crystallography 40(1): 87-95.
• Stinton, G.W., Hampson, M.R. & Evans, J.S.O. (2006). The 136-atom structure of ZrP2O7 and HfP2O7 from powder diffraction data. Inorganic chemistry 45(11): 4352-4358.
• H. L. Nguyen, L. E. M. Howard, G. W. Stinton, S. R. Giblin, B. K. Tanner, I. Terry, A. K. Hughes, I. M. Ross, A. Serres & J. S. O. Evans (2006). Synthesis of size controlled fcc and fct FePt nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials 18(26): 6414-6418.
• M. R. Hampson, S. Allen, I. J. King, C. J. Crossland, P. Hodgkinson, R. K. Harris, F. Fayon & J. S. O. Evans (2005). Synthesis and NMR studies of O-17 enriched AM(2)O(8) phases. Solid State Sciences 7(7): 819-826.
• M. R. Hampson, J. S. O. Evans & P. Hodgkinson (2005). Characterization of oxygen dynamics in ZrW₂O₈. Journal of the American Chemical Society 127(43): 15175-15181.
• C. J. Crossland, P. J. Hickey & J. S. O. Evans (2005). The synthesis and characterisation of Cu₂MX₄ (M = W or Mo; X = S, Se or S/Se) materials prepared by a solvothermal method. Journal of Materials Chemistry 15(34): 3452-3458.
• A. J. Florence, N. Shankland, K. Shankland, W. I. F. David, E. Pidcock, X. L. Xu, A. Johnston, A. R. Kennedy, P. J. Cox, J. S. O. Evans, G. Steele, S. D. Cosgrove & C. S. Frampton (2005). Solving molecular crystal structures from laboratory X-ray powder diffraction data with DASH: the state of the art and challenges. Journal of Applied Crystallography 38: 249-259.
• A. S. Aldridge, P. D. Battle, J. S. O. Evans, C. A. Moore, T. J. Prior & P. J. Wiseman (2005). Structural chemistry of A(3)CuBO(6) (A = Ca, Sr; B=Mn, Ru, Ir) as a function of temperature. Inorganic Chemistry 44(2): 197-205.
• I. R. Evans, J. A. K. Howard & J. S. O. Evans (2005). The crystal structure of α-La₂Mo₂O₉ and the structural origin of the oxide ion migration pathway. Chemistry of Materials 17(16): 4074-4077.
• Howard, L. E. M. Nguyen, H. L. Giblin, S. R., Tanner, B. K. Terry, I. Hughes, A. K. & Evans, J. S. O. (2005). A synthetic route to size-controlled fcc and fct FePt nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 127(29): 10140-10141.
• Nguyen, HL, Howard, LEM, Giblin, SR, Tanner, BK, Terry, I, Hughes, AK, Ross, IM, Serres, A, Burckstummer, H & Evans, JSO (2005). Synthesis of monodispersed fcc and fct FePt/FePd nanoparticles bymicrowave irradiation. Journal Of Materials Chemistry 15(48): 5136-5143.
• S. Allen, R. J. Ward, M. R. Hampson, R. K. B. Gover & J. S. O. Evans (2004). Structures and phase transitions of trigonal ZrMo2O8 and HfMo2O8. Acta Crystallographica Section B-Structural Science 60: 32-40.
• M. R. Hampson, P. Hodgkinson, J. S. O. Evans, R. K. Harris, I. J. King, S. Allen & F. Fayon (2004). The nature of oxygen exchange in ZrW2O8 revealed by two-dimensional solid-state O-17 NMR. Chemical Communications (4): 392-393.
• I. R. Evans, J. A. K. Howard, L. E. M. Howard, J. S. O. Evans, Z. K. Jacimovic, V. S. Jevtovic & V. M. Leovac (2004). Transition metal complexes with pyrazole based ligands, part 18: new binuclear Cu(I), Cu(II) and Co(II) complexes with 3,5-dimethyl-l-thiocarboxamide pyrazole: synthesis, structural and magnetic studies. Inorganica Chimica Acta 357(15): 4528-4536.
• S. Allen & J. S. O. Evans (2004). The kinetics of low-temperature oxygen migration in ZrWMoO8. Journal of Materials Chemistry 14(2): 151-156.
• F. Fayon, I. J. King, R. K. Harris, J. S. O. Evans & D. Massiot (2004). Application of the through-bond correlation NMR experiment to the characterization of crystalline and disordered phosphates. Comptes Rendus Chimie 7(3-4): 351-361.
• S. E. Lister, I. R. Evans, J. A. K. Howard, A. Coelho & J. S. O. Evans (2004). Mo2P4O15 - the most complex oxide structure solved by single crystal methods? Chemical Communications (22): 2540-2541.
• N. J. Bell, A. J. Cox, N. R. Cameron, J. S. O. Evans, T. B. Marder, M. A. Duin, C. J. Elsevier, X. Baucherel, A. A. D. Tulloch & R. P. Tooze (2004). Platinum catalysed 3,4- and 1,4-diboration of alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl compounds using bis-pinacolatodiboron. Chemical Communications (16): 1854-1855.
• J. S. O. Evans & I. R. Evans (2004). Beyond classical applications of powder diffraction. Chemical Society Reviews 33(8): 539-547.
• C. De Meyer, F. Bouree, J. S. O. Evans, K. De Buysser, E. Bruneel, I. Van Driessche & S. Hoste (2004). Structure and phase transition of Sn-substituted Zr(1-x)SnxW2O8. Journal of Materials Chemistry 14(20): 2988-2994.
• I. Bull, P. Lightfoot, L. A. Villaescusa, L. M. Bull, R. K. B. Gover, J. S. O. Evans & R. E. Morris (2003). An X-ray diffraction and MAS NMR study of the thermal expansion properties of calcined siliceous ferrierite. Journal of the American Chemical Society 125(14): 4342-4349.
• I. R. Evans, J. A. K. Howard & J. S. O. Evans (2003). α-Bi₂Sn₂O₇- a 176 atom crystal structure from powder diffraction data. Journal of Materials Chemistry 13(9): 2098-2103.
• F. Fayon, I. J. King, R. K. Harris, R. K. B. Gover, J. S. O. Evans & D. Massiot (2003). Characterization of the room-temperature structure of SnP2O7 by P-31 through-space and through-bond NMR correlation spectroscopy. Chemistry of Materials 15(11): 2234-2239.
• S. Allen, N. R. Warmingham, R. K. B. Gover & J. S. O. Evans (2003). Synthesis, structure and thermal contraction of a new low-temperature polymorph of ZrMo₂O₈. Chemistry of Materials 15(18): 3406-3410.
• S. Allen & J. S. O. Evans (2003). Negative thermal expansion and oxygen disorder in cubic ZrMo2O8. Physical Review B 68(13).
• C. J. Crossland & J. S. O. Evans (2003). Synthesis and characterisation of a new high pressure polymorph of Cu2WS4. Chemical Communications (18): 2292-2293.
• H. E. Birkett, J. C. Cherryman, A. M. Chippendale, J. S. O. Evans, R. K. Harris, M. James, I. J. King & G. J. McPherson (2003). Structural investigations of three triazines: solution-state NMR studies of internal rotation and structural information from solid-state NMR, plus a full structure determination from powder x-ray diffraction in one case. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry 41(5): 324-336.
• I. R. Evans, J. S. O. Evans & J. A. K. Howard (2002). Variable temperature structural study of bismuth lead vanadate, BiPb₂VO₆. Journal of Materials Chemistry 12(9): 2648-2652.
• J. S. O. Evans, E. B. Brogden, A. L. Thompson & R. L. Cordiner (2002). Synthesis and characterisation of the new oxyselenide Bi2YO4Cu2Se2. Chemical Communications (8): 912-913.
• R. K. B. Gover, N. D. Withers, S. Allen, R. L. Withers & J. S. O. Evans (2002). Structure and phase transitions of SnP2O7. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 166(1): 42-48.
• I. J. King, F. Fayon, D. Massiot & R. K. HarrisJ. S. O. Evans (2001). A space group assignment of ZrP2O7 obtained by P-31 solid state NMR. Chemical Communications (18): 1766-1767.
• J. S. O. Evans, S. Benard & P. YuR. Clement (2001). Ferroelectric alignment of NLO chromophores in layered inorganic lattices: Structure of a stilbazolium metal-oxalate from powder diffraction data. Chemistry of Materials 13(11): 3813-+.
• I. R. Evans, J. A. K. Howard & R. L. WithersJ. S. O. Evans (2001). Ab initio structure determination of BiPb2VO6 from powder diffraction data. Chemical Communications (19): 1984-1985.
• R. L. Withers, Y. Tabira, J. S. O. Evans & I. J. KingA. W. Sleight (2001). A new three-dimensional incommensurately modulated cubic phase (in ZrP2B7) and its symmetry characterization via temperature- dependent electron diffraction. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 157(1): 186-192.
• J. D. Jorgensen, Z. Hu, S. Short & A. W. SleightJ. S. O. Evans (2001). Pressure-induced cubic-to-orthorhombic phase transformation in the negative thermal expansion material HfW2O8. Journal of Applied Physics 89(6): 3184-3188.
• Evans, J.S.O., Hanson, P.A., Ibberson, R.M. & Kameswari, U. (2000). Low Temperature Oxygen Migration and Negative Thermal Expansion in ZrW₂₋xMoxO₈. Journal of the American Chemical Society 122: 8694-8699.
• Evans, J.S.O. & Mary, T.A. (2000). Structural phase transitions and negative thermal expansion in Sc₂(MoO₄)₃. International Journal of Inorganic Materials 2(1): 143-151.
• Evans JSO, W.I.F. David & A.W. Sleight (1999). Structural investigation of the negative-thermal-expansion material ZrW₂O₈. Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science 55: 333-340.
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