Publications

Review Papers Published in Refereed Journals, Magazines or Books

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1. M.N.R. Ashfold, P.W. May, C.A. Rego, N.M. Everitt, "Thin Film Diamond by Chemical Vapour Deposition Methods", Chem. Soc. Rev., 23 (1994) 21-30.
   
   
2. P.W. May, "CVD Diamond - A New Technology for the Future?", Endeavour, 19(3) (1995), 101-106 (Elsevier, Oxford, U.K.)
   
   
3. M.N.R. Ashfold and P.W. May, "Diamond Chemical Vapour Deposition", Chemistry and Industry (London), 13 (7th July 1997) 505-8.
   
   
4. P.W. May, "Diamond Thin Films: A 21st Century Material" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, 358 (2000) 473-495.
   
   
5. M.N.R. Ashfold , F. Claeyssens , G.M. Fuge and S.J. Henley, "Pulsed laser ablation and deposition of thin films", Chem. Soc. Rev., 33 (2004) 23-31.
   
   
6. J. Filik, "Raman Spectroscopy: a simple, non-destructive way to characterise diamond and diamond-like materials", Spectroscopy Europe. 17 (2005) 10-17. [Also republished in Spectroscopy Asia. 1 (2005) 8-13].
   
   
7. J. Filik, J.N. Harvey, N.L. Allan, P.W. May, J.E.P. Dahl, S. Liu, and R.M.K. Carlson, "Raman Spectroscopy of Diamondoids", Spectrochimica Acta A: Mol. Biomol. Spect. 64 (2006) 681-692.
   
   
8. P.W. May, "The new diamond age?", Science. 319 (2008) 1490-1491.
   
   
9. J.E. Butler, Y.A. Mankelevich, A. Cheesman, J. Ma and M.N.R. Ashfold, "Understanding the chemical vapor deposition of diamond: recent progress", J. Phys.: Cond. Matter 21 (2009) 364201 [doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/36/364201].
   
   
10. P.W. May, "Chemical vapour deposition - A route to microcrystalline, nanocrystalline, ultrananocrystalline and single crystal diamond films", Chapter 6, pp. 145-176, in: Carbon Based Nanomaterials, Materials Science Foundations (monograph series), Vol. 65-66, Eds. N. Ali, A. Öchsner and W. Ahmed, Trans Tech, Switzerland, 2010), ISBN: 0-87849-155-4.
    
    
11. J. Filik, "Diamondoid Hydrocarbons", Chapter 1, pp. 1-26, in: Carbon Based Nanomaterials, Materials Science Foundations (monograph series), Vol. 65-66, Eds. N. Ali, A. Öchsner and W. Ahmed, Trans Tech, Switzerland, 2010), ISBN: 0-87849-155-4.
    
    
12. P.A. Nistor, P.W. May, "Diamond thin films: giving biomedical applications a new shine", J. Roy. Soc. Interface 14 (2017) 20170382. . [doi: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0382].
    
    
13. M.N.R. Ashfold, J.P. Goss, B.L. Green, P.W. May, M.E. Newton, C.V. Peaker, "Nitrogen in Diamond", Chem. Rev. 120 (2020) 5745-5794. . [doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00518].
    
    
14. P.W. May, CVD Diamond and Nanodiamond: Versatile Materials for Countering a Wide Range of CBRN Threats, in 'Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Security and Protection Against CBRN Threats', P. Petkov, M. Achour, C. Popov, Eds. (Springer, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - B: Physics and Biophysics, 2020). . [doi: 10.1007/978-94-024-2018-0_12]
    
    
15. M.C. James, F. Fogarty, R. Zulkharnay, N.A. Fox, P.W. May, "A Review of Surface Functionalisation of Diamond for Thermionic Emission Applications", Carbon 171 (2020) 532-550. . [doi: 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.09.019].
    
    
16. R. Zulkharnay, P.W. May, "Applications of Diamond Films: A Review", Funct. Diamond 4, (2024) 2410160. [doi: 10.1080/26941112.2024.2410160]
    
    
17. P.W. May, R. Zulkharnay, "Diamond Thin Films: A 21st Century Material. Part 2: A New Hope", Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. A 383, (2025) 20230382. . [doi: 10.1098/rsta.2023-0382]. (Supplementary-Info-Preprint.pdf)