Staff profile

Amy V. Hall obtained her BSc in Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Lincoln in 2017 and moved to Durham to do a PhD with Prof. Jonathan Steed (funded by Ashland Speciality Materials and EPSRC). Amy completed her PhD in 2020 and continued in the same research group as a Postdoctoral Research Associate working to improve existing treatments for the neglected tropical disease leishmaniasis. By 2023, Amy started a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, synthesising pharmaceutical cocrystals to improve the properties (solubility, dissolution, bioavailability) of existing drugs. Her interests are in the crystallisation and crystal engineering of pharmaceutically relevant solid forms (polymorphs, cocrystals, salts, hydrates, solvates). She is also interested in mechanochemistry, crystallography, and pharmaceutics.

• Crystal engineering
• Supramolecular chemistry
• Crystallography
• Mechanochemistry
• Pharmaceutics

Journal Article

• Cruz-Cabeza, A., Spackman, P., & Hall, A. (2024). The interplay between hydrogen bonds and stacking/T-type interactions in molecular cocrystals. Communications Chemistry, 7(1), Article 284. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-024-01380-3
• Cramman, H., Arenas, B., Awais, R., Balaban, C., Cropper, C., Dennis, F., Finch, K., Gray, H., Hall, A., Kitchen, G., Norman, K., O’Driscoll, L., Petts, P., Petri, S., Robson, J., Rosenburgh, A., Shields, L., Swift, G. P., & Vaughan, H. (2024). Post-16 students’ experience of practical science during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on students’ self-efficacy in practical work. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2, 39-69. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.14
• Hall, A. V., Cruz-Cabeza, A. J., & Steed, J. W. (2024). What Has Carbamazepine Taught Crystal Engineers?. Crystal Growth and Design, 24(17), 7342-7360. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.4c00555
• Hall, A. V., Gostick, I. E., Yufit, D. S., Marchant, G. Y., Kirubakaran, P., Madu, S. J., Li, M., Steel, P. G., & Steed, J. W. (2022). Integral Role of Water in the Solid-State Behavior of the Antileishmanial Drug Miltefosine. Crystal Growth and Design, 22(10), 6262-6266. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00843
• Hall, A. V., Musa, O. M., & Steed, J. W. (2021). Properties and Applications of Stimuli-Responsive Diacetylenes. Crystal Growth and Design, 21(6), 3614-3638. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00300
• Hall, A. V., Musa, O. M., Hood, D. K., Apperley, D. C., Yufit, D. S., & Steed, J. W. (2021). Alkali Metal Salts of 10,12-Pentacosadiynoic Acid and Their Dosimetry Applications. Crystal Growth and Design, 21(4), 2416-2422. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00031
• Hall, A. V., Yufit, D. S., Zhang, Y., Musa, O. M., & Steed, J. W. (2021). Anisotropic thermal expansion effects in layered n-Alkyl carboxylic acid – bipyridyl cocrystals. Supramolecular Chemistry, 33(10), https://doi.org/10.1080/10610278.2022.2117623
• Hall, A. V., Yufit, D. S., Apperley, D. C., Senak, L., Musa, O. M., Hood, D. K., & Steed, J. W. (2020). The crystal engineering of radiation-sensitive diacetylene cocrystals and salts. Chemical Science, 11(30), 8025-8035. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc02540b