Formation, Organisation & Response of Materials
Today we celebrated as Suzie passed her PhD viva! Congratulations Suzie!
Suzie’s thesis investigated the structure and properties of some intriguing mixed-metal MOFs, using in- and ex-situ X-ray diffraction as well as other allied techniques to build a detailed picture of how they form and how the spatial arrangement of the different metals influences gas sorption.
Many thanks to Richard Walton and Josh Makepeace for examining the thesis.
Today our MSci project students submitted their theses and we went out to lunch at Rudy’s to celebrate – congratulations Valentina and Oliver!
This week we had lunch together at The Plough to bid farewell to Yiran, who has come to the end of her stay with the group and heads back to Beijing University of Science and Technology to complete her Masters degree.
The group held its annual Christmas social this year in three installments because of various competing travel plans etc. Firstly there was Secret Santa round one over coffee on campus, then dinner at Rudy’s pizza restaurant (with Secret Santa round 2, followed by bowling!
Thanks to our MSci students, Valentina and Oliver, for organising!
Pat and Harry presented their work at the Royal Society of Chemistry Solid-State Chemistry Group Christmas meeting, here in Birmingham. Pat gave an oral presentation on his work investigating ZIF-67 crystallisation, and Harry gave a poster about the latest developments to the in-situ electric field cell at beamline I19-2 at Diamond. Well done both!
Yeung Research Group at UoB 