Harry passes his PhD viva

Congratulations to Harry Lloyd, who passed his PhD viva with minor corrections today!

Harry did some excellent research into the structures and properties of MDABCO-based ferroelectric hybrid perovskites, principally using single crystal methods, and made several developments to the in-situ electric field cell at Diamond beamline I19. Part of his work was published in CrystEngComm, and there should be at least one more paper to come!

Many thanks to Emma McCabe and Peter Slater for examining his thesis, and to Mark Warren and Lucy Saunders, who co-supervised Harry from Diamond Lightsource beamline I19.

Here’s a post-viva proud supervisor picture of Mark, Harry and Hamish!

Suzie passes her PhD viva

Today we celebrated as Suzie passed her PhD viva! Congratulations Suzie!

Woman smiling with long dark brown hair, wearing a white blouse, beige jacket and dark brown trousers and shoes, holding a bottle of prosecco, standing in front of a chemistry laboratory.

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.