Formation, Organisation & Response of Materials
Today marked a big milestone in the Yeung group, as Aaron successfully defended his PhD thesis! All being well, he’ll be graduating as Dr Chambers very soon! A big thank you to his examiners, Sam Chong and Tim Easun, and his project co-supervisor at BAM, Brian Pauw, as well as everyone that helped with his project along the way.
Following on from our CCDC-funded public engagement project about MOFs and crystallisation in the summer, we have produced five activity sheets for hands-on activities that you can do at home!
The activities are (i) Crystallisation of a magic crystal tree, (ii) Jigsaw puzzle nucleation, (iii) Magnetic tile crystals, (iv) Mineral crystals, and (v) Construction toy self-assembly.
Sounds interesting? The activity sheets can be downloaded from our Outreach pages here.
We welcome Valentina Walls and Oliver Rawlings to the group to carry out their fourth-year MSci research projects. Valentina will be investigating the metastable intermediates in ZIF synthesis, while Oliver will be devising ways to test the robustness of MOF synthesis.
This month we welcome Yiran Tan, who joins the group for six months as a visiting postgraduate researcher from the University of Science and Technology Beijing. She will be investigating the conversion of metal-organic frameworks to metal oxide materials for catalysis.
Today we had a fantastic group day out with the Seb Pike group from Warwick University, discussing science through presentations and over lunch, and enjoying some more relaxed time going bowling together!
Yeung Research Group at UoB 