On 1 August 2024, Hamish was promoted to Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry!
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This weekend we took our new hands-on outreach activities to CoCoMAD festival and it was a roaring success!
We had mineral specimens from the Lapworth museum, a growing ‘magic’ crystal tree, jigsaw puzzle nucleation, magnetic tile crystals, The Nucleation Game with live music and a giant interactive crystal that everyone got involved in helping to grow.
More information about the activities, including those you can do at home, can be found on our Outreach page.
Thanks to CoCoMAD for having us, to the CCDC and RSC for funding, to our musicians Pablo Sonnaillon and Tanguy Pocquet, to all our volunteers (Georgia, Thomas, Pat, Yomi, Sophie and Titas) and especially to our undergraduate summer interns Alice and Keyuan for developing all the activities and materials especially for the event!
This week, Suzie presented her PhD research at the School of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium. Well done!
Second-year undergraduate UoB Chemistry students Alice Walker (R) and Keyuan Huang (L) have joined the group for summer internships, developing outreach activities and information relating to framework materials, crystals and crystallisation. We will be engaging the public with them at CoCoMAD festival in Cotteridge on 6th July 2024!
Hamish gave a talk at the Pint of Science Festival 2024, at the Hop Garden in Harborne, entitled “Order from chaos – making crystals from molecular soup”. From the programme:
Crystals are all around us, from materials and rocks to medicines and technology. They are made up of atoms and molecules arranged in regular structures, that have specific properties and behaviour. But how do they form in the first place? This talk will take you on an atomic journey from the dynamic chaos of molecular soup to the beauty, order and function of crystalline materials.
Hamish’s talk also included audio analogies to different steps in the process of crystallisation, in the form of jazz music composed by collaborator Pablo Sonnaillon. It was great to receive several questions from the audience about it, perhaps the best being “If a crystal was a type of music, what would it be?”. Answers on a postcard please!
Yeung Research Group at UoB 