We have guaranteed funding for at least one 6-8 week summer project in 2018 here in Oxford and the possibility to apply for more! Prospective students should be a current undergraduate in Chemistry or a related discipline and show interest in one or more of these topics: chemical kinetics, crystallisation, metal-organic frameworks, X-ray diffraction and in-situ measurements. Deadlines for other funding sources occur early in 2018 so please contact Hamish if interested.
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The group now has a Facebook page! It can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/YeungMaterialsLaboratory/
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been awarded a grant from the SCG Innovation Fund for the investigation of metal-organic framework formation!
The grant includes funding for a paid 8-week summer project in 2018: applicants should be in the first 3 years of their undergraduate studies and have an interest in MOFs, electrochemistry, crystallography and/or chemical kinetics. Please contact Hamish to apply or for more details.
At the end of last week we bade farewell to our summer student, Felicity Massingberd-Mundy, who has spent the last six weeks doing a research project in the lab. She spent much of her time measuring MOF crystallisations using this cool Raspberry Pi-controlled setup, on loan from Richard Cooper‘s lab where it was made by Katie McInally in her Part II research project two years ago. We’re looking forward to writing up some of her results to publish soon; in the meantime, we wish her all the best and good luck with the rest of her studies!
On Friday 28 July, Hamish visited his collaborators Hengbo Cui and Takao Tsumuraya at the Condensed Molecular Materials Laboratory of Reizo Kato at RIKEN in Wako, Tokyo. They study the intriguing properties of various materials made from molecules that, when assembled in crystalline form and subjected to high pressure, exhibit transitions between various electronically insulating and conducting states.
The collaboration has involved examining the crystal structures of some of these compounds under pressure, which until now has remained undetermined except by computational methods. Hamish presented various results from the synchrotron experiment performed earlier this year, followed by discussions about how the structures link to the materials’ properties.
We’re looking forward to writing some of these results up in the near future… watch this space!
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