Formation, Organisation & Response of Materials
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.
This week, Suzie presented her PhD research at the School of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium. Well done!
Our fourth-year MSci students, Will and Byron have handed in their theses and today we had a few drinks to celebrate. It seemed like only a short time ago they joined us but since October they’ve both done some really interesting experiments on materials formation, and uncovered some surprising facts about metal-organic frameworks and hybrid perovskites! Congratulations and good luck for the rest of the year (and beyond!), Byron and Will!
Yeung Research Group at UoB 