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CoCoMAD festival

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!

News

Suzie presents

This week, Suzie presented her PhD research at the School of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium. Well done!

News

MSci thesis hand-in

Today Sophie and Hannah submitted their MSci project reports, and we celebrated with a meal at Kimchi in Selly Oak. Well done both of you!

Four people sitting around a table at a restaurant with plates and bowls of food.

News

Welcome Hannah and Sophie!

This year we are lucky enough to be joined by Hannah Blakiston and Sophie Ray to do their MSci research projects with the group.

Sophie will be working on isolation and characterisation of intermediate clusters in MOF synthesis, while Hannah will be investigating phase behaviour and compositional trends in hybrid perovskites.

Papers

New MDABCO perovskites paper

Sam and Harry’s paper on MDABCO-based ABX₃ perovskites is now out in CrystEngComm!

These materials are very promising candidates for ferroelectric applications, owing to their ease of synthesis, flexibility and properties that rival existing materials, such as BaTiO₃. Sam and Harry discovered the single crystal structures of three new compositions, which help to define the design limits within which the ferroelectric pseudo-cubic perovskite phases form.

Congratulations Sam and Harry and thanks to all contributing authors!

Read the paper, which features in the 2022 New Talent Special Issue (Open Access) here.

Update: new cover art available too!