Yeung Research Group at UoB

Two summer projects available

We’ve secured a grant from Oxford Chemistry’s Public Engagement with Research funds for a paid 6-week* summer project on “Flexible, functional framework materials”. It will involve building interactive models to demonstrate how the crystal structures of materials influence their properties and producing information cards and a short online video about them. Suitable candidates should be undergraduate students with an interest in materials, crystallography and of course public engagement!

In other news, our other summer project, on metal-organic framework formation, is still available! If you’re an undergraduate student interested in functional materials, crystallisation and chemical kinetics this could be for you!

For both the projects above, please send a CV and short statement of interest to Hamish by Sun 22 April. Informal interviews will be held at the beginning of Trinity Term.

*Amended from original version: duration will be 6 weeks.

Papers

Thermodynamics and Kinetics of MOF formation

We’re excited to announce that we’ve got a new paper out– what a start to 2018!

It’s a review of research over the last 20 years on the fundamental factors affecting why certain metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) form the structures that they do. It’s entitled “Thermodynamic and Kinetic Effects in the Crystallization of Metal–Organic Frameworks” and it’s published in the journal Accounts of Chemical Research.

The paper describes how our understanding has grown over the years from simple qualitative observations in the 90’s to detailed, quantitative results provided by computational models and powerful in situ experiments today. The authors, my former supervisor Tony Cheetham, Gregor Kieslich at Munich and Hamish delve into how we’re able to understand not just the structures, but the enthalpic, entropic and kinetic factors that shape each material too.

Take a look at the paper here.

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Summer project on MOF formation 2018

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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Facebook page

The group now has a Facebook page! It can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/YeungMaterialsLaboratory/

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SCG Innovation Funding

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.