This week, Suzie presented her PhD research at the School of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium. Well done!
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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!
Hamish, Pat and Harry attended the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) Spring Meeting in Leeds, 25-28 March 2024, where a lot of exciting things happened!
Harry gave a talk about his PhD work, entitled “Driving Forces in the Phase Behaviour of MDABCO-based Ferroelectric Perovskites“, and Pat gave a talk about the group’s work on “Investigations of ZIF Crystallisation Mechanisms“.
After organising part of the meeting programme as one of the representatives of the Chemical Crystallography Group (CCG), Hamish was elected to be the Chair of the CCG Committee of the BCA, a post he will hold for the next three years.
Most excitingly, it was announced at the meeting that Pat has won the 2024 CCG-CCDC Prize for Younger Scientists, which is awarded each year “to a younger scientist who has performed original research in the field of chemical crystallography or the application of crystallographic information to structural chemistry”.
Well done on the talks, Harry and Pat, and congratulations Pat on the CCG-CCDC Prize!
The group has a new home! We have moved into the new state-of-the-art Molecular Science Building on the University of Birmingham Edgbaston campus. We’re already settling in and really excited to get going on more fantastic science!
Yeung Research Group at UoB 