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Joint meetings are held with groups working in solid-state chemistry at the University of Warwick.

Please email your talk titles to Cameron Wilson at least a week before your talk, and your PowerPoint presentations the night before your talk.

Solid State Group Meetings

Academic Year 2024/2025

TermDateSpeaker(s)Seminar TitleRoom
Term 110/10/2024 (W2)
11:00 - 12:00
P.I. IntroductionsShort talks from the P.I.s to introduce the work undertaken in each group.R0.12
25/10/2024 (W4)
11:00 - 12:00
Craig Hiley (RW/MS)Solution Synthesis of Some Transition Metal (Hydroxy)FluoridesR0.12
Stephen Brown (SP)Cerium-oxo Clusters as Soluble precursors for ceria materials
01/11/2024 (W5)
14:00 - 15:00
Guest speaker: Javier Castells-Gil, University of BirminghamStructural studies on Li-ion battery cation-disordered electrodesR1.13
14/11/2024 (W7)
11:00 - 12:00
Ben Tragheim (MS)Charge and Orbital Order in Novel Na-Doped Hg Quadruple PerovskitesR0.12
Jacob Oyarzabal (RW)Characterisation of Materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis using Advanced Analytical Techniques
21/11/2024 (W8)
11:00 - 12:00
Struan Simpson (MS)Goldstone-mediated ferroelectricity in hexagonal BaTiO3R0.12
Gla Sinted (RW)Ruddlesden-Popper Fluoride Perovskites: A novel synthesis method & structural modification
29/11/2024 (W9)
14:00 - 15:00
Guest Speaker: Ines Collings (Natural History Museum)High-pressure behaviour of multiferroic metal–organic frameworksL4
Term 210/01/2025 (W15)
10:00 - 11:00
Katie Pickering (RW)Synthesis and Characterisation of Magnesium Hydroxide Based Materials with Anisotropic MorphologiesL4
Chantal Baer (BK)Hopping through the interfaces: a computational study of Li-metal/Li-argyrodite interfaces
17/01/2025 (W16)
10:00 - 11:00
Robin Sjökvist (RB)Transmission Electron Microscopy study of Ca0.4Sr0.6TiO3L4
Catriona Crawford (MS/RW)From Octahedral Tilting to t2g Jahn-Teller Distortions: Unravelling Phase Transitions in Fluoride Perovskites
24/01/2025 (W17)
10:00 - 11:00
Guest Speaker: Lynette Keeney (Tyndall National Institute)Impact of Magnetic Ion Substitution on the Crystal Structure of Multiferroic Aurivillius Phases L4
31/01/2025 (W18)
10:00 - 11:00
Kayleigh Skidmore (RW)Operando Study of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic MediaL4
07/02/2025 (W19)
10:00 - 11:00
No meeting
14/02/2025 (W20)
10:00 - 11:00
Ahmad Hamadi (RW)Acid Resilient Electrocatalyst Materials for Water SplittingL4
Jack Beall (SP)Exploring the synthesis and quantum confinement effects in Iron (III)-oxo clusters
21/02/2025 (W21)
10:00 - 11:00
Guest Speaker: Jie Lu (University of Warwick, X-ray RTP)Accessing Selective Crystallization of ROY Polymorphs Using Directional Crystallization from the Melt.L4
28/02/2025 (W22)
10:00 - 11:00
Matt Edwards (MS)Exploring Superconductivity through hole-doped Pr2CuO4 via high pressure phase transitions.L4
07/03/2025 (W23)
10:00 - 11:00
No meeting
14/03/2025 (W24)
10:00 - 11:00
Noah Bryan (RW)Synthesis of Ni-based Catalyst Materials for Anion-Exchange Membrane Electrolysers.L4
Easter Break
Term 302/05/2025 (W31)
Roman Shantsila (BK)Training and Validating Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials for reliable modelling of Lithium Thiophosphate interfaces.L4
Cameron Wilson (MS)Magic Ratios or Pure Coincidence: The Rational Design of Novel Pressure Transmitting Media.
09/04/2025 (W32)No meetingTBCL4
16/05/2025 (W33)
Jaskaran Mangat (MS)Hidden broken symmetries and magnetic behaviour of the nickelate series Pr2-xCaxNiO4L4
23/05/2025 (W34)
Callum Rosenburg (SP)Studying the Thermochemistry of Cerium-Oxo Clusters Towards Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer ReactivityL4
Elizabeth Arnold (MS)Local distortions and orbital disorder in in ultra-high A-site variance perovskite Ce0.5Ba0.5MnO3
30/05/2025 (W35)
Mchem TalksL4
Harry Brain (RW)Synthesis and Characterisation of Aluminium, Gallium, and Mixed Aluminium-Gallium Phosphate Zeotypes
Caitlyn Walton (RW, MH)The Synthesis and 119Sn Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Sn(II) Metal-Organic Frameworks
06/06/2025 (W36)Gareth Hart (RW)Synthesis of water electrolysis anode catalysts and testing in catalyst-coated membranesL4
Alexandra Webster-Hirst (SP)Towards Controlled Metal-Organic Framework Formation: Investigating Ligand Substitution in Zinc-Oxo Clusters
13/06/2025 (W37)
No meetingTBCL4
20/06/2025 (W38)
Amina Humayun (SP))Tin precursors for Transparent conducting oxides -synthesis and thermal decomposition of tin oxo clusters.L4
Alexandre Pauletto (RW)Synthesis and Characterisation of Multivariate Halide Double Perovskites.
27/06/2025 (W39)
Xianting Xiao (RW)Synthesis, Characterization of Sn(Ⅱ) Carboxylate Metal Organic Frameworks and Application in Lithium Ion BatteriesL4
Katie Sharrock (SP)Investigating multielectron reduction processes from metal-oxo clusters:
Band gap manipulation and potential applications for small molecule activation.

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  • Group Members
    • Dr Mark Senn
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    • Evie Ladbrook
    • Ben Tragheim
    • Dr Struan Simpson
    • Dr Craig Hiley
    • Matt Edwards
    • Dr Catriona Crawford
    • Dr Robin Sjokvist
    • Dr Cameron Wilson
    • Elizabeth Arnold
    • Jaskaran Mangat
  • Research
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