Joint meetings are held on alternative weeks with groups working in solid-state chemistry at the University of Warwick.
Please email your talk titles to Struan Simpson at least a week before your talk so that the programme can be updated.
Solid State Group Meetings
Academic Year 2022/2023| Term | Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar Title | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term 1 | 14/10/2022 (W2) 11:00 - 12:00 | P.I. Introductions | Short talks from the P.I.s to introduce the work undertaken in each group. | L5, Science Concourse |
| 28/10/2022 (W4) 11:00 - 12:00 | Struan Simpson (MS) | Chemically navigating new quantum materials | L5, Science Concourse | |
| Alexandru Tanase (RW) | Solution-based synthesis of niobium oxides for catalysis | |||
| 04/11/2022 (W5) 11:00 - 12:00 | Guest speaker: Taylor Sparks | Materials informatics: Moving beyond screening via generative machine learning models | L5, Science Concourse | |
| 11/11/2022 (W6) 11:00 - 12:00 | Baiwen Zhao (RW) | Investigation of the synthesis of cerium-based UiO-66 | L5, Science Concourse | |
| Wilgner Lima de Silva (RW) | Synthesis of Novel Nb-based Oxides as Li Hosts | |||
| 25/11/2022 (W8) 11:00 - 12:00 | Jasmine Clayton (RW) | Synthesis of Catalyst Supports and OER Catalysts | L5, Science Concourse | |
| Ananthu Rajan (SP) | Synthesis, structure and applications of metal-oxo clusters | |||
| 09/12/2022 (W10) 11:00 - 12:00 | James Annis (RW) | An in-situ neutron diffraction study of the reduction of CeGeO4 | L5, Science Concourse | |
| Jere Tidey (MS) | Structural Investigation of Filled Tetragonal Tungsten Bronze, Sr2NaNb5O15 | |||
| Christmas Break | ||||
| Term 2 | 20/01/2023 (W2) 11:00 - 12:00 | Stephen Brown (SP) | Metal-oxo Clusters and Single Crystal to Single Crystal Photochemical Transformations | L3, Science Concourse |
| Craig Hiley (RW/MS) | Solution synthesis of metal (hydroxy)fluorides | |||
| 03/02/2023 (W4) 11:00 - 12:00 | Dashnor Beqiri (MS) | Structure and dynamics of the n = 1 Ca2Mn1-xTixO4 (0 < x < 0.65) Ruddlesden-Popper series | L3, Science Concourse | |
| Satarupa Das (RW) | Production of FDCA using Fe-grafted MOF constructed from a sustainably sourced ligand | |||
| 10/02/2023 (W5) 11:00 - 12:00 | Guest speaker: Louis Piper | How Goodenough is the Ionic approximation of redox in layered oxide Li-ion battery cathodes | L3, Science Concourse | |
| 17/02/2023 (W6) 11:00 - 12:00 | Ehsan Gadim (RW) | Rapid Synthesis precipitation to produce metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) | L3, Science Concourse | |
| James Coe (RW) | Understanding the Mechanism of Fluidiser Action in Hydration of Plaster to Gypsum | |||
| 03/03/2023 (W8) 11:00 - 12:00 | Katie Pickering (RW) | The controlled synthesis of nano-Mg(OH)2 targeting anisotropic shapes | L3, Science Concourse | |
| Tanmoy Chakraborty (BK) | Predicting promising materials for all solid-state batteries through atomistic modeling | |||
| 10/03/2023 (W9) 11:00 - 12:00 | Mark Crossman (RW) | Developing a Solvothermal Reaction Cell for in-situ Neutron Scattering of Crystallisation | L3, Science Concourse | |
| Ben Tragheim (MS) | Interplay of Jahn-Teller Distortions, Orbital Order and Structural Degrees of Freedom in LaMn1-xGaxO3 | |||
| 17/03/2023 (W10) 11:00 - 12:00 | Guest speaker: Jamie Neilson | Organic cation dynamics in hybrid halide semiconductors | L3, Science Concourse | |
| Easter Break | ||||
| Term 3 | 12/05/2023 (W3) 11:00 - 12:00 | Catriona Crawford (MS/RW) | Magnetic properties of NiOHF Diaspore | L5, Science Concourse |
| Kayleigh Skidmore (RW) | Operando Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis in Acidic Media | |||
| 26/05/2023 (W5) 11:00 - 12:00 | Avneet Ramana (RW) | Stabilsing tin perovskites within Metal-organic Frameworks | L5, Science Concourse | |
| Sener Sen (BK) | Design of radiation damage tolerant Zr-Nb nanoscale metallic multilayer composite | |||
| 02/06/2023 (W6) 11:00 - 12:00 | MChem Talks | Jack Beall: Exploring mechanochemical routes to photoactive titanium metal-organic frameworks Benjamin Moore: Synthesis and Characterisation of Co and Mo containing materials for the photocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction Zhi Yang Lee: The Effect of Variance on the Phase Transitions & Thermal Conductivity of Ca(1-x-y)Sr(x)Ba(y)TiO3 Perovskites | L5, Science Concourse | |
| 16/06/2023 (W7) 11:00 - 12:00 | Tom Barnes (SP) | Synthesis of Cu(II)-oxo Clusters and the Effect of Size on a Visible-light absorption | L5, Science Concourse | |
| Joe Gregory (RW) | Ir/TiO2 thin films for the catalysis of plasma-phase CO2 hydrogenation | |||
| 23/06/2023 (W8) 11:00 - 12:00 | Evie Ladbrook (MS) | Discovering domain structure by diffraction resolved tomography | L5, Science Concourse | |
| Alex Hands (SP) | Investigating the transformation of molecular precursors to extended materials | |||
| 30/06/2023 (W10) 11:00 - 12:00 | Gla Sinted (RW) | TBC | L5, Science Concourse | |
| Ben Saunders (BK) | TBC | |||
| 14/07/2023 (W12) 11:00 - 12:00 | Jacob Oyarzabal (RW) | TBC | PS1.28 (TBC) | |
| Matt Edwards (MS) | TBC | |||