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| Term | Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar Title | Room |
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| Term 1 | 10/10/2024 (W2) 11:00 - 12:00 | P.I. Introductions | Short 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)Fluorides | R0.12 | |
| Stephen Brown (SP) | Cerium-oxo Clusters as Soluble precursors for ceria materials |
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| 01/11/2024 (W5) 14:00 - 15:00 | Guest speaker: Javier Castells-Gil, University of Birmingham | Structural studies on Li-ion battery cation-disordered electrodes | R1.13 | |
| 14/11/2024 (W7) 11:00 - 12:00 | Ben Tragheim (MS) | Charge and Orbital Order in Novel Na-Doped Hg Quadruple Perovskites | R0.12 | |
| 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 BaTiO3 | R0.12 | |
| 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 frameworks | L4 | |
| Term 2 | 10/01/2025 (W15) 10:00 - 11:00 | Katie Pickering (RW) | Synthesis and Characterisation of Magnesium Hydroxide Based Materials with Anisotropic Morphologies | L4 |
| 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 Ca0.4Sr0.6TiO3 | L4 | |
| 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 Media | L4 | |
| 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 Splitting | L4 | |
| 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 3 | 02/05/2025 (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 meeting | TBC | L4 | |
| 16/05/2025 (W33) | Jaskaran Mangat (MS) | TBC | L4 | |
| Evie Ladbrook (MS) | TBC | |||
| 23/05/2025 (W34) | Callum Rosenburg (SP) | TBC | L4 | |
| Elizabeth Arnold (MS) | TBC | |||
| 30/05/2025 (W35) | Mchem Talks | TBC | L4 | |
| 06/06/2025 (W36) | Gareth Hart (RW) | TBC | L4 | |
| Alexandra Webster-Hirst (SP) | TBC | |||
| 13/06/2025 (W37) | Prashik Gaikwad (BK) | TBC | L4 | |
| Helena Loan (MH) | TBC | |||
| 20/06/2025 (W38) | Amina Humayun (SP)) | TBC | L4 | |
| Alexandre Pauletto (RW) | TBC | |||
| 27/06/2025 (W39) | Xiaoting Xiao (RW) | TBC | L4 | |
| Katie Sharrock (SP) | TBC | |||