Joint group meetings are held with the Walton Group on alternate weeks during term time.
Please email your talk titles to Jere Tidey at least a week before your talk so that the program can be updated.
Solid State Group Meetings
Academic Year 2021/2022| Term | Date | Speaker/s | Seminar Title | Room |
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| Term 1 | 15/10/2021 (W2) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | P.I. Introductions | Short talks from the P.I.s to introduce the work undertaken in each group. | Teams |
| 29/10/2021 (W4) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Dr. Kathrin Gotze (PG) | The unusual phase diagram of the skutterudite CeOs4Sb12 | Teams | |
| James Annis (RW) | Hydrothermal Synthesis of Cerium-Based Materials for use as Oxygen Storage Compounds | |||
| 12/11/2021 (W6) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Ehsan Ezzatpour Ghadim (RW) | The use of patch clamp technique on MOFs' characterisation | Teams | |
| Anna Herlihy (MS) | Pressure-induced suppression of the order-disorder nature of BaTiO3 | |||
| 26/11/2021 (W8) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Will Lima da Silva (RW) | Novel Nb-based Oxides for Li-ion Batteries as Negative and Positive Electrodes | Teams | |
| Alexandru Tanase (RW) | Solution-based synthesis of niobium oxides for catalysis | |||
| 10/12/2021 (W10) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Katie Everden (RW) | Metal-organic Frameworks for CO2 conversion | Teams | |
| Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty (BK) | Computational Materials Design using First-Principles based Techniques: Application to shape memory alloys, cathode materials, alloy catalysts | |||
| Christmas Break | ||||
| Term 2 | 21/01/2022 (W2) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Alex Longcake (MS/AC) | The solid-state chemistry of rhodium(I) pincer complexes under extreme conditions | Teams |
| Jasmine Clayton (RW) | Synthesis of Acid Resilient Catalyst Supports and OER Catalysts | |||
| 04/02/2022 (W4) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Baiwen Zhao (RW) | Investigation of the synthesis of cerium-based UiO-66 | Teams | |
| Dash Beqiri (MS) | Engineering soft modes in Layered Perovskites | |||
| 18/02/2022 (W6) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Joe Gregory (RW) | Plasma-Plasmonic Interaction for CO2 Conversion Towards Solar Fuels | Teams | |
| Mark Crossman (RW) | Developing a Solvothermal Reaction Cell for in-situ Neutron Scattering of Crystallisation |
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| 04/03/2022 (W8) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Stephen Brown (SP) | Cerium-Oxo Clusters as Molecular Models: Synthesis and Characterisation | Teams | |
| Katie Pickering (RW) | Magnesium Chemistry from reactive precursors to synthetic materials | |||
| 18/03/2022 (W10) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Tom Barnes (SP) | Developing a Rational Route for the Synthesis of Cu(II)-oxo clusters | Teams | |
| Baiwen Zhao (RW) | Investigation of the synthesis of cerium-based UiO-66 | |||
| Easter Break | ||||
| Term 3 | 06/05/2022 (W2) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Satarupa Das (RW) | Non-redox CO2-fixation in Green, Solvent-free Conditions Using a Lewis Acid MOF Constructed from a Sustainably-Sourced Ligand | L4 - Science |
| James Coe (RW) | Investigation into the effects of additives on Gypsum crystallisation | |||
| 20/05/2022 (W4) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Jacob Oyarzabal (RW) | Characterisation of Materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis Using Advanced Analytical Techniques | L4 - Science | |
| Ben Tragheim (MS) | Interplay of Jahn-Teller distortions and structural degrees of freedom in LaMn1-xGaxO3 | |||
| 27/05/2022 (W5) 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | MChem Talks | (tbc) | L4 - Science | |
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| 17/06/2022 (W8) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Ben Saunders (BK) | (tbc) | L4 - Science | |
| Nicole Mitchell (RW) | (tbc) | |||
| 01/07/2022 (W10) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Shroya Vaidya (PG) | (tbc) | L4 - Science | |
| Dr. Yongzhang Zhao (RW) | (tbc) | |||