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 2020/2021| Term | Date | Speaker/s | Seminar Title | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term 1 | 16/10/2020 (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 |
| Dr. Jere Tidey (SG) | Crystallographic Analysis of LESCO(1/8) | |||
| 30/10/2020 (W4) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Sam Curley (GG) | Pressure Evolution of a Symmetry-Broken S = 1/2 Dimer Magnet | Teams | |
| James Crosland (WG) | Zirconium Clusters in Aqueous Solution as used as Precursors to Zirconia | |||
| 13/11/2020 (W6) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Tobie Bird (SG) | Extracting Lattice Dynamics from Powder Diffraction | Teams | |
| Aron Summer (WG) | Atomic Scale Deviants | |||
| 27/11/2020 (W8) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Tom Chamberlain (WG) | Synthesis and Applications of Hydrothermally Stable Metal-organic Frameworks | Teams | |
| Lu Jia (WG) | Hydrothermal Synthesis and Study of Rare-earth Orthoferrites | |||
| 11/12/2020 (W10) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Gabriel Clarke (SG) | An in situ experiment to investigate switching in a hybrid improper ferroelectric | Teams | |
| Evé Wheeler-Jones (WG) | Niobium Pentoxide Materials for Fast Charging Anodes in Batteries | |||
| Christmas Break | ||||
| Term 2 | 22/01/2021 (W2) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Dr. Bora Karasulu | First-Principles Modelling of All-Solid-State Battery (ASSB) Materials | Teams |
| 05/02/2021 (W4) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | James Annis (WG) | Nanocrystalline Cerium Germanates for use as Oxygen Storage Materials | Teams | |
| 19/02/2021 (W6) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Anna Herlihy (SG) | Hydrostatic high-pressure total scattering on PEARL | Teams | |
| Katie Everden (WG) | Ti and Sn-based Metal-organic Frameworks for Catalysis | |||
| 05/03/2021 (W8) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Ehsan Ezzatpour Ghadim (WG) | Photocatalytic activity of MTV-MOFs structures | Teams | |
| Will Lima da Silva (WG) | Synthesis of novel niobium based materials for energy storage - a short story from Mn to Fe columbite | |||
| 19/03/2021 (W10) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Alexandru Tanase (WG) | Solution-based synthesis of niobium oxides for catalysis and battery applications | Teams | |
| Matt Pearce (GG) | Magnetic monopole density and antiferromagnetic domain control in spin-ice iridates | |||
| Easter Break | ||||
| Term 3 | 07/05/2021 (W2) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Baiwen Zhao (WG) | Investigation of the synthesis of mixed-metal cerium/zirconium UiO-66 | Teams |
| Joe Gregory (WG) | Plasma-Plasmon Interactions for Small Molecule Activation | |||
| 21/05/2021 (W4) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Alex Longcake (SG) | : The solid-state chemistry of rhodium(I) pincer complexes under extreme conditions | Teams | |
| Mark Crossman (WG) | Developing a Solvothermal Reaction Cell for in-situ Neutron Scattering of Crystallisation | |||
| 04/06/2021 (W6) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Alex Veale (PG) | Photoredox Reactivity of Titanium-Oxo Clusters | Teams | |
| Bart Payne (WG) | Hydrothermal Synthesis of Iron Niobium Oxyfluorides for Use in Battery Applications. | |||
| 18/06/2021 (W8) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Dash Beqiri (SG) | Soft mode engineering in Ruddlesden-Popper oxides | Teams | |
| Jasmine Clayton(WG) | Synthesis of Acid Resilient Catalyst Supports and OER Catalysts | |||
| Stephen Brown (PG) | Cerium alkoxides as reactive precursors for cerium-oxo clusters | |||
| 02/07/2021 (W10) 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Katie Pickering (WG) | Magnesium Chemistry – From Reactive Precursors to Synthetic Minerals | Teams | |
| Satarupa Das (WG) | Design, Synthesis and Sustainable applications of FDCA-based Metal organic frameworks | Teams | ||
| Tom Barnes (PG) | The Synthesis and Structure of Copper(II)-oxo Clusters | |||