Damien recently academically qualified for his PhD with his thesis "Metal-Organic Frameworks Containing Dihydroxy Motifs: Control of Phase Formation and Pore Environments".

Damien published four papers during his candidature and contibuted to several others.

  • Rankine, D., Keene, T. D., Doonan, C. J., & Sumby, C. J. (2014). Reprogramming kinetic phase control and tailoring pore environments in Coᴵᴵ and Znᴵᴵ metal-organic frameworks. Crystal Growth and Design, 14(11), 5710-5718. doi:10.1021/cg500978s
  • Rankine, D., Keene, T., Sumby, C., & Doonan, C. (2013). Chelation-driven fluorescence deactivation in three alkali earth metal MOFs containing 2,2’-dihydroxybiphenyl-4,4’-dicarboxylate. Crystengcomm, 15(45), 9722-9728. doi:10.1039/C3CE41253A
  • Keene, T., Rankine, D., Evans, J., Southon, P., Kepert, C., Aitken, J., . . . Doonan, C. (2013). Solvent-modified dynamic porosity in chiral 3D kagome frameworks. Dalton Transactions (Print Edition), 42(22), 7871-7879. doi:10.1039/c3dt00096f
  • Rankine, D., Avellaneda, A., Hill, M. R., Doonan, C. J. and Sumby, C. J. (2012). Control of framework interpenetration for in situ modified hydroxyl functionalised IRMOFs.  Chemical Communications 48 (83), 10328-10330. doi: 10.1039/C2CC35565E

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Rosemary Young and Oliver Linder-Patton completed their Honours projects recently achieving 1st class Honours grades.  Rosemary's thesis was on the 'Effects of Structural Variation on the Antibacterial Properties of Silver Coordination Polymers', while Oliver studied 'Particle Size Effects in Flexible Crystalline Frameworks'.  Congratulations!

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To welcome our visitors from Dusseldorf (Prof. Christoph Janiak) and Leuven (Niels Houthuys) we took a bus trip to the beautiful Adelaide Hills with lunch at the Lobethal Bierhaus, beer tasting at the Prancing Pony brewery and wine tasting at Barristers Block.

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