Michael Huxley was awarded the Stranks Prize of the Inorganic Division of the RACI for the best student presentation at the recent RACI Centenary Conference. Well done Michael! Michael received his award from the division president Phil Andrews at the ACCC-6 dinner.
Rosemary and Oliver from the group presented their posters in the ACCC-6 section of the RACI Centenary Conference in Melbourne. Rosemary presented on her work of silver releasing coordination polymers and Oliver on how particle size and morphology effect catalysis. Well done guys!
Michael doing an excellent job of representing the SumbyDoonan group at RACI centenary conference in the Stranks Award.
Talking about chemoselective reactions in a MOF.
Good luck Michael!
For the next 3+ months we have three international visitors in the lab: Virgil Guillon (University of Rennes 1), Kenji Okada (Osaka Prefecture University) and Eli Sanchez-Gonzalez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico). Welcome guys!
Jesse Teo has received favorable reports for his PhD thesis "Studies of Metal-Organic Polyhedra: Synthesis and Applications in Gas Storage and Separation". Well done Jesse! Jesse has published two excellent papers on MOP chemistry during his PhD including articles on new mixed-metal bimetallic MOPs and MOP-based mixed matrix membranes.
