A national meeting bringing together researchers from the functional dense metal-organic frameworks (FunDeMOF) community was hosted in April 2024 at the University of Kent. The meeting was over two days and included talks and posters from across career stages (including from me). The success of the meeting highlights the growing interest in the field of dense metal-organic frameworks. Read more here.

One of my recent projects involved investigating a small family of new perovskite materials under pressure. We used in situ single crystal diffraction on the I19 Beamline at Diamond Light Source. We found that one of the two systems behaved rather strangely – one expanded in one direction while reducing in overall volume from ambient to increasing pressure. This is the first example of a hybrid perovskite showing this behaviour, explore how and why by reading our open access article in ChemComm.

Check out the recent journal covers I’ve made. Check out the published version here with links to the article.