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This week, the ILL celebrated a very special birthday – 50 years since the reactor started running. To celebrate, a full program from current and past staff was shared with the whole staff on Thursday at the World Trade Centre in Grenoble. The final session was dedicated to the ILL’s science output, including a veryContinue reading “Jen Presents at the ILL’s 50 Years of Neutrons!”

Our latest paper from our group is out now in Chem Mater! This work, led by Sam, but including many other group members (Kate, Aly, Tristan and Otto) focuses on our work on kagome MOFs. Here, we characterise the chemical and magnetic properties of 4 MOFs using a combination of single crystal and powder diffraction,Continue reading “New Paper in Chem Mater!”

Every year all the ILL PhD students gather for their annual clip show. Each student gets only 4 minutes to explain their thesis – a challenging task! The directors and heads of the graduate school then pick a winner from each year. This year, Jen decided to tell the story of her favourite material andContinue reading “Jen Wins the ILL Clip Show!”

We are thrilled that Lucy has won this years RSC Materials Chemistry Division Early Career Award for outstanding contributions to the discovery, characterisation and understanding of quantum magnets! Also from the Chemistry department at Birmingham was Prof. Andrew Dove who won the Corday-Morgan Prize for brilliance in research and innovation. Congratulations Lucy!

Sam was recently invited to give a talk at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source’s Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting. Talks covered a diverse range of current research in the field of magnetism, with the title of Sam’s talk being “Realisations of the S = 1/2 kagome ferromagnet in coordination frameworks.” He really enjoyed theContinue reading “Sam gives a talk at TEMM 2022”

After nearly two years of the pandemic, we are finally getting back to doing experiments as a group, and we’ve done quite a few over the past month! Firstly, Grady got the opportunity to go to Grenoble to join Jen on an experiment on the ID22 beamline at ESRF. This is our groups second visitContinue reading “Back to in person experiments!”

A momentous week for the group as our shiny new Quantum Design MPMS3 instrument was installed. Quantum Design’s MPMS3 is a SQUID magnetometer for magnetic property measurements of materials. Our system has a wide range for measurement capability, with high and low temperature, high pressure, ultra-low field and electric transport options available. This exciting newContinue reading “Midlands Mag-Lab Up and Running!”

Today, Aly had the opportunity to present a seminar at the School of Physics Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Series, here at the University of Birmingham. Aly gave a great talk, which included an overview of his work into frustrated magnets across dimensions, and how this can affect the magnetic ground state. Thanks to everyone thatContinue reading “Aly Presents at the Condensed Matter Physics Seminars”

Today, Jen had the opportunity to present some of her latest work to the wider materials chemistry section at Birmingham via their dedicated seminar series. Jen presented an overview to our groups research and then a case study of how we can use neutrons to explore the local and average magnetic structure of materials. TheContinue reading “Jen Presents her Birmingham Materials Chemistry Seminar”

Tristan and Grady got the opportunity to attend the ISIS student conference this week in Oxford. The conference was a lot of fun and it was great to actually engage with other humans in person as opposed to virtually. Upon arrival, they both took a tour of the ISIS facility including the multiple coloured beamlines suitableContinue reading “Tristan and Grady Attend the 2021 ISIS Student Meeting”