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ICCC 2026 in Odense

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:44:04 GMT

The Pike group enjoyed a fantastic trip to Denmark for the International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, where Seb was an invited speaker. Great location and exciting science!

Japan-UK Joint Symposium on Coordination Chemistry

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:18:00 GMT

It was an honour to speak at the University of Tokyo as part of the Japan-UK Joint Symposium on Coordination Chemistry.

First prize for Jack at PGR symposium!

Thu, 21 May 2026 09:25:53 GMT

Well done to Jack for winning best talk prize for his talk Tuning the Electronic Structure and Photochemical Properties of Iron(III)-oxo Clusters!

Paper in Nature Communications

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:54:00 GMT

Excited to present Alex's study of thermal transformation of multimetallic molecular precursors into interesting oxide materials in Nature communications.

/news/pressreleases/scientists-uncover-new-inbetween-materials-for-solar-fuels/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71702-7

Welcome Amy

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:43:32 GMT

Amy joins the group for a research project during her undergraduate studies. Amy will be preparing crystals of photoactive metal-oxo clusters for study at Diamond Light Source.

Congratulations Amina!

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:38:34 GMT

Well done to Amina for successfully completing her Master's by Research Degree. We wish you the best of luck in your teaching career!

Ashwani presents at DYME

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:56:13 GMT

Ashwani presented some of his PhD studies at the Dalton Young Members Event 2026. Well done on your first talk at a conference!

Publication in Inorg. Chem. Front.

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:24:40 GMT

Congratulations to Tom and Eniola for their paper recently published in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers!

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/qi/d5qi02443a

Double beamtime at Diamond Light Source

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:43:52 GMT

The Pike group were lucky enought to get beamtime on both I20 and I19 beamlines at Diamond Light Source in February. On I20 we measured HERFD XANES (X-ray spectroscopy) on metal oxide nanoparticles to explore size effects on electronic structure. At I19 we studied photoinduced changes in single crystals of a variety of complexes including Ti-oxo clusters.

Paper featured in Chemical Science "Most Popular Articles 2025: Energy conversion collection"

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:12:23 GMT

Pleased that our work in collaboration with Tam and Kafizas group at Imperial has been featured in Chemical Science "Most Popular Articles 2025: Energy conversion collection"

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=sc&themeid=cae02e68-1c9e-4e1e-8422-521acff2dcab