Celebrating success – RSC poster competition winners announced

The winners of the RSC Porous Materials Group Poster Conference 2020, sponsored by Hiden Isochema, have been announced. The Twitter-based competition reached impressive levels of participation, with entries from over 30 countries.

Thanks to everyone who took part in #RSCPMGPoster, either as an participant, judge, organiser, or just someone who was interested in the science. It’s amazing to see the brilliant and varied porous materials research out there. Please keep this going over the weekend and beyond.

— Jamie Gould (@JamieAGould) July 24, 2020

It has been amazing today to see all the contributors involved in #RSCPMGPoster. Even in these strange times, our community is coming together to share their findings and help build each other up. And it has all been done by our amazing volunteers! #sharingiscaring

— Gareth Davies CChem MRSC (@MembershipGD) July 23, 2020

The RSC Porous Materials Group Poster Conference is happening right now! 🎉 Check out all the posters today and tomorrow at #RSCPMGPoster 🕵️‍♀️ Make sure to keep an eye on @RSC_PorMat for updates throughout 23 – 24 July

— Chemical Science (@ChemicalScience) July 23, 2020

Congratulations to the following well-deserved prize winners. You can view their entries below by clicking on the poster titles:

Efficient capture of toxic oxo-anions of Se(VI) and As(V) accompanied with direct crystallographic evidence in a water-stable cationic MOF
Shivani Sharma, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
(1st Prize – £150 from Hiden Isochema)

Self-assembly of nanoparticles in emulsion: A green approach to produce tuneable silica composites
David Brossault, University of Cambridge, UK
(£100 from RSC journal Molecular Systems Design & Engineering)

Low-field NMR relaxation exchange measurements for the study of gas admission in microporous solids
Neil Robinson, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
(£100 from Hiden Isochema)

Revealing the drug release from MOF nanocomposites (in situ)
Barbara Souza, University of Oxford, UK
(£100 from Hiden Isochema)

Guest-mediated flexibility in a pillared-layered MOF
Gemma Turner, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
(£50 from Hiden Isochema)

H-bonds and redox reactions make CO₂(OH)₂BBTA the first extended framework with a negative cooperativity behavior for O₂
Jenny Vitillo, University of Insubria, Italy
(£50 from Hiden Isochema)

Three-Dimensional Electron Diffraction (3DED) for structural elucidation of porous nanocrystals
Zhehao Huang, Stockholm University, Sweden
(£50 from Hiden Isochema)

Ultramicropores in carbons made from cigarette butts might improve CO₂ capacity
Scott Blankenship, University of Nottingham, UK
(£50 RSC book voucher from RSC journal Molecular Systems Design & Engineering)

Photochemistry of a carbon monoxide releasing MOF
Rosemary Young, University of Nottingham, UK
(£50 RSC book voucher from RSC journal Molecular Systems Design & Engineering)