November 2012: Keynote lecture "Computational Modelling of Carbon Dioxide Uptake in Metal-Organic Frameworks" at the launch of the Shanghai Nottingham Advanced Academy (SNAA), Shanghai, China
September 2012: Invited talk "Electrostatic Interactions at the Nanoscale" at the TACC-2012 "Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry" conference, Pavia, Italy
August 2012: Elena Bichoutskaia awarded an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant (ERC Starting Grant). Elena will use the award to expand her existing research team to study fundamental interactions at the nanometre scale
June 2012: 2nd year PhD student Evgeniya Volkova wins a poster prize at the Posgraduate Research Day 2012. Well done, Evgeniya!
June 2012: Paper published in Nature Materials (11, 710, 2012) on the development of a partially interpenetrated metal-organic framework for selective hysteretic sorption of carbon dioxide. The research findings of the paper have been covered by the BBC. See the BBC front page
May 2012: New Directions for EPSRC Research Leaders award
April 2012: Paper published in ACS Nano (6, 3943, 2012) on templating the assembly of sulfur-terminated graphene nanoribbons inside carbon nanotubes
March 2012: 4th year project student Kasia Koziara is presenting her reaserch project at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research held at the University of Warwick 19th-20th March 2012
February 2012: Invited research seminar "New Theoretical Approach to Studying the Interactions between Charged Dielectric Particles and its Applications",
School of Chemistry, University of Manchester
January 2012: Paper published in JACS (134, 3073, 2012) highlighting the marked differences in reactivity of W, Re and Os clusters towards carbon nanotubes
