Check out the “Women in Chemistry II” special double issue of the Australian Journal of Chemistry, co-edited by A/Prof Colette Boskovic and Dr Georgina Such and featuring a foreword by Professor Emeritus Frances Separovic.
This special joint issue contains a collection of papers contributed by women chemists from around Australia. It showcases their achievements and recognises the broad impact women have on chemistry and its related sciences.
Congratulations to Colette, who has just been elected as a Fellow (FRACI CChem) of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
We’re delighted to welcome Jett Janetzki back to the group for a PhD. Jett will be investigating some novel switchable materials and making good use of the new group glovebox.
Congratulations to Gemma, Jett and Moya on the publication of their paper “Understanding the Origin of One- or Two-Step Valence Tautomeric Transitions in Bis(dioxolene)-Bridged Dinuclear Cobalt Complexes” in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Performed in collaboration with Alyona Starikova from the Southern Federal University in Russia and Matt Shores from Colorado State University, this experimental and theoretical study elucidates the molecular requirements for a complex with two bridged cobalt ions to exhibit distinct redox interconversions at each metal site. The right choice of metal coordination environment and a redox-active bridging ligand with small, but non-zero, intramolecular electronic communication, affords molecules that can be switched between three distinguishable states. This discovery has far-reaching future prospects for molecular materials with applications ranging from sensing and display devices to quantum computing, molecular electronics, and molecular spintronics.
Congratulations to Jett on receiving the runner-up award for best oral presentation at the 2019 RACI Victorian Inorganic Postgraduate Symposium.
Congratulations Gemma on your PhD graduation!
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Congratulations to Jett Janetzki who has just completed his MSc(Chemistry) with First Class Honours. Jett’s major thesis was titled “Cobalt complexes with redox-active ligands: switchable magnetic materials”.
Congratulations to Will and Maja on the publication of their paper “Tetraoxolene-bridged rare-earth complexes: a radical-bridged dinuclear Dy single-molecule magnet”, in a special issue of Dalton Transactions celebrating the 60th birthday of Prof Annie Powell. This work was performed in collaboration with Richard Mole and Keith Murray.
Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
Metal-Based Molecular Materials From Electronic Structure to Functionality
This project aims to develop and explore new metal-based molecular materials, focusing on molecules that can act as magnets or be switched between multiple states by heating/cooling. This project expects to deliver an improved understanding of how the molecular electronic structure engenders desired physical properties in the target species. This insight will allow development of design principles for robust systems for nanodevices or advanced materials. As well as achieving important advances in fundamental chemistry, this project is anticipated to help lay the foundations for development of novel materials for high density data storage, quantum computing, molecular electronics/spintronics, optical displays or temperature/solvent sensors.
2019-2023
Colette has just accepted an invitation to speak at the Asian Conference on Molecular Magnetism, ACMM2020, to be held in Fukuoka, Japan, March 8-11, 2020.
