Congratulations to Boskovic Group MSc student Aiden Atkin on the award of an Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Honours Scholarship for his project “Inelastic Neutron Scattering of Lanthanoid Complexes”.
Aiden has received $5,000 to provide financial support while he undertakes his research using the PELICAN neutron spectrometer at the OPAL Research Reactor at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in Lucas Heights.
Congratulations to Olga Drath on successfully completing all the requirements for her PhD degree. Her thesis is titled “Valence tautomerism and spin-crossover in switchable cobalt coordination polymer
We’re very pleased to welcome Maja Dunstan back to the group for a PhD looking at INS of lanthanoid single-molecule magnets.
It was all smiles at the inaugural MolMagMel meeting on Friday, as students and staff from Monash, Melbourne and ANSTO gathered to discuss topics ranging from neutron scattering to spin crossover to molecular spintronics. Hopefully, this will become a regular event.
The Boskovic Group welcomes new MSc student Jett Janetzki. We are looking forward to an enjoyable and productive next couple of years.
Congratulations to Olga on the publication of the review article:
“Switchable cobalt coordination polymers: Spin crossover and valence tautomerism” in Coordination Chemistry Reviews
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2017.11.025
This review will be part of the forthcoming special Austalian edition edited by Peter Junk.
Congratulations to Gemma for being awarded the runner-up prize for best oral presentation at the RACI Victorian Inorganic Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium for her talk:
“Elucidation of the magnetic exchange in a low-symmetry cobalt-dioxolene
complex”
Colette accompanied Professor Eugenio Coronado (University of Valencia) to the 2017 ceremony for the presentation of the Rei Jaume I Research Awards in Valencia. The awards were presented by the Queen of Spain.
Colette is on sabbatical for 3 months as a Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona, where she is hosted by Professors Guillem Aromí and Carolina Sañudo in the “Grup de magnetisme i molecules functionals” .
A review entitled “Rare Earth Polyoxometalates” has just been published in the prestigious American Chemical Society journal Accounts of Chemical Research (Acc. Chem. Res. 2017, 50, doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00197). This article reviews all of the past research from the group in this field, with a particular focus on chemical and physical properties for future applications.
