Alexis Munn, a third year PhD student in the group of Richard Walton, was awarded the Chemical Crystallography group (CCG) prize for her poster “New flexible MIL-53 MOFs’ at the British Crystallographic Association spring meeting, held at the University of Warwick in April.

This work forms part of a project funded by an EU FP7 project MACADEMIA, in which metal-organic framework materials are being investigated for their practical applications and potential industrial uses.