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First prize for Jack at PGR symposium!

Thu, 21 May 2026 09:25:53 GMT

Well done to Jack for winning best talk prize for his talk Tuning the Electronic Structure and Photochemical Properties of Iron(III)-oxo Clusters!

Paper in Nature Communications

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:54:00 GMT

Excited to present Alex's study of thermal transformation of multimetallic molecular precursors into interesting oxide materials in Nature communications.

/news/pressreleases/scientists-uncover-new-inbetween-materials-for-solar-fuels/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71702-7

Welcome Amy

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:43:32 GMT

Amy joins the group for a research project during her undergraduate studies. Amy will be preparing crystals of photoactive metal-oxo clusters for study at Diamond Light Source.

Congratulations Amina!

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:38:34 GMT

Well done to Amina for successfully completing her Master's by Research Degree. We wish you the best of luck in your teaching career!

Ashwani presents at DYME

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:56:13 GMT

Ashwani presented some of his PhD studies at the Dalton Young Members Event 2026. Well done on your first talk at a conference!

Publication in Inorg. Chem. Front.

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:24:40 GMT

Congratulations to Tom and Eniola for their paper recently published in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers!

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/qi/d5qi02443a

Double beamtime at Diamond Light Source

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:43:52 GMT

The Pike group were lucky enought to get beamtime on both I20 and I19 beamlines at Diamond Light Source in February. On I20 we measured HERFD XANES (X-ray spectroscopy) on metal oxide nanoparticles to explore size effects on electronic structure. At I19 we studied photoinduced changes in single crystals of a variety of complexes including Ti-oxo clusters.

Paper featured in Chemical Science "Most Popular Articles 2025: Energy conversion collection"

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:12:23 GMT

Pleased that our work in collaboration with Tam and Kafizas group at Imperial has been featured in Chemical Science "Most Popular Articles 2025: Energy conversion collection"

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=sc&themeid=cae02e68-1c9e-4e1e-8422-521acff2dcab

Ashwani's paper published in Chem Sci!

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:04:53 GMT

Congratulations to Ashwani, Alex and team for a exciting publication in Chemical Science! Very excited to see this project completed!

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d5sc08522e

PhD opportunity with CENTA

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:22:25 GMT

New opportunity for a PhD studentship through the CENTA doctoral training school. This project will explore the decomposition of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide using Earth abundant titanium based photocatalysts. This exciting project is joint between the Pike and Chaplin groups at 91��. Please contact Seb or Adrian for further details. https://centa.ac.uk/studentship/2026-w08-titanium-catalysed-photochemical-decomposition-of-nitrous-oxide/