Inorganic Chemistry Seminar: Professor Andrew Goodwin, Oxford University
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About the Seminar
"Correlated Disorder by Design"
All materials are disordered at finite temperature. Sometimes disorder is random; more frequently it’s not. We are interested in cases where the deviations away from order, and away from randomness, are crucial for material function. This talk will cover some of the key experimental, computational, and conceptual tools for characterising and understanding this 'correlated disorder'. Through examples of Prussian blue analogues, amorphous calcium carbonate, and metal–organic frameworks, it will explore different possibilities for chemical control over correlated disorder. The talk will conclude with a discussion of the information content of such systems and the potential applications in information storage and processing.
About the Speaker
Andrew Goodwin is Professor of Materials Chemistry and a University Research Fellow at Oxford. Born in Australia, he studied at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge, obtaining a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the former and then a PhD in Mineral Physics from the latter. Following a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, Andrew was appointed to Oxford's Chemistry Faculty in 2009.
He was the UK's first Blavatnik Laureate in Chemistry, is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was recently awarded an £8M Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship – the largest single-PI award in the country.
Host: Hema Karunadasa
This seminar is supported by the William S. Johnson endowment honoring this esteemed chemist, who made significant contributions in the areas of synthetic and bioorganic chemistry.