October 2024: Andisiwe got an opportunity to attend "NRF Next Generation and Emerging Researchers Symposium 2024" in Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre, Boksburg, South Africa from 23rd to 25th October 2024.
September 2024: Lungelo successfully earned a Master's Degree in Chemistry on September 5, 2024. Congratulations Lungelo!!
September 2024: Kedibone's manuscript has been published in ACS Cryst. Growth Des. Congratulations Kedibone for publishing her first paper. Click the Link below-
July 2024: Nonhlanhla attended the "Young Chemists’ Symposium (YCS) of the South African Chemical Institute (Western Cape) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (South Africa, Southern Section)" held at University of Cape Town on 12th July, 2024. She had the opportunity to present a poster titled "Large Degree of Variation in Sorption Properties within a System of Isorecticular, Mixed Ligand Ni- and Co- Based 2-Periodic Metal-Organic Frameworks.
July 2024: Andisiwe attended the "Young Chemists’ Symposium (YCS) of the South African Chemical Institute (Western Cape) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (South Africa, Southern Section)" held at University of Cape Town on 12th July, 2024. He was got the opportunity to deliver a talk of his research entitled "Solvent-Dependent Metal Organic Frameworks Synthesis and their Gas Sorption Properties".
June 2024: Collaboration work got accepted in CrystEngComm. Congratulations Dr. Nabanita. Link:-
April 2024: Miss Nonhlanhla Baloyi joined the Research Group as PhD student.
January 2024: The "South African Crystallographic Society Symposium" was organized by Assoc. Prof. Clive Oliver (president), together with his colleagues on the executive committee Dr. Vincent Smith (vice-president), Dr. Eustina Batisai (secretary/treasurer) and Dr. Alan Eaby (young crystallographers' reprensentative).
January 2024: Andisiwe secured the 'Best Poster Award' in the PhD student category at 'South African Crystallographic Society (SACrS) Symposium'. Congratulations Andisiwe!! Well done!!
January 2024: Dr. Chiranjib participated in the 'South African Crystallographic Society (SACrS) Symposium' held at Rhodes University, Makhanda from 22nd to 23rd January 2024. At the symposium, He capitalised on the opportunity to present his research with an engaging talk. The title of his presentation was " Synthesis of a Temperature Controlled Non-Interpenetrated and an Interpenetrated Zn(II)-Organic Framework and their Gas Sorption Studies".
January 2024: Andisiwe attended the 'South African Crystallographic Society (SACrS) Symposium' held at Rhodes University, Makhanda from 22nd to 23rd January 2024. He was got the opportunity to present his research work through a Poster Presentation. The title of his poster was "Structural, Liquid, Gas and Vapour Sorption Studies of Flexible Metal-Organic Frameworks".
January 2024: Lungelo attended the 'South African Crystallographic Society (SACrS) Symposium' held at Rhodes University, Makhanda from 22nd to 23rd January 2024. At the symposium, he took advantage of the opportunity to present his research through a poster presentation. The title of his poster was "Investigating Structural, Thermal and Sorption Property Differences Between Entangled and Non-entangled MOFs".
January 2024: Vuyolwethu participated in the 'South African Crystallographic Society (SACrS) Symposium' held at Rhodes University, Makhanda from 22nd to 23rd January 2024. At the symposium, she took advantage of the opportunity to present her research through a poster presentation. The title of her poster was "Crystal Engineering of C-Methylcalix[4]resorcinarene-alcohol Inclusion Complexes".
January 2024: Kedibone participated in the 'South African Crystallographic Society (SACrS) Symposium' held at Rhodes University, Makhanda from 22nd to 23rd January 2024. At the symposium, she had the opprtunity to deliver a talk of her research entitled "Significant Variations in Pore Sizes Induced by Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformations in a System of Isoreticular Co- and Mn-based 2-Periodic Mixed-Ligand Metal-Organic Framework".
December 2023: Nonhlanhla successfully earned a Master's Degree with distinction in Chemistry on December 15, 2023. Congratulations, Nonhlanhla!!
December 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Clive L. Oliver on his promotion to Associate Professor. Well done, Prof. Oliver.
September 2023: Dr. Chiranjib attended the "5th European Conference on Metal Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymer" (EuroMOF) 2023 conference in Granada, Spain from 24th to 27th September. During the event, he had the opportunity to present a poster titled "Synthesis of a Temperature-Controlled Non-Interpenetrated and an Interpenetrated Zn(II)-Organic Framework with Varying Void Spaces."
September 2023: Andisiwe attended the "5th European Conference on Metal Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers" (EuroMOF) 2023 conference in Granada, Spain from 24th to 27th September. During the event, he had the opportunity to present a poster titled "Structural, Liquid, Gas and Vapor Sorption Studies of Flexible Metal-Organic Frameworks".
May 2023: Nonhlanhla's manuscript has been published in ACS Cryst. Growth Des. Congratulations Nonhlanhla for publiching her first paper. Click the Link below-
March 2023: Dr. Clive Oliver has been selected as a "Reviewer of the Month" in the 'Communications Chemistry' Journal.
https://www.nature.com/commschem/referees/outstanding-referees
February 2023: Collaboration work got accepted in Inorg. Chem. Commun. Congratulations Dr. Nabanita. Link-
December 2022: Dr. Martin Thomas, a lead scientist from Anton Paar had been given training on newly installed high pressure sorption equipment.
September 2022: Collaboration work got accepted in the Heliyon. Congratulations to Dr. Nabanita and Marcello. Link-
August 2022: Kedibone went to attend the "33rd European Crystallographic Meeting" (ECM33) in Versailles, France from 23rd to 27th Auguest, 2022. She was got the opportunity to present her research work through a Poster Presentation. The entitle of her poster was " Mixed-Ligand Metal-Organic Frameworks Incorporating Rigid and Flexible Linkers".
July 2022: Dr. Nabanita delivered oral presentation on her reserach work at "2nd International Conference on Noncovalent Interations" (ICNI-2022), organized at the central campus of the University of Strasbourg, France from 18th to 22nd July 2022. The entitle of the talk was "Substantial Impact of Ligated Solvents on the Degree of Interpenetration that Controls the Carbon Dioxide and Water Sorption Hysteretic Behavior in a System of Isoreticular MOFs".
February 2022: Dr. Nabanita's manuscript has been published in the ACS Inorg. Chem. Congratulations Dr. Nabanita. Link- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03489
February 2022: Mr. Andisiwe Mafika joined the Research Group as PhD student.
December 2021: Collaboration work got accepted in the Chemosensors. Congratulations Dr. Nabanita. Link-
December 2021: Dr. Chiranjib Gogoi joined the Research Group as NRF Post-Doctoral Fellow.
September 2021: Collaboration work got accepted in the CrystEngComm. Congratulations Dr. Nabanita. Link-
August 2020: Nolwazi's manuscript has been published in ACS Inorg. Chem. Congratulations Nolwazi. Link- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01533