Matthew works with MOF (metal organic framework) crystals, specialised materials that have an amazing diversity of industrial applications in food production, transport, pollution control, natural gas separation and mineral processing. Matthew and his colleagues at CSIRO use three main techniques at the Australian Synchrotron: powder diffraction, x-ray crystallography and small angle x-ray scattering.
More MOF links
Solar sponge MOFs
Big on the inside: the power of metal-organic frameworks
Young Tall (synchrotron) Poppies
A ray of sunshine for molecular device fabrication
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