Birmingham MOFluidics Workshop
Topic: Water Intrusion of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs): Now and the Future
Date & Time: Monday, 12 January 2026, 10:00-16:30
Location: Design Centre (G27), School of Engineering (Y8), University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
Organisers: Yueting Sun, Timothy Easun, Hamish Yeung, Sven Rogge
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About the event:
This in-person event attracted around 60 delegates from Birmingham and across the UK. It featured diversity in terms of disciplines and career stages, with around half from engineering (and applied) disciplines and half from chemistry (and fundamental) disciplines, half independent researchers and half early career researchers (ECR).
This event featured six oral presentation in the morning to share unpublished results to reflect latest development of the field, covering areas including techniques, fundamentals, materials, and applications. Two discussion sessions were held where independent researchers discussed future strategies for developing this field and early career researchers discussed development opportunities on skills, ideas, training, and fundings for ECRs.
After the event, feedback were collected from participants, and we are in the process of writing up a community perspective paper to disseminate the outcome and a collective perspective for this ermeging field.
This emerging community is open to all, and we encourage researchers and potential research users at every career stage to join and share their perspectives. Please feel free to get in touch with Yueting if you see a collaborative opportunity with us.
Programme
The workshop features a morning research showcase and two parallel afternoon discussion sessions for independent researchers and early-career researchers (ECRs).
10:00-10:30
Arrival, Registration, and Networking (Atrium)
Tea & Coffee Available
10:30-11:00
Start (G27)
10:30 Welcome & Housekeeping, Yueting Sun, Timothy Easun, Hamish Yeung, Sven Rogge
10:33 Workshop Introduction, Timothy Easun
10:40 Research Overview, Yueting Sun
11:00-12:55
Research Showcase (G27): Where we are now
Latest unpublished work in fundamentals, techniques, materials, and applications
11:00-11:15 Creating pressurisation techniques for in-situ X-ray characterisations, Ali Siwji (Chair: Alberto Leonardi)
11:15-11:30 Understanding energy absorption at the atomic level: an in-situ X-ray diffraction study, Titas Pramanik (Chair: Hamish Yeung)
11:30-11:50 Bridging the gap with experiments: Modelling forced liquid intrusion across different scales, Jelto Neirynck (Chair: Sven Rogge)
11:50-12:15 Material designs for nanofluidic energy absorption, Xiaochuan (David) Liu (Chair: Timothy Easun)
12:15-12:40 Physical responses and applications of nanoporous liquid intrusion, Hebin Jiang (Chair: Andrea Laybourn)
12:40-12:55 From lab applications to industrial innovations, Stuart James (Chair: Deborah Crawford)
12:55-14:00
Photo and Lunch Break (Atrium)
12:55-13:00 Photo
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00
Discussion Sessions (G27 & 229): What’s in the future
Independent researchers (G27): future strategies
Early-career researchers (229): skills, ideas, training, and funding
Responses, Summary
16:00-16:05
Wrap up (G27)
ECRs move from 229 to G27
16:05-
Optional Informal Follow-up Chats (G27) & Lab Tour (Y3_B11A)
Organisers (Yueting, Tim, Hamish, Sven) are available after the event
Facilities at the Nanoporous Materials & Mechanics Laboratory (Y3_B11A)