09:00-10:00 - Sofia Calero - Bridging simulation and reality: in silico-designed porous materials for sustainable energy and environment (Keynote 5)

10:00-10:20 - Jonathan Keys - Exploiting 17O solid-state NMR spectroscopy of catalysts and porous solids

10:20-10:40 - Kewei Zhu - Large language model-enabled generative design of Metal-Organic Frameworks: automated candidate identification and CIF file generation

10:40-11:10 - Coffee break

11:10-11:30 - Jun Xian Yap - Investigating the origins of zeolite fluorescence

11:30-11:50 - Tahmid Choudhury - Quantitative electron microscopy of zeolites using aberration corrected (S)TEM and machine learning

11:50-12:10 - Aamir Hanif - Evaluating VOC capture efficiency of zeolite 13X under realistic conditions

12:10-12:30 - Prizes and closing remarks

12:30 - Lunch

09:00-10:00 - Elisa Borfecchia - Selective oxidation chemistry over copper-based porous catalysts: an X-ray spectroscopy view from zeolites to MOFs (Keynote 2)

10:00-10:20 - Malavika Manoj - Investigating reversibility of aluminium coordination in zeolites

10:20-10:40 - Catherine Crockett - A waste of time? The quest to synthesise Mg-doped aluminophosphates from waste

10:40-11:10 - Coffee break

11:10-11:30 - Christopher Heard - A combined machine learning-NMR study of Al siting in zeolites

11:30-11:50 - Abdulla Alhendi - Optimizing Ni-Pt/MFI zeolite catalysts for the hydrodeoxygenation of oleic acid

11:50-12:10 - Hayder Al-Naji - Water purification via ionic-liquid synthesised AlPO-11

12:10-12:30 - Nicole Kelly - In situ solid-state NMR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction for the study of the ADOR process

12:30-13:30 - Lunch

13:30-14:30 - Bert Weckhuysen - Advances in in-situ and operando spectroscopy and microscopy of zeolite-based catalyst materials: visualizing single atoms, molecules and crystals (Keynote 3)

14:30-14:50 - Jiri Dedecek - Reactivity of low-valency vanadium species stabilized in zeolite matrix in the activation of molecular oxygen. A DFT and FTIR study

14:50-15:10 - Matthew Potter - Small angle neutron scattering to probe deactivation in solid acid catalysts for biomass transformations

15:10-15:40 - Coffee Break

15:40-16:00 - Hassan Azzan - Simplified statistical isotherm for predicting mixed gas/vapour adsorption upon guest-induced transitions in crystalline porous materials

16:00-16:20 - Amy Edmeades - Laser induced temperature-jump time-resolved infrared spectroscopy of zeolites

16:20-16:40 - George Dunkley - The effect of Si/Al ratio, pore size and drug loading level on the molecular behaviour and controlled release of anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil from zeolites

16:40-17:00 - Ian Silverwood - Polarised QENS: the future of diffusion measurement in zeolites

17:00-18:00 - AGM (Election of new BZA chair)

19:00-22:00 - Conference dinner - location: Glamorgan Building

13:00-14:00 - Registration at Main Building 📍

14:00-14:10 - Opening

14:10-15:10 - Stuart James - Mechanochemical synthesis of zeolites (Keynote 1)

15:10-15:30 - Edward Garland - Probing the confinement effect in the Friedel-Crafts alkylation of mandelic acid by p-xylene catalysed by zeolite Y

15:30-15:50 - Coffee break

15:50-16:10 - Matthew Robinson - Tuning zeolite catalysts using organic additives: molecular modelling studies

16:10-16:30 - Mervyn Shannon - The structure of the disordered zeolite NU-88

16:30-17:00 - 2024 Founders' Award presentation

17:00-19:00 - Welcome reception + Poster session