Today I am off to Sheffield for hydrogen meeting. Coffee at next stop.

Still some colour in the garden.

A short black at Chelsea Road in Bath. My favourite.

Time for coffee, in Bath with Jane Austen.

Have a nice weekend.

Nice shot; guests look quasi close-packed in the presence of EtOH, not an unexpected phenomenon, and could lead to interesting time-dependent effects with increasing EtOH concentration 😎

Porous conference dinner begins, with pores.

Porous materials evening reception.

In which I just learned that we consume more concrete than food per person each year.

@epomm.bsky.social The 2nd EPSRC EPoMM* network meeting has started! A warm welcome as always by Alex O'Malley to two days of holes. *Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales

Sanjit Nayak from University of Bristol presenting on MOFs for smart agrochemical delivery. #EPoMM_2025

Aldo Lanza presenting on characterisation of catalytic automotive filters. #EPoMM_2025

Great to see an early mention of Hiden instruments @epomm.bsky.social 2025 conference in a talk by Aldo Lanza from Johnson Matthey on "Spatial resolution of catalytic automotive filters & the impact of particulate matter with SPACI-MS". A Hiden Analytical mass spec was used to implement SPACI-MS.

Xiaochuan Liu from University of Birmingham presenting on porous materials for nanofluidic energy absorption. #EPoMM_2025

Time for coffee, with Jane Austen.

A look around the garden. Have a nice weekend.

At The Moorfields in Bath, with Guinness.

Time for coffee at the Halfpenny in Widcombe, Bath.

Have a nice weekend, we all made it.

A look around the garden. Ladybird = Buwch goch gota (small red cow), in Welsh. Have a nice evening.

Time for coffee, at Widcombe Road.

A look around the garden. Have a nice evening.

Well done Wales. Da iawn Cymru. It's been a long wait - amser hir.

Nice to present on porous ferroelectrics at VEH 2025.

Singapore. Off home tonight.

Shadows in Singapore.

Conference presentation complete and off home today. Time for coffee, by the Bayfront.

Evening walk around Singapore, with a cold beer.

Arrived in Singapore for #ICMAT2025, and did not get lost from MRT trainstop at Bugis.

On way to #ICMAT2025 in Singapore to present keynote on our porous ferroelectrics and composites work. Row 82 in a middle row seat, but should be great.

An evening in Midsomer Norton.

Have a good weekend. Paper sent to coauthor.

Nice to attend Research Culture Awards for the Faculty of Engineering and Design.

Abstract deadline, Monday 16th June.

Time for coffee, in Bath.

A look around the garden. Have a nice weekend.

Nice to be at RENEW Centre meeting and see visiting researcher seminars.

A look around the garden.

Well done Zihe on passing PhD viva with minor corrections. The pen must be for scale. Have a good weekend.

Time for coffee, in Bath.

Have a nice weekend.

Have a nice weekend.

An evening look around the garden.

Time for coffee, in Bath.

Almost the weekend. Have a good one.

Nice to have visitor to pole their ferroelectric material and measure resulting piezoelectric d33 charge coefficient. Note: We usually wait 24 hr after poling before measuring d33.

Still time to register for UKPORMAT! Registration closes 16th May 2025

UKPORMAT update: We have confirmed our list of Invited Speakers for the 8th Annual UK Porous Materials Conference (UKPorMat) in Birmingham 3-4 June. Registration closes: 16th May 2025 More information: www.ukpormat.com

Nice day in Bradford on Avon, with the Greeman Festival.

Well done Pop.