About us
We are a research group specialising in supramolecular chemistry based in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University in Canberra. Thanks for visiting – please have a look around and email Nick if you have any questions.

Recent news
It’s the end of an era as postdocs Jordan and Rosie finish up in the group. Jordan has been a postdoc in the group since 2021, while Rosie first worked in the group in 2016 for an undergraduate research project. It’s not all sad news though, as Molly starts an undergraduate research project, and Nick joins for a PhD.

Welcome to Hamish, who starts Honours in the group!

Two papers in a week: Honours student Meabh’s work on dimethylamidinium networks is published in Cryst. Growth Des., and work that Nick contributed (a little) to during his mini-sabbatical in Sheffield that reports the first halogen-bonded nanosheets is published in Adv. Sci.

Michael McGuirk (Colorado School of Mines) and Nick wrote a tutorial review on supramolecular framework as part of an invited special issue of Chem. Soc. Rev.

Rosie publishes a paper in Angew. Chem. jointly with the Colebatch group showing that we can metalate our 6+ cages to give M3cage metallocages with coordinatively unsaturated metal ions. When we have an ethyl solubilising group we get the expected three-fold symmetric cages, but methoxy or propoxy solubilising groups give strange low symmetry metallocages (low symmetry in the solid state and in solution, even at high temps).