PhD Student (4th Year)
Adrian completed his BSc(Hons) degree (1st class) at Monash University in 2013. His Honours project, under the supervision of David Turner and Stuart Batten, was entitled "Amine-Based Porous Materials for Carbon Dioxide Capture".
Adrian's project involves the synthesis of amine-based coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks, using novel ligands, and studying their affinity for CO2.
1. “A neutron diffraction study of hydrogen bonding in isostructural potassium and ammonium lanthanoidates”. A.J. Emerson, A.J. Edwards, S.R. Batten and D.R. Turner. CrystEngComm, 2014, 16, 1625-1631. DOI: 10.1039/c3ce42031k.
2. “A non-platonic M4L4 complex constructed using heterotopic ligands”. G.S. Hall, A.J. Emerson and D.R. Turner. RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 11404-11408. DOI: 10.1039/c4ra00241e.
3. “Coordination polymers from a flexible alkyldiamine-derived ligand”. A.J. Emerson, C.S. Hawes, G.P. Knowles, A.L. Chaffee, S.R. Batten and D.R. Turner. CrystEngComm, 2017, 19, 5137-5145. DOI: 10.1039/c7ce01133d.
4. “Synthetic approaches for the incorporation of free amine functionalities in porous coordination polymers for enhanced CO2 sorption”. A.J. Emerson, A. Chahine, S.R. Batten and D.R. Turner. Coord. Chem. Rev., 2018, 365, 1-22. DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2018.02.012.