Jemma Virtue The 35th Biennial Conference of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand 2024 (Crystal 35)

Jemma Virtue

I am a first year PhD student interested in the field of metallosupramolecular chemistry, crystallography and more specifically stimuli-responsive coordination cages. My project so far has focused on a rare type of stimuli-responsive Pd4L8 interlocked coordination cage as a multi-cavity host for selective anion recognition. Previously I have worked on using Pd4L6 water-soluble coordination cages as supramolecular traps for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and studying the effects of changing the cis-capping ligand on cage isomerism. I am eager to continue my study on stimuli-responsive systems and focus on using light-responsive coordination cages for the reversible uptake and release of information rich and low symmetry guests as 'molecular cargo'. For my studies so far I have been awarded the Ferry Scholarship (honours), AINSE award (honours), Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology best honours/masters thesis (2023), Malcom Thompson Prize for Organic Chemistry (honours) and an ATSE Elevate Scholarship (PhD).