Dr Colleen Williams
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: c.williams@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785754
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Aviation fuel research.Background
Dr Colleen Williams trained at the University of Nottingham, receiving a Msci in Chemistry in 2002. Colleen continued her studies at Nottingham, researching metal organic frameworks for hydrogen storage and gained her PhD in 2008.
Colleen joined Cranfield University in August 2008 to work in the field of radiation grafting of polymer membranes for application in fuel cells. She is now working on the WAFCOLT project looking into water in aviation fuel under cold temperatures.
Selected publications
Williams, C. A., Blake, A. J., Wilson, C., Hubberstey, P. and Schröder, M., Novel metal organic frameworks incorporating Group(II) metal cations and aryldicarboxylate anionic bridging ligands, Crystal Growth and Design, 2008, 8, 911.Williams, C. A., Blake, A. J., Hubberstey, P. and Schröder, M., A unique example of a 36 tessellated 2D net based on a trinuclear zinc(II)-1,4-benzenedicarboxylate framework, Chemical Communications, 2005, 43, 5435.
Blake, A. J., George, M. W., Kuimova, M. K., Williams, C. A. and Wilson, C., (2,2’-bipyridyl)dicarbonylbis(triethoxyphosphine-kappa P)-Rhenium(I) hexafluorophosphate, Acta Crystallographica, 2005, E61, m1296.
