Becky Greenaway

Becky is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry.

After graduating with an MChem in Chemistry with Study in Industry from the University of Sheffield, Becky carried out her DPhil on palladium-catalysed cascade cyclisations under the supervision of Prof. Ed Anderson at the University of Oxford. She then worked with Prof. Andy Cooper FRS as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Liverpool, where her research interests expanded to include the synthesis of porous organic cages leading to the realisation of the first molecular porous liquids in 2015. Her interests also include the use of high-throughput automation in the synthesis of molecular organic materials and supramolecular assemblies.

Becky was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2019 on “Molecular Assembly in Porous Liquids”, allowing her to establish an independent research career in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool, before moving to Imperial in May 2020.

You can find more information about the group and our research on our group website - greenawaylab.com

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• Brand M, Rankin N, Cooper A, et al., 2023, Photoresponsive type III porous liquids, Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol:29, ISSN:0947-6539, Pages:1-5
• Egleston BD, Mroz A, Jelfs KE, et al., 2022, Porous liquids - the future is looking emptier, Chemical Science, Vol:13, ISSN:2041-6520, Pages:5042-5054
• Brand M, Greenwell F, Clowes R, et al., 2021, Melt-quenched porous organic cage glasses, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol:9, ISSN:2050-7488, Pages:19807-19816
• Kai A, Egleston BD, Tarzia A, et al., 2021, Modular Type III porous liquids based on porous organic cage microparticles, Advanced Functional Materials, Vol:31, ISSN:1616-301X, Pages:1-11
• Greenaway R, Jelfs K, 2021, Integrating computational and experimental workflows for accelerated organic material discovery, Advanced Materials, Vol:33, ISSN:0935-9648, Pages:1-19
• Egleston BD, Luzyanin KV, Brand MC, et al., 2020, Controlling gas selectivity in molecular porous liquids by tuning the cage window size, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, Vol:59, ISSN:1433-7851, Pages:7362-7366
• Greenaway RL, Santolini V, Szczypinski FT, et al., 2020, Organic cage dumbbells, Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol:26, ISSN:0947-6539, Pages:3718-3722
• Jelfs K, Greenaway RL, Santolini V, et al., 2019, From concept to crystals via prediction: multi‐component organic cage pots by social self‐sorting, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, Vol:131, ISSN:1433-7851, Pages:16421-16427
• Kearsey RJ, Alston BM, Briggs ME, et al., 2019, Accelerated robotic discovery of type II porous liquids, Chemical Science, Vol:10, ISSN:2041-6520, Pages:9454-9465
• Greenaway RL, Santolini V, Pulido A, et al., 2019, From Concept to Crystals via Prediction: Multi-Component Organic Cage Pots by Social Self-Sorting
• Berardo E, Greenaway R, Turcani L, et al., 2018, Computationally-Inspired Discovery of an Unsymmetrical Porous Organic Cage, Nanoscale, Vol:10, ISSN:2040-3364, Pages:22381-22388
• Greenaway R, Santolini V, Bennison MJ, et al., 2018, High-throughput discovery of organic cages and catenanes using computational screening fused with robotic synthesis, Nature Communications, Vol:9, ISSN:2041-1723, Pages:1-11
• Greenaway RL, Holden D, Eden EGB, et al., 2017, Understanding gas capacity, guest selectivity, and diffusion in porous liquids, Chemical Science, Vol:8, ISSN:2041-6520, Pages:2640-2651
• Giri N, Del Popolo MG, Melaugh G, et al., 2015, Liquids with permanent porosity, Nature, Vol:527, ISSN:0028-0836, Pages:216-220