Asel Sartbaeva
 
                            chemistry                                                        
University of Bath
                                                        United Kingdom
                        
Biography
Asel Sartbaeva is a Royal Society University Research Fellow since 2011. She did her PhD in Cambridge from 2001 to 2004 with Prof. Simon Redfern on Li ionic transport and framework flexibility in silicates. She then became a PostDoctoral Associate with Prof. Mike Thorpe and Prof. Simon Billinge at ASU, where she worked on understanding flexibility and ordering in frameworks, including glasses, zeolites and manganites. In 2007 she was awarded Glasstone Fellowship in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Here, she started an independent career working on zeolites and related energy materials. In 2011, she was awarded a URF, and in 2012 she moved to the Department of Chemistry in the University of Bath.
Research Interest
Asel Sartbaeva's principal research interests are flexibility in framework structures and interactions between this internal flexibility and interstitial atoms and molecules. These structures include zeolite frameworks, manganite and cuprite perovskite materials, and glasses. She uses a combination of direct experimental investigation (neutron or X-ray diffraction with PDF and Rietveld analyses) and theoretical modelling and geometric simulation for the interpretation of results.
Publications
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Wells, S. A., Leung, K. M., Edwards, P. P., Tucker, M. and Sartbaeva, A., 2017. Forthcoming. Defining the flexibility window in ordered aluminosilicate zeolites. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 170757.
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Nearchou, A., Raithby, P. and Sartbaeva, A., 2018. Systematic approaches towards template-free synthesis of EMT-type zeolites. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 255, pp. 261-270.