Rate My Professor Tom Bennet

Bennett's research centers on the discovery of hybrid melt-quenched glasses from metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), seminal explorations of coordination polymer, MOF, and glass interfaces, and the characterization of amorphous solids and liquids to create new functional materials. Notable publications include 'Amorphous metal–organic frameworks' (Accounts of Chemical Research, 2014), 'Melt-quenched glasses of metal–organic frameworks' (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016), 'Liquid metal–organic frameworks' (Nature Materials, 2017), and 'The changing state of porous materials' (Nature Materials, 2021). His contributions have earned prestigious awards such as the EPSRC Post-Doctoral Prize (2012), Panalytical Award for X-ray Diffraction (2013), ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Science Impact Award (2018), Woldemar A. Weyl Award for Glass Science (2019), Philip Leverhulme Prize in Chemistry (2019), Royal Society of Chemistry Harrison Meldola Memorial Prize (2020), and Chemical Communications Lectureship (2022). Bennett served as vice-Chair of the International Zeolite Association Commission on MOFs (2019–2022) and inaugural Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry Interest Group on Porous Materials (2019–2022), with the latter receiving the RSC Inspirational Committee Award in 2021. In 2024, he received a Marsden Fund grant for pioneering perovskite glass materials research. Recently, his team won the Dalton Divisions Horizon Prize for hybrid glass in 2025.