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Another joint Manners/Faul paper!

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Charlie, who was a joint Manners/Faul student (and now in Toronto), just had a full paper accepted in Chemistry European Journal! He had helped from Henry, from the Faul group, Xiaoming, former Manners group postdoc and Rob from the EM unit.

In this paper we show controlled solution self-assembly of an amphiphilic perylene diimide by a seeded-growth mechanism, to form colloidally stable, one-dimensional fibres with controllable lengths and low dispersities under kinetic control. Well done to all involved!

Visitor from Monash!

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Luke Giles, PhD student from our collaborator Dr Rico Tabor (leading the SMaC Lab at the School of Chemistry at Monash) and co-supervised by Charl, visited our labs recently. Rico, who did his PhD at Bristol (and spent some time working in the FRG labs) is a regular visitor – it is great to now expand our interactions with Luke’s visit (as he travels around Europe).

Here Luke is with some of the FRG members before heading out back to Melbourne again! Looking forward to the next visit!

Cover feature for ChemNanoMat invited review!

Posted on July 21, 2018 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Our invited Focus Review will be highlighted by a cover feature, showing some of Kazu’s very nice artwork (thanks Kazu!)!

This is the second cover feature this year for the group – well done to all involved!! See our Research Highlights page for the full collection!

Visiting Zhejiang University in beautiful Hangzhou

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Charl was invited to visit former UoB college, Prof Huaxin Peng, now the director of the Innovative Composite Systems Institute. He had a great time talking to colleagues and students from the institute working in the areas of novel graphene-based materials, energy storage, and related applications.

It was a real pleasure to visit, with, further opportunities to catch up with colleagues from Bristol, as prof Fabrizio Scarpa (from Engineering) was also visiting at the same time!

Wonderful to visit old friends – in a beautiful place!

Visiting Xiaoyu Li at BIT

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Charl had the pleasure to visit Xiaoyu, collaborator and co-author on our Nature Communications paper last year, at the Beijing Institute of Technology.

It was a great opportunity to catch up with Xiaoyu, listen to some talks from his students, and finally for Charl to give a research seminar as well. Hopefully there will be many such future interactions, and continued collaboration!

Invited Focus Review on electroactive amphiphiles accepted!

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

We just heard that your invited Focus Review for ChemNanoMat (part of a Special Issue on Supramolecular Nanostructures) has been accepted! In this Focus Review, which has already appeared online, we aim to highlight an exciting class of materials, electroactive amphiphiles (EAAs).

Well done to Esther, Maha, Kazu, Ben and close collaborator Annela Seddon (also Esther’s joint PhD supervisor)! And special thanks to Kazu for the great frontispiece and graphics!

In Xi’an – with Wei and Jiangtao!

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Charl was invited and visited Wei and Jiangtao, to former FRG group members, in Xi’an. A minisymposium was organised, with both of them, and a colleague, speaking as well! It was a great morning of exciting science!

Visiting PKU!

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Charl visited the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University in Beijing today. He visited old friends Prof Qi Limin, who also spent time at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Golm, and Prof Yun Yan, who was part of the same ESF scientific network.

After Charl’s talk there were some very interesting discussion with prof Huang Jianbin concerning the FRG’s recent paper in Chemical Science!

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