Charl is in Mexico City on a short recruitment trip. He met a number of alumni at the UKAAM alumni event on Friday evening, which was a great way to connect and talk about what a great place Bristol is!
He also met many students at the British Council Recruitment Fair yesterday interested in doing a Masters by Research or PhD at the School of Chemistry. Charl will be at the fair again today, and be visiting the Institute of Chemistry at UNAM on Monday.
Bristol is a great place to live and study, and this great video of the city is certainly worth having a look at!
Prof Bert Meijer from Eindhoven, Netherlands, and leading international scientist visited Bristol on the 18th of February. Prof Meijer gave the named Timms Lecture at the Timms Symposium. Prof Fiona Meldrum and Prof Rasmita Raval also spoke, with Drew Thomson and Becky Boston (now in Sheffield) showcasing their work too!
Emily Baker, a joint student between Charl and Dek Woolfson, has had her paper on protein structure published in Nat. Chem. Bio! Her work focused on the interactions within protein alpha helices and how the dipole forces holding them together may be less influential than previously thought.
Read a short summary of the work, or see the full article here. Well done Emily (and collaborators!).
Charl spent the day at the Department of Chemistry at Monash, where he gave a talk and interacted with a number of colleagues, including Dr Rico Tabor!
He also had the chance to have a look at their brand-new and very impressive chemistry building on campus! Great day in very summery Melbourne!
Charl was invited to speak at the Australasian Colloid and Interface Society’s Biennial symposium in Hobart, Tasmania! He spoke about some of the work from the FRG in the area of electroactive materials.
It has been a great meeting so far and a good chance to meet up with some old friends (like Dr Rico Tabor, now from Monash University)! And all of this taking place in a wonderful setting!
A study led by Prof Guangtao Li, and where Charl contributed, was accepted for publication in Chemical Science. More details on the manuscript entitled “Helically Structured Metal-Organic Frameworks Fabricated by Using Supramolecular Assemblies as Templates” can be found here.
Congratulations to Geri for getting her paper entitled “Chiral Perylene Diimides: New Building Blocks for Ionic-Self Assembly” accepted in Chemistry – A European Journal.
More details on this full paper in collaboration with Prof. Guy Lloyd-Jones (now at Edinburgh) to follow…
This £210,000 collaborative grant has been awarded to a research team from engineering (aerospace and engineering mathematics) and chemistry. Efforts in the lab are led by Dicker, and his work with biomimetic devices that re-orientate in response to light. See the University of Bristol’s news article here
The work is inspired by sun-tracking plants and uses pH-sensitive hydrogels in combination with photoacids to achieve actuation. These devices could be used to maximise the efficiency of photovoltaic panels by tracking the sun throughout the day.
To fit in with busy schedules, this years early Christmas lunch was held at Charl’s home with great food and drink, a quiz and the infamous ‘secret santa pass the parcel’!
The invitation to ‘bring a hat’ was met with a variety of hats from across the world
Faul Research Group 