Charl arrived in hot and humid Xiamen last night. The ISACS symposium is held on the University of Xiamen‘s campus, at the Arts and Science Centre. See the photo from his on-campus hotel room of the conference venue!
The symposium starts this evening, with Charl being fortunate enough to speak early on the first full day tomorrow.
Charl was invited by Prof Wenping Hu, expert in OFETS and organic electronics, to give a talk today at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing.
It was Charl’s first (hopefully of many) and very enjoyable visit to the Institute. Very impressive place, and many excellent researchers!
Dr Rumman Ahmed (former FRG member, and joint student with Charl and Ian Manners) visited Bristol at the end of last week. It was great to see him again, on a short holiday from Germany, where he is now working for BASF Coatings in Muenster! Here’s Rumman, looking seriously cool (as always!).
Charl is currently in China, and gave a talk this morning at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing (hosted Prof Xi Zhang, head of department).
Here he is trying his best to prepare for a difficult question! Very nice periodic table behind him!
He is spending the rest of the day in discussion with Prof Zhang and Assoc. Prof. Huaping Xu (who visited Bristol recently).
He will be visiting the Chinese Academy’s Institute of Chemistry tomorrow (visiting prof. Wenping Hu), and then off to Xiamen for the RSC conference “Challenges in Nanoscience, ISACS 9”, where he is speaking on Saturday morning.
More to follow soon!
James has just arrived in Los Angeles, where he will be spending three weeks in the laboratories of one of the FRG’s collaborators, Prof Ric Kaner. James, as part of the exchange between the BCFN and the CNSI, will be spending as much time as possible in the labs at UCLA, and might occasionally go out to enjoy the sunshine! Here some photo’s to prove it!
Charl spoke at the local Bristol and Bath Science Cafe last night (30th of July). It was a fun evening, explaining self-assembly, types of interactions, energies, shape and function of nanostructured materials at the hand of the simple example of bunches of carrots! The venue was packed, and Charl was questioned for a whole hour after his presentation!
Thanks to Carl (who was in the audience with Angel) for the photos!
The beautiful images from our Gallery are featured on Physics World’s Facebook “Image of the Day” page for the 26th of July! Great!
Charl will be speaking at the Bristol & Bath Science Cafe on Monday, 30th of July, at the Tobacco Factory. As the POM images on the Gallery page caught the attention of organisers, it was decided to add further colourful ones over the last 24h hours! Enjoy!
The paper with Shao (now doing a post-doc in Sweden), Saravanan, and other collaborators (from Glasgow and Beijing!) has appeared on the front cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry! Well done!
The FRG went to the Grain Barge (on the harbourside, Hotwells, looking out over the SS Great Britian) after the usual Monday afternoon group meeting to celebrate the recent anouncement that Charl has been promoted to the position of “Reader in Materials Chemistry”. It was a fantastic sunny afternoon in a great setting – the perfect place to celebrate!
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