Charl visited the US last week to briefly meet up with UoB undergraduate students on the year-in-industry degree programme. He used this opportunity to stop in Los Angeles and visit Ric Kaner’s group at UCLA (and gave a talk in Ric’s research group meeting), before moving on to DuPont’s central research site in Wilmington (close to Philadelphia) and Argonne National Laboratory (close to Chicago)! The photo was taken in a small town called Newcastle, close to Wilmington.
Chinwe has created microstructures that resemble golf balls from a tetra(aniline)-based material.
Last Wednesday, Bristol Chemistry held the first in a series of Materials Chemistry symposiums. The afternoon featured two external speakers (Sharon Cooper, Durham and Andrew Houlton, Newcastle) and five post-graduate researchers from the School of Chemistry including Tom. The talks were all of an extremely high standard and stimulated a lot of scientific discussion!
Jiangtao and Charl in Chengdu!
Charl also had the pleasure to meet Jiangtao, who spent a year in Bristol, during the CCS meeting. They went for a traditional Sichuan-style hot pot meal – very hot indeed!
Chengdu Hotpot - Sichuan style!
Charl attended the Chinese Chemical Society’s meeting in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China from the 13-16th of April. He had the chance to visit the local panda park close to Chengdu with colleagues. Here he is with Dr. Jose Oliviera, the Editor-in-Chief for the journal “Small”, in front of a very lazy panda!
Jose, lazy panda and Charl
A paper just appeared in the latest edition of Langmuir, where Charl contributed to a study from Prof Xi Zhang’s group at Tsinghua University on the rational exploitation of molecular architectures for controlled self-assembly of bolaamphiphiles. See the Full Publication List for more details.
Emily visits the Biomolecular NMR Facility at the University of Birmingham to use the 900MHz spectrometer – it’s huge!
Research group meetings and cakes (especially home-made cakes) go hand-in-hand! Thanks to Simon for today’s English speciality!
Charl has been invited to visit and give a seminar at the Research Centre for Microsystems and Nanotechnology (RCMN), Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania. This visit falls within the FP7 Nanomat programme (of which Bristol and Kaunas are partners).
Kaunas city centre
Matt Hood, who finished his PhD in the Faul Research Group in 2011, received his PhD during the February 2012 graduation ceremony! Congratulations! Well done, Matt!
Faul Research Group 