Liam was joint winner of the recent Inorganic and Materials Section’s Final Year PhD talks! Here Liam is pictured with the two judges, Robin and Sean, and the other (joint) winner, Nicolette.
Well done Liam!
Prizewinner Liam
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Category Archives: Collaborations
Graduation!
It was graduation week in Bristol, and a number of FRG members turned up over the week, dressed very smartly!
Ben, Charl and Jonny
Dicker, with collaborators Anna and Paul Weaver.
Close collaborator Natalie Fey, Ben and Charl!
Congratulations to Ben, Dicker, Jonny and all the others! Well done!
Mini symposium with Florian von Wrochem, Sony
We had the pleasure to host Dr Florian von Wrochem from Sony’s Materials Laboratories (Stuttgart, Germany). It was a great opportunity to put together an exciting symposium, with former FRG member Dr James Thomas (funded by the BCFN, and now a post-doc in Oxford) as well as Liam speaking.
Photos to follow soon!
Dr Wei … in Xi’an, China!
Wei, who spent a year in the FRG as CSC visitor, recently graduated from the Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China! She sent a photo taken after receiving her degree – looking very smart! Well done, Dr Wei!
Paper in Nature Communications!
Great news from the continued collaborative efforts between the Manners and Faul groups (and many other collaborators): our work on the production of “Uniform electroactive fibre-like micelle nanowires for organic electronics” has just appeared online at Nature Communications!
Well done to Pete (funded by the BCFN for his PhD and now working for NuNano, Edinburgh), Xiaoyu (now at BIT in Beijing, China), Liam, and others on some very exciting science! We describe studies of field-effect transistor devices prepared from solution-processable, low-dispersity, electroactive fibre-like micelles of controlled length from pi-conjugated diblock copolymers. The resulting charge carrier mobility strongly depends on both the degree of polymerization of the core-forming block and the fibre length, and is independent of corona composition.
Welcoming Vidhi from India!
Vidhi Shah just joined the FRG on a 4-month visit, funded by a Newton-Bhabha International Fellowship. Vidhi will be exploring the use of our electroactive amphiphiles for drug delivery.
See her profile for more details. Welcome Vidhi!
Feature article with the Zhang group, Tsinghua University
Charl contributed to an invited feature article on supramolecular polymers with Prof Xi Zhang and his group members. The article was just accepted for publication Macromolecular Rapid Communications – more details to follow soon.
PhD position available with collaborators in France!
Our friend and colleague, Dr Patrice Rannou, based in Grenoble, France, has a PhD position available for an exciting new project in the area of polymer synthesis for photovoltaics and energy storage – “Functional Block CoPolymers (FunBCPs): Encoding Performances in Smart Active Layers for next generation Battery and Solar Cells“
This project, within the in the Laboratory for Innovation in new Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials (CEA-LITEN) in Grenoble, France, is a collaborative effort with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in polymer or synthetic organic chemistry. Please see the details of the project here or here, or contact Dr Rannou directly for further information.
Book on supramolecular amphiphiles published!
Alex, Kazu and Charl contributed a chapter to an RSC book on supramolecular amphiphiles, edited by our collaborator and colleague, Prof Xi Zhang from the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. The book, with a chapter from Bristol focusing on the use of electrostatic interactions for the formation of supra-amphiphiles, has just been published!
Great to have had the chance to contribute to this exciting book in the RSC’s Monographs in Supramolecular Chemistry series!
Charl at the Department of Chemistry, Univ of Toronto
Charl visited the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, on Monday. He was hosted by Professor Dwight Seferos, and had the chance to meet a number of faculty and researchers during the day – discussing lots of very exciting science!
Charl also gave a lecture, and had the chance to showcase some recent research from the Faul Research Group!
Faul Research Group 