Kazu is currently in Kyoto, doing some further measurements on some of his new chiral materials. He was awarded a travel grant by the University of Bristol’s International Strategic Fund, so will be doing circularly polarised luminescence measurements for two weeks in the group of Prof Kazuo Akagi!
In the meantime Charl has travelled to Trinity College Dublin (invited by Rachel Evans) to give a talk!
Charl had the pleasure of visiting the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials at Jilin University again. He gave a lecture as part of their State Key Lab lecture series (invited by Professors Junqi Sun and Wenke Zhang), before enjoying a very interesting half-day mini symposium with a number of young faculty.
We look forward to hosting visitors from Changchun in Bristol soon!
Charl is back in Beijing to teach at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University. It is, as always, a pleasure to see old friends and enjoy excellent food … and, in addition, enjoy sunny weather and blue skies!
Juvaid joined the FRG last week on a short-term 3-month visit from the IIT Madras, India, on an Oxford Instruments scholarship, in conjunction with the BCFN. He will be working with Dr Andy Collins (from the BCFN) on characterising the optoelectronic properties of TANI nanowires.
Welcome Juvaid!
Charl was invited to speak at the 11th Electromaterials Science Conference (this year held at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia).
There is an exciting line-up of speakers, including Prof. Ric Kaner (UCLA) and Prof. Frank Marken (Bath). Prof Maria Forsyth, who chairs this meeting, visited the FRG in July last year.
Sadiyah and Tom, PhD students with the BCFN, are joining the FRG for a three-month project. They will be working with Peter, Liam and Charlie on producing some novel field-effect transistors!
Welcome!
Geri, an honorary FRG group member who still kept close contact with the group (and still published a very nice paper earlier this year), came to say goodbye.
Geri received a prestigious JSPS post-doctoral fellowship, and will be working in the Supermolecules Group, with Prof Arigo and Dr Hill at MANA/NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan for 2 years! Good luck!
A “Chemistry and Materials Session” was organised (by Charl) to take place on Friday, 6th of November, as part of the HKB Symposium 2015. With an exciting line-up of speakers, and a poster session at the end of the day it was a great opportunity to learn about local and international science!
The event ended on a high note with a speakers dinner held at the M-Shed Industrial Museum at the harbour side in Bristol.
Photographer: Bhagesh Sachania (group photo).
The FRG had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Kazuo Akagi from Kyoto University today. After a beautiful talk about helical poly(acetylene)s, and polymerisations in anisotropic media, the whole group interacted with Prof. Akagi over posters, coffee and pastries!
Kazu then had the chance to catch up with his former PhD supervisor!
As Jan was visiting Bristol, he agreed to give a research seminar on some of the latest work from his group. In front of a packed seminar room Jan gave a fascinating talk on “Out-of-equilibrium biomimetic systems by dynamic and dissipative self-assembly”
Jan’s talk led to some lively discussion afterwards!
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