Heading back to Bristol

After two further exciting days enjoying fantastic weather in Beijing, the beautiful Tsinghua campus and the exceptional hospitality of Prof Xi Zhang, Prof Huaping Xu and many students, it is time to head back. It was a real privilige to meet the team from the RSC journal “Polymer Chemistry” at Tsinghua at their first International Symposium, as well as many German colleagues at a symposium at the National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology close by.

The next visitors from Bristol to Tsinghua will be Feli and Alex in October.

Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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!

Talk at Tsinghua!

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 in sunny California!

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!

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