In the Faul group we’re not only good at doing science, eating cakes is another of our specialities. This time, we couldn’t miss the chance to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with a delicious Mooncake – Thanks a lot to Zhonghua and Carl for sharing such as tasty festivity!
And finally, just to show that James (and Charl) were really working in China, here a photo of them both at James’ poster.
The FRG celebrated Ben Mills’ Birthday with a delicious lunch and a Chocolate cake! All our best wishes mate!
A large group from the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, including James (joint PhD student with Heinrich Hoerber) and Charl are currently in Beijing, China. They participated in a joint symposium on Tuesday with the CAS National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology on Monday (see the photo below), and are currently attending the ChinaNANO’13 conference.
On Monday they will visit our collaborators at the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University for the “1st Tsinghua-Bristol Joint Nanoscience Symposium”
Chinwe’s paper (with James, Ben and Patrice, our collaborator from Grenoble) on tuning conductivity and structure of tetra(aniline)-based triblock structures appeared online on the Journal of Materials Chemistry C’s website!
In this paper we reported on our investigations into the aggregation behaviour and optoelectronic properties of these π-conjugated rod–coil–rod triblock materials. Well done!
Charl arrived in Changchun on Wednesday afternoon, and started with a full day of lectures on Thursday, covering the topics of scientific misconduct and scientific writing in two 2h lectures! More than 300 graduate students attended the lectures, and extra chairs were brought into the lecture hall!
Here he can be seen relaxing with Prof Junqi Sun (vice-dean of the College of Chemistry, who invited Charl) and some of his research group members after his lectures.
A paper by Chinwe on the assembly and control of TANI triblock structures, and two order-of-magnitude tuning of conductivity was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C! This paper further strengthens the cooperation the FRG has with Dr Patrice Rannou (Grenoble), who is one of the co-authors. More details to follow soon, but in the meantime – well done to all involved!
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Members of the Faul and Hall‘s group went out together for lunch to celebrate Angel‘s birthday.
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The 35th International Balloon Fiesta happened in Bristol last weekend, and some members of the Faul group attended this iconic event. Saturday evening was one of the greatest days of the fiesta, with more than a hundred balloons taking off … Continue reading
There are, as always, people leaving the group (Feli taking up a new job in Germany – congrats!), and new people joining! Yaozu just joined the group from China as Marie Curie fellow – welcome! More to follow soon!
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