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Talk at Tsinghua!

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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!

Carrot science at the local Science Cafe!

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Charl spoke at the local Bristol and Bath Science Cafe last night (30th of July). It was a fun evening, explaining self-assembly, types of interactions, energies, shape and function of nanostructured materials at the hand of the simple example of bunches of carrots! The venue was packed, and Charl was questioned for a whole hour after his presentation!

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Thanks to Carl (who was in the audience with Angel) for the photos!

Prof Huaping Xu from Tsinghua visiting the FRG!

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Huaping Xu, and a PhD student Kai Liu, from the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijiing, visited Bristol from Saturday – Tuesday.  After an interesting day of scientific discussions, Huaping gave an excellent talk entitled: “Selenium-containing Polymers: from Molecular Design to Controlled Self-assembly and Disassembly.” We then all rewarded ourselves by going to the Robin Hood on St. Michael’s Hill!

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See the link on the University of Bristol’s Weibo pages!

Tom at the ACS Colloids Meeting

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This week I have been in Baltimore, MD (USA) for the 86th Annual Colloids and Surface Science Symposium. The meeting was held at Johns Hopkins University, a beautiful, leafy campus with grand red brick and marble halls.

The conference was organised over 3 days and featured 7 parallel sessions each day in addition to a variety of plenary and award lectures. The science was fascinating, with topics covering the fundamentals of the hydrophobic interaction, micro-scale self-folding origami structures, and biological and environmental applications. I presented my talk, “Oligo(aniline) nanofilms via ionic self-assembly”, on the 2nd day within the Molecular Assembly section, which also featured talks on poly(electrolyte)-surfactant complexation and other surface self-assembly.

The conference banquet was held on the evening of the second day at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. Highlights of the food on offer were the local specialties of crab cakes and steamed crab!

Check out the picture gallery for some shots of Johns Hopkins University, me presenting and the conference banquet at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.

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Natalie Stingeling in Bristol!

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Natalie Stingelin, from the Department of Materials and Centre for Plastic Electronics, visited the FRG labs and the BCFN yesterday.  She gave an excellent talk on manipulating phase transformations and order of organic semi-conductors in the solid state. It was a pleasure to have her here, and we look forward to continued contact in the future!

Nankai University, Tianjin

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Charl’s penultimate presentation of his extended lecture tour of China was giving at the Key Laboratory of Functional Polymers at Nankai University, Tianjin, on Monday the 14th of May. Prof Ying Guan was the perfect host!  Here he is talking about Bristol during his presentation. More details about the University of Bristol on the chinese website Weibo.

Charl also enjoyed a lovely boat trip in Tianjin with husband-and-wife team professors Guan and Zhang, and their children Michael and Max!