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!
The latest paper from the FRG, in collaboration with the group of Zhixiang Wei at the CAS National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, just appeared online in the Journal of Materials Chemistry.
A tetra(aniline)-alkyl diblock compound was designed, synthesized and fully characterized. By employing suitable conditions, doped, electroactive microstructures could be prepared. The microstructures were characterized in detail and their anisotropic conductivity measured for the first time.
Congratulations to Shao (now in Sweden), Saravanan and other authors! This has now also appeared on the University of Bristol’s Weibo pages in China!
A paper was very recently published from a collaboration with bone biologists and clinicians from Bristol Southmead Hospital’s Avon Orthopaedic Centre. Authors on the paper were Judith Brown (previous PhD student from the Faul Research Group), Jon Knapp (who did his undergraduate research project on this topic), and Charl.
The paper discusses a newly developed method for the functionalisation of Ti (implant) surfaces for enhanced bone cell growth, a new area of activity for the Faul Research Group. Congrats to Judith, Jon, and the other authors.
See the full paper in the open access journal eCells & Materials here.
Chinwe has created microstructures that resemble golf balls from a tetra(aniline)-based material.
A paper just appeared in the latest edition of Langmuir, where Charl contributed to a study from Prof Xi Zhang’s group at Tsinghua University on the rational exploitation of molecular architectures for controlled self-assembly of bolaamphiphiles. See the Full Publication List for more details.
Emily visits the Biomolecular NMR Facility at the University of Birmingham to use the 900MHz spectrometer – it’s huge!
Charl has been invited to visit and give a seminar at the Research Centre for Microsystems and Nanotechnology (RCMN), Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania. This visit falls within the FP7 Nanomat programme (of which Bristol and Kaunas are partners).
Kaunas city centre
The first post to the Faul Research Group blog – Tom’s paper was highlighted on the front cover of Soft Matter today!
Fantastic start to our new site, and to the new blog! Well done Tom!
Faul Research Group 