Ben’s review of HSAFM (with Loren Picco and Merv Miles, Ben’s second supervisor, from the Nanophysics and Soft Matter group in the School of Physics) has been accepted for publication in Small. More to follow soon! Congratulations!
The final paper from Rumman’s efforts (during his PhD and one-year postdoc here in Bristol) appeared in the latest edition of JACS! This output forms part of a very fruitful collaboration between the Faul and Manners research groups.
The use of ionic self-assembly to access non-conventional block copolymer morphologies, including tetragonal and helical structures, from a combination of polyferrocenylsilane diblock copolymer polyelectrolytes and AOT-based surfactants, is described in the communication. Congratulations to all involved!
A multi-author paper, “Double Smectic Self-Assembly in Block Copolypeptide Complexes” appeared very recently in the ACS journal Biomacromolecules, with contributions from a number of collaborators, including Charl, and Patrice Rannou, a close collaborator of the FRG.
The paper with Shao (now doing a post-doc in Sweden), Saravanan, and other collaborators (from Glasgow and Beijing!) has appeared on the front cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry! Well done!
My recent Soft Matter paper has been highlighted in the Diamond Light Source Annual review. Diamond is a synchrotron radiation facility near Oxford, UK that generates intense beams of radiation (from hard X-rays through to infra-red). The annual review contains highlights of research performed across the synchrotron over the past year. The report demonstrates the broad range of science currently undertaken at the facility including magnetic resonance imaging as a tool for understanding Alzheimer’s disease, structural analysis of influenza antibodies and my surface diffraction studies of conducting organic thin films. See the following link for the review:
http://extranet2.diamond.ac.uk/ISV/Flipping/files/DiamondReview2012.pdf
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 new study on chiral self-assembled sugar-substituted perylenes with Zhixiang Wei’s group was accepted and published online in Advanced Functional Materials today!
It was shown that supramolecular structures and helicity of this new perylene derivative can be tuned by kinetic and thermodynamic factors. Demonstration devices for hydrazine sensing based on single nanoribbons exhibit better performance than nanofiber bundles and other achiral nanostructure devices. This provides a pathway to tuning the structures and helicity as well as the possibility to construct high-performance nanodevices.
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.
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.
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