Carl’s paper in Advanced Optical Materials was published online today!
As the paper was published as an open access paper (like many other papers from the FRG), feel free to click on the link and download the paper free of charge! Great collaborative effort from all those involved – well done!
Exciting news – Carl’s paper on switchable photonic structures from 3D printed oligo(aniline)-based materials has been accepted for publication in Advanced Optical Materials.
This project, with collaborators from the School of Physics (Henkjan and Ben) and Electronic Engineering (Daniel, Lifeng, Mike and John), explored the use of 3D printing and actively switchable redox-active oligo(aniline)-based materials to create novel tuneable 3D photonic materials. Well done to Carl, and all our collaborators!
Ben’s paper was very recently accepted by Chemistry – A European Journal as a very important paper! This investigation, done in collaboration with Natalie Fey (Bristol), Patrice Rannou (Grenoble, France, and long-standing collaborator) and Tomasz Marszalek and Wojciech Pisula (Mainz, Germany and Lodz, Poland).
Here we show that a redox-active star-shaped oligo(aniline) provides an opportunity to explore and model the intricate optoelectronic properties of a seemingly simple molecule, using a combination of experimental and modelling investigations. Congrats to all involved!
Yaozu, who is now back in China at Donghua University, and Ben and Zack (with our collaborator Jens Weber, in Germany) just had a paper accepted for publication in Macromolecules.
This study focused on the use of conjugated microporous polymer networks (prepared using Buchwald-Hartwig cross-coupling reactions with hexaphenylbenzene-based matierlas) for gas uptake. Very impressively, these systems can take more than 300 weight % of iodine up! Porosities and uptake capacities can also be tuned by changing the redox state of these materials! Well done to all!
A paper by Tom, another former FRG member and joint PhD student with long-standing collaborator Dr Wuge Briscoe, on the influence of solvent polarity on the structure of TANI-surfactant thin films has been accepted for publication by Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics!
Tom, who just finished a post-doc at the ESRF in Grenoble, investigated the influence of processing solvents on supramolecular structure formation using grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXS). Well done to all those who contributed, including Alex and Ben from the FRG!
Geri, a former PhD student in the FRG, and now doing a post-doc at MANA, part of the National Institute of Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, published the last paper from her PhD work in Langmuir. This output was a collaborative effort with Ian Hamley from Reading, and her second supervisor Guy Lloyd-Jones, now at Edinburgh.
Ionic self-assembled complexes of chiral perylene tectons were prepared and characterised in detail. See the just-accepted paper here! Well done Geri!
Work from Wei and her colleagues in Xi’an (with input from Charl) was just accepted by the Journal of Materials Chemistry C. She investigated the use of ultrasound for the formation of well-defined phenyl/amine end-capped TANI nanowires!
Congratulations! Well done Wei!
We have just heard that Alex’s manuscript into the formation of conductive self-assembled nanowires based on TANI-surfactants has been accepted for publication in JACS! This study was a multi-researcher international collaborative effort, with contributions from Aalto University, Tsinghua University and the BCFN in Bristol!
More details to follow … but in the meantime congratulations to all who contributed!
Wei, a China Scholarship Council exchange student, will spend one year in Bristol. She follows in the footsteps of Jiangtao (Feng), also from the laboratories of prof Yan, who spent a year in Bristol in 2011.
Close interaction and collaboration already exists between the Yan and Faul groups, with a number of publications generated in the area of oligo(aniline)-based nanomaterials (and more to come soon!). Welcome to Bristol!
The joint publication with Becky and Alex as the two joint first authors has just appeared in the latest issue of Cryst Eng Comm! This joint efforts is also featured on the front cover of the journal! Well done!
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