Paper in Macromolecules!

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

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!

Tom’s paper in PCCP!

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

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’s paper accepted in Langmuir!

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

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!

Short- and long-term visitors in the group

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

We have had a number of visitors to the group. Firstly we have May, who won a Nuffield Foundation Research Placement Scholarship, and will be spending 4 weeks in the group, exploring novel dye-surfactant supramolecular complexes.

Rui Yao, a 6-month visitor from Nanjing, where he is doing his PhD, arrived last week.

And finally, we have Jack Underhill, who has visited the group twice before, working alongside May on dye-surfactant supramolecular complexes.

Welcome!

Maha and Charl at ICSM 2016 in Guangzhou

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Maha and Charl are attending the well-known International Conference on Synthetic Metals, the longest-running conference series in the field of conducting and semiconducting organic materials. This year the conference is held in Guangzhou, China, which is very humid and hot this time of the year!

Maha is presenting a poster, and Charl gave a talk on Monday (and chaired the afternoon session). More updates to follow soon!

Charl exploring global challenges and collaborations in South Africa

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Charl is visiting the chemistry departments at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch this week to explore potential collaborations and give research seminars. It is of course great to be back in South Africa, and great to visit old friends, colleagues and potential new collaborators.

Charl is being hosted by Assoc. Prof. Greg Smith at UCT, and Dr Prinessa Chellan at Stellenbosch.