A “Chemistry and Materials Session” was organised (by Charl) to take place on Friday, 6th of November, as part of the HKB Symposium 2015. With an exciting line-up of speakers, and a poster session at the end of the day it was a great opportunity to learn about local and international science!
The event ended on a high note with a speakers dinner held at the M-Shed Industrial Museum at the harbour side in Bristol.
Photographer: Bhagesh Sachania (group photo).
The FRG had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Kazuo Akagi from Kyoto University today. After a beautiful talk about helical poly(acetylene)s, and polymerisations in anisotropic media, the whole group interacted with Prof. Akagi over posters, coffee and pastries!
Kazu then had the chance to catch up with his former PhD supervisor!
As Jan was visiting Bristol, he agreed to give a research seminar on some of the latest work from his group. In front of a packed seminar room Jan gave a fascinating talk on “Out-of-equilibrium biomimetic systems by dynamic and dissipative self-assembly”
Jan’s talk led to some lively discussion afterwards!
Alex had his viva on Monday… and did a great job of defending his thesis! With Prof Jan van Esch (Advanced Soft Matter Group, Delft, the Netherlands) as his external examiner, Alex had to ensure that he knew all the details of self-assembly!
Congratulations Alex – well done!
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!
Zihao (Zack) Ren just joined the FRG as a Masters by Research student!
Zack, who is from China, spent some time in South Korea during his undergraduate studies, before moving to the UK. He will be working on conjugated microporous materials for carbon dioxide capture.
Commonwealth Scholarships for PhD study in the UK are offered for citizens of developing Commonwealth countries. In addition, Academic Fellowships (for early career academics) are also available.
These scholarships are funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), with the aim of contributing to the UK’s international development aims and wider overseas interests, supporting excellence in UK higher education, and sustaining the principles of the Commonwealth.
If you are interested to apply for either a scholarship or a fellowship, then please contact Prof. Faul, and provide a CV and two academic references.
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!
The FRG has increased dramatically in size with the start of the new academic year, with new PhD, MSc, MSci project students and visitors! Here a photo taken at group meeting earlier today, with Esther, Maha and James not on the photo!
Welcome to all the new group members!
Djen joined the FRG as a new PhD student. He is from the Farscope Robotics CDT, and just starting on his PhD research project, jointly supervised by Prof. Jonathan Rossiter and Charl.
Welcome Djen!
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