Commonwealth scholarship and Academic Fellowship opportunities

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

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.

Alex’s paper accepted for publication in JACS!

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

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!

New year and (many!) new group members

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

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!

Success in France!

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Ben, Alex and Carl attended the 17th CNRS Colloquium on Anisotropic Self-Organised Systems, held in Autrans in France, 8 – 11 September (with generous support from the Bristol Alumni Foundation – thanks!). They had a great time discussing their science with physicists and chemists, including our close collaborators Olli Ikkala and Patrice Rannou (who also was one of co-organizers).

Finally, we heard recently that Carl won one of six poster prizes! Well done Carl!

Wei joining the FRG from Xi’an Jiaotong University

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

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!

International Supramolecular System Symposium (ISSS 2015)

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Charl is attending the International Supramolecular System Symposium (ISSS 2015) in Changchun, China, organised by Prof Lee from the Key State Laboratory for Supramolecular Structure and Materials at Jilin University.

A very exciting symposium with two days of top international plenary speakers only! Bristol was well represented, with Ian Manners giving a spectacular talk …

and Charl chairing the first session!

Pete’s poster prize!

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Peter presented his work at a poster session on Friday evening at ChinaNANO 2015 as part of the BCFN trip to China, and won one of only 22 poster prizes for ALL posters presented at the conference! In a double win for the School of Chemistry, Jason Potticary (from the Hall group), also won a poster prize! Well done!