James, Charl and others from the BCFN in China!

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

A large group from the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, including James (joint PhD student with Heinrich Hoerber) and Charl are currently in Beijing, China. They participated in a joint symposium on Tuesday with the CAS National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology on Monday (see the photo below), and are currently attending the ChinaNANO’13 conference.

On Monday they will visit our collaborators at the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University for the “1st Tsinghua-Bristol Joint Nanoscience Symposium”

Chinwe’s paper online!

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Chinwe’s paper (with James, Ben and Patrice, our collaborator from Grenoble) on tuning conductivity and structure of tetra(aniline)-based triblock structures appeared online on the Journal of Materials Chemistry C’s website!

In this paper we reported on our investigations into the aggregation behaviour and optoelectronic properties of these π-conjugated rod–coil–rod triblock materials. Well done!

Charl at the College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

Charl arrived in Changchun on Wednesday afternoon, and started with a full day of lectures on Thursday, covering the topics of scientific misconduct and scientific writing in two 2h lectures! More than 300 graduate students attended the lectures, and extra chairs were brought into the lecture hall!

Here he can be seen relaxing with Prof Junqi Sun (vice-dean of the College of Chemistry, who invited Charl) and some of his research group members after his lectures.

Chinwe’s paper accepted!

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

A paper by Chinwe on the assembly and control of TANI triblock structures, and two order-of-magnitude tuning of conductivity was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C! This paper further strengthens the cooperation the FRG has with Dr Patrice Rannou (Grenoble), who is one of the co-authors. More details to follow soon, but in the meantime – well done to all involved!

2 Reasons to be cheerful!

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

There might be many more reasons to be cheerful, but we would like to mention at least two here! Charl has recently taken on more responsibility (in addition to his research activities) within the School of Chemistry. He is now “Director of Graduate Recruitment”, and in charge of all graduate recruitment (home, EU and international, both MRes and PhD) for the School of Chemistry …

On the research front, we heard yesterday that Tom’s recently published paper has now been selected by Soft Matter as one of their “Hot Papers” for August. The paper is featured on the Soft Matter blog, and is available for free download!

Feli back in Germany …. and Yaozu now in Bristol!

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Faul Research Group - Functional Polymers

There are, as always, people leaving the group (Feli taking up a new job in Germany – congrats!), and new people joining! Yaozu just joined the group from China as Marie Curie fellow – welcome! More to follow soon!