Inside front cover in Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 07 October 2023, Issue 19. Credit to Dr. Villeda Hernandez and his artistic skills.
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Prof. Faul named as one of Bristol University Enterprise Fellows for 2023/24
Prof. Faul has been named one of the four University Enterprise Fellows for the academic year 2023/2024. These fellowships aim to facilitate the potential commercialisation of research outcomes and intellectual properties from the Faul Group, as well as foster new connections with industry experts and potential investors.
I am delighted to be given this opportunity, through the University Enterprise Fellowship scheme, to explore commercialisation of our antibacterial materials from my laboratories.
I am aiming to use the time and released resources to have a much better understanding of the next steps in this commercialisation journey, whilst engaging with appropriate industry partners.
Prof. C. F. J. Faul
More details on the University of Bristol’s web page here.
Bristol Electrochem Conference 2023
Yubing & Ulzhalgas showcasing their compelling research concerning redox active organic materials within the University of Bristol at September’s Electrochem conference alongside Prof Faul.
ChinaNano23!
Charl spent a few days at ChinaNano23 – the 5th ChinaNano conference that he has attended. After a 4-year break it was wonderful to see old friends, and presentations on lots of exciting science!
What a great way to celebrate being able to get together and share science!
Charl back in China!
After almost 4 years, Charl is back in China, enjoying meeting collaborators, teaching, joining ChinaNano23, and visiting Chinese partner universities.
His trip has started on a high note with two days at the CAS National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) in Beijing, hosted by collaborators Prof Zhixiang Wei and Dr Kamran Amin. Charl spent two mornings with enthusiastic NCNST MSc and PhD students in interactive “From Project to Publication” workshop-style lectures.
Great to be back again!
New accepted manuscript!
New accepted manuscript from Basi, Ulzhalgas, Jerry Mintah & Dr Marcos Villeda Hernandez in Mater. Chem. Front. entitled “Bifunctional Metal-Free Porous Polyimide Networks for CO₂ Capture and Conversion“.
New visiting group members
Introducing visiting researcher Dr Kabir O. Oyedotun (left) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research interests lie in the areas of carbon-based nanomaterials for supercapacitors and battery applications, including synthesis and characterisation. At present, Dr Oyedotun’s scientific research group develops new nanostructured carbon materials such as activated carbon, nanotubes, graphene and reduced graphene oxide, and onion-like carbon among others. He works on the hydrothermal synthesis of carbon nanostructures and composites along with applications of carbon nanomaterials for energy storage devices applications. He has co-authored and authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers in highly rated impact factor journals.
Elizaveta Bejan (right) is undertaking a summer intern project within the Faul Research Group funded by the prestigious Royce Undergraduate Research Internship Scheme before continuing her undergraduate studies on the MSci Chemistry course at the University of Bristol.
Welcome to both.
New paper in Soft Robotics
Congratulations to Marcos Villeda-Hernandez, Ben Baker and Christian Romero for their work covering the potential of chemical reactions as both positive and negative pressure sources for use in soft robotic pneumatic actuators.
New review on sustainable/green methanol production
New review detailing significant advances in decarbonising methanol production with direct electrochemical techniques entitled “Can We Decarbonise Methanol Production by Direct Electrochemical CO2 Reduction?” from collaborator Alice Sheppard, currently undertaking her PhD in the Fermin Group at Bristol. Contributions from ex-Faul Group member Veronica Del Angel Hernandez.
From presentation to prestige in CSC2023, Vancouver
Congratulations to Xue for taking home the award for best student talk entitled “Quantitative solvent selection toolkits for functional materials preparation” in the Theory Guided Discovery of Energy Materials symposium at CSC2023.
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