New undergraduate and postgraduate students join the group

Three chemistry students will carry out their final research projects in the group: Stephanie Hall (MSci), Josh Pepper (MSci), Honor Westlake (BSc). In addition to that we welcome two postgraduate students affiliated with the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (Secil Yildiz and Soorya Kartheesan) who will carry out short research projects with us. Welcome all,

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Shortened conference season

The advantage of online conferences is that they can be accessible without lenghty travels and absences from home… their disadvantage is that they are, well, online, and the whole part about impromptu discussions over coffee is missing. Nevertheless Sebastien participated at two conferences recently, the Fall Meeting of the ACS, and the annual meeting of

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Congratulations to new graduates!

It’s been quite a year… but Millie and Harry have successfully completed their degree and they deserve the warmest congratulations- the in-person graduation is currently planned for the Spring of 2022, so hopefully this will be a chance to finally meet in person after having carried out their final year project entirely online. In the

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Funding awarded!

Great news today, as a funding proposal with the Royal Society of Chemistry for a project entitled “Microporous polymers for luminescent solar concentrators” has been awarded! This will allow us to upgrade fluorescence analysis equipment to characterise our luminescent composites.

Summer project kick-off

Today we welcome Ezra Glasstone who will be working on a project entitled “Reprogrammable light-activated circuits” in collaboration with the group of Prof. Sabine Hauert in Eng. Math. This project is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Faculty of Engineering via the pump-priming programme.

Stella returns and starts her PhD studies

Stella Wang, who carried out her MSci project in the group in 2020, returns and starts her PhD studies in this new year. Her return is all virtual for now as she will remain in China for a few more weeks, but she will move to Bristol shortly to continue her work on opto-electronic properties

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