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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Keyue Wang from BCFN will carry out her project with us

We are very happy to welcome Keyue Wang who carries out an MSc in Nanoscience and Functional Nanomaterials with the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN). She will investigate the properties of photo-responsive materials, either computationally or in the lab if access is possible. Welcome Keyue!

Callum Branfoot joins as PDRA

Callum will be associated with the team as a PDRA, working with the Bristol Composites Institute (with Prof. Ian Hamerton) in the development of high-performance polymers. He is currently finishing his PhD, jointly supervised by Profs Paul Pringle (Chemistry) and Ian Bond (Engineering).

Two MSci students join the team

Their final project will be like no other, we are nevertheless very happy to welcome Millie Burley and Harry Creak who will carry out their MSci project with us. Their project will likely not involve lab work, and will consist in a blend of literature research, proposal writing and honing presentation skills via the production

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Wendy Tang joins us

We welcome Wendy Tang, a 2nd year PhD student co-supervised by Prof. Ian Hamerton in the Faculty of Engineering. Wendy’s project aims at reinforcing polybenzoxazines (a series of high-performance polymers with enhanced mechanical performance, flame and fire resistance) by incorporating nano-sized additives. This work is conducted in collaboration with the Bristol Composites Institute and is

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Graduation time!

Time for socially-distanced celebrations as the first two students to carry out their final research projects have officially graduated with their MSci degrees! Congratulations to Stella Wang and James Davies, hopefully a time will come when we can gather and celebrate properly. In the meantime, good luck for the future and keep in touch! We

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Christos Kouzios joins us for MSc project

Christos, based at the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN) joins the lab to carry out his project in light-responsive materials. Initially mostly laboratory-based his project now includes design and modeling of materials to keep him busy till the labs reopen (fingers crossed)!