ongratulations to Abigail Collins on passing her PhD viva! Many thanks to Prof. Libby Gibson from Newcastle University and Prof. Tijmen Euser (Department of Physics) for examining duties.
Abi has been doing some excellent work on the design of solid-state hosts for photon upconverters to improve integration with devices. You can read more about it in her recent publications (below), with more on the way!
Ambient solid-state triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion in ureasil organic–inorganic hybrid hosts Abigail R. Collins, Bolong Zhang, Michael J. Bennison and Rachel C. Evans*, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2024, 12, 6310-6318.
Organic Polymer Hosts for Triplet−Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Systems, Michael J. Bennison, Abigail C. Collins, Bolong Zhang and Rachel C. Evans*, Macromolecules, 2021, 54, 5287-5303. Front cover.
Photoactive organic-inorganic hybrid polymer waveguides for optical device technologies. Abigail R. Collins, Thomas J. F. Southern, Guangpeng Lyu, Michael J. Bennison and Rachel C. Evans*, Proc. SPIE 11367, Photosensitive Materials and their Applications, 113670Y (1 April 2020); doi: 10.1117/12.2564510.
Photoactive Materials Group 