Congratulations to Helen Tunstall-Garcia who’s first paper co-authored with Bethan Charles and Rachel Evans has been accepted for publication in Advanced Photonics Research. Their review is entitled “The Role of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes in Optical Applications”.

We are delighted to announce that Bethan has recently been invited to become a senior member at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, where she will be taking up the role of Research Associate within the college. Bethan is also joint winner, with Jeremie Asselin, of this year’s Armourers and Brasiers Company post-doctoral prize within the Department of … Continue reading Dr Bethan Charles’ success

New paper out in Energy and Environmental Science in collaboration with Michael Debije (Eindhoven) and Gianmarco Griffini (Milan). We make the case for treating luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) as optical devices and outline experimental protocols for the standardisation of LSC characterisation to enable advancement of the field. Link

Rachel has been awarded an EPSRC New Horizons grant in collaboration with Kalai Saravanamuttu (McMaster University, Canada) to develop bio inspired luminescent photonic structures for indoor light harvesting. We'll be recruiting for a PDRA post later in the year so watch this space.

Congratulations to Tom for his paper “Dual-Template Approach to Hierarchically Porous Polymer Membranes” which has just been published as a Hot Article in Materials Chemistry Frontiers and selected for the Inside Front Cover image. This work investigated the use of two templates as part of the manufacture of poly(ethersulfone) membranes by the non-solvent induced phase … Continue reading Article published in Materials Chemistry Frontiers

Congratulations to former and current group members Camille, Judith and Elaine for their paper "Light-Responsive Self-Assembly of a Cationic Azobenzene Surfactant at High Concentration" which has just been accepted by Soft Matter. They report the high-concentration and lyotropic liquid crystalline behaviour of trimethylammonium bromide azobenzene photosurfactants for the first time. These surfactants are often used … Continue reading New article accepted in Soft Matter

Congratulations to Tom Southern, a final year PhD student in our group , who has been awarded a postgraduate teaching award by Fitzwilliam College. Well done Tom!

Congratulations to Kieran Richards, a second year PhD student in the group who won a prize for his talk at the UK Colloids 2020 Online Flash Presentations meeting on 20th July. Kieran presented his brand new work on the use of computer vision to analyse Pickering emulsions that he has developed during lockdown!

Congratulations to ex-group members Barry McKenna and Abhinav Shivkumar, and current group member Bethan Charles for their new paper, which has just been published in Nanoscale. The stability and reproducibility of perovskite nanocrystals (PNC) produced by ligand-assisted reprecipitation (LARP) is investigated. Significant differences in optical properties and morphology are observed depending on specific synthetic factors. … Continue reading Advance Article in Nanoscale

Congratulations to Abi Collins, Thomas Southern, Morton Lyu and Mike Bennison whose SPIE Proceedings manuscript entitled Photoactive organic-inorganic hybrid polymer waveguides for optical device technologies from the Photosensitive Materials and their Applications Conference has been published. This work reports on the mechanical and optical properties of low molecular weight ureasils and the relationship between the … Continue reading Paper published in SPIE 2020