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April 2024 Our perspective entitled “Conformational Analysis of Conjugated Organic Materials: What Are My Heteroatoms Really Doing?” prepared in collaboration with Karl Thorley at the University of Kentucky has been published in ChemPlusChem.

April 2024 The group attended the inaugural London Bioelectronics Meeting at King’s College London. Dilara and Christian gave talks and Dilara and Simiao presented posters as well.

March 2024 Christina’s work on Single-Component Electroactive Polymer Architectures for Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensing has now been published in Advanced Science. Great collaboration with Sahika Inal’s team (KAUST, Saudi Arabia). Well done Christina!

March 2024 Congratulations to Will for successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled “Functionalisation of Polymer Thin-Films towards their Application in Biosensing Organic Transistors”.

February 2024 Our work within the MITICS consortium on side chain engineering in IDTBT polymers has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

January 2024 Congratulations to Roman on his PhD graduation.

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January 2024 Victoria presented her PhD project at the CDT Research Day in Cambridge.

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December 2023 Zeeshan’s computational paper on Quantum modelling of multi-directional fused-ring electron acceptors for organic photovoltaics has now been published in Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. Well done Zeeshan!

December 2023 Congratulations to Veronica who has completed her double Master’s degree from CIMAV, Mexico and QMUL following her Master’s research project on organic thermoelectrics in the group. Excited to see where you will take organic thermoelectrics during your PhD studies at Chalmers in Sweden!

November 2023 The second paper from Roman’s PhD is now out in Nature Communications. Together with Myung-Han Yoon’s group (GIST, South Korea), we studied how the orientation of polymer mixed conductors and the ion injection direction influence the transient behaviour of OECT devices. Well done Roman!

November 2023 Christian gave an invited talk at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.

November 2023 Zeeshan’s review on Quinoxaline derivatives as attractive electron-transporting materials has now been published in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. Well done Zeeshan!

November 2023 Dilara presented her work on new bioelectronic materials at the RSC Materials Chemistry Poster Symposium at Burlington House.

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October 2023 Christian gave a keynote talk at the IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference in Italy.

October 2023 Pete’s latest work has now been published in Chemistry of Materials. Together with lots of great collaborators, we studied how side chain density and alignment influences the thermoelectric performance of polythiophenes. Well done Pete!

September 2023 Welcome to Victoria who joins the group as a PhD student working on sequence-defined pi-conjugated materials in a project co-supervised by Prof Andrew Livingston and co-funded by Cambridge Display Technology.

September 2023 We said goodbye to Roman who first joined the lab as a visitor in the summer of 2018 and later went on to do his PhD in the group. Best of luck in your new job in Czech Republic!

August 2023 We have received funding from Horizon Europe to work on a research project on organic CMOS-like neuromorphic circuits within a large European consortium.

August 2023 We said goodbye to Raymundo who spent two years as a postdoc in the group.

August 2023 Christian gave an invited talk at the SPIE Optics + Photonics Annual Meeting in San Diego.

July 2023 Congratulations to Roman for successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled “New Organic Materials for Bioelectronic Applications”.

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July 2023 We have received funding from the Leverhulme Trust to work on the topological design of defects within graphene together with collaborators from University of Warwick, Diamond Light Source and University of Nottingham.

July 2023 Congratulations to Mohammod for winning the French Prize for the best experimental project in Chemistry this year with his BSc project on small-molecule semiconductors for UV down-conversion.

June 2023 Perspective discussing sustainability considerations for organic electronic products is out now in Nature Materials.

June 2023 Dilara, Simiao and Veronica attended the inaugural Cambridge Bioelectronics Symposium and presented posters on their work.

June 2023 Raymundo, Roman and Christian attended the first in-person project meeting for our MITICS consortium in Bruges.

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June 2023 Well done to Dilara, Rebecca and Simiao who all presented their PhD research at the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences 2023 PhD Symposium. Congratulations to Dilara for receiving the 1st prize best poster award and to Simiao for 2nd prize best talk, great job!

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May 2023 Christian helped to organise a symposium on the topic of “Organic and hybrid transistors and electrochemical transistors: materials and devices” at the 2023 Spring E-MRS conference in Strasbourg.

May 2023 Great to see Roman’s PhD work on the regiochemistry of organic mixed conductors published in Angewandte Chemie. The study was carried out in collaboration with Myung-Han Yoon’s group (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Achilleas Savva (University of Cambridge) and Karl Thorley (University of Kentucky).

April 2023 Will, Veronica, Dilara, Simiao and Raymundo attended the 6th London Polymer Group meeting held at the UCL School of Pharmacy.

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April 2023 Raymundo gave a talk on his research on conjugated polymer nanoparticles and Christian gave a talk on our bioelectronics research at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco.

March 2023 Raymundo and Sofia’s work on organic semiconductor nanoparticles with built-in surfactants is now online in Nanoscale; well done both!

March 2023 Our collaborative work with Wan Yue’s group (Sun Yat-sen University) on small-molecule organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors has been published in Advanced Materials.

January 2023 Simiao and Christina’s review on n-type semiconductors for organic electrochemical transistor applications is now online in Synthetic Metals; great job!

January 2023 Congratulations to Sofia for passing her MSc following her research project on conjugated nanoparticles with built-in surfactants.

December 2022 We said goodbye to Christina, our longest serving group member. Thanks for all the hard work and for keeping the lab in check and best wishes for your new endeavours in Oxford!

November 2022 Our group was strongly represented at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston with Simiao and Will presenting posters and Christina giving a talk.

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November 2022 A belated welcome to Dilara and Rebecca who have joined the group as PhD students and to Veronica who is spending the second year of her MRes with us. We also said goodbye to Zeeshan who has returned to Pakistan after spending his 6-month IRSIP fellowship with us.

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October 2022 Congratulations to Zeeshan who won a prize for his poster on new quinoxaline-based electron acceptors in the Energy and Materials section of the 2022 Commonwealth Chemistry Posters event.

September 2022 Congratulations to Christina, Simiao and Will who all have been awarded Researcher Development Grants from the Royal Society of Chemistry to support their attendance at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.

September 2022 Great to see the group presenting lots of exciting new work at the CAM-IES workshop on mixed ionic and electronic conduction in Cambridge.

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September 2022 Christian has been promoted to Reader in Organic Materials.

August 2022 Another paper from our collaboration with Anne Guilbert (Imperial College) and Mohamed Zbiri (Institut Laue-Langevin) is out now in Chemistry of Materials; well done to Pete!

August 2022 Our collaborative work with Wojciech Pisula’s group (MPI Mainz and Lodz) on charge carrier transport in thiophene/phenylene small-molecule semiconductors has been published in Organic Electronics; well done to Zach and Roman!

July 2022 Zach and Christian presented the group’s work at the International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals (ICSM 2022) at the University of Glasgow.

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June 2022 Congratulations to Zach; his paper on small-molecule OECT materials is among the top 10 most downloaded papers in Advanced Electronic Materials.

June 2022 Welcome to Cat and Zeeshan who will be spending five weeks and five months, respectively, in our group. Celebrated with a new group photo.

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May 2022 Christian visited South Korea and gave invited seminars at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Seoul National University (SNU).

May 2022 Our collaboration with Bob Schroeder (UCL) on self-doping of n-type organic semiconductors has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C; available open access here.

May 2022 Excellent to see the group strongly represented at the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences 2022 PhD Symposium. Well done everyone and congratulations to Simiao and Roman who picked up prizes during the day.

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April 2022 Congratulations to Christina on her PhD graduation.

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April 2022 Our collaborative work with Chris McNeill (Monash University) has resulted in two recent publications in ACS Materials Letters (link) and Materials Horizons (link).

March 2022 Congratulations to Birannavi who has been accepted into the PhD programme at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London.

February 2022 Zach and Jorge’s work on isoindigo-based mixed ionic and electronic conductors for OECT applications has been published in Advanced Materials. Great to finally see this work out; available open access here.

January 2022 Congratulations to Pete and Zach who finally got to attend their PhD graduation ceremony in person.

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December 2021 Well done to Christina and Roman who gave oral and poster presentations on their research at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.

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November 2021 Congratulations to Christina for successfully defending her PhD thesis entitled “Conjugated polymers for sensing biologically relevant molecules”.

October 2021 Congratulations to Wenxi for passing his MSc with Merit following his research project on surface functionalisation of polymer films.

October 2021 Welcome to Sofia, who joins the group as a postgraduate Master’s student working on organic bioelectronics.

October 2021 Welcome to Molly, who joins the group as a PhD student working on metal-organic frameworks for thermoelectric applications. Molly is also supervised by Petra Szilágyi and Oliver Fenwick in SEMS.

September 2021 Our review on Mixed Ionic and Electronic Conduction in Small-Molecule Semiconductors has been published in Chemical Reviews. Well done to Christina, Roman and Zach!

September 2021 Welcome to Raymundo, who has joined the group as a postdoc to work on our EU-funded project “Mixed ionic and electronic transport in conjugated polymers for bioelectronics”.

August 2021 Congratulations to Christina; her first research article entitled “Controlling morphology, adhesion, and electrochromic behavior of PEDOT films through molecular design and processing” has been published in Journal of Polymer Science. Link here.

August 2021 We have contributed to a review on porous organic materials for thermoelectric applications with collaborators at CNRS Strasbourg; read it here.

August 2021 Our collaboration with Anne Guilbert (Imperial College) and Mohamed Zbiri (Institut Laue-Langevin) continues – see the latest results published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C here.

August 2021 Christian gave an invited talk at the SPIE Optics + Photonics Annual Meeting in San Diego.

July 2021 Welcome to Thénina, who is spending a month in our labs as a visiting student from Polytech Sorbonne.

July 2021 We said goodbye to Pete, the second PhD from the group. Meanwhile, Pete’s latest work carried out in collaboration with our friends in the Organic Thermoelectrics Lab is now available to read here.

July 2021 Well done to Christina, who gave a talk at the 15th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC15) on conjugated molecularly imprinted polymers for biological sensing.

June 2021 Welcome to Matthew, who joins the group to carry out his RSC Summer Bursary project on exciton diffusion in organic semiconductors.

June 2021 Well done to Pete, who gave a talk at the E-MRS Spring Meeting covering his work on electric and thermoelectric properties of thiophene-based copolymers.

May 2021 Christian gave an invited talk at the IUPAC-MACRO2020+ conference.

April 2021 Well done to Christina, who gave her first international conference talk at the MRS Spring Meeting. Christina presented her work on molecularly imprinted semiconducting polymers for biosensing applications.

March 2021 Congratulations to Pete, who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Energy Harvesting using Organic Electronics”.

March 2021 Our collaborative work with Anne Guilbert (Imperial College) and Mohamed Zbiri (Institut Laue-Langevin) has been published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics; paper available here. Well done Zach!

February 2021 The results of Pete’s collaboration with our past MRes student Frini have been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces; read the paper here. Well done both!

January 2021 A belated welcome to Simiao Yu, who has joined the group as a CSC-funded PhD student. Simiao will be investigating new semiconducting materials for bioelectronic applications.

December 2020 We said goodbye to Zach, the group’s longest serving member and first PhD from the Nielsen Lab. Best of luck with your future endeavours with Chromosol!

November 2020 As part of a large European consortium, we have been awarded funding from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme to continue our work on mixed ionic-electronic conductors.

October 2020 Christian gave a seminar on Molecular Design for Emerging Organic (Bio)Electronic Applications at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

October 2020 Pete’s paper on the Effect of polar side chains on neutral and p-doped polythiophene is now online in Journal of Materials Chemistry C; available open access here. Excellent job Pete!

August 2020 Congratulations to Philisha, who received the Hickinbottom Prize for Project Work for her 4th year project.

August 2020 Congratulations to Hannah, who received the D. C. Bradley Prize for Project Work for her 3rd year project.

July 2020 Congratulations to Zach, who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Conjugated Organic Materials and their Applications in Biological Sensing”.

June 2020 Philisha presented a poster on her Master’s project at the SCI National Undergraduate Poster Competition 2020.

June 2020 Zach’s paper on Conjugated molecules for colourimetric and fluorimetric sensing of sodium and potassium is now online in Materials Chemistry Frontiers; available open access here. Well done Zach!

May 2020 Zach’s paper on Semiconducting Small Molecules as Active Materials for p‐Type Accumulation Mode Organic Electrochemical Transistors has been published in Advanced Electronic Materials; read it here. Great to see this work out!

April 2020  Congratulations to Zach and Roman – their paper on Glycolated Thiophene‐Tetrafluorophenylene Copolymers for Bioelectronic Applications has been recognised as one of the most read in ChemPlusChem in 2018-2019. You can read the paper here.

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March 2020  Great contributions to the annual QMUL Chemistry Poster Session from our 3rd and 4th year project students. Big congratulations to Philisha, who won Best MSci Poster!

March 2020  1st year (Will) and 3rd year (Christina and Pete) PhD talks successfully delivered, well done all – and congratulations to Christina for best talk award, again!

January 2020  Christian gave a talk at innoLAE 2020, the 6th annual Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conference held in Cambridge.

January 2020  Christina visited the group of Professor Sahika Inal at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.

January 2020  Christian participated in a Global Research Collaboration Initiative between Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) and QMUL at the UDLAP campus in Puebla, Mexico.

January 2020  Congratulations to Pete and Zach, who both have been awarded researcher mobility grants from the Royal Society of Chemistry for short term scientific visits overseas.

December 2019  Another successful MRI Christmas Symposium; Wenxi and Will presented posters and Christina gave a talk for which she won the Best Talk Prize.

December 2019  Christian gave a talk at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.

October 2019 We said goodbye to Lorena, who spent a year as a postdoc in the group. We will miss her and her mastery of highly electron-deficient molecules.

October 2019 Congratulations to Frini for passing her MRes with Distinction following her research project on organic bioelectronics. We hope to keep in touch as Frini moves to the School of Physics and Astronomy at QMUL for her PhD studies.

October 2019 Our collaborative work with Imperial College and Institut Laue-Langevin is now online. Learn more about the structural dynamics of P3HT here.

October 2019 Welcome to Wenxi Huang, who joins the group as a postgraduate Master’s student working on organic bioelectronics.

October 2019 William gave a talk on his MSc research project at the QMUL-Sichuan Joint Research Symposium.

September 2019 Congratulations to William for passing his MSc with Distinction following his research project on organic thermoelectrics. We are pleased to have William continuing in the group as a PhD student.

August 2019 We said goodbye to Jorge, who spent nearly two years as a postdoc in the group. Thanks for all the hard work, the excellent advice and the clever lab tricks!

August 2019 Christian gave an invited talk at the SPIE Optics + Photonics Annual Meeting in San Diego.

August 2019 We have been awarded an MRC-KHIDI UK-Korea Partnering Award to work with Professor Yoon at GIST on bioelectronic materials and devices.

August 2019 Christina gave a talk on conjugated polymers for biological sensing at the first Chemistry International Summer School at QMUL.

July 2019 Congratulations to Yasser, who has been awarded the D. C. Bradley Prize for Project Work in Inorganic/Materials Chemistry for his project on Energy Harvesting with Conjugated Polymers carried out in the group.

July 2019 Pete gave a talk at the 3rd QMUL-NPU PhD Summer School and Workshop established through the partnership between QMUL and Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an, China.

July 2019 It was great to see the Nielsen Lab strongly represented at the 14th International Conference on Materials Chemistry in Birmingham with Christina presenting a poster and Zach and Jorge both giving talks!

July 2019 Zach and Roman’s paper on Glycolated Thiophene‐Tetrafluorophenylene Copolymers for Bioelectronic Applications has been published in ChemPlusChem as part of their special issue on π-Conjugated (Macro)molecules and their Applications; read it here. Well done guys!

June 2019 Christian gave a talk on organic bioelectronics from a molecular design perspective at the Academy of Medical Sciences’ annual Springboard Award Holders Event in London.

June 2019 Well done to Pete, who gave his first talk at an international conference at the 15th International Conference on Organic Electronics in Hasselt, Belgium.

June 2019 Most of the group attended the Centre for Plastic Electronics Annual Symposium at Imperial College and Christina and Pete presented posters.

June 2019 Zach and Zhijie’s book chapter on Conjugated Polymers for n- and p-Type Charge Transport has been published as part of the Handbook of Conducting Polymers, now in its fourth edition. Link to chapter here. For more information, please get in touch.

May 2019 Jorge participated in the 2nd Chem East Organic Symposium at University of East Anglia.

May 2019 A group outing for the annual Pint of Science Festival took us to Brixton for interesting talks on organic materials, women in science, our energy future and soft robotics.

April 2019 Christian participated in a GCRF-funded workshop on Renewable Energy Production and Storage from Waste Biomass in Surabaya, Indonesia.

April 2019 The group was strongly represented at the 5th London Polymer Group Symposium held at the University of Kent.

April 2019 Well done to Yasser, who gave a talk on his MSci project at the British Conference for Undergraduate Research (BCUR 2019) at the University of South Wales.

March 2019 Christina and Lorena attended the Women in Chemistry 2019 conference at the University of Nottingham in celebration of International Women’s Day.

March 2019 We have received funding from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at QMUL to buy a gel permeation chromatography system.

February 2019 Christian gave an invited talk at the KAUST Research Conference on “New Trends in Biosensors and Bioelectronics” in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

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February 2019 Zach visited Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he spent a week in Jonathan Rivnay’s labs testing the performance of our new materials in organic electrochemical transistors.

January 2019 Christian gave an invited talk at Imperial College’s Centre for Plastic Electronics Winter School in Bergün, Switzerland.

January 2019  Our review on organic semiconductors for biological sensing is now online. Well done Jorge and Christina!

December 2018  Great to see the group strongly represented at the MRI Christmas Symposium here at QMUL with Pete giving a talk and Christina and Jorge presenting posters. The day ended very nicely with Christina receiving the Best Poster Prize – congratulations!

November 2018  Well done to Zach, who gave his first talk at an international conference, presenting his work on small molecule OECT materials at the MRS fall 2018 meeting in Boston.

November 2018  Christian visited Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an, China and gave a talk at the 2018 Sino-UK Symposium on Advanced Materials and Structures.

November 2018  Pete and Jorge both presented posters at the London Polymer Group’s annual meeting at King’s College. Pete also presented his work at the CAM-IES science day in Cambridge and Jorge presented at the RSC Materials Chemistry Division Poster Symposium at Burlington House.

November 2018  Congratulations to Zach, who has been awarded a travel grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry to go to the MRS meeting in Boston later this year.

October 2018  Welcome to Frini Taifakou and William Neal, who join the group as postgraduate Master’s students and to Yasser Zaffar, who is carrying out his 4th year MSci project in the group.

September 2018  Pete presented a poster on his recent work on polythiophene copolymers at the JUICED Energy Hub Post Graduate Research Symposium at UCL.

September 2018  Welcome to Lorena Alonso Marañón, who is joining the group as a postdoc funded by EPSRC to work on improving the performance of organic electronics.

August 2018  Christian gave invited talks at the 256th ACS National Meeting in Boston and the SPIE Optics + Photonics Annual Meeting in San Diego.

July 2018  Our collaborative work with the Sirringhaus group is now online. Read it here: Performance Improvements in Conjugated Polymer Devices by Removal of Water‐Induced Traps!

July 2018  Welcome to Vera He, who is spending two months in our labs making new bioelectronic polymers before she starts her undergraduate studies in the autumn.

June 2018  Christian gave invited talks at the 2nd International Organic Electronics Workshop held at UCAS Beijing and at the 14th International Conference on Organic Electronics in Bordeaux. First encounter with a cartoonist (@nais_coq)!

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June 2018  Welcome to Roman Halaksa, who is a visiting PhD student from Brno University of Technology. Roman will spend the next three months in our labs working on new polymers for bioelectronic applications.

June 2018  Our work in collaboration with Henning Sirringhaus’s group at the University of Cambridge on improving polymer OFET performance has been accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. Well done Zhijie!

April 2018  We have received funding from EPSRC to work on additive-stabilised polymer electronics in collaboration with Henning Sirringhaus at the University of Cambridge.

March 2018  Asha and Hussain presented posters on their MSci work and Christina and Pete gave first year PhD talks. Well done all!

March 2018  Zach presented a poster covering his work on organic semiconductors for bioelectronic applications at the BioEl Winter School in Austria.

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January 2018  Welcome to Christina Kousseff and Dr Jorge Borges-González, who join the Nielsen Lab as a PhD student and postdoc, respectively!

January 2018  It’s been a pleasure sharing a lab with the Schroeder Group over the last year and a half. We wish them all the best in their new endeavours at UCL!

December 2017  Schroeder-Nielsen Christmas Dinner; thanks to Zilu and Meng for organising – and cooking our food!

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December 2017  Zach gave a talk at the MRI Christmas Symposium at QMUL.

December 2017  Christian gave an invited talk at a CPE Symposium on Organic and Hybrid Materials for Bio and Healthcare Applications at Imperial College London.

November 2017  Christian gave a talk at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.

September 2017  Welcome to Pete Finn and Hussain Thoha, who join the Nielsen Lab as a PhD and MSci student, respectively!

September 2017  Welcome to Dr Meng Wang, who joins the Nielsen Lab as the first postdoc in the group!

August 2017  We say goodbye to Benjamin, who returns to France after spending four months in our lab. Au revoir!

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July 2017  We have been awarded £15,000 from the Royal Society.

July 2017  Christian gave a talk at the 13th International Conference on Materials Chemistry in Liverpool.

June 2017  Christian gave talks at the International Symposium of Materials Horizons held at ICCAS, Beijing and at Fpi13 held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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May 2017  Zach presented a poster at the MRI Spring Symposium.

May 2017  Christian gave a talk at the E-MRS meeting in Strasbourg.

May 2017  We have been awarded £99,924 from the Academy of Medical Sciences to develop organic bioelectronic sensors for epilepsy diagnosis.

May 2017  Christian attended the launch of the Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) at the Maxwell Centre in Cambridge which brought together the CAM-IES Co-Investigators and industry project partners, including CDT, Shell, Johnson Matthey, Deregallera, Eight19 and ARM.

April 2017  Helen presented her MSc work at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) at Bournemouth University; read the full report here.

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April 2017  The whole group attended the 3rd London Polymer Group Symposium at Imperial College and Christian gave an invited talk.

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April 2017  Welcome to Benjamin Poggi, who is visiting from University of Paris-Saclay and will be working in our labs for the next four months!

March 2017  Christian is now a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy.

March 2017  Christian gave a talk at the BioEl2017 International Winterschool on Bioelectronics in Austria.

February 2017  It was a busy day in the group with Helen and Ellasia presenting posters on their MSci projects and Zach and Zhijie giving their 1st year PhD talks. Well done all!

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January 2017  We are now part of the £2M Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) in collaboration with Cambridge, UCL and Newcastle University funded by EPSRC (link).

November 2016  Christian gave a research seminar at Nottingham Trent University.

October 2016  Welcome to our two new MSci students, Ellasia Tan and Helen Balogun. Helen is jointly supervised by Dr Matteo Palma and myself.

October 2016  Welcome to Zachary Parr, who joins the group as a PhD student!

October 2016  Welcome to Zhijie Guo, who joins the group as a PhD student on a CSC scholarship!

September 2016  Christian gave a talk at RAMS 2016, a conference for recent appointees in materials science, at Lancaster University.