The Electrochemistry Group
Group News
Recent news about the life our group
March 2012
Our project students gave extremely good talks showcasing their work at the annual colloid group undergraduate talks. Congratulations to Julie Stephenson who won first prize for her talk.
We've been fortunate to have some ETA project students from the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials with us this term. Alex de Bruin and Nessrin Kattan have been working on characterising samples of CZTS and CZTSe. Sara Carreira and Kieran Bradley (yes he came back) have been taking real-time AFM videos of polymer swelling.
Our group had a stand at the Discover festival, an outreach event showcasing University of Bristol research. We had an enjoyable time showing off some solar powered gadgets and explaining how a marble run is actually a rather good analogy for a photovoltaic device. We also succesfully proved to Bristol's primary school children that we could make them into a battery.
We've also enjoyed having Kamila Zaberska, a visiting PhD student from Warsaw, working in our lab for the last two months.
December 2011
A review on Quantum Dot mediated charge transfer by Gabriela Kissling, David Miles and David Fermín has been selected as the cover article of the latest edition of PCCP. It was also recently highighlited in the PCCP Editors Choice section
Congratulations to Doctors Whiphada, Gabriela and Christa who have all passed their vivas this term- prompting a month of raucous celebrations. You will all be missed though!
David Fermín, Bo Hou and David Parker attended the bi-annual Supergen Excitonic Solar Cell conference in Oxford. We will be hosting it in Bristol in July 2012.
October 2011
With the start of the new term, we welcome 4 further project students to the group, Lucy Allen who will be working on the ZnO project, Julie Stephenson and Jo Humphry, assisting in electrocatalysis research, and Edward Burton who will be working with Quantum Dots. Additionally, we look forward to working with Liz Hargreaves, who will be looking into the electrochemical properties of Uranium Oxide.
September 2011
The 2011 Electrochemical Horizons conference in Bath was a busy one for the group, with David Fermín, Bo Hou, Lupita Montes de Oca Yemha, Daniela Plana and David Parker all giving talks.
Goodbye to Paramaconi Rodriguez, visiting for 3 months from Leiden
July 2011
Congratualtions to Lupita Montes de Oca Yemha for passing her Viva!
Congratualations to our recent Masters Students Amy Moore, David Miles and Kieren Bradley on graduating. All are going on the do PhDs, Amy at Cambridge, David at the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies in Bath, and Kieren at the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials DTC.
Goodbye to Julien Wagner, a visiting project student.