Los polímeros conjugados constituyen la base de los dispositivos optoelectrónicos en forma de películas finas, como son las celdas solares orgánicas y los dispositivos de emisión de luz orgánicos. Depositados sobre grandes áreas contribuyen al desarrollo de plataformas de comunicación inteligentes, autónomas y ubicuas. Pero su fabricación requiere disolventes orgánicos, la mayoría tóxicos y su…
Recent advances in large-scale production of graphene have led to the availability of solution-processable platelets at the commercial scale. Langmuir-Schaefer (L-S) deposition is a scalable process for forming a percolating film of graphene platelets which can be used for electronic gas sensing. Here, we demonstrate the use of this deposition method to produce functional gas…
Emin Istif, Javier Hernandez-Ferrer, Esteban P. Urriolabeitia, Anastasios Stergiou, Nikos Tagmatarchis, Giuseppe Fratta, Matthew J. Large, Alan B. Dalton, Ana M. Benito, Wolfgang K. Maser Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 1707548 The game‐changing role of graphene oxide (GO) in tuning the excitonic behavior of conjugated polymer nanoparticles is described for the first time. This is demonstrated by using poly(3‐hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as…
Launch of Newco to exploit supercapacitor technology Sebastian Nufer, PhD student at M-Solv Ltd, supported by Richard Lee of Academatch. A business model canvas was employed to provide a broad outline of the opportunity and the key steps and work streams required to bring the business to market. Key components included, business partners, value proposition,…
Expociencia. Parc cientific, Valencia (Spain ) On the 26th of May, the Expociencia 2018 project will be held in Valencia, Spain. This project, which is coordinated by the ‘Parc cientific’ (CSIC) and the University of Valencia, tries to disseminate science to the general public. The main objective of the project is to showcase the importance…
Percolating Metallic Structures Templated on Laser-deposited Carbon Nanofoams derived from Graphene Oxide: Applications in Humidity Sensing.
Ruben is the Marie Curie ITN Fellow of the Week, March 2018. More information on the #MSCA website! Totally in the game: Ruben Canton is our #MSCA ITN fellow of the week. Ruben is hosted at Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute of The National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens and part of the “Enabling Excellence”…
“Enabling Excellence” ITN has organised a two day workshop for users of the AIMPRO code in Exeter, UK, from 26th to 27th March 2018, in conjunction with Strathclyde University. The AIMPRO code uses density functional theory methods to solve the quantum mechanics that controls the distribution of nuclei and electrons in materials.
London 12-13 March 2018 A goal of the ITN is to improve the ability of the PhD students to communicate their research to the public and to business sectors. Manuela Meloni, PhD student at the University of Sussex, participated in the Materials Research Exchange & Investor Showcase (MRE2018) in London. She showed her recent…
In celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Ana Santidrián García, PhD student at Instituto de Carboquímica ICB-CSIC in Zaragoza, have collaborated in the exhibition “Women in Science” which is locating in the library La Pantera Rossa (San Vicente de Paúl, 28, 50001 Zaragoza).
As part of the Enabling Excellence project the students have an exercise in communication about nanoscience. It is called the Grand Challenge. Three PhD students: Ana SANTIDRIAN GARCIA, Lorenzo VALLAN and Emin ISTIF chose to communicate nanotechnology and nanoscience to children and high school students.
Dual Anion-Cation Reversible Insertion in a Bipyridinium-Diamide Triad as the Negative Electrode for Aqueous Batteries.
Functional liquid structures by emulsification of graphene and other two-dimensional nanomaterial.
Image from partner Renishaw – this Christmas tree is molybdenum disulphide on a silicon substrate, topped off with a 633nm laser. Sample preparation by STEM_LPS in a colaboration through Enabling Excellence, image produced using inVia microscope.
EnEx researchers were strongly present at this year’s HeteroNanoCarb conference in Benasque, Spain, organised by Raul Arenal (INA) with talks (including keynote) by many EnEx researchers and members of our expert advisory board. Ed Goldwyn, from the EnEx communication project, was there to film many of the speakers giving short six minute summaries of their…
Self-Assembled Core–Shell CdTe/Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Nanoensembles as Novel Donor–Acceptor Light-Harvesting Systems.
An interview between Alain Chaillot and Chris Ewels on France Bleu (in French) about nanotechnology, where they discuss a bit of “Enabling Excellence” science… (14/12/2017)
Considerations for spectroscopy of liquid-exfoliated 2D materials: emerging photoluminescence of Nmethyl-2-pyrrolidone (download pdf).
Wotton-under-Edge (UK), October 30 – November 15, 2017. ESRs Manuela Meloni, Giuseppe Fratta, Yuman Sayed-Ahmad Baraza, Daniel Funes and Sebastian Nufer visited Renishaw plc to learn about state of the art Raman imaging and combined Raman-AFM imaging, including TERS (Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy). ESR Dominik Winterauer and his supervisor Tim Batten guided the group on a…
This summer, Giuseppe Fratta (University of Sussex), Manuela Meloni (University of Sussex) and Sebastian Nufer (M-Solv) participated at the 7th Asian Conference on Colloidal and Interface Science (ACCIS) in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), following their supervisor, Prof. A. Dalton, who was an Invited Speaker. In this prestigious international meeting, Manuela presented her progress on the Latex-Graphene…
NanoteC has now been running (mostly) annually since 1998 which makes this year its fateful 19th birthday. The conference was born in Sussex University just after Sir Harry Kroto received the Nobel prize for the discovery of C60, and carbon nanoscience was undergoing one of its periodic boom times. People were discovering that you could…
Would you like to join the “Enabling Excellence” team for a PhD at Sussex University? There’s a position available! Details here: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-in-nanostructured-graphene-2599
Electron Trap States and Photopotential of Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide Electrodes Filled with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.
Functionalization of MoS2 with 1,2-dithiolanes: toward donor-acceptor nanohybrids for energy conversion.
Two weeks ago ESR Manuela Meloni from University of Sussex (Brighton, UK) visited partner ICB-CSIC in Zaragoza (March 7-17, 2017). The occasion for her to follow a training course on XPS analysis by Ana Benito. Manuela’s personal page is here – University of Sussex presentation page is here. And ICB-CSIC presentation page is here.
