Ben Hogan, fourth year CDT PGR, has been awarded a SPIE IDL Micro Grant for $2000- one of only two UK universities to receive it this year. The UNESCO International Day of Light is a global initiative highlighting to the citizens of the world the importance of light and light-based technologies in their lives, for […]
Porous ZnO/Carbon nanocomposites derived from metal-organic frameworks for highly efficient photocatalytic applications – A correlational study
Congratulations to XM² PGR student (third year) Mian Zahid Hussain for his latest publication on “Porous ZnO/Carbon nanocomposites derived from metal-organic frameworks for highly efficient photocatalytic applications – A correlational study” in Carbon journal. Abstract below. Abstract Porous ZnO/C nanocomposites derived from 3 different Zinc based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) including MOF-5, MOF-74 and ZIF-8, were […]
Leadership and Teambuilding Techniques
On 30th and 31st January, our third year XM² postgraduate researchers took part in Leadership Training, provided by Fistral. This is the third year that we have run this course, which equips the postgraduate researchers with negotiation skills, listening techniques and how to approach group work from a psychological perspective. Some comments from the […]
Training and other events: February 2019 to July 2019
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from February 2019 until July 2019 as far as planning currently allows and subject to change. PGRs, please highlight any XM²-training related absence times to your supervisors. In regards to annual leave or other absence time planning: All confirmed events have been […]
Miguel Camacho Aguilar passed his viva!
Congratulations to Miguel Camacho Aguilar, who has passed his viva. His thesis title was “Microwave response of finite periodic metal structures”. The examiners were Prof. Guido Valerio from University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and Prof. Matthew Browning from University of Exeter. Miguel will be starting a postdoctoral role in the group of Prof. […]
Presentations and Talks at Washington DC-Intermag 2019
From January 14th to 18th, fourth year XM² postgraduate researchers Angus Laurenson and Natalie Whitehead, third year XM² postgraduate researchers David Osuna Ruiz and Elizabeth Martin, second year XM² postgraduate researcher Peter Inzani and first year XM² postgraduate researcher Oliver Latcham attended MMM-Intermag 2019 in Washington DC. The Conference includes all aspects of fundamental and applied […]
Mian Zahid Hussain at ICS Winter School 2019
Recently, third year CDT postgraduate researcher Mian Zahid Hussain secured a grant from Italian Chemical Society (ICS) to participate in a winter school on Catalysis which took place at Bardonecchia, Italy from 7-11 January 2019. The focus of the winter school was to provide a detailed picture of the current scientific challenges to the catalysis […]
New Publication: Laser-writable high-k dielectric for van der Waals nanoelectronics
Congratulations to second year XM² postgraduate researcher Konstantinos-Andreas Anastasiou, whose article Laser-writable high-k dielectric for van der Waals nanoelectronics has been published in Science Advances. State of the art van der Waals heterostructures rely on the use of hexagonal boron nitride as a gate dielectric, a tunnel barrier or a high-quality substrate material. The material […]
New Publication: Multi-layer graphene as a selective detector for future lung cancer biosensing platforms
Congratulations to XM² PGR Ben Hogan (4th year) who has co-authored a recently published paper on ‘Multi-layer graphene as a selective detector for future lung cancer biosensing platforms’ in the journal Nanoscale. Lung cancer is one of the most common and aggressive cancers, with mortality rates of about 1.4 million per year, worldwide. The lack […]
New Publication: Realising an ultra-wideband backward-wave metamaterial waveguide
Congratulations to our XM² alumnus Sathya Sai Seetharaman who has recently published a paper in Physical Review B on ‘Realising an ultra-wideband backward-wave metamaterial waveguide’. The authors demonstrate, through experiment and numerical modeling, that the operational bandwidth of a CSRR metamaterial waveguide can be improved by restricting cross-polarization effects in the constituent meta-atoms. Sathya is […]