Conference

Second year CSCT student Matthew Camilleri recently attended the RSC South-West Regional Meeting, held at the University of Reading. Here’s what Matt thought of the event: “Brilliant”, “amazing” and “stimulating”: these were a few words of the attendees describing the...

On 2–6 June 2014, DTC student Rhodri Jenkins presented his research at the 2014 FISITA World Automotive Congress held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. This is his report. Every two years, members of the global automotive industry and research community meet...

The RSC Solid State Group Easter Meeting was organised by Professor Aron Walsh (University of Bath) and Dr David Scanlon (UCL) and was held at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre in Chicheley between 14-16 April 2014. This post was...

On 1–6 December 2013, DTC student Lee Burton attended the Materials Research Society fall meeting in Boston, USA. He describes the experience for us in this blog post. As a PhD student I was honoured to be chosen to speak...

The RSC Solid State Group Christmas Meeting is an annual event which aims to bring together UK researchers from topics across issues relating to solid state materials. Of particular relevance to the DTC is the strong energy contingent of this...

Whorrod Fellow Dr Chris Chuck, along with DTC students Lisa Sargeant, Fraeya Whiffin, Joe Donnelly and Jon Wagner, recently attended the International Bioenergy 2014 Conference in Manchester. Jon, currently in his second year, has written a summary of the conference...

In December, CSCT students Helena Quilter (cohort 5), James Tyson (cohort 3) and Ben Hodges (cohort 2) travelled to Glasgow for MASC 2013 to find out what’s new in the world of macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry. Helena brings us this...

The European Kesterite workshops is a fairly young and rapidly-growing event series. Kesterite solar cells with the formula Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 are a long-term candidate for terawatt "country-scale" solar generation. Third-year DTC student Adam Jackson attended this year's meeting to support his...

Earlier this year, DTC students Ibbi Ahmet (3rd year) and Thomas Wildsmith (final year) travelled to Nova Scotia, Canada, to share ideas and learn more about the chemistry of germanium, tin and lead. Ibbi brings us this report. From Monday...

MC11 (the 11th International Conference on Materials Chemistry) was held by the Royal Society of Chemistry at the University of Warwick from July 8-11th. Given a reasonably local and affordable opportunity to attend a fully-fledged international conference, four DTC students...