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Funding
We got funds (£0.4 out of £1.8M) from NSF-NERC to start an exciting project on graphene-based phosphate sensor!
While our collaborator will be designing the sensor, we will characterise its intriguing electronic properties. Phosphate is an essential plant nutrient and its sensing, in real time, in real conditions… will be really cool, and key to foster more sustainable farming practices. A postdoc to work on the project will be needed soon!
Summer school
We welcome our 6 international students who are currently participating to the 2D Material summer school; in collaboration with Prof. A. Tartakovskii, Prof. G. Leggett and Dr. J. Foster. During this program, they will participate to different lab activities, exploring the Physics and Chemistry of divers 2D materials.
And of course, a big thank you to Arthur and Sayantan who are hosting them in our laser lab.
Thesis completion and poster session.
Congratulation to our 4th year students, Zak, Holly and Jake, for completing their thesis! Well done.
Here are some pictures of each in front of their -colourful & creative- posters:
Zak Bragg
Jake Finkel & Arthur Graf
Holly Khan & Adrien
Thank you for your good work and again, congratulation to all!
Energy Symposium
Although certain leaders on the other side of the Atlantic reject the idea of Global Warming, we still have to face the fact that our carbon emission triggered a world-wide climate change. Weather we will survive it, as a human species, or not partially depends on its magnitude and on our adaptive capabilities.
With this goal in mind, the University of Sheffield is doing its bit by organising the 2017 Energy Symposium: a day filled with short presentations and posters to foster collaborations and new ideas for a greener future!
It will be this Monday, 24th of August 2017, from 9 am to 5 pm.
Come and join us and save the world!
Liam’s master thesis defence
On May 10th, Liam Banerji successfully defended his master thesis here in the Chemistry department. Liam worked on developing a new analytical tool to resolve spectral shifts dynamics. These band-shift are characteristics of electronic and structural modification of the proteins. He was able to resolve previously unknown band-shift within the heme-proteins called cytochrome bc1.
Congratulation to Liam and we wish him all the best for his future endeavours!
