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Cohort 8 started their Plastic Electronics careers on Monday 3rd October.

The Centre for Plastic Electronics is delighted to welcome 15 new MRes and CDT students to 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College. Prof James Durrant, Director of the CPE, and Dr Martyn McLachlan, Plastic Electronics MRes Director, officially welcomed Cohort 8 on Monday morning. Other members of staff and CDT students joined the new cohort for a welcome lunch.

The students in Cohort 8 are undertaking a wide range of projects with supervisors from across the PE-CDT:

Huda Ahli (CDT) - "Functional oxide layers in photovoltaics", supervised by Dr Martyn McLachlan (Materials Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Dr Russell Binions (Queen Mary University of London)

Wei Chen (CDT) - "Platinum Metallahelicenes in Circularly Polarised Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Diodes (CP-PHOLEDs)", supervised by Dr Matt Fuchter (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Prof Al Campbell (Physics Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College)

Matayas Daboczi (EPSCR-CASE PhD) - "Morphology control and characterisation of organic and hybrid devices", supervised by Prof Ji-Seon Kim (Physics Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Dr Iain Baikie (KP Technology)

Christopher Fuller (CDT) - "Solution processed emissive spon cross over materials", supervised by Dr Paul Stavrinou (Oxford University) and Prof Donal Bradley (Oxford University).

Ciao He (CDT; CSC Scholarship) - "Transition-metal free dyes for photoredox catalysis", supervised by Prof Martin Heeney (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Dr Yang Han

Sam Hillman (CDT) - "Structure-function-performance relationships in conjugated polymer photocatalysts", supervised by Prof Jenny Nelson (Physics Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Prof James Durrant (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College)

Panagiota Kafourou (CDT) - "Synthesis and characterisation of functionalised molecular dopants", supervised by Prof Martin Heeney (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Prof Thomas Anathopoulos (Physics Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College)

Joel Luke (CDT) - "Printed large area organic solar cells", supervised by Prof Ji-Seon Kim (Physics Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Dr Diego Bagnis (CSEM Brazil)

Sozos Michael (MRes) - "Air-stable organo-metal trihalide perovskite solar cells based on environmentally friendly elements", supervised by Dr Saif Haque (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College)

Lokeshwari Mohan (CDT) - "Thin film perovskite solar cells", supervised by Dr Russell Binions (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr Martyn McLachlan (Materials Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College)

Francesco Salerno (CDT) - "Chirality-led design of organic semiconductors", supervised by Dr Matt Fuchter (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College), Dr Kim Jelfs (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Prof Jenny Nelson (Physics Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College)

Luke Salter (CDT) - "Well-defined conductive-oligomer constructs for cardiac tissue engineering", supervised by Prof Molly Stevens (Materials Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College), Prof Natalie Stingelin (Materials Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College, and Georgie Tech) and Dr Chris Spicer (Materials Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College)

Nipun Sawhney (CDT) - "All Solution processed, High Performance Organic Solar Cells", supervised by Prof Ji-Seon Kim (Physics Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Prof Martin Heeney (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College)

David Stringer (CDT) - "Chemical Functionalisation of Carbon Nanotubes Designed for Portable Sensors", supervised by Prof Milo Shaffer (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Dr Eric Robles (P&G)

Li Wan (MRes) - "Single Molecule and Thin Film Studies on Conductive Metallocene Nano-Rings", supervised by Dr Tim Albrecht (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College) and Prof Nicholas Long (Chemistry Dept, 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ College)