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20/1/2021: Anthony Powell publishes a book chapter on high-performance sulfide thermoelectric materials.
17/11/2020: Collaborative work on the thermoelectric material In4Se3 accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
1/10/2020: Natasha Ormerod and Callum Abercromby joint the group as a PhD and a MSc student, respectively
1/9/2020: Shriparna Mukherjee and Sahil Tippireddy join the group as postdoctoral researchers.
29/7/2020: Publication of results from Sana (MSc) on the mechanosynthesis of chalcohalides in J. Solid State Chemistry.
2/3/2020: Award of an EPSRC Research Grant for a collaborative project with India. Postdoctoral vacancy currently advertised.
13/2/2020: Congratulations to Jethro Beamish-Cook, who passed his PhD viva today.
22/1/2020: Congratulations to Alaa Aldowiesh, who passed today her MSc viva with Distinction. She will now join the group as a PhD student.
2/1/2020: Paper on the low-temperature structure of tetrahedrite accepted for publication in Adv. Funct. Mater.
10/12/19: Award of a Leverhulme Trust Research Grant to work on copper-containing minerals as thermoelectric materials.
10/12/19: New article on shandites as n-type thermoelectric materials accepted for publication in ACS Appl. Energy Mater.
9/12/19: Congratulations to Suraj Smith, who has passed his MSc viva with Merit.
28/11/19: Roadmap on thermoelectrics published in J. Mater. Chem. C.
13/11/19: PhD studentship in materials for batteries available. See Vacancies section for more details.
12/11/19: Congratulations to Seb Long, who passed his PhD viva today. Well done!
31/10/19: Collaborative work on thermoelectric minerals published in ACS Appl. Energy Matter.
23/9/19: Anthony Powell and Paz Vaqueiro give contributed talks at the 17th European Conference on Thermoelectrics.
17/9/19: Congratulations to Sana Murtaza, who has passed her MSc viva with Distinction.
5/9/19: Paz Vaqueiro gives an invited talk at the 2nd Iberian Thermoelectric Workshop.
16/8/19: Article on Kesterite-type chalcogenides accepted for publication in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
1/8/19: Anthony Powell appointed Associate Editor for Journal of Solid State Chemistry.
5/7/19: Article on manganese-substituted tetrahedrite accepted for publication in J. App. Phys.
2/5/19: Paz Vaqueiro gives an invited talk at the UK Thermoelectric Network meeting.
14/1/19: Alaa Aldowiesh joins the group as a Research MSc student
2/11/18: Collaborative work with Cardiff University, describing thermoelectric modules with high performance, is published in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
25/10/18: Congratulations to Shoeb Athar, who passed his MSc viva today with distinction.
1/10/18: Suraj Smith and Sana Mohammad Murtaza join the group as Research MSc students.
1/9/18: Jon Kenny joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher.
7/8/18: Paz Vaqueiro joins the Editorial Board of Journal of Physics: Energy (IOP Publishing).
1/8/18: Congratulation to Sarah Makin, who passed her PhD viva today.
1-5/7/18: Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony Powell give talks at the 38th International Conference on Thermoelectrics 2018 (France).
1-4/7/18: Jethro delivers a talk on mechanosynthesis of MOFs at the 16th European Conference on Powder Diffraction (Edinburgh).
20/4/18: Group awarded Innovate-UK funding for the project "Advanced textile-integrated thermoelectric energy harvesting for wearable electronics"
22/2/18: Paz Vaqueiro delivers an invited talk at the Innovation in materials characterisation: UK-Japan studies on energy-related materials using large-scale facilities meeting, organized by EPSRC, JSPS and STFC
21-26/1/18: Anthony Powell is an invited speaker at the 42nd International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, USA.
10/1/18: Anthony Powell delivers two invited lectures at the India-UK Workshop on Thermoelectric Materials for Waste-Heat Harvesting, Bangalore, India.
18/12/17: We are hosting the 37th annual Christmas Meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry Solid State Chemistry Group.
14/12/17: Anthony Powell delivers an invited lecture on "Materials Design Strategies for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting", at a Thermoelectric Workshop in Southampton.
13/12/17: Article on the thermoelectric properties of bornite published on Chemistry of Materials.
23/11/17: Congratulations to John Lampkin, who has passed his PhD viva.
16/11/17: Congratulations to Panagiotis Mangelis, who has passed his PhD viva.
26/9/17: Anthony Powell and Paz Vaqueiro give talks at the European Conference on Thermoelectrics.
12/9/17: Congratulations to Yunhe Cai, who has passed his MSc viva.
1-2/9/17: Anthony Powell visits NIMS (Tsukuba, Japan) and gives an invited talk at the Workshop on Advanced Materials and Principles to Develop Viable Thermoelectrics & Effective Thermal Management.
27/8/17: Anthony Powell is an invited speaker at the IUMRS-ICAM 2017(The 15th International Conference on Advanced Materials), in Japan.
28/6/17: Paz Vaqueiro gives an invited talk at the UK Neutron and Muon Science and User Meeting.
26/4/17: Panagiotis PhD research on shandites published in J. Solid State Chem.
2/4/17: Study on copper-rich tetrahedites published in Chemistry of Materials.
21/2/17: Article on a gallium super-supertetrahedral cluster published in Dalton Trans.
29/11/16: Article on up-scaling the synthesis of skutterudites by ball milling published on line.
23/9/16: Book chapter, Chalcogenide Thermoelectric Materials, published in the RSC book Thermoelectric Materials and Devices.
20/9/16: Congratulations to Dr Gabin Guélou, who passed his viva today
6/8/16: Article on a new indium antimony sulphide published.
9/7/16: Paz Vaqueiro awarded best oral presentation prize at the 4th International Symposium of the Spanish Researchers in the UK.
June 2016:Congratulations to Jesús Prado-Gonjal, who has been awarded a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship.
May 2016: Paz Vaqueiro promoted to Associate Professor.
8/4/16: Review on thermoelectric oxychalcogenides published.
2/2/16: Article on the structure and thermoelectric properties of CoXTiS2 published in J. Mater. Chem. C.
18/1/16: Work on upscaling of thermoelectric sulfides published in RSC Advances.
10/12/15: Article on TiS2 published in J. Eur. Ceram. Soc.
6/11/15: Article on the origin of low thermal conductivity in copper oxychalcogenides published in PCCP.
6/10/15: Article on work from the InnovTEG project published online.
23/9/15: Paz Vaqueiro awarded a Royal Society International Exchange Grant for the project "Oxychalcogenides as high-performance thermoelectric materials"
22/9/15 Fully-funded PhD studentship on MOFs as nanovehicles for drug delivery, under the supervision of Paz Vaqueiro (Chemistry) and Ken Shankland (Pharmacy) now available.
21/9/15: Congratulations to Dr Son Luu, who passed his viva today.
24/8/15: Article on the thermoelectric properties of bornite published in J. Mater. Chem. C.
1/8/15:Upcoming Event: the next Thermoelectric Network Meeting will take place in Reading (11-12 November)
17/6/15 Sarah Makin awarded poster prize (again) at the Red Kite meeting (ISIS). Well done!
9/6/15 Sarah Makin awarded poster prize at the Research Day.
14/5/15 Article on shandites as thermoelectric materials published in Chemistry of Materials.
21/4/15: Paz Vaqueiro gives a lecture on thermoelectric materials, and Sarah presents a poster, at the 1st Southern Dalton meeting (University of Sussex).
14/4/15: Paz Vaqueiro gives an invited lecture at the EPSRC Thermoelectric network meeting (Loughborough). Gabin, Jesus and Panagiotis present posters.
10/3/15 Two articles on the thermoelectric behaviour of tetrahedrites and Bi2O2Te, published.
9/1/15 Fully funded PhD studentship available, for a joint project with the ISIS neutron facility, on thermoelectric materials.
8/1/15 Paz Vaqueiro gives a talk on "Addressing the Energy Challenge: The Role of Chemistry" at the ASE 2015 Annual Conference.
18/12/14 Jesus, Panagiotis and John present their work at the Solid State Christmas meeting (Glasgow).
5/12/14 Paz Vaqueiro gives a talk on thermoelectric materials at the Department of Chemistry in Oxford.
1/12/14 Anthony Powell presents work on thermoelectric materials at the MRS Fall meeting.
18/11/14 Article on indium selenides published in Dalton Trans.
10/11/14 Paz Vaqueiro gives an invited talk at the ISIS Crystallography User Group and PCG meeting.
19/9/14 Article on co-crystals of furosemide publised in CrystEngComm.
12/8/14 Article on gallium selenides published in Inorg. Chem.
16/7/14 Two new articles which describe work from the InnovTEG project, on TiS2 and NiCr2S4,have been published.
24/6/14 Jack Corps and Sarah Ewing attend their graduation.
10/6/14 Matthew Gara joins us as a postdoctoral research associate.
11/3/14 Congratulations to Sarah Ewing, who passed her PhD viva.
26/2/14 Anthony Powell gives a presentation at the EPSRC thermoelectric network meeting.
18/2/14 Congratulations to Jack Corps, who passed his PhD viva.
18-20/11/13 Son Luu, Gabin Guelou and Andreas Kaltzoglou presented their work at the 11th European Conference on Thermoelectrics.
1/11/13 Panagiotis Mangelis join us as a PhD student.
29/10/13 Anthony Powell, in conjunction with Prof Freer (Manchester), awarded £114k by EPSRC for a network on thermoelectrics.
1/10/13 Sarah Makin and John Lampkin join the group as PhD students, and Elise Pachoud joins us as a postdoctoral research associate.
1/10/13 Paz Vaqueiro, Andreas Kaltzoglou, Gabin Guelou and Son Luu move to the University of Reading.
3/7/13 Results arising from the InnovTEG project presented at the 32nd International Conference on Thermoelectrics held in Kobe, Japan.
14/5/13 Anthony Powell and Paz Vaqueiro awarded £318k by EPSRC for the project Identifying Cost Effective Routes to optimised energy recovery for the fuel economy of vehicles, which will be carried out in conjunction with Loughborough and Cardiff Universities.