Organic Semiconductors to conduct electricity & emit light for ultrathin flexible displays, printed electronics, cancer treatment, PDT, solar cells & lasers.
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11 Apr 2025
This week Lethy, Ifor, and Graham are attending the Spring Meeting of @Materials_MRS in Seattle. Ifor presented work on electrically driven lasers, whilst Graham showed how nanoimprinting can control lasers and sensing, and Lethy organised a symposium. #S25MRS
ALT Left to right: Ifor, Graham, and Lethy
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10 Apr 2025
The OSC was delighted to have former OSC member Dr Andrew Matheson visit yesterday. At the photonics seminar he spoke about his current work at the developing a novel optical sensing system for atmospheric nitrogen dioxide called SNEEZI.
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8 Apr 2025
Last week final year project students of the School of Physics and Astronomy presented posters about their work. Pictured is Angus Johnson who is currently completing a project studying materials for underwater organic solar cells, supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel.
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2 Apr 2025
Yesterday members of the OSC had the opportunity to listen to and meet 2021 Nobel Prize winner Prof. Sir David MacMillan. Prof MacMillan gave the Irvine Memorial Lecture and spoke about his life and his work on Asymmetric Organocatalysis for which he won his Nobel Prize.
ALT OSC members Sagarika, Saban, and Thomas (left to right) meeting Prof. Sir David MacMillan (right).
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27 Mar 2025
At the recent St Andrews Summit 2025 on geopolitics of emerging technologies, Ifor was part of a panel discussing energy security, together with colleagues Profs Adrian Finch (Geology) and Venkataraman Thangadurai (Chemistry).
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20 Mar 2025
We are very proud to announce that yesterday Dr David Webster completed his PhD viva! Well done Dr Webster!
ALT From left to right: Prof Ifor Samuel, Dr David Webster, Prof Graham Turnbull
ALT David cutting the celebratory cake at group coffee
ALT The group having coffee and cake together to celebrate David completing his viva.
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14 Mar 2025
Congratulations to Ifor on his acceptance to the Scottish Science Advisory Council. Along with other senior academics he will be part of a panel of experts who supporting the Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland.
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13 Mar 2025
Yesterday Hassan, Ifor, and Graham visited The Scottish Parliament to attended Scotland's Critical Technologies Supercluster event. Here, they met with other representatives of Scotland's research and innovation, and listened to Richard Lochhead, Minister for Business.
ALT From left to right: Technology Scotland CEO Alastair McInroy, Prof Ifor Samuel, Prof Graham Turnbull, and Dr Hassan Hafeez.
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10 Mar 2025
We are very pleased to have Abdur Anwar from the @HumarLab visit us as part of his research on edible photonic barcodes for food tagging and tracing with @tra_food. During his stay he will be working with Prof Graham Turnbull.
ALT Abdur Anwar (right) and Prof Graham Turnbull (left)
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22 Feb 2025
Yesterday the OSC, Centre of Biophotonics, and School of Physics and Astronomy were very pleased to host Prof Laura M. Lechuga of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. She gave an exciting colloquium about her work developing photonic biosensors for medical.
ALT Prof Laura Lechuga (right) and Prof Ifor Samuel (left)
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21 Feb 2025
Congratulations to Mina, Kou, Liam and Ifor for their new paper "In-operando Investigation of Purcell Effect on Efficiency Roll-off in Top-emitting Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Diodes". doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2…
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20 Feb 2025
We are pleased to have a new cohort of final year project students join the group this year. Pictured here are two of our students, Angus Johnson (left), and Yichen Wang (right), and their respective supervisors Prof Ifor Samuel and Dr Jean Charles Ribierre.
ALT From left to right: Prof Ifor Samuel, Angus Johnson, Yichen Wang, Dr Jean Charles Ribierre.
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18 Feb 2025
Last week, Prof Ifor Samuel was very happy to visit the Fondation MAScIR Institute at the University Mohammed 6 at Ben Guerir in Morocco and present work from the Organic Semiconductor Centre. He is pictured here with Prof Zouheir Sekkat and his team.
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13 Feb 2025
Last week Aswin attended the Winter School 2025 of the Europaeum network at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Here he met with other students and experts to discuss key themes affecting the European green deal.
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ALT A group of the Winter School attendees posing for a photo. Aswin is at the back on the center right.
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10 Feb 2025
We are very pleased to welcome Kaiyang Wei to the group for his PhD project researching TADF organic lasers. He is jointly supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham Turnbull, as well as Uli Lemmer at @KITKarlsruhe.
ALT Kaiyang Wei (right) and his supervisor Prof Ifor Samuel (left)
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7 Feb 2025
You can now also follow news from the OSC on LinkedIn! linkedin.com/company/osc-sta
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30 Jan 2025
Deadline for submissions for the upcoming Optics Photonics 2025 conference on Organic Photonics Electronics is February 5th. Submit your abstract here:
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20 Jan 2025
Last week Thomas joined @SpinLovett 's demonstrating team for the for the @IOPScotland girls into physics event at the Dunfermline Learning Campus.
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13 Jan 2025
Congratulations to Dr Stefan Diesing, Prof Ifor Samuel, and @chemguy_eli @ezc_group for the paper "A critical overview of rate models for the determination of the rate constants associated with thermally activated delayed fluorescence" DOI: doi.org/10.1063/5.0216749
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