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Read more at: We are pleased to announce a new contract with Samsung

We are pleased to announce a new contract with Samsung

2 February 2021

We are pleased to announce a joint project with Samsung on semiconducting oxides. The project links together the work of Judith Driscoll, Giuliana di Martino, and Andrew Flewitt (CAPE)


Read more at: Happy Christmas from the Driscoll Group

Happy Christmas from the Driscoll Group

16 December 2020

While we were sad to not have our usual group Christmas party, we were very happy to have a lovely sunny day to meet and share some goodies outside the department


Read more at: Press release on our collaborative work on green materials

Press release on our collaborative work on green materials

18 November 2020

We are pleased that a highly interdisciplinary piece of work across several departments/ institutions has led to a press release. The work used simply processed photovoltaic materials to harvest indoor light to power a simple electronic device. The work is important to the IoT field.


Read more at: Driscoll Group participate in This is Engineering Day #BeTheDifference

Driscoll Group participate in This is Engineering Day #BeTheDifference

26 October 2020

A group of women in STEM the Driscoll group contributed to the Royal Academy of Engineering’s “This is Engineering Day” to promote Diversity in Engineering with photos and tweets.


Read more at: Welcome new group members!

Welcome new group members!

14 October 2020

We are happy to announce several new group members to our team. They are all warmly welcomed to the group. We continue to persist with our strong research efforts despite the pandemic.


Read more at: Materials Science labs reopen! The Driscoll group perseveres despite Covid!

Materials Science labs reopen! The Driscoll group perseveres despite Covid!

26 August 2020

We were pleased to get together in small groups outdoors in Judith’s garden to discuss work progress and lab matters.


Read more at: Printed coatings enable more efficient solar cells

Printed coatings enable more efficient solar cells

14 July 2020

Researchers at Cambridge, Imperial and Singapore have developed a method to print ultrathin coatings on next-generation solar cells, allowing them to work in tandem with silicon solar cells to boost efficiencies.


Read more at: Chao joins Peking University

Chao joins Peking University

15 June 2020

We say farewell to Dr. Chao Yun after many very successful years in the group (first as PhD student and then as post-doc). We are pleased to say that Chao will be working at Peking University for a while and that we have a joint grant to continue our very successful collaboration.


Read more at: Tuhin becomes an Assistant Professor

Tuhin becomes an Assistant Professor

15 June 2020

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Tuhin Maity has now taken up an Assistant Professor position at the IISER Thiruvananthapuram in India, after very successfully completing his EU H2020 MC fellowship (Grant no. MSCA-IF-2016-745886-MuStMAM) with additional kind sponsorship from the Isaac Newton Trust (Grant no. RG96474). We are thankful to the sponsors and are very happy to keep up our excellent collaboration with Tuhin in the future.


Read more at: Congradulations Dr Bonan Zhu

Congradulations Dr Bonan Zhu

1 May 2020

We congratulate Bonan Zhu who passed his Phd viva. Bonan will continue to collaborate with us on cathode materials for solid state batteries on a Faraday Project called FutureCat. His postdoc work is with David Scanlon at UCL. We look forward to welcoming Bonan back to the group so we can all celebrate together