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Judith was pleased to have an online kick-off meeting on her new joint EPSRC-NSF grant on BiOI X-ray detectors. Robert Hoye (Oxford), Quanxi Jia and Wanyi Nie (Buffalo) were on a zoom call with her to discuss our first steps.

The spinout company from our group (current and past members, Thomas Sun and Robert Hoye), NanoPrint, is moving fast along with its first prototype machine nearly built. We are grateful to Maxwell for allowing us to start up there. We are also grateful for the networking opportunities with other start-ups in Maxwell. 

The group wishes farewell to Erik, who has been with the group and wider DMG for over 2 years! Erik has been incredibly helpful to all group members, you will be missed!

PhD Muirean de h-Ora has visited the Tyndall National Institute hosted by Dr Lynette Keeney. As part of ASCENT+ programme, they conducted magnetoelectric coupling with piezo force experiment on VAN films. See below for more information about this programme, or find more information on this multidisciplinary and international network here. Many than…

Members of the Driscoll attended the IOP Memristor 2024 conference. Dr Hellenbrand presented his work on Resistive Switching Nanocomposites and Prof. Driscoll gave a talk on Materials Challenges for Oxide Memristors. Thank you to the organisation and all speakers for the excellent event and great discussions.

We were honoured to host Prof Yildiz at the Goldmisth Seminar series. She presented her and her group's outstanding work on exsolution for energy conversion applications. Their work investigates the role of oxygen vacancies, enabling to controllably tune size, density, composition and position of the exsolved metal nanoparticles. These findings can…

Prof. Driscoll organised an online seminar with prominent speakers from various universities, institutes, and career levels to discuss materials for neuromorphic computing. The webinar included excellent talks on the topic of neuromorphic implementation and materials design by Dr Markus Hellenbrand (Dept of Materials Science, University of Cambridg…

The Driscoll group has been awarded a grant incollaboration with Prof. Li from Ts Tsinghua University (PI: Huanglong Li from Dept. of Precision Instrument; co-PI: Fang Wang from Dept. of Precision Instrument; co-PI: Rong Yu from School of Materials Science and Engineering; co-PI: Pu Yu from Dept. of Physics). The grant will support research on the …

The Driscoll group also celebrated the festive season at Judith's house!

The DMG gathered to celebrate before the holiday break! Group members from the Driscoll, Di Martino and Kar-Narayan joined. It was a night of incredible food (thank you to all who brought something along), mulled wine, festive songs and activities. 

12/12/23: Judith is pleased to play a part in the development of superconductor tape under a new $5M ARPA-E project with HTSI in the US: https://www.hitsuperconductors.com/arpa-e-doe-funding-hts-tape/

8 December 2023:  Judith was extremely honoured to be invited to the RAM-90 meeting, which was a felicitation for the 90th birthday of CNR Rao. CNR (also known as Ram) is a honorary visiting scientist of the dep., founder of the JNCASR institute in Banglaore, and a good friend to so many. She was honoured both to give a talk and a 3 minute speech t…

Nov. 2023.  We are pleased to announce that we have obtained funds from the INT for a new potentiostat for our electrochemical workstation, shared with Prof. Sian Dutton in Maxwell Lab. We thank Benedetta Gaggio for spearheading the grant application on this, and for all the help given by Dr. Matt Wells, Erik Landberg, and Prof. Sian Dutton.  We no…

Nov. 2023. Judith is pleased to announce a new NSF/ EPSRC grant in collaboration with Prof. Quanxi Jia at SUNY, Buffalo, Dr. Wany NIe, Los Alamos Lab, and Dr. Robert Hoye, Univ. of Oxford.  The grant is for over £1.5M and is to work on "A new generation of cost-effective, scalable and stable radiation detectors with ultrahigh detectivity” 

Dr. Megan Hill, Mureann de h-Ora and Thomas Sun went to Fall MRS 2023 in Boston and all gave enlightening talks