Cohorts 2014-2010
2014
Noha Abu El Magd
PhD project: Nanoporous protein crystals based bio-hybrid materials for light/energy conversion applications
Tania Castillo Hernandez
PhD project: Using nanotechnology to reach the parts other drugs cannot: Study of the uptake of fluorescent micelles in different cell barriers.
Jennifer Coombs
PhD project: Structure - function relationship of Self Assembling caGEs (SAGEs)
Rosalia Cuahtecontzi Delint
PhD project: Sticky Stem Cells: Reengineering the Membrane using Nanobiohybrid Materials
Omar Gomez
PhD project: Strontium Niobates as a new Family of Superconductors
Mincy Naduthottathil
PhD project: Biomimetic extra cellular matrix for the mechanical modulation of stem cells fate
Madeleine Nichols
PhD project: Directed fabrication of co-acervate gel structures as models of prototissues
Kate Oliver
PhD project: 4D printing thermoreponsive hydrogels
Samuel Pearce
PhD project: Triblock Terpolymer Thin Film Self-assembly for Nanolithographic Applications
Thomas Swift
PhD project: Augmenting photosynthesis using carbon nanodots
2013
Pradeep Bhaskar
PhD project: The development of an acousto-optical trapping system for the controlled nucleation and growth of colloidal crystals
Bettina Frank
PhD project: Photocatalytic NADPH production by hybrid protein: nanoparticle devices
Thomas Green
PhD project: Living Functional Nanostructured Machines: Stem Cell Homing Using Synthetic Frankencells
Monika Jakimowicz
PhD project: Cell Paintballing: Targeted Delivery of Nanomaterials to Cell Membranes using Optical Tweezers
Nicolette Moreau
PhD project: Design and construction of protocell-based micro-ensembles using nanotectonics
Matthew Mulvee
PhD project: Fabrication of J-aggregate/TiO2 nanostructured materials for photovoltaic applications
Emily Pole
PhD project: Low Work Function Diamond
Ellen Pope
PhD project: Fabrication of Polyurethane Nanocomposite foams for Vibration Dampening
Jason Potticary
PhD project: Field-Effect Induced 2D Superconductors on Novel Nano-graphene Crystal Surfaces
Julia Walton
PhD project: Magnetic field-mediated growth of organic charge transfer complexes
Patryk Wasik
PhD project: Artistry of Self Assembly: Hierarchical Nanostrutures from Evaporative Drying of Nanofluids
2012
Michael Avery
PhD project: The Rheology of Dense Colloidal Pastes for 3D-Printing
Madeline Burke
PhD project: The Design of Responsive Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
Abigail Coveney
PhD project: Composites from dried cellulose – preparation, characterisation and application in food packaging
Giovanni Depietra
PhD project: Characterising the seed surface and understanding its interaction with the environment.
Helena Grady
PhD project: Central Venous Catheters Functionalised with Chlorhexidine-Hexametaphosphate Nanoparticles for Prolonged Anti-Biofilm Efficacy
Dominic Hayward
PhD project: Liquid Crystalline Properties of Monodisperse Organometallic Nanocylinders
Tim Heal
PhD project: Modified Ag I/II family polypeptides and their derivatives as self-assembling 3D protein networks
Kris Le Vay
PhD project: How to build a light-harvesting complex that can split water
Maire Power
PhD project: Thermal properties of GaN power devices
Piotr Wolanin
PhD project: Functional Nanomaterials For Organic Field-Effect Transistors
Xian Zhang
PhD project: Diamond thermionic electron sources
2011
Phillip Bassindale
PhD project: Measurement of Acoustic Fields using Holographic Optical Tweezers
Natasha Bennett:
PhD project: Nanoscale Catalytically Active Binary Oxides; A Biotemplated Approach
Kieren Bradley
PhD project: Electrical and Optical Properties of Aligned Semiconductor Nanorods
Natasha Burgess
PhD project: Design, assembly and application of coaxial hybrid peptide-inorganic nanowires
Sara Carreira
PhD project: Lipid modification of a protein-encapsulated magnetic nanoparticle for potential therapeutic applications
Thomas Carvell
PhD project: Catalasomes
Alexander De Bruin
PhD project: Ever-presently, Enigmatically, and Exquisitely Chiral: Direct measurement of interactions between chiral protein brushes
Oliver Gould
PhD project: Block Copolymer Nanostructures by Solution-Phase Self-Assembly and Dynamic Holographic Assembly
Nessrin Kattan
PhD project: Structure, Electronic and Photoelectrochemical Properties of Alloyed Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Kasper Munns
PhD project: Silicon Integrated Quantum Photonic Sources and Circuits
James Shirtcliffe
PhD project: Organic spintronics
Stella Kin
PhD project: Small, Bright and Sweet: Towards Functionalised Quantum Dots as Medical Bio-tracers
James Thomas
PhD project: Towards high-density data storage: utilising reversible redox transitions of single molecules
2010
James Armstrong
PhD project: Living hybrid nanomaterials - Stem cell priming using solvent-free liquid proteins and protein-nanoparticle conjugates
Charlotte Beddoes
PhD project: Fundamentals of Nanotoxicology: How physical properties of nanoparticles affect membrane fusion.
Rebecca Boston
PhD project: Biotemplated synthesis of high temperature supeconductors
James Hallett
PhD project: Charged Particles in Low Dielectric Systems
Phillipa King
PhD project: The Use of Optical Microscopy to Probe Cell-Nanoparticle Interactions
Mike Mercer
PhD project: Atomic Design of Nanoalloy Electrocatalysts
Alex Robertson
PhD project: Liquid Crystalline Properties of Monodisperse Organometallic Nanocylinders
Laura Senior
PhD project: Biologically inspired synthesis of functional nanoparticles
David Wilby
PhD project: The Sub-Wavelength Optics of Animal Photoreceptors
Natalie Wood
PhD project: Antimicrobial nanoparticles for biomedical implants