Cohort 8 started their Plastic Electronics careers on Monday 3rd October.

The Centre for Plastic Electronics is delighted to welcome 15 new MRes and CDT students to Imperial College. Prof James Durrant, Director of the CPE, and Dr Martyn McLachlan, Plastic Electronics MRes Director, officially welcomed Cohort 8 on Monday morning. Other members of staff and CDT students joined the new cohort for a welcome lunch.

The students in Cohort 8 are undertaking a wide range of projects with supervisors from across the PE-CDT:

Huda Ahli (CDT) - "Functional oxide layers in photovoltaics", supervised by Dr Martyn McLachlan (Materials Dept, Imperial College) and Dr Russell Binions (Queen Mary University of London)

Wei Chen (CDT) - "Platinum Metallahelicenes in Circularly Polarised Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Diodes (CP-PHOLEDs)", supervised by Dr Matt Fuchter (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College) and Prof Al Campbell (Physics Dept, Imperial College)

Matayas Daboczi (EPSCR-CASE PhD) - "Morphology control and characterisation of organic and hybrid devices", supervised by Prof Ji-Seon Kim (Physics Dept, Imperial College) and Dr Iain Baikie (KP Technology)

Christopher Fuller (CDT) - "Solution processed emissive spon cross over materials", supervised by Dr Paul Stavrinou (Oxford University) and Prof Donal Bradley (Oxford University).

Ciao He (CDT; CSC Scholarship) - "Transition-metal free dyes for photoredox catalysis", supervised by Prof Martin Heeney (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College) and Dr Yang Han

Sam Hillman (CDT) - "Structure-function-performance relationships in conjugated polymer photocatalysts", supervised by Prof Jenny Nelson (Physics Dept, Imperial College) and Prof James Durrant (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College)

Panagiota Kafourou (CDT) - "Synthesis and characterisation of functionalised molecular dopants", supervised by Prof Martin Heeney (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College) and Prof Thomas Anathopoulos (Physics Dept, Imperial College)

Joel Luke (CDT) - "Printed large area organic solar cells", supervised by Prof Ji-Seon Kim (Physics Dept, Imperial College) and Dr Diego Bagnis (CSEM Brazil)

Sozos Michael (MRes) - "Air-stable organo-metal trihalide perovskite solar cells based on environmentally friendly elements", supervised by Dr Saif Haque (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College)

Lokeshwari Mohan (CDT) - "Thin film perovskite solar cells", supervised by Dr Russell Binions (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr Martyn McLachlan (Materials Dept, Imperial College)

Francesco Salerno (CDT) - "Chirality-led design of organic semiconductors", supervised by Dr Matt Fuchter (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College), Dr Kim Jelfs (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College) and Prof Jenny Nelson (Physics Dept, Imperial College)

Luke Salter (CDT) - "Well-defined conductive-oligomer constructs for cardiac tissue engineering", supervised by Prof Molly Stevens (Materials Dept, Imperial College), Prof Natalie Stingelin (Materials Dept, Imperial College, and Georgie Tech) and Dr Chris Spicer (Materials Dept, Imperial College)

Nipun Sawhney (CDT) - "All Solution processed, High Performance Organic Solar Cells", supervised by Prof Ji-Seon Kim (Physics Dept, Imperial College) and Prof Martin Heeney (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College)

David Stringer (CDT) - "Chemical Functionalisation of Carbon Nanotubes Designed for Portable Sensors", supervised by Prof Milo Shaffer (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College) and Dr Eric Robles (P&G)

Li Wan (MRes) - "Single Molecule and Thin Film Studies on Conductive Metallocene Nano-Rings", supervised by Dr Tim Albrecht (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College) and Prof Nicholas Long (Chemistry Dept, Imperial College)