2018

• A PhD studentship starting October 2019 is currently available. Details can be found here.
• Congratulations to Graeme for passing his viva.
• Our manuscript "Size-controlled electron transfer rates determine hydrogen generation efficiency in colloidal Pt-decorated CdS quantum dots" has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale.
• Welcome to Anthony Pike who joined us for a 10-week, EPSRC funded summer placement to study plasmonic properties numerically

2017

• Frank has been promoted to Senior Lecturer
• Congratulations to Jonathan on becoming Dr Lee.
• Welcome to Nicole Fleck who joined the group as a PhD student in October. Nicole will work on earth-abundant solar cell materials in collaboration with the groups of Jon Major and Geoff Dearden
• Our manuscript "A Hydrophilic, Hole-Delocalizing Ligand Shell to Promote Charge Transfer from Colloidal CdSe Quantum Dots in Water " has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C.

2016

• Our manuscript "Simultaneous optimization of colloidal stability and interfacial charge transfer efficiency in photocatalytic Pt/CdS nanocrystals" has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
• Welcome to Joseph Horne who joined the group as a PhD student in October. Joseph will work on plasmonic surfaces in collaboration with the Nichols group.
• Our manuscript "Controlling Visible Light-Driven Photoconductivity in Self-Assembled Perylene Bisimide Structures" co-authored with the Cowan and Adams groups has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
• Congratulations to Joseph Horne on becoming an MPhys.
• Our manuscript "Self-sorted photoconductive xerogels" co-authored with the Cowan and Adams groups has been accepted for publication in Chemical Science.

2015

• Our manuscript "Colloidal dual-band gap cell for photocatalytic hydrogen generation" has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale.
• Welcome to Gareth Morris who joined the group as a PhD student in June. Gareth will work on hybrid metal-inorganic materials for photocatalysis in collaboration with the Raval group.
• Welcome to Joseph Horne who is joining the group for his MPhys project
• Congratulations to Dr Wei Li on becoming a lecturer at Aston University's Chemical Engineering Department starting in August 2015.
• Congratulations to Sean Tipper on becoming an MPhys. Sean will be working as a researcher at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) starting in September.
• EPSRC funds a research proposal on "Single Molecule Plasmoelectronics" by Richard Nichols, Simon Higgins, Frank Jaeckel (all University of Liverpool) and Andrew Beeby (Durham University)

2014

• Welcome to Sean Tipper who is joining the group for his MPhys project.
• Welcome to Graeme Smith who joined the group as a PhD student in October. Graeme will be working on earth-abundant materials for photocatalysis in collaboration with the Grunder Group.
• Congratulations to Graeme Smith on becoming an MPhys
• Jonathan Lee wins a travel bursary sponsored by the Solar Fuels Network to attend the Royal Society's meeting "Do we need a global project on artificial photosynthesis?"

2013

• Welcome to Graeme Smith who is joining the group for his master's project.
  
• Welcome to Jonathan Lee who joined the group as a PhD student in October. Jonathan will work on hybrid organic-inorganic materials for photocatalytic solar fuel generation in collaboration with the Cowan group
  
• In September we moved into our offices and labs in the newly refurbished Stephenson Institute building.
  
  
• Welcome to Dr Wei Li who joined the group in April as a postdoctoral researcher
  
  
• The group was founded and work on setting up the labs was started