Prof Oliver Fenwick
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Research Group News
December 2024 | ||
 SEMS Represented at the Race for Diversity Motorsport UK event19 December 2024Representatives from SEMS including the Formula Student team attended an event organised by Motorsport UK and the Association for Black & Minority Ethnic Engineers to discuss diversity within Motorsport and share advice for young people wishing to enter the industry. Panellists included Laila Fadli, F1 Simulation Engineer at Mercedes AMG-HPP, … [more] | ||
 SEMS students first to see the London Stadium Solar panel project16 December 2024During SKEMP week SEMS students were the first educational group onsite to find out more about the London Stadium Solar Panels project led by Ameresco. Ameresco is a leading cleantech integrator specialising in energy efficiency low carbon and renewable energy. The 2 hour visit involved meeting engineering and construction professionals from … [more] | ||
November 2024 | ||
 Showcase of SEMS Research at our Industrial Liaison Forum18 November 2024We were excited to showcase SEMS research at the bi-annual Industrial Liaison Forum was held on 5th November. Our 2nd and 3rd year PhD students presented posters highlighting their research and the postdoctoral researchers gave flash presentations. The Research Showcase was attended by representatives from industry as well as academics … [more] | ||
 SEMS Industrial Advisory Board meets5 November 2024The SEMS Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) met on Tuesday 5th November to discuss our taught programmes and delivery of skills training. It was attended by 14 members of our IAB along with SEMS staff and members of our Student Voice Committee. Topics for discussion included skills development on our Design Innovation &… [more] | ||
October 2024 | ||
 Queen Mary and Paragraf researchers produce graphene-based memristors at wafer scale23 October 2024Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Paragraf Limited have advanced the development of memristors incorporating the “wonder material”, graphene. The importance of memristors Memristors are recognised as having significant potential in the future of non-volatile memory and artificial neural networks (ANNs), because they offer the … [more] | ||
 Graphene-based memristors move a step closer to benefiting next-generation computing23 October 2024Researchers from Queen Mary University of London and Paragraf Limited have demonstrated a significant step forward in the development of graphene-based memristors and towards unlocking their potential for use in future computing systems and artificial intelligence (AI). This innovation – published in ACS Advanced Electronic Materials and featured on the … [more] | ||
 Inspiring young future materials scientists at New Scientist Live14 October 2024Materials scientists and engineers from Queen Mary's School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) engaged students at Schools' Day at the New Scientist Live Event at London's ExCeL Centre. Schools' Day welcomes over 6,000 students with thought-provoking talks, ground-breaking discoveries, interactive experiences and hands-on activities. Representing Discover Materials, the … [more] | ||
May 2024 | ||
 SEMS Exhibits at the Advanced Materials Fair in Birmingham16 May 2024SEMS technology was exhibited at the Advanced Materials Show at the NEC in Birmingham. This trade fair, which takes place alongside the Advanced Ceramics Show, the Vehicle Electrification Expo and the Battery Cells & Systems Expo featured over 300 exhibitors along with 100 speakers, and attracted more than 4000 visitors. Our exhibit displayed … [more] | ||
March 2024 | ||
 130 students go on industrial site visits during a successful Skills and Employability Week27 March 2024During the recent Skills and Employability Week, several groups of engineering students signed up for visits to various sites, including Thales Transportation, Southeast London Combined Heat and Power Plant (SELCHP), Advanced Healthcare Limited (AHL) and 3M. At Thales Transportation, students saw how they control the Hammersmith, Circle and Metropolitan line &… [more] | ||
 Postgraduate students present research at ILF March 202418 March 2024Our MEng and MSc students presented their Research Projects at the Industrial Liaison Forum on 6th March 2024. Our MEng students conduct team projects in their fourth year in groups of four to six students. Currently towards the end of their projects, they were able to present a mix of prototypes, … [more] | ||
 Undergraduate research posters win prizes at ILF18 March 2024Students from across the School of Engineering and Materials Science, including the Queen Mary Centre for Undergraduate Research (QMCUR), third year BEng students, and the Intercalated BSc in Bioengineering presented their research projects at the Industrial Liaison Forum on 6th March 2024. All students engaged in lively discussion with our academics … [more] | ||
 MSc Extended Research Project poster prize winners at ILF March 202417 March 2024Our MSc students presented their Extended Research Projects at the Industrial Liaison Forum on 6th March 2024. Our MSc projects run from semester 1 through to August, so they are currently only about half-way through their projects. Nonetheless, they were able to give an excellent account of their work so far and … [more] | ||
November 2023 | ||
 SEMS team recognised at QMUL Academic Promotions Event21 November 2023On 21st November QMUL hosted an event to celebrate the staff who have been promoted in the most recent academic promotion rounds. As we reported back in September, this was a very successful outcome for SEMS with 12 of our colleagues being promoted across all the different academic grades, reflecting the … [more] | ||
 Emma Sadler wins the PDRA prize at the 2023 SEMS ILF Research Showcase15 November 2023At the SEMS recent research led Industrial Liaison Forum, there were nine Postdoctoral Research Associate (PRDA) flash presentations. The session was of great interest to faculty, PDRAs, students and attending industrialists alike. After careful deliberation panel of judges awarded the following prize: Emma Sadler for a presentation on 'Superhydrophobic Surfaces: … [more] | ||
 Award Winning Research Students in 2023 SEMS ILF Research Showcase14 November 2023At the recent SEMS research-led Industrial Liaison Forum, there was a showcase from 60 of our current PhD students. The panel of judges this year were made up a wide range of early career researchers (Dr Luis Murillo Herrera, Mr Eugenio Sebastian Suena Galindez, Dr Clemence Nadal, Dr Oliver Brookes and … [more] | ||
 Undergraduate Engineers Visit Teledyne e2v9 November 2023Fifteen SEMS students were hosted at Teledyne e2v in Chelmsford as part of our Industrial Site Visits Programme for undergraduate engineering students. Teledyne is a leader in semiconductor devices, full spectrum imaging and high-power radio frequency solutions. They are present in virtually all markets and industries from medical … [more] | ||
 SEMS Industrial Liaison Forum, November 20238 November 2023We were pleased to once again hold the bi-annual Industrial Liaison Forum live in-person at Queen Mary University of London on 8th November 2023 in the People's Palace. The event was well attended by staff and students as well as industrialists. The day was broken up into five parts, starting … [more] | ||
October 2023 | ||
 Queen Mary forms a new Industrial Advisory Board on Systems Engineering31 October 2023The School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has established a new Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) on Systems Engineering in October 2023 to ensure that the School’s Systems Engineering programmes meet the international standards and needs of industry, and the School students … [more] | ||
July 2023 | ||
 School of Engineering and Materials Science students visit Aston Martin F113 July 2023A group of 15 SEMS students visited the new Aston Martin F1 team at Silverstone a few days before the British Grand Prix. The visit was a part of the Make a Mark Day at the AMR Technology Campus, which aimed to inspire the next generation and showcase STEM career opportunities … [more] | ||
April 2023 | ||
 SEMS runs first Industrial Workshop on Systems Engineering: toward sustainable digital systems24 April 2023SEMS' Systems Engineering team - led by Dr Mohammad Hassannezhad - ran an industrial workshop with focus on digital transformation, sustainability and skill gaps, on 24 April at QM's Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI). The workshop brought together a group of 17 industry practitioners from 14 different companies in eight … [more] | ||
November 2022 | ||
 SEMS November Industrial Liaison Forum including PhD Research Showcase and and Student Awards9 November 2022We were pleased to once again hold the bi-annual Industrial Liaison Forum live in-person at Queen Mary University of London on 9th November 2022 in the Octagon. The event was well attended by staff and students as well as industrialists. The day was broken up into five parts, starting in the … [more] | ||
 November Prize-giving for SEMS' Taught Students9 November 2022At the Industrial Liaison Forum on 9th November 2022, we celebrated the achievements of some of our best taught students. Over 20 prizes were awarded by the School. These were awarded across subject and year groups and included "Academic Achievement Prizes as well as "Best Project Prizes". One "… [more] | ||
April 2022 | ||
 SEMS Industrial Liaison Forum April 20226 April 2022Our bi-annual Industrial Liaison Forum was held in-person at Queen Mary University of London on 6th April 2022. We received over 50 external visitors from industry as well as Alumni. The day started with our final year student project showcase, where a fantastic selection of posters were presented by our BEng and … [more] | ||
 BEng Research Project poster prize winners at ILF April 20226 April 2022Selected 3rd year BEng students presented posters on their research projects at the Industrial Liaison on 6th April 2022. We had over 50 external visitors at the event from industry as well as Alumni. The posters were displayed at the Final Year Student Project Showcase in the morning, where a fantastic selection … [more] | ||
 MSc Extended Research Project poster prize winners at ILF April 20226 April 2022Our MSc students presented their Extended Research Projects at the Industrial Liaison Forum on 6th April 2022. Our MSc projects run from semester 1 through to August, so they are currently only about half-way through their projects. Nonetheless, they were able to give an excellent account of their work so far and … [more] | ||
 MEng Group Project Presentation prize awarded at ILF April 20226 April 2022Our MEng students presented their Research & Design Team Projects at the Industrial Liaison Forum on 6th April 2022. Our MEng students conduct team projects in their 4th year in groups of about 5 students. Currently towards the end of their projects, they were able to present a mix of prototypes, samples … [more] | ||
January 2022 | ||
 SEMS Staff Receive Many Awards at the Science and Engineering Faculty Awards Ceremony.27 January 2022The Science and Engineering Faculty Celebration took place in the Octagon to a large assembled in person gathering and was broadcast simultaneously online to an even larger audience on the 27th January 2022. SEMS had a very large number of the awards with Andrew Spowage winning the Faculty Award for Internationalisation … [more] | ||
July 2021 | ||
 Aligned polymer films convert heat to electricity more efficiently13 July 2021Research in the School of Engineering and Materials Science has shown a 25-fold improvement in the thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) in aligned polymer films. Thermoelectric materials have the ability to convert heat in the form of temperature gradients into electricity. Research in Dr Fenwick's group has been focussing … [more] | ||
February 2021 | ||
 Researchers demonstrate a new method for scalable deposition of hybrid perovskites for solar cells5 February 2021A new paper by Ryley Ratnasingham, supervised by Dr Joe Briscoe (SEMS, QMUL) and Prof Martyn McLachlan (Imperial College London) as part of the Plastic Electronics CDT has been published in Materials Advances, which reports the first ever working perovskite solar cell (PSC) using a hybrid perovskite material deposited by … [more] | ||
September 2020 | ||
 UK Materials Science Community delivers its strategic response to net-zero emissions challenge30 September 2020In May 2019 the UK Government became the first global economy to set a net zero emissions target for 2050, upgrading the previous target of delivering an 80% cut in emissions. The move followed the publication of the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) ‘Net Zero’ report. In response, the Henry Royce Institute … [more] | ||
July 2020 | ||
 Tianjun Liu Passes his PhD Viva8 July 2020Tiajun Liu has successfully defended his thesis entitled "Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Thermoelectric Materials". His thesis was already selected as the best in the Materials Division this year and his work has been published in Nature Communications, Nanoscale, Advanced Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and other journals. Tianjun has been an integral … [more] | ||
June 2020 | ||
 Thibault Degousée successfully passes his PhD viva30 June 2020Thibault Degousée has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Organic thermoelectric materials". His work covered structure-property relationships in polymer materials used to convert waste heat into electricity. Thibault was employed on a SEMS studentship, but also travelled to Italy several times to conduct X-ray scattering experiments through the Royal … [more] | ||
May 2020 | ||
 Renewal of Royal Society University Research Fellowship for Dr Fenwick to study low dimensional energy materials15 May 2020Nanomaterials have dimensions less than 100 billionths of a metre, and on these length scales they can acquire completely new properties. Examples include metal quantum dots less than 10 nanometres in diameter which emit light, or graphene which, being a single layer of carbon atoms, is nano-sized in one dimension and exhibits … [more] | ||
December 2019 | ||
 Fine-tuning thermoelectric materials for cheaper renewable energy17 December 2019Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed new thermoelectric materials, which could provide a low-cost option for converting heat energy into electricity. Materials known as halide perovskites have been proposed as affordable alternatives to existing thermoelectric materials, however so far research into their suitability for thermoelectric applications has … [more] | ||
July 2019 | ||
 Queen Mary and Paragraf awarded £500,000 to explore using Graphene to replace rare metal Indium10 July 2019Queen Mary University of London and the graphene-device company Paragraf have been awarded £500,000 by Innovate UK to explore using graphene to replace the rare metal Indium. The Queen Mary research will be led by Sir Colin Humphreys from the School of Engineering and Materials Science, with co-investigators Dr Oliver Fenwick … [more] | ||
April 2019 | ||
 SEMS researchers demonstrate targeted drug delivery at TeenTech London3 April 2019SEMS researchers demonstrated a working model of drug delivery using magnetic nanoparticles at a TeenTech event in The Emirates Stadium. The event was attended by several hundred of school children who had the opportunity to engage in hands-on activities. SEMS researchers used a mock circulatory system to demonstrate how drugs … [more] | ||
March 2019 | ||
 SEMS PhD student takes his research to Parliament13 March 2019PhD student Thibault Degousée presented his results at the STEM For Britain event in the Palace of Westminster. Thibault's work examines the possibility of generating electricity from waste heat using thermoelectric polymers. This event aims to present “ground-breaking” and frontier UK research and R&D to Members of both … [more] | ||
Other News
PUBLICATION (BOOK CHAPTER) (31/08/2017) "Organic Thermoelectric Composites Materials" in Comprehensive Composite Materials II (doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803581-8.10024-4) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128035818100244
ROYAL INVITATION! (31/05/2017) Dr Fenwick attends a reception for Royal Society University Research Fellows at St James' Palace at the invitation of HRH Duke of York.
CONFERENCE (05/2017) Dr Fenwick co-organised symposium K at the E-MRS Spring Meeting. A poster was presented by his students.
NEW ROLES (05/2017) Dr Fenwick joins the Board of the Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training, and becomes Programme Director for Materials Science and Engineering at QMUL.
NEW FUNDING (31/03/2017 - 30/03/2019) Dr Fenwick and Dr Silvia Milita (CNR Bologna, Italy) have been awarded a Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme grant to fund collaborative research on "Self-assembled thermoelectric materials".
FUNDED PHD PROJECT Open for applications! N-type organic thermoelectric materials.
4yr funded MRes and PhD (The MRes year will be undertaken at Imperial College, then the student will transfer to QMUL for the PhD). Supervised by Dr Oliver Fenwick and Dr Bob Schroeder (Biological & Chemical Sciences, QMUL). More details at:
PHD PROJECT OPPORTUNITY Open for applications! Nanostructuring hybrid perovskites for thermoelectric applications.
The studentship is open to applicants of all nationalities (UK/EU/international) and will cover tuition fees and provide an annual stipend (£16,057 in 2017/18) for up to three years. The minimum requirement is a 2:1 degree (or equivalent) and an MSc/MRes degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. chemistry, material science).
To apply please send your CV, a short statement outlining why are you interested in a PhD opportunityand the contact information of two references to Dr. Bob Schroeder (b.c.schroeder@qmul.ac.uk). The deadline for application is 15th March 2017 (midnight), but early applications are strongly encouraged.
PUBLICATION "Nonconventional charge transport in organic semiconductors: Magnetoresistance and thermoelectricity" O. Fenwick and E. Orgiu, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 2017, 2, 47 - 56.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/me/c6me00079g#!divAbstract
POSTER PRESENTATION 21/02/2017 Dr Oliver Fenwick presents his poster on "Asymmetrically SAM-functionalised electrodes for organic electronics" at the Printed and Flexible Electronics Congress, London.
ORAL PRESENTATION 02/02/2017 Thibault Degoussée presents his talk on organic thermoelectrics to the IOM3, London.
WINTER SCHOOL 16/01/2017 The group attends the Plastic Electronics Winter School in Bergun, Switzerland.
NEW GROUP MAMBER 01/12/2016 Tianjun Liu joins the group on a CSC-funded PhD project.
INSTALLATION OF GLOVEBOX 11/2016 The MBraun nitrogen glovebox also contains a spin-coater and a thermal evaporator with metal and organic sources.
PRESS RELEASE Scientists use silver to make lights shine brightly! http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/se/177737.html
PUBLICATION (NATURE MATERIALS) Tuning the energetics and tailoring optical properties of silver clusters confined in zeolites, Fenwick O. et al. Nature Materials 2016, doi:10.1038/nmat4652 View open access at: http://rdcu.be/iIwg
GLOVEBOX ARRIVES!!!! 5/08/2016
PUBLICATION Silver-induced reconstruction of an adeninate-based metal-organic framework for encapsulation of luminescent adenine-stabilized silver clusters, Jonckheere D. et al. J. Mater. Chem. C 4, 4259-4268, 2016. http://pubs.rsc.org/is/content/articlelanding/2016/tc/c6tc00260a#!divAbstract
PUBLICATION Luminescent Neutral Cu(I) Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization and Application in Solution-Processed OLED. Bizzarri C., Fléchon C., Fenwick O., et al. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology 5, R83-R90, 2016. http://jss.ecsdl.org/content/5/6/R83.abstract
PUBLICATION Design, synthesis, chemical stability, packing, cyclic voltammetry, ionisation potential, and charge transport of [1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene derivatives. Ruzie C. et al. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 4, 4863-4879, 2016. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/tc/c6tc01409g#!divAbstract
NEW GROUP MEMBER 2/6/2016 Vanira Trifiletti joins the group on an ERASMUS+ scholarship as part of her PhD program (University of Salento)
NEW GROUP MEMBER 3/5/2016 Thibault Degousée joins the group to study for a PhD in organic thermoelectric materials.
PhD STUDENTSHIP Now open to applications! Topic: Organic Thermoelectric Materials. Visit http://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/research/studentships/?sid=235 for more information. Deadline 18th January 2016.
OPENING OF NEW MATERIALS LABS at QMUL
MEETING - 21-22/10/2015 Venice, Italy. Dr Oliver Fenwick attends 30 month meeting of the European FP7 project SACS (Self Assembly in Confined Space, http://www.fp7-sacs.com/).19/10/2015
19/10/2015 Dr Oliver Fenwick takes up his position in SEMs at Queen Mary.
FUNDING - Dr Oliver Fenwick awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2015-2020, £492k) - "Organic thermoelectrics in multiple structural and transport regimes"