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A blog about chemistry and academia from a first year PhD student. Particularly interested in organic electronics and nanoparticles.
Tom Phillips
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- December 15, 2012
- 08:14 AM
- 125 views
Microwave heating: still nothing special
by Tom Phillips in A Chemical Education
For many years there has been debate over whether there is a specific microwave effect on chemical reactions or if it’s just a thermal effect. A couple of years ago I took lecture course on microwave and ultrasound chemistry. The … Continue reading →... Read more »
Kappe C. Oliver, Pieber Bartholomäus, & Dallinger Doris. (2012) Microwave Effects in Organic Synthesis—Myth or Reality?. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201204103
- December 12, 2012
- 06:54 AM
- 100 views
Making semiconducting polymers in flow
by Tom Phillips in A Chemical Education
Organic electronics has a problem with batch-to-batch variability in the quality of materials, particularly the active semiconducting layer. A fellow PhD student in my office described to me the trouble he often experiences. He made one batch of solar cells … Continue reading →... Read more »
Bannock J. H., Krishnadasan S. H., Nightingale A. M., Yau C. P., Khaw K., Burkitt D., Halls J. J. M., Heeney M., & de Mello J. C. (2012) Continuous Synthesis of Device-Grade Semiconducting Polymers in Droplet-Based Microreactors. Advanced Functional Materials. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201203014
- September 10, 2012
- 05:21 AM
- 346 views
Forget the scotch tape: how to make loads of graphene
by Tom Phillips in A Chemical Education
Earlier this year I was writing a review about transparent conducting materials for organic electronic applications. As part of it, I wrote a fair bit about graphene. One of the key problems is that it’s difficult to scale the desirable properties of small pieces of graphene to large areas without resorting to quite challenging techniques. [...]... Read more »
Jinfeng Chen, Miao Duan, & Guohua Chen. (2012) Continuous mechanical exfoliation of graphene sheets via three-roll mill. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 19625-19628. info:/10.1039/c2jm33740a
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