News
Mark and Ioannis visit Here East
and present the work of pi-lab on luminescent solar concentrators, thermochromic coatings and superhydrophobic surfaces.
Mark and Christian present their work at MRS Fall in Boston
Mark presented his latest results on Luminescent Solar Concentrators with flexible DBR mirrors and Christian presented his record breaking thermochromic glazing.
We welcome Dr Jietao Liu to pi-lab
pi-lab is delighted to welcome Dr Jietao Liu, Associate Professor at Xidian University. Jietao joins us on a prestigious Chinese Scholarship Council fellowship to work on the design and fabrication of dynamic metamaterials.
We welcome Nick Salaris to pi-lab
Nick, a PhD student on the IPES CDT, joins pi-lab to work on flexible oxygen sensor arrays for biomedical applications. The project is in collaboration with Prof. Manish Tiwari's group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
New paper: "Mitigation of hysteresis due to a pseudophotochromic effect in thermochromic smart windows" published in Scientific Reports
Christian Sol, PhD student in pi-lab sheds light on the effects of phase transition hysteresis and gradient on the performance of thermochromic smart windows in a paper published in Scientific Reports.
Sophia presents her work at the Superhydrophobicity and Wetting Symposium
Sophia presents her work on block-copolymers at the Superhydrophobicity and Wetting Symposium (SWS) in Espoo, Finland.
Ioannis delivers an invited talk at the launch of the UCL Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Ioannis delivers an invited talk at the launch of the UCL Institute of Communications and Connected Systems in March 2018.
Dr Guru Laxminarayana Kargal joins pi-lab to work in smart windows
Guru is an experienced Chemist with extensive expertise in nanoparticle synthesis and plasmonics. Welcome to our lab Guru!
The Dawn of Solar Windows - PI Lab in IEEE Spectrum
Photonic Innovations Lab features in an article in IEEE Spectrum on Solar Harvesting Windows. The article, by Andy Extance, features both Ioannis Papakonstantinou and Mark Portnoi, and discusses the group's research on Luminescent Solar Concentrators.
Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition - Smart Surfaces
RSC smart surfaces. Tuesday 4 July - Sunday 9 July
ECBO Munich, June 2017
Radhika presented the work on 'Electrospun fiber-optic ultrasound transmitters' at ECBO-2017 conference held at ICM, Munich.
New research grant: Lloyd's Register Foundation ICON PhD studentship
pi-lab receives an International Consortium of Nanotechnologies (ICON) studentship from Lloyd's Register Foundation.
MRS Phoenix, April 2017
Mark and Christian presented their research at the MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona
New grant: EPSRC Underpinning Multi-User Equipment for 3D-nanoprinting
A two photon-lithography, 3D-nanoprinter coming to UCL
