COPE is delighted to announce that Dr Ebinazar Namdas has won a prestigious Future Fellowship from the Australian Government.

Dr Namdas has been awarded a four-year Future Fellowship to conduct research into organic-inorganic hybrid electronic devices and logic circuits.  The project will create the next generation of opto-electronic devices and logic circuits using solution-based organic-inorganic hybrid materials that have the potential of being extremely cheap, recyclable, and mechanically flexible....Read more

COPE is delighted to announce that Dr Almantas Pivrikas and Dr Paul Shaw have won Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Awards (DECRAs). DECRAs recognise outstanding young researchers of exceptional promise. The awards are in two key areas of organic optoelectronics, namely charge transport and photophysics....Read more

COPE PhD student Justin Yu has successfully won both the SCMB qualifier round and the Faculty of Science semi-final to compete at the UQ 3 Minute Thesis competition Final.

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland. Participating students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis topic and its significance.



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As part of National Science Week, COPE senior research fellow Dr Kwan H. Lee will be presenting a public talk titled "Organic Electronics - The future is NOW" on Sunday 21 August 2011 at 1.00pm at the Queensland Museum....Read more

Image:  Kwan Lee holds an organic solar cell made at COPE

Researchers at COPE have recently been featured on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials.  Stable film morphology is critical for durable, high-performance organic light-emitting diodes. Uniformly blended films of Ir(ppy)3 in CBP formed by evaporation were found to phase-separate with moderate heating. Luminescence microscopy shows that phase separation leads to fiber-like structures of CBP (blue) and Ir(ppy)3 (green)....Read more

COPE hosted a group of collaborators from Germany from 6th to 10th June 2011.  The visitors included Dr Alexander Colsmann, Andreas Pütz, Jens Czolk and Michael Klein from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Prof Klaus Lips from Helmholtz Center Berlin and Dr Jan Behrends from Free University Berlin.

Image from left to right:  Prof Ian Gentle, Prof Klaus Lips, Dr Jan Behrends, Mr Jens Czolk, Dr Alex Colsmann, Mr Michael Klein, Prof Paul Burn, Prof Paul Meredith, Mr Justin Yu, Mr Andreas Putz, Mr Matthew Zhang and Dr Kwan H. Lee

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The Centre is currently advertising several new postdoctoral research positions as it continues to expand.  Positions are available in organic field effect transistors fabrication and testing,  organic optoelectronic materials synthesis, the physical deposition of transpare...Read more

A postdoctoral research position is available in COPE in the field of Theory of Organic Optoelectronic Materials.  To find out more about this position, please click here.  Further information is available on the ...Read more

Australia's leading research chemists have thrown themselves in the mix when it comes to celebrating the 2011 International Year of Chemistry.

UQ's chemistry researchers, whose work consistently ranked as above world standard in more fields than any other Australian university in the recent Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) ratings, are enthusiastically taking up the call to increase the profile of the chemistry discipline as part of the international celebrations....Read more

Giant particle accelerators such as the large hadron collider have generated enormous interest for their potential to shed light on the secrets of the universe.  While the LHC is answering fascinating fundamental questions, lower-energy particle accelerators focused on problems of a more practical nature have recently produced an interesting breakthrough in our ability to control the electrical properties of plastics. ...Read more