Division of Surface Physics and Chemistry at IFM

News

Diploma project (examsarbete) available

November, 2009
We are looking for a student with a background in chemistry and/or physics for a project synthesizing and evaluating novel ion and electron transport materials. This is a collaboration with TU Wien in Vienna. Please contact Nate Robinson (natro@ifm.liu.se) for details.

Postdoctoral position available

August, 2009
The Transport and Separations Group announces a position for a post doc to help develop chemical and biological separation systems for laboratory and lab-on-a-chip applications. See the official announcement for details and application instructions. The application deadline is September 4, 2009.

Dynamic Organic p-n junctions in Nature Materials

June, 2009
A study of p-n junctions formed in light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) has been published in Nature Materials. We hope that the scanning Kelvin probe microscopy measurements provided in this context settle the long-running debate of how LECs function and open a new field of electronic devices based on p-n junctions formed in-situ.
A press release (in Swedish) can be found here.

Review in Advanced Materials on organic interfaces

June, 2009
The review has been acknowledged to be among the most downloaded recent papers from Advanced Materials.

April, 2009
Our invited review on Energy-Level Alignment at Organic/Metal and Organic/Organic Interfaces was published in Advanced Materials, Vol. 21 No. 14-15.

PhD Student and Postdoc positions open

March, 2009
The Transport and Separations group is has an opening for one PhD student and one Postdoc for work on microfluidic pumps and separation systems. The application deadline is May 4.

Professor Kazuhiko Seki remembered at ICEL-7

October, 2008
At the 7th International Conference on Electroluminescence and Related Phenomena, Prof. Emeritus William Salaneck presented his memories of collaborating with Prof. Seki and a summary of results on Charge Transfer at Hybrid Interfaces.

Successful young researchers celebrated

2008-09-22
18 researchers from Sweden were invited to Rosenbad for a semi-formal lunch with Education and Research Minister Lars Leijonborg to celebrate and recognize their success in competing for the first starting grants offered by the European Research Council (ERC). Among them was Assoc. Prof. Nathaniel Robinson, who will receive funding for the coming 5 years from VR based on his performance. More information is available in VR's press release and Linkoping University's press release.

New Web Page Created

2008-09-08
A new web page for the Division of Surface Physics and Chemistry has been created. These pages will be updated over the coming weeks.

Former division head becomes professor emeritus

2008-08-01
Former division head Prof. William R. Salaneck becomes Professor Emeritus as well as Vice Rector Emeritus. Prof. Mats Fahlman is the new head of the Surface Physics and Chemistry division.

VR to support ERC Starting Grant Finalists

2008-06-18
The Swedish Science Council (VR) has decided to support the Swedish candidates who qualified for funding in the first European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant issue, but were not funded due to resource limitations. Grants have not officially been issued yet, but VR is offering up to 2 MSEK per year for five years. VR's press release (in Swedish) can be found here.