Contact Details:

henry.thake@warwick.ac.uk

Department of Chemistry: G209

PhD student, September 2024-present

PhD Project

The aim of my project is to identify how certain local defects can be created in graphene networks and their general design principles for systematic, scaled growth. The ability of these defective networks to support novel types of metal catalyst materials and nanostructured magnetic materials will also be studied. Should such materials be found, I will look at how the properties of these materials are influenced by the underlying graphene structure and explore whether characteristics can be selected for based on the species used to grow the graphene sheets.

Background

I completed a BA and MSci in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. My MSci project, supervised by Prof. Steve Jenkins, used MD simulations to explore radical-mediated mechanisms for the fluorination of silicon and diamond (100) surfaces.