The players may take more or less time over any individual move. The simplest time control is "sudden death", in which players must make a predetermined number of moves in a certain amount of time or forfeit the game immediately.Ī particularly popular variant is blitz chess, in which each player is given a short time, such as five minutes, on the clock in which to play the entire game. In a tournament, the arbiter typically places all clocks in the same orientation, so that they can easily assess games that need attention at later stages. Their use has since spread to tournament Scrabble, shogi, go, and nearly every competitive two-player board game, as well as other types of games. The first time that game clocks were used in a chess tournament was in the London 1883 tournament as invention by Thomas Bright Wilson of Manchester Chess Club. The purpose is to keep track of the total time each player takes for their own moves, and ensure that neither player overly delays the game.Ĭhess clocks were first used extensively in tournament chess, and are often called game clocks. Chess clocks are used in chess and other two-player games where the players move in turn, and in some legal settings where each side is allotted a specific amount of time for arguments. My aim is to synthesize novel systems which allow us to firstly measure, and then control these basic properties which are still not understood.īy developing a true understanding of how structure (both primary chemical, and secondary morphological) affects the fundamental properties it will be possible to make rapid advances across all fields.A chess clock consists of two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run simultaneously. For instance, it could be argued that in applications where there is interaction of light and matter, the three most important of these properties are: excited state energy, lifetime and diffusion length. There are a few key properties of conjugated polymers which are important across ALL applications, which if they could be controlled would offer rapid advances across all fields of research. I believe that by developing a true understanding of the fundamental properties of conjugated materials, simultaneous advancement across all areas of conjugated polymer research and its relevant applications. My aim as a scientist is to begin the research process from the “bottom up”. Traditionally, much of the development of novel materials has come from a “top-down” approach where a particular research group focuses on one/several types of application. The virtually infinite tunability of conjugated polymers means that they can be applied to an immense number of applications. singlet fission, upconversion, reverse intersystem crossing) due to their unique and fascinating properties. We are particularly interested in synthesizing materials that help understand and utilise triplet excited states (eg. Research in my group involves the synthesis of novel conjugated materials for use in organic solar cells, light emitting diodes and transistors. In 2015 I was awarded an ERC starting grant and then in 2017 I was appointed as a lecturer joint between the physics and chemistry departments at the University of Cambridge. I was awarded am Imperial College Junior Research Fellowship in 2012 before being appointed as a lecturer at University College London in 2013.
After this I returned to Imperial College to do a second postdoc with Prof. I then spent a year at the University of Washington in Seattle working as a postdoc for Prof. I studied Chemistry at Oxford, before going on to do a PhD at Imperial College with Prof. I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1980 but grew up in London, UK.
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