Organizing Committee Member
Peter Foot
Emeritus Professor
Kingston university
United Kingdom
Biography
Peter Foot studied chemistry at the Universities of Southampton and Oxford. He worked for a time in the polymer industry. and later, at Brighton and Sussex Universities, he researched inorganic materials and organic polymers. His current interests are mainly in functional polymers and nanocomposites for energy conversion, organic optics & electronics, and drug delivery. He led the Materials Research Group at Kingston University (1995-2008) and was the Founding Director of the Materials Research Centre. He retired as a full-time Professor of Materials Science in 2014 and is now an Emeritus Professor. He currently supervises 3 Ph.D. students, having previously directed 57 postgrad research students and 9 postdoc researchers. His research has been widely funded by EPSRC, the Royal Society, industry, and government/European agencies.
Research Area
•Conducting polymers and polyblends (e.g. for sensors and actuators) •Organic and polymeric semiconductors and thin-film devices (OLED; FET) •Organic-inorganic nanocomposites, including photovoltaic (PV) properties and electronic energy transfer •High-energy battery materials (especially Li and Mg battery cathodes), and supercapacitors •Polymer nanoparticles for targeted delivery of potent or cardiotoxic drugs •Ophthalmic polymers (surface modification and novel polymer synthesis).