Materials
British Carbon Group
This is an IOP special interest group, which is a community of IOP members focused on a particular discipline, application or area of interest.
Special interest groups allow members to connect and share knowledge and ideas. The IOP funds groups to deliver a range of activities including events, prizes and bursaries. All of our groups are driven by members.
About the group
As a special interest, member-driven group, we are interested in the diverse applications of carbon and graphite in modern technology and its variety of textures and structures.
As well as physicists and chemists, we welcome professionals from other disciplines with an interest in carbon. We are attracting interest from scientists working in mainland Europe and developing economies.
We have contact with similar groups in France, Spain, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, the US and Japan.
In 1977, the group became the Joint Carbon Group of The Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Since January 1994, the group has been joined with the Industrial Carbon and Graphite Group of The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) and is known as the British Carbon Group.
Our newsletter keeps members updated about our activities.
What the group does
The discovery of fullerenes and nanotubes has added another dimension to our activities.
The breadth of physics research generated by the industrial importance of these materials spans many branches of:
- science
- engineering
- technology
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Group physics prize
Learn more about The Brian Kelly Award on the British Carbon Group section of the RSC website.
Group events
Learn more about our events on our pages on the RSC website.
Newsletter
- Special edition newsletter: September 2022 (PDF, 2.06MB)
- February 2022 newsletter (PDF, 424KB)
- December 2012 newsletter (PDF, 1.82MB)
Read our other recent newsletters on the group WordPress website.
Useful links
Committee and contact
| Category | Name | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chair | Dr Geoff Fowler | 2024 | 2030 |
| Secretary | Mrs Samantha Wilkinson, CPhys MInstP | 2023 | 2029 |
| Treasurer | Dr Natalia Martsinovich, MInstP | 2023 | 2029 |
| Ordinary Member | Mr Alex Bowles | 2024 | 2027 |
| Ordinary Member | Mr Richard Harris | 2024 | 2027 |
| Ordinary Member | Dr Peter Minshall | 2023 | 2026 |
| Ordinary Member | Dr Alex Theodosiou | 2024 | 2027 |
- Email: [email protected]