OMEC
Links to OMEC partners

OMEC is funded under the Carbon Based Electronics Initiative, supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). EPSRC is the UK Government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences.

OMEC benefits from strong links with the Organic Materials Innovation Centre (OMIC). OMIC is a DTI -supported University Innovation Centre (UIC) for speciality organic materials and polymer industries. It is an independently managed partnership between industry members and academia to bridge the gap between the knowledge that Universities generate and the input that industries need in order to innovate and grow.

OMEC is composed of personnel from the following institutions:

The University of Manchester has an international reputation for polymer research and has one of the highest concentrations of polymer scientists in the UK.

• Phil. Hodge (School of Chemistry)
• Douglas Kell (School of Chemistry)
• Aimin Song (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
• Mike Turner (School of Chemistry, overall project co-ordinator)
• Stephen Yeates (School of Chemistry)

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Cardiff, has a strong research tradition with a focus on 'soft matter' including polymer interfaces.

• Emyr MacDonald

The Department of Chemistry at Imperial College has strength in a number of research areas - including electronic materials - though it is the synthetic chemistry branch that provides input to this consortium.

• Alan Spivey

The University of Sheffield also has a strong polymer research base, as home of the Polymer Centre. OMEC staff are drawn from two departments - the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Chemistry

• Patrick Fairclough (Department of Chemistry)
• Martin Grell (Physics and Astronomy)
• Richard Jones (Physics and Astronomy)
• Tim Richardson (Physics and Astronomy)

Queen Mary College (University of London) has a large number of academic staff working in this area, and is currently establishing an interdisciplinary centre of materials research. The OMEC contact at QM is:

• Theo Kreouzis (Department of Physics)

Members of the EPSRC provide additional input to the programme.

Other groups engaged in the Carbon Based Electronics Initiative include:

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool

King's College London Department of Physics