Dr Nicole Grobert
Nicole Grobert graduated in Chemistry from the Universtiy of Ulm in Germany in 1996. After a short stay as a visiting student at the University of Sussex she obtained a grant from the Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) and the Japanese Fine Ceramics Centre (JFCC) in order to pursue her D.Phil. studies in Chemical Physics on novel carbon nanostructures under the supervision of Sir Harry Kroto and Dr David Walton.
In 2001 she received the International Pergamon Prize for an outstanding thesis of the years 1999-2001 in carbon science. Following this, Nicole worked as a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung in Stuttgart, Germany, continuing her work on layered structures and carbon nanotube composite materials.
In September 2003, she returned to the UK in order to take up a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship the Department of Materials at Oxford. Since September 2006 she has been appointed Royal Society University Research Fellow.
Nicole is a member of the 21st Century's Centre of Excellence Programme on Bioscience and Nanotechnology and she has been a visiting Researcher at Toyo University, Japan, since 2003. In 2007, she was made a Visiting Professor at the same University.
Nicole is a member of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering working group on nanotechnology commissioned by the UK government in July 2003. The report on "Nanoscience and nanotechnologies: opportunities and uncertainties" was published in July 2004).
Nicole worked together with PAL LAB on the public understanding of Science on "Nanotechnology: case studies in new technology - societal and ethical implications.
In 2005, she was awarded a Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, became a Science and Engineering Ambassador (SEAs) and in 2006 she selected to be a NESTA Crucible Fellow.
Nicole is a member of the Royal Society Hooke Committee and in Dec 2007, she was elected Vice-Chairman of the British Carbon Group.
Contact Details
30.13 Holder Building Department of Materials, University of Oxford Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH Telephone: 01865 273672 Fax: 01865 283333 E-mail: nicole.grobert@materials.ox.ac.ukPublications
Grobert Nicole, Lozano-Perez Sergio, Evidence of mixed metal catalysts in multi-walled carbon nanotubes, IMC16 Proceedings, Sapporo, Japan, pp. 1,176, 2006.
Grobert Nicole, Carbon nanotubes: Grow or go, MATERIALS TODAY, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 64, 2006.
Reyes-Reyes M, Grobert Nicole, Kamalakaran R, Seeger T, Golberg D, Ruhle M, Bando Y, Terrones H, Terrones M, , CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, vol. 396, no. 1-3, pp. 167-173, 2004.
Yoon M, Han SW, Kim G, Lee SB, Berber S, Osawa E, Ihm J, Terrones M, Banhart F, Charlier JC, Grobert Nicole, Terrones H, Ajayan PM, Tomanek D, Zipper mechanism of nanotube fusion: Theory and experiment, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 92, no. 7, pp. 75,504, 2004.
Lupo F, Kamalakaran R, Scheu C, Grobert Nicole, Ruhle M, Microstructural investigations on zirconium oxide-carbon nanotube composites synthesized by hydrothermal crystallization, CARBON, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 1,995-1,999, 2004.
Alcaniz-Monge J, Lozano-Castello D, Hahn K, Grobert Nicole, Ruhle M, Characterisation of conductive CVD carbon-glass fibres, CARBON, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 2,349-2,351, 2004.
Lozano-Castello D, Kamalakaran R, van Benthem K, Phillipp YJ, Grobert Nicole, Rühle M, Preparation and characterisation of novel "sea-cucumber"-like structures containing carbon and boron, CARBON, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 2,223-2,231, 2004.
Kamalakaran R, Lupo F, Grobert Nicole, Scheu T, Jin-Phillipp NY, Rühle M, Microstructural Characterization of C-SiC-Carbon Nanotube Composite Flakes, CARBON, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 1-4, 2004.