The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Doctor Warwick Belcher
School: School of Environmental and Life Sciences
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Doctor Warwick Belcher 2008 1 University of Newcastle New Staff Grant New Staff Grant 2008   7500  
Doctor Warwick Belcher 2008 1 University of Newcastle - Faculty of Science & IT Pilot Grant Porphyrins as Light Harvesting Additives in Organic Solar Cells   13000  
Professor Paul Dastoor;Professor John O'Connor;Professor Bruce King;Professor Adam McCluskey;Doctor Warwick Belcher;Doctor Christopher Fell 2008 1 Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Integrated surface fabrication and characterisation laboratory   750000  
Professor Paul Dastoor;Professor John O'Connor;Professor Bruce King;Professor Adam McCluskey;Doctor Warwick Belcher;Doctor Christopher Fell 2008 1 Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Partner funding Partner contributions for Integrated surface fabrication and characterisation laboratory   320000  
Doctor Warwick Belcher 2007 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 2007 MRS (Materials Research Society) Fall Meeting, Hynes Convention Centre, Boston, MA, 26/11/2007 - 30/11/2007   1700  
Professor Paul Dastoor;Doctor Lars Thomsen;Doctor Warwick Belcher 2006 1 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Access to Major Research Facilities Program Scanning X-ray Transmission Microscopy (SXTM) of polymer/fullerene composites for photovoltaic applications   10290  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
M Philosophy (Physics) Co-Supervisor Development of a Novel Organic Transistor Towards Microbiosensing of Glucose
M Philosophy (Physics) Co-Supervisor Nanostructured Organic Photovoltacs: Fabricating Interdigitated Structures Through Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition
PhD (Chemistry) Principal Supervisor Conducting Nanoparticles for Novel Electroactive Films
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Design and Synthesis of Norcantharidin Analogues as Potential Anti-Cancer Agents
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Synthesis and Characterisation of Conducting Polymeric Nanaparticles for Novel Electroactive Films
PhD (Chemistry) Principal Supervisor Ternary Polymer: Porphyrin: Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Determining the Relationship Between Morphology and Charge Carrier Mobility in Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Fabrication and Characterisation of Organic Electronic Resonant
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Large Area OPV Device Fabrication
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Large Area Polymer Photovoltaic Devices
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Nano-structural Organic Solar Cells
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Nanostructured Organic Photovoltaics
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Nanostructured Organic Solar Cells Fabricated Using CVD Techniques
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Optical Modelling of Organic Photovoltaic Devices
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Optimising the Performance of Organic Photovoltaic Devices
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Organic Field Effect Transistors in Sensing Applications
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor The Morphology of Organic Photovotaic Devices

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.600
PhD 4.200

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

McNeill Christopher R, Watts Benjamin, Thomsen Lars, Belcher Warwick John, Greenham Neil C, Dastoor Paul Christopher, Ade Harald, ’Evolution of laterally phase-separated polyfluorene blend morphology studied by X-ray spectromicroscopy’, Macromolecules, 42 3347-3352 (2009) [C1]

Burke Kerry Benjamin, Belcher Warwick John, Thomsen Lars, Watts Benjamin, McNeill Christopher R, Ade Harald, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’Role of solvent trapping effects in determining the structure and morphology of ternary blend organic devices’, Macromolecules, 42 3098-3103 (2009) [C1]

Wakeham Deborah Louise, Donne Scott Wilfred, Belcher Warwick John, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’Electrochemical and morphological characterization of electrodeposited poly(2,2':5',2'-terthiophene) for photovoltaic applications’, Synthetic Metals, 158 661-669 (2008) [C1]

Cotton Daniel Vincent, Fell Christopher James, Belcher Warwick John, Tachiya M, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’Erratum: Investigation of the photochemistry of the poly {p-phenylenevinylene} precursor system: Implications for nanolithography (Journal of Chemical Physics (2007) 126 (174703))’, Journal of Chemical Physics, 128 049901-1 - 049901-2 (2008) [C3]

McNeill C R, Watts B, Swaraj S, Ade H, Thomsen Lars, Belcher Warwick John, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’Evolution of the nanomorphology of photovoltaic polyfluorene blends: sub-100 nm resolution with x-ray spectromicroscopy’, Nanotechnology, 19 1-7 (2008) [C1]

Dickson Sara Jane, Wallace Emma V B, Swinburne Adam N, Paterson Martin J, Lloyd Gareth O, Beeby Andrew, Belcher Warwick John, Steed Jonathan W, ’Intramolecular binding site competition as a means of tuning the response of a colourimetric anion sensor’, New Journal of Chemistry, 32 786-789 (2008) [C1]

Belcher Warwick John, Hodgson Michael C, Sumida Kenji, Torvisco Ana, Ruhlandt-Senge Karin, Ware D C, Boyd P D W, Brothers P J, ’Porphyrin complexes containing coordinated BOB groups: synthesis, chemical reactivity and the structure of [BOB(tpClpp)](2+)’, Dalton Transactions 1602-1614 (2008) [C1]

Cotton Daniel Vincent, Fell Christopher J, Belcher Warwick John, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’The origin of fine structure in near-field scanning optical lithography of an electroactive polymer’, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 41 195107 (2008) [C1]

Harris C J, Belcher Warwick John, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’Effect of film thickness and morphology on the performance of photoelectrochemical cells based on poly(terthiophene)’, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 91 1127-1136 (2007) [C1]

Cotton Daniel Vincent, Fell Christopher James, Belcher Warwick John, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’Investigation of the photochemistry of the poly{ p -phenylenevinylene} precursor system: Implications for nanolithography’, Journal of Chemical Physics, 126 1-8 (2007) [C1]

Belcher Warwick John, Wagner Katherine Ingrid, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’The effect of porphyrin inclusion on the spectral response of ternary P3HT : porphyrin : PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cells’, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 91 447-452 (2007) [C1]

McNeill C R, Watts Benjamin, Thomsen Lars, Belcher Warwick John, Greenham N C, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’Nanoscale quantitative chemical mapping of conjugated polymer blends’, Nano Letters, 6 1202-1206 (2006) [C1]

McNeill C R, Watts B, Thomsen Lars, Belcher Warwick John, Kilcoyne A L D, Greenham N C, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’X-ray spectromicroscopy of polymer/ fullerene composites: Quantitative chemical mapping’, Small, 2 1432-1435 (2006) [C1]

Conference Publication

Berriman Garth Alan, Holdsworth John Lionel, Belcher Warwick John, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’Photocurrent mapping of polymer photovoltaic cells’, Nanophotonics Down Under 2009: Devices and Applications: Program, Melbourne, VIC (2009) [E2]

Belcher Warwick John, Rusmussen Seth C, Dastoor Paul Christopher, ’Characterization of N-functionalized poly(dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrrole)s in ternary blend bulk heterojunction structured organic electronic devices’, Polymer Preprints, Chicago, IL (2007) [E3]

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