The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr Warwick Belcher
School: School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Commenced with Institution: 11-MAY-2005
Personal URL:

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 $
Dr Warwick Belcher 2008 1 University of Newcastle New Staff Grant New Staff Grant 2008   7500  
Dr 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;Dr Warwick Belcher;Professor Catherine Stampfl;Dr Jeffrey Reimers;Assoc. Prof Alexander Hamilton;Dr Adam Micolich;Dr Christopher Fell;Dr Scott Watkins;Dr Mark Bown;Dr Anton Stampfl;Dr Peter Evans 2008 1 Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Partner funding Partner contributions (ie not ARC) for Integrated surface fabrication and characterisation laboratory   320000  
Professor Paul Dastoor;Professor John O'Connor;Professor Bruce King;Professor Adam McCluskey;Dr Warwick Belcher;Professor Catherine Stampfl;Dr Jeffrey Reimers;Assoc. Prof Alexander Hamilton;Dr Adam Micolich;Dr Christopher Fell;Dr Scott Watkins;Dr Mark Bown;Dr Anton Stampfl;Dr Peter Evans 2008 1 Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Integrated surface fabrication and characterisation laboratory   750000  
Dr 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;Dr Lars Thomsen;Dr 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
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Synthesis and Characterisation of Conducting Polymeric Nanaparticles for Novel Electroactive Films
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Conducting Nanoparticles for Novel Electroactive Films
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Synthesis and Development of Anti-Parasitic Agents
PhD (Chemistry) Principal Supervisor Ternary Polymer: Porphyrin: Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells
M Philosophy (Physics) Co-Supervisor Nanostructured Organic Photovoltacs: Fabricating Interdigitated Structures Through Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition
M Philosophy (Physics) Co-Supervisor Development of a Novel Organic Transistor Towards Microbiosensing of Gluose
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Morphologies and optimum nanostructures of Organic Photovoltaics
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Modelling Artificial Photosynthesis: Extending the Spectral Response of Organic Solar Cells
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Fabrication and Characterisation of Organic Electronic Resonant
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Nanostructured Organic Solar Cells Fabricated Using CVD Techniques
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor CVD of Nanotube Based Sensors
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Large Area Polymer Photovoltaic Devices
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Determining the Relationship Between Morphology and Charge Carrier Mobility in Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor To be advised
PhD (Physics) Co-Supervisor Biosensors from Plastic Electronics

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.600
PhD 3.650

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

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

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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