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Meet the winners of the LatinXChem 2022 poster prizes sponsored by PCCP

On November 28th, 2022, the #LatinXChem22 conference took place, the third event organized by @LatinXChem. In this virtual forum, the community of Latin American chemists located all around the world shared and discussed their research results and advances via Twitter.

950 posters were presented in Spanish, Portuguese, or English in eight different categories! In this blog, we are delighted to announce the winners in #LXChemPhys categories sponsored by PCCP and in #LXChemComp sponsored by PCCP and Digital Discovery.

Congratulations to all the poster prize winners and to everyone who took part! All the poster contributions were fantastic!

 

#LXChemComp

#LXChemComp gathered scientists working in many different areas of computational chemistry. This year, five different sub-categories were evaluated: Simulations (Dynamics, Montecarlo, quantum  dynamics, etc), Methods (software developments), Computational chemistry, Excited states and Machine learning

Best poster prize: Planar tetracoordinate oxygen atoms

Gabriela Castillo-Toraya

@GabyrCT

Gabriela is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Physics Department at Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados located in Merida, Yucatán, Mexico. She graduated with honours from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán with a Bachelor of Engineering Physics, and in 2020, she earned a Master of Science in physical chemistry from Cinvestav Mérida under the supervision of Prof. Gabriel Merino. Currently, she continues working with Prof. Merino and she is part of the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry group that he leads. Her main research interest is the prediction of new chemical entities, especially the prediction of molecules with planar tetracoordinate atoms.

Best poster prize: Estructura y dinámica dependientes del espín: cúmulos de oxígeno molecular

Laura Beatriz Castro Gómez

@beatrizcastrogm

Laura Beatriz was born in Mexico in 1998. She is currently studying a MSc at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM), Mexico, under the guidance of Ramón Hernández Lamoneda (CIQ-UAEM). She received her bachelor’s degree in Molecular Design and Nanochemisty (UAEM) in 2021. She attended high school at the School of Laboratory Technicians. During that time, she participated three times in the National Chemistry Olympiad in Mexico, obtaining one gold and two bronze medals. Since 2016 she has been participating as an instructor in the Chemistry Olympiads. Her main research interest is the theoretical study of molecular oxygen clusters. In particular, she focuses on calculating the intermolecular potential energy using a pairwise interaction, considering contributions from the three interaction potentials of the dimer.

 Second-Best poster prize: Energy Transfer in Light-harvesting macromolecules

Valeria Bonilla González

@Val_BonillaGo

Valeria was born in Bogotá (Colombia) in 1998. She went to a Spanish international school in Bogotá (Centro Cultural y Educativo Español Reyes Católicos), where she discovered her passion for chemistry and earned a scholarship for her undergraduate studies in chemistry at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. During this time, she was introduced to the computational chemistry world by Dr. Johan F. Galindo, studying energy transfer processes in light-harvesting dendrimers. She also worked as a chemistry tutor for the university, and as a personal high school teacher, where she developed a particular fondness for teaching.

Honourable mention: Reactivity of a model of B3P3-Doped Nanographene with up to three CO2 molecules

Maxime Ferrer

@MaximeFERRER7

Maxime has always been interested and motivated by understanding the world surrounding him. Science seems then the perfect field to explore. After obtaining a degree in general chemistry in Toulouse (France), he decided to explore the world of computational chemistry. During his master’s in Madrid, he developed a certain interest for non-covalent interactions. Those interactions, generally weak, but fundamental to explain a lot of chemical and biological processes, are complex. They really piqued his curiosity, and so, he started a Ph.D. in the Instituto de Química Médica (CSIC) with Pr. Ibon Alkorta. Nowadays, Maxime’s research is mainly based on the study of Frustrated Lewis Pairs and their ability to capture carbon dioxide molecules.

#LXChemPhys

#LXChemPhys received contributions from physical chemiststs working in: Structure, Reactivity, and Mechanism, Kinetics, Photophysics and Photochemistry, Optical spectroscopies, and Microscopies, Femtochemistry, Surface Chemistry, Electrochemistry and Catalysis.

 

Best poster prize: X-Ray & UV Photoinduced Fragmentation of Prebiotic Molecules in Interstellar Clouds: Ethanolamine

Jhoan Londoño-Restrepo

@JhoanLondoo4

Jhoan was born in Medellín, Colombia. From a very early age, he remembers being fascinated and curious about astronomy and the origin of life. While in high school, he joined a study group at the University of Antioquia. He then decided to study astronomy at the same university and while attending the lectures planned, he had the opportunity to hear about astrochemistry, the science that studies matter and its transformations in the universe. He joined Dr Heidy-Quitian and her group on experimental astrochemistry a year ago where he is currently working as a BSc student.

Best poster prize: Evaluation of dyes diffusion of different charges in TiO2 mesoporous thin films

 

Iskra Zambrano

@IskraZambrano

  Iskra was born in Quininde, Ecuador. She graduated in Physics from Yachay Tech University. During her undergraduate studies, her thesis work focused on the area of molecular spintronics, specifically on the study of DNA polarization by electron transfer. She is currently doing a Ph.D. with a scholarship at National University of San Martín (UNSAM), in Argentina. Her doctoral research is focused on understanding the transport, partitioning and chemical reactivity processes in confined environments of mesoporous nanosystems, combining theoretical, modeling and experimental tools. This research is carried out at the Institute of Nanosystems (INS) of UNSAM and the Institute of Physical Chemistry of Materials, Environment and Energy (INQUIMAE) of the Buenos Aires University (UBA).

 Second-Best poster prize: Dispersibility study of GO-bio carbon obtained from the thermal decomposition of Phragmites australis

Raul Pareja-Rodriguez

@RalParejaRodrg1

Raul graduated in Chemistry (2016) from the Central University of Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba. Since graduating, he taught different subjects in the discipline of Physical Chemistry until he started his Master of Science in Physical Chemistry at Cinvestav-Unidad Mérida. During this master’s, he worked on the study of obtaining graphene oxide-type carbonaceous materials from the thermal decomposition of biomass and graduated in 2020. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in Physical Chemistry at Cinvestav, investigating carbonaceous materials obtained from the thermal decomposition of biomass with energy and environmental applications.

Honourable mention: Theoretically designed lead-free halide double perovskites: effective mass calculations

Jean Castillo

@Jean_Castillo27

Jean Castillo has a bachelor’s degree in Nanotechnology from the Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología (CNyN) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a master’s in Materials Science and Engineering from the famaLab of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Azcapotzalco (UAM-A). He is currently working on the theoretical design of lead-free halide double perovskites for high-efficiency photovoltaic applications using DFT calculations

  Honourable mention: Production of Pickering particles from Microcrystalline Cellulose for stabilization of water-in-water emulsions

Bernardo M. Régnier

@BerMauad

Bernardo was born in Curitiba, Brazil in 1999. He completed his degree in chemistry in 2022 at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), where he worked in the Biopolymers and Colloids group (BIOPOL) and catalysis and kinetics group (GCC). His research focused on cellulose nanoparticles, using different functionalizations, aiming at applications in stabilization of water-in-water emulsions and degradation of pesticides and chemical weapons based on organophosphates. He is currently preparing to enter his master’s degree program in the field of physical chemistry.

 

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PCCP Prize winners selected for the 100th Chemical Society of Japan Annual meeting

To celebrate the Chemical Society of Japan’s annual meeting, for over ten years PCCP and the CSJ have partnered to select, commend and celebrate the outstanding achievements of young scientists in the community.

While sadly the 100th Annual meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 developments, the PCCP Prize Certificates for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics were selected and awarded as follows.

Prizes were awarded to:

Shinjiro Takano, Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo

“Hydride-doped Gold Superatoms: Syntheses, Structures, and Transformations”

Ichiro Tanabe, Assistant Professor, Osaka University

“Development of Electrochemical Attenuated Total Reflectance Far-ultraviolet (EC-ATR-FUV) Spectroscopy”

Kiyoshi Miyata, Assistant Professor, Kyushu University

“Direct Observation of Ultrafast Electron/Structural Dynamics of molecule-based semiconductors for optoelectronics”

Yuma Morimoto, Assistant Professor, Osaka University

“Small Molecular Activation by Late-transition-metal Complexes”

 

Congratulations to the winners.

 

 

 

 

 

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Theoretical Chemistry Interest Group Graduate Meeting Winners

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) are pleased to announce the winners of the poster prizes at the Theoretical Chemistry Interest Group Graduate Meeting which took place on 31 July 2019.

The winners are Heather Carson, University of Sheffield and Tim Callow, Durham University.

Congratulations to all winners!

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Congratulations to the Prize Winners at the 9th Molecular Quantum Mechanics conference (MQM19)

The 9th Molecular Quantum Mechanics conference (MQM19) was held in Heidelberg, Germany from June 30th to July 5th, 2019.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics were delighted to be providing poster prizes and would like to congratulate the winners.

Prizes were awarded to:

as author: MPI für Kohlenforschung as author: MPI für Kohlenforschung

Congratulations to all the prize winners!

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PCCP sponsors 9th Molecular Quantum Mechanics conference (MQM19), Heidelberg Germany, 30 June- 5 July, 2019

The 9th Molecular Quantum Mechanics conference (MQM19) to be held in Heidelberg Germany from June 30th to July 5th, 2019.

The MQM 2019 in Germany will be held in honor of Prof. Werner Kutzelnigg, Prof. Wilfried Meyer and Prof. Sigrid Peyerimhoff and in memory of Prof. Reinhart Ahlrichs. All of these four outstanding scientists have made seminal contributions to the field of electronic structure theory, in particularly to the understanding of electron correlation phenomena and in the development of new and powerful approximation methods in this area.

All invited and contributed talks for the 9th Molecular Quantum Mechanics Conference in Heidelberg have been confirmed. The latest version of the program is available at: https://www.mqm2019.org/detailed-program/

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics is delighted to be providing poster prizes together with book vouchers.

Registration for the conference is still open and the abstract submission deadline for posters has been extended to May 31st. Click here for registration and abstract submission

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Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research (HBOND2019), 24 – 27 September 2019, Amsterdam

HBOND2019 is the 23rd edition of the premier international conference on “Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research” and will be taking place 24 – 27 September 2019 in Amsterdam. It gathers scientists from all over the world working in the field of hydrogen bonding research, from weak to strong interactions, studied in virtually all states of matter by a multitude of experimental and theoretical methods.

The conference will be preceded by a Young Researchers Symposium. This event on Monday, 23 September 2019 is organized by and for PhD students, and gives them the opportunity to present their research to their peers and to the participants of the main event.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics is delighted to be providing three poster prizes together with book vouchers.

Registration is now open!

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16th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry PCCP poster award winners

The 16th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry was held in Menton, France, from 18 – 23 June 2018.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics sponsored two poster prizes and these were awarded to Daniel Aravena, University of Santiago de Chile for Electron transport through transition metal complexes” and Christian Silvio Pomelli, University of Pisa for A computational study of the effect of ionic liquids’ anions on Reichardt’s dye solvatochromism”

Congratulations to both awardees!

 

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International Conference on Physical Chemistry and Functional Materials

The International Conference on Physical Chemistry and Functional Materials (PCFM’18) was held in Elaziğ, Turkey, from 19 – 21 June 2018.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics sponsored three poster prizes and these were awarded to Cesur Altinkaya,  A. Musa Abubakar and Goncagul Serdaroglu.

Congratulations to the awardees!

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98th Chemical Society of Japan Annual Meeting PCCP Prize Winners!

The 98th Chemical Society of Japan Annual Meeting took place in Funabashi, Japan between the 20-23 March 2018. The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Hiromitsu Urakami attended the meeting and PCCP Prize Certificates for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics were awarded to:

  1. Dr Daishi Fujita, University of Tokyo: “Geometric control of molecular self-assembly”
  2. Dr Hideto Ito, Nagoya University: “Development of Precise Synthetic Methodologies for 1D and 2D Nanocarbon Architectures”
  3. Dr Emiko Kazuma, RIKEN: “Real-time and Real-space Observation of Single-Molecule Chemical Reaction Induced by Localized Surface Plasmon”
  4. Dr Toshiki Sugimoto, Kyoto University: “Unveiling Emergent Properties of Strongly Correlated and Frustrated Proton System: Sum-Frequency-Generation Spectroscopy of Heteroepitaxial Water Ice “

Top row, L-R: Yoshito Watanabe (Nagoya Univ, CSJ Academic Research Activation Committee Chair), Katsuhiko Ariga (National Institute for Materials Science, PCCP Prize Selection Committee), Atsushi Nakajima (Keio Univ, PCCP Prize Selection Committee)
Bottom row, L-R: Toshiki Sugimoto, Daishi Fujita, Hisashi Yamamoto (Chubu Univ, CSJ President), Yasuhiro Iwasawa (The University of Electro-Communications, PCCP Prize selection committee chair), Hiromistu Urakami, Hideto Ito, Emiko Kazuma

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ECPC-2017 Poster Prize Winners!

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics would like to say a big congratulations to the winners of the poster prizes at this year’s European Conference on Physical Chemistry (ECPC-2017).

PCCP sponsored two prizes at the conference and these were awarded to Natalia Esteves-López and Federico Dapiaggi. Congratulations to both!

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