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Congratulations to the Poster Prize winners at International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS 2012)

Congratulations to Arisa Saito, Karmena Jaskiewicz, Miyako Tsuura, Tomohiro Fukushima and Amata Chaikriangkrai for winning the Soft Matter poster prizes at International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS 2012).

The titles of the winning posters were:

Ms. Arisa Saito (Shinshu University)
Concentration fluctuation of aqueous poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) solutions under magnetic fields

Ms. Karmena Jaskiewicz (Max Plank Institute)
Active transport of nanoparticles into polymersomes probed by photon correlation spectroscopy

Ms. Miyako Tsuura (Kyushu University)
Surface freezing of alkane-alkane, alkane-fluoroalkane, and alkanol-alkanol mixtures 

Mr. Tomohiro Fukushima (Kyoto University)
Chemical Modulation of Self-Assembly Kinetics for Crystal Domain Control of Porous Coordination Copolymers

Mr. Amata Chaikriangkrai (Tokyo University of Technology)
Relationships between the Synthesis Conditions of Fe-Containing Mesoporous Silica and Its Effectiveness as a New Cosmetic Sunscreen Material

Poster Prize winners at International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists
From left to right: Arisa Saito, Tomohiro Fukushima, Miyako Tsuura, Amata Chaikriangkrai & Karmena Jaskiewicz

 

IACIS 2012 was held 13th – 18th May in Sendai, Japan.

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Congratulations to the Poster Prize winners at 14th International Scanning Probe Microscopy Meeting

Congratulations to Simon Attwood, Duckhoe Kim and Amanda Quirk for winning the Soft Matter poster prizes at 14th International Scanning Probe Microscopy Meeting.

The titles of the winning posters were: Simon Attwood (University of Waterloo)
Effect of Small Molecules on Phospholipid Membranes By Atomic Force Spectroscopy

Duckhoe Kim (Columbia University)
Rapid Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy and Imaging of Short DNA Molecules

Amanda Quirk (University of Guelph)
Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Site-Specific Enzyme Action on Native Cellulose Fibers

 Poster Prize winners at 14th International Scanning Probe Microscopy Meeting

From left to right: Duckhoe Kim, Simon Attwood, Amanda Quirk and John Dutcher who presented the awards.

The 14th International Scanning Probe Microscopy Meeting was held 16th – 18th June Toronto, Canada.

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Congratulations to the Poster Prize winners at Aspen Winter Conference on Growth and Form: Pattern Formation in Biology

Congratulations to Sung Hoon Kang, Saverio Spagnolie and Karen Alim for winning the Soft Matter poster prizes at the 2012 Aspen Winter Conference on Growth and Form: Pattern Formation in Biology.

The titles of the winning posters were:

Sung Hoon Kang (Harvard University):
Pattern formation by self-organization of biologically-inspired fibrous surfaces
 
Saverio Spagnolie (Brown University) 
Helices, Waves, and Kinks: Hydrodynamic optimization of prokaryotic and eukaryotic flagella

Karen Alim (Harvard University), 
Contraction driven flow in the extended vein networks of Physarum polycephalum

 Photograph of the poster prize winners

From left to right: Sung Hoon Kang, Saverio Spagnolie, and Karen Alim

 

The conference was held 2nd – 7th January 2012 at Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado, USA.

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Soft Matter Poster prize winners at 12th Australia-Japan Colloid and Interface Science Symposium

Congratulations to Hiro Takahashi (Tokyo University of Science) for winning a Soft Matter poster prize at 12th Australia-Japan Colloid and Interface Science Symposium. The title of Takahashi’s winning poster was: ‘Electrochemical Control of Spontaneous Vesicle Formation in Aqueous Solutions of Single tailed Ferrocenyl Surfactant’.

Two runners up prizes were awarded to Masafumi Nakaya (Tohoku University) for “Randon Dope of transition Metal Ion into CdS nanoparticles in Zincblende Phase and their Magnetic Properties” and Shinya Nakano (Tohoku University) for “Synchrotron X-ray Diffiaction Study of Liquid Crystal Nano-Films Confined between Mica Surfaces

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Poster prize winners at the International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials

Congratulations to Ana West (Emory University) for winning a Soft Matter poster prize at International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials. The title of Ana’s winning poster was: ‘Effects of Defects on Stress Relaxation in Self-Assembled Protein Networks’

Ryan Hensarling (The University of Southern Mississippi) won a Polymer Chemistry poster prize at International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials for his poster ‘Efficient Post-polymerization Surface Modification Utilizing Pendant Thiol Polymer Brushes’ and Jake Ray (The University of Southern Mississippi) won the Journal of Materials Chemistry poster prize.

 The three poster prize winners

From left to right: Jake Ray, Ana West and Ryan Hensarling.

The International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials was held 24th – 26th October 2011 at The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA.

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Congratulations to the poster prizes winners at 8th Liquid Matter Conference 2011

Congratulations to Niels Boon, Labrini Athanasopoulou & Aurélie Papon for winning the Soft Matter poster prizes at the 8th Liquid Matter Conference 2011.  

Soft Matter poster prize winners

Pictured left to right: Aurélie Papon, Niels Boon, Labrini Athanasopoulou.

The titles of the winning posters were:

“Blue energy” from ion adsorption and electrode charging in sea- and river water
Niels Boon, Utrecht University
co-author: Rene van Roij

Stability of ordered soft disks through linear theory of elasticity
Labrini Athanasopoulou, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
co-author: Primoz Ziherl

Gradient of glass transition in nanocomposites : evidence by NMR and scanning differential calorimetry
Aurélie Papon, ESPCI, Paris
co-authors: Helene Montes, Laurent Guy, Kay Saalwachter, Francois Lequeux

The 8th Liquid Matter Conference 2011 was held 6-10th September 2011, at Universität Wien in Wien, Austria.

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Soft Matter poster prize winner: FLC 2011

Congratulations to Jason Morvan (Kent State University, USA) for winning the Soft Matter poster prize at the 13th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals.  

Jason Morvan’s winning poster was entitled “Electro-mechanical response of electro-spum polylactic acid fibers dispersed with ferroelectric barium titanate nanoparticles

 Jason Morvan with his winning poster

Jason Morvan with his winning poster

 Nélida Gimeno (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) won a Journal of Materials Chemistry poster prize for her poster “Liquid Crystalline Janus-type co-dendrimers based on bent-core units“.

The 13th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals was held 29th August  – 2nd September at Niagara Falls, Canada.

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Soft Matter poster prize winner

Congratulations to Rona Chandrawati from The University of Melbourne, Australia, for winning a Soft Matter poster prize at ESF-EMBO Symposium: Biological Surfaces and Interfaces held at Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.

The title of Chandrawati’s winning poster was: Capsosomes: Enzyme-Loaded Liposomal Subcompartments within Polymer Carrier Capsules.

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Nicholas Ballard wins the Soft Matter poster prize at the 13th European Student Colloid Conference

Congratulations to Nicholas Ballard from the University of Warwick for winning the Soft Matter poster prize at the 13th European Student Colloid Conference (14th–17th June, 2011).

Nicholas Ballard in front of his winning poster

Nicholas in front of his winning poster.

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Soft Matter poster prize winner at Liquids and Complex Fluids Winter School: ‘5th Solutions in the Snow’

Congratulations to Siti Aminah Setu from the University of Oxford who won the Soft Matter poster prize at the Liquids and Complex Fluids Winter School: ‘5th Solutions in the Snow’.  The Winter School was held at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Photograph of Siti Aminah Setu standing in front of her winning poster

The title of the winning posters was ‘Saffman-Taylor Instability at Ultralow Interfacial Tension‘.  Siti Aminah Setu works in Dr Dirk G.A.L. Aarts’ group.

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