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European Materials Research Society will be holding their Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland between 18-20 September 2018.

Energy & Environmental Science are delighted to be sponsoring the “Materials for Energy Symposium B: Battery and energy storage devices” and will be providing awards for the best poster submissions.

Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:

• Lithium ion cells
• Non lithium technologies
• Flow-batteries
• Supercapacitors
• Battery systems
• Automotive and mobile applications
• Stationary battery system
• Integrated systems
• LCA electrochemical storage

The World Conference on Carbon was held in Madrid Spain, from 1 – 6 July 2018.

Energy & Environmental Science (EES) and Sustainable Energy & Fuels (SEF) sponsored six poster prizes respectively and these were awarded to the below:-

Winners in the category of best poster are:

Justyna Pywek, Poznan University of Technology. Title: POST-MORTEM AC CHARACTERIZATION AS THE INSIGHT INTO AGEING PROCESS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITORS.
Mª José Mostazo, University of Alicante. Title: NITROGEN DOPED ACTIVATED CARBONS AS ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR THE OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION.
Anton Sediako, University of Toronto. Title: IN SITU ELECTRON MICROSCOPY STUDIES FOR CARBON PARTICULATE MATTER OXIDATION AND FILTRATION.

Winners in the category of best oral presentation are:

Desirée Leistenschneider, Technical University Dresden. Title: THE “IN-SITU ELECTROLYTE“ CONCEPT – A HOLISTIC SYNTHESIS STRATEGY TOWARDS CARBON-BASED SUPERCAPACITORS.
Aurora Gómez Martín , University of Seville. Title: FE-CATALYZED GRAPHITIC CARBON MATERIALS FROM BIOMASS RESOURCES AS ANODES FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES.
José Mª Munuera, INCAR-CSIC. Title: JUST ADD WATER AND TABLE SALT: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ELECTROCHENMICAL EXFOLIATION OF HIGH QUALITY GRAPHENE.

Congratulations to the awardees!

This year’s nanoGe September meeting took place in Barcelona between the 4-8th. Energy & Environmental Science and Sustainable Energy and Fuels presented the winners of the poster sessions with an online-subscription. Our congratulations to Ludmilla Steier and Gianluca Grimaldi!

Ludmilla Steier (centre) of Imperial College, London, was the winner of the Sustainable Energy and Fuels award for her poster “Low-temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of TiO2 for Stable High-performance Organic Photocathodes”		Gianluca Grimaldi (left) of Delft University of Technology, was awarded the Energy & Environmental Science prize for his poster titled “Hot electron transfer in bi-component Quantum-Dot solids”.

The 2017 edition of the International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, between 21-24 May 2017. Royal Society of Chemistry journals: Energy & Environmental Science, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, and Journal of Materials Chemistry A were pleased to support the event and sponsored the following poster prizes:

Arul Varman Kesavan Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India“Optical and electronic property tailoring by MoS2-polymer hybrid solar cell”
Bardo Bruijnaers University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands“The impact of oxygen on charge carrier recombination in planar P-I-N perovskite solar cells”
Fedwa El-Mellouhi Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar“Solar cells materials by design: Hybrid pyroxene corner-sharing VO4 tetrahedral chains”

Congratulations to each of the winners!

The 2017 International Conference on Artificial Photosynthesis (ICARP 2017) was held on 2nd March 2017 in Kyoto, Japan. Royal Society of Chemistry journals: Energy & Environmental Science, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, and Journal of Materials Chemistry A were pleased to support the event and sponsored the following poster prizes.

Energy & Environmental Science Outstanding Student Presentation Award

Winner: Pondchanok CHINAPANG (Institute for Molecular Science (IMS))

Title: Construction of photo-active framework with open-metal sites for H₂ production

Sustainable Energy & Fuels Outstanding Student Presentation Award

Winner: Yuta MIYASE (Tokyo University of Science, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

Title: Selective production of peroxides over BiVO₄/WO₃ photoelectrode

Journal of Materials Chemistry A Outstanding Student Presentation Award

Winner: Nami YAMANO  (Osaka City University)

Title: The pH-dependent optical property of chlorophyll C bound to the light-harvesting complex from a diatom, Chaetoseros calcitrans

EES and Catalysis, Science and Technology were delighted to support the Polymer Photocatalysts for Solar Fuels Synthesis which took place on 13-14t April 2016.

The two-day workshop at University College London on 13th and 14th April, focussed on polymer photocatalysts in the widest sense of the word (e.g. conjugated polymers, carbon nitride, graphene oxide) and their application in photocatalytic water splitting and CO₂ reduction.

From left to right; Benjamin Martindale, Georgina Hutton, Martijn Zwijnenburg (conference organiser), Run Li.

The prize winners were;

EES poster prize: Georgina Hutton & Benjamin Martindale , Reisner group, Cambridge. Poster title: Solar hydrogen production using carbon quantum dots and a molecular catalyst.

Catalysis, Science and Technology poster prize: Run Li, Zhang group, Max Planck Institute for Polymer research, Mainz, Germany.  Poster title: Photocatalytic Selective Bromination of Aromatic Compounds using Microporous Organic Polymers with Visible Light.