Archive for September, 2013

Faraday Discussion 174: Organics, Photonics & Electronics – call for oral abstracts

Call for oral abstracts – deadline extended to 2 December 2013

We invite you to join us for Faraday Discussion 174,  which will cover:

•    Organic photovoltaics and energy
•    Organic lasers
•    Organic bioelectronics
•    Sensors and molecular electronics

Submit your abstract today

You can find more details about submitting your abstract here

Speakers include:

•    Magnus Berggren, Linköping University
•    Christoph Brabec, University of Erlangen
Donal Bradley, Imperial College London
•    Rene Janssen, TU Eindhoven
•    Uli Lemmer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
•    Karl Leo, TU Dresden
•    Gemma Soloman, University of Copenhagen
•    Luisa Torsi, University of Bari
•    Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
•    Fred Wudl, University of California, Santa Barbara


Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is a sister journal to Faraday Discussions. PCCP brings you content of the highest quality in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.

We invite you to submit your research to PCCP today.

Articles from PCCP in this area include:

Organic n-type materials for charge transport and charge storage applications
Monika Stolar and Thomas Baumgartner
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51379C, Perspective

Reassessing the use of one-electron energetics in the design and characterization of organic photovoltaics
Brett M. Savoie, Nicholas E. Jackson, Tobin J. Marks and Mark A. Ratner
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50438G

You might also be interested in PCCP’s themed issue on “Organic electronics – new physical insight” guest edited by Wenping Hu, Yu-Tai Tao and Henning Sirringhaus. You can view the issue here.


Professor Peter Skabara and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to Strathclyde in September 2014 for Organics, Photonics & Electronics: Faraday Discussion 174.

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Faraday Discussion 173: New Advances in Carbon Nanomaterials – call for oral abstracts

Call for oral abstracts – deadline 11 November 2013

We invite you to join us for Faraday Discussion 173, which will cover:

•    Optoelectronics and spectroscopy, electronic properties
•    Functional materials and theory
•    Applications, composites, nanoelectronic devices
•    Functionalisation, separation, solvation and assembly

Submit your abstract today

Speakers include:

•    Pulickel M. Ajayan, Rice University
•    Mary Chan, Nanyang Technological University
•    Toshiaki Enoki, Tokyo Institute of Technology
•    Vladimir Falko, Lancaster University
•    Andrea Ferrari, University of Cambridge
•    Andreas Hirsch, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
•    Ian Kinloch, University of Manchester
•    Nazario Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
•    Matthew Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool
•    Alan Windle, University of Cambridge


You may be interested in these recently published articles in the area of carbon nanomaterials. You can read them for free for a limited period by clicking on the links below.

These articles are from some of Faraday Discussions’ sister. These journals are published by the Royal Society of Chemistry on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of the whole scientific community.

FREE: Production of heavily n- and p-doped CVD graphene with solution-processed redox-active metal–organic species
Sergio A. Paniagua, Jose Baltazar, Hossein Sojoudi, Swagat K. Mohapatra, Siyuan Zhang, Clifford L. Henderson, Samuel Graham, Stephen Barlow and Seth R. Marder
Mater. Horiz., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3MH00035D, Communication

FREE: Graphene synthesis: relationship to applications
Rebecca S. Edwards and Karl S. Coleman
Nanoscale, 2013,5, 38-51
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32629A, Review Article

FREE: Prospects for graphene–nanoparticle-based hybrid sensors
Perry T. Yin, Tae-Hyung Kim, Jeong-Woo Choi and Ki-Bum Lee
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 12785-12799
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51901E, Perspective

FREE: Diels–Alder reactions for carbon material synthesis and surface functionalization
Nicolas Zydziak, Basit Yameen and Christopher Barner-Kowollik
Polym. Chem. , 2013,4, 4072-4086
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00232B, Review Article

FREE: Advanced porous carbon electrodes for electrochemical capacitors
Li Li Zhang, Yi Gu and X. S. Zhao
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013,1, 9395-9408
DOI: 10.1039/C3TA11114H, Feature Article

FREE: The interplay between carbon nanomaterials and amyloid fibrils in bio-nanotechnology
Chaoxu Li and Raffaele Mezzenga
Nanoscale, 2013,5, 6207-6218
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01644G, Review Article


Karl Coleman and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to London in September 2014 for New Advances in Carbon Nanomaterials: Faraday Discussion 173.

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Group photo from Faraday Discussion 167

Faraday Discussion 167 was on mesostructure and dynamics in liquids and solutions, and took place last week in Bristol.

Here are the delegates at FD 167:

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Faraday Discussion 172: Carbon in Electrochemistry – call for oral abstracts

Call for oral abstracts – deadline 4 November 2013

We invite you to join us for Faraday Discussion 172, which will cover:

•   Graphene, carbon nanotubes and carbon at the nanoscale
•   Diamond and sp3 carbons in electrochemistry
•   Carbon electrodes in electrochemical energy technology
•   Understanding and controlling the carbon interface

Submit your abstract today. (You can find more details about submitting your abstract here)

Speakers include:

•   Héctor Abruῆa, Cornell University
•   Philippe Bergonzo, CEA-LIST
•   Robert Dryfe, The University of Manchester
•   Elzbieta Frackowiak, Poznan University of Technology
•   Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University
•   Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen
•   Richard McCreery, University of Alberta
•   Christoph Nebel, Fraunhofer Institute IAF
•   Siegfried Waldvogel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
•   Patrick Unwin, University of Warwick


Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is a sister journal to Faraday Discussions. PCCP brings you content of the highest quality in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.

We invite you to submit your research to PCCP today.

Articles from PCCP in this area include:

Nuclear magnetic resonance study of ion adsorption on microporous carbide-derived carbon
Alexander C. Forse, John M. Griffin, Hao Wang, Nicole M. Trease, Volker Presser, Yury Gogotsi, Patrice Simon and Clare P. Grey
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51210J, Paper

Intrinsic electrochemical activity of single walled carbon nanotube–Nafion assemblies
Michael E. Snowden, Martin A. Edwards, Nicola C. Rudd, Julie. V. Macpherson and Patrick R. Unwin
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44538K, Paper

Electrochemistry at nanoporous interfaces: new opportunity for electrocatalysis
Je Hyun Bae, Ji-Hyung Han and Taek Dong Chung
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22927C, Perspective

The electrochemistry of CVD graphene: progress and prospects
Dale A. C. Brownson and Craig E. Banks
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40225D, Perspective


Katherine Holt and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to Sheffield in July 2014 for Carbon in Electrochemistry: Faraday Discussion 172.


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