Faraday Discussions Blog

Faraday Discussions is pleased to sponsor the upcoming Symposium in memory of Ahmed Zewail: Ultrafast molecular sciences by femtosecond photons and electrons which will take place at the ACS Division Of Physical Chemistry 256th National Meeting in Boston, MA from 19-23 August 2018.

This special symposium in memory of the late Ahmed Zewail includes 44 invited and 4 contributed talks on the most recent advances in Femtoscience, including theory and experiments. Topics include reaction dynamics in gas, liquid, and at interfaces, charge transfer processes, primary processes in biology, and electron dynamics with ultrafast diffraction and imaging. These studies are now possible, thanks to developments in mid-IR, Vis, UV, X-Ray, and electron pulses with durations on the femtosecond and attosecond timescales, many of which were pioneered by Ahmed Zewail.

The topic is closely related to the Faraday Discussion in Ventura, California in April 2019 on Ultrafast Photoinduced Energy and Charge Transfer, co-Chaired by Mike Ashfold (University of Bristol) and Steve Bradforth (University of Southern California).

Enquiries regarding the symposium in Boston should be directed to the organisers: Dongping Zhong, The Ohio State University (zhong.28@osu.edu) or Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University (dantus@chemistry.msu.edu)

With so many exciting Faraday Discussions coming up there are lots of opportunities to get involved in this unusual conference series where the speakers only have 5 minutes to present their paper.

Then any delegate can make comments, ask questions, or present complementary or contradictory measurements and calculations during the discussion. The discussions are published alongside the papers in the final volume and are fully citable. Find out more on our FAQs page.

Don’t miss out – submit an abstract or register today:

Quantum effects in small molecular systems
10 – 12 September 2018, Edinburg, UK
Featuring Sir David Clary (University of Oxford), Joel Bownam (Emory University), Steve Bradforth (University of Southern California), Anne Zehnacker-Rentien (Université Paris Sud) and may more

**Early bird discount – register by 6 August**

New memory paradigms: memristive phenomena and neuromorphic applications
15 – 17 October 2018, Aachen, Germany
With a mixture of contributors from industry and academia this discussion aims to bring together experts from across this important research area including R.Stanley Williams (Hewlett Packard Labs), Regina Dittmann (Peter Grünberg Institute), Tony Kenyon (University College London), Geoffrey W. Burr (IBM Research-Almaden) to name a few.

Submit a poster by 6 August and get involved!

Check out out event page for a full list of upcoming discussions

We hope you will be able to join us for the Faraday Discussions meeting on Nanoparticles with Morphological and Functional Anisotropy taking place in Glasgow, UK from 4–6 July, 2016 which will cover the following themes:

• Anisotropic nanoparticles – synthesis, formation mechanisms and novel characterisation tools
• Janus and patchy particles – properties of particles with two or multiple domains
• Particles at interfaces – morphology-dependent wetting processes and self-assembly at interfaces
• Biomedical applications – targeting to bioimaging and drug delivery

The papers presented and a record of the discussions at the meeting will be published in the corresponding volume of Faraday Discussions.

The oral/paper abstract deadline is 19 October 2015.

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Submit your abstract today!

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You can find more details on our website about what makes Faraday Discussions different from other meetings. These recent Faraday Discussions issues may be of interest to you:

• Nanoparticle Synthesis and Assembly
• Physical Chemistry of Functionalised Biomedical Nanoparticles

Check out these recent reviews and original research articles on related topics from a selection of Royal Society of Chemistry journals:

New tools for observing the growth and assembly of colloidal inorganic nanocrystals
A. Paul Alivisatos, Hoduk Cho and Jungwon Park
Faraday Discuss., 2015, 181, 15-18
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD90056E

Anisotropically branched metal nanostructures
Enyi Ye, Michelle D. Regulacio, Shuang-Yuan Zhang, Xian Jun Loh and Ming-Yong Han
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 6001-6017
DOI: 10.1039/C5CS00213C

Self-assembly of “patchy” nanoparticles: a versatile approach to functional hierarchical materials
David J. Lunn, John R. Finnegan and Ian Manners
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 3663-3673
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01141H
Open Access

Magnetic field-induced self-assembly of iron oxide nanocubes
Gurvinder Singh, Henry Chan, T. Udayabhaskararao, Elijah Gelman, Davide Peddis, Artem Baskin, Gregory Leitus, Petr Král and Rafal Klajn
Faraday Discuss., 2015, 181, 403-421
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00265B
Open Access

Impacts of gold nanoparticle charge and ligand type on surface binding and toxicity to Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria
Z. Vivian Feng, Ian L. Gunsolus, Tian A. Qiu, Katie R. Hurley, Lyle H. Nyberg, Hilena Frew, Kyle P. Johnson, Ariane M. Vartanian, Lisa M. Jacob, Samuel E. Lohse, Marco D. Torelli, Robert J. Hamers, Catherine J. Murphy and Christy L. Haynes
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5186-5196
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC00792E
Open Access

Predicting the structure and interfacial activity of diblock brush, mixed brush, and Janus-grafted nanoparticles
Jason Koski, Huikuan Chao and Robert A. Riggleman
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 5440-5443
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC08659G

Nanoparticle shape anisotropy and photoluminescence properties: Europium containing ZnO as a Model Case
Melanie Gerigk, Philipp Ehrenreich, Markus R. Wagner, Ilona Wimmer, Juan Sebastian Reparaz, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres, Lukas Schmidt-Mende and Sebastian Polarz
Nanoscale, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR02550H

Insights into mechanisms of capillary assembly
Songbo Ni, Jessica Leemann, Heiko Wolf and Lucio Isa
Faraday Discuss., 2015, 181, 225-242
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00250D

Find out more about Faraday Discussions on our FAQs page.

We are delighted to share with you a few of the Accepted Manuscripts that will be discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussions meeting on the theme of Nanoparticle Assembly: From Fundamentals to Applications.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Steve Granick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Michael Rubenstein (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Guruswamy Kumaraswamy (CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory)
• Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge)
• Andrea Tao (University of California, San Diego), and many more.

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Submit your poster abstract by 26 October and get involved

Registration is now open – register by 16 November to receive a discount

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Papers presented at the meeting in Mumbai will include:

Effects of co-ordination number on the nucleation behaviour in many-component self-assembly
Daan Frenkel, Aleks Reinhardt and Chon Pan Ho
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00135H

Modular, Polymer-Directed Nanoparticle Assembly for Fabricating Metamaterials
Gurunatha K. Laxminarayana, Matthew Rozin, Stephanie Smith and Andrea R Tao
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00134J

Interplay between Polymer Chain Conformation and Nanoparticles Assembly in Model Industrial Silica/Rubber Nanocomposites
Adrien Bouty, Laurent Petitjean, Julien Chatard, Rachid Matmour, Christophe Degrandcourt, Ralf Schweins, Florian Meneau, Paweł Kwaśniewski, Francois Boué, Marc Couty and Jacques Jestin
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00130G

Dewetting dynamics of gold film on graphene: Implications for nanoparticle formation
Sadanandam Namsani and Jayant K Singh
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00118H

Revealing nanocomposites filler structure by swelling and small-angle X-ray scattering
Guilhem Baeza, Anne-Caroline Genix, Nathalie Paupy-Peyronnet, Christophe Degrandcourt, Marc Couty and Julian Oberdisse
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00117J

Dynamics of Dissipative Self-Assembly of Particles Interacting through Oscillatory Forces
Mario Tagliazucchi and Igal Szleifer
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00115C

Find out more about Faraday Discussions on our FAQs page.