Faraday Discussions Blog

Poster abstract and early bird deadline – 6 July 2012

There is still just time to submit your poster abstract to Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects: FD160 but don’t delay.

6 July is also the cut-off for bursary applications and early bird registration discount.

So what’s the advantage of acting now? If you don’t you will miss out on:

• Early bird discount – £50 saving on the standard fee – register now
• Poster presentation space – a chance to showcase your own work – submit your abstract
• Bursaries – a limited number offered to students and younger members of the RSC in the early stages of their career – worth £150 – check your eligibility

This Discussion aims to respond to the emerging situation in which science has matured enough to be able to provide answers about the molecular nature of ion specific effects – taking part can help to get your own research in the field better known.

So on behalf of Professor Pavel Jungwirth and the Scientific Committee I do hope you will join us, and we look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to Oxford in September 2012.

We would like to thank the British Biophysical Society for their co-sponsorship support of FD160.

We are pleased to announce that a Faraday Discussion on Tribology took place in Southampton, UK in April, and Conference Chair Professor Robert Wood, has highlighted the following ‘HOT’ articles from the conference below:

Hydration lubrication: exploring a new paradigm
Anastasya Gaisinskaya, Liran Ma, Gilad Silbert, Raya Sorkin, Odeya Tairy, Ronit Goldberg, Nir Kampf and Jacob Klein
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00127F

Fate of methanol molecule sandwiched between hydrogen-terminated diamond-like carbon films by tribochemical reactions: tight-binding quantum chemical molecular dynamics study
Kentaro Hayashi, Seiichiro Sato, Shandan Bai, Yuji Higuchi, Nobuki Ozawa, Tomomi Shimazaki, Koshi Adachi, Jean-Michel Martin and Momoji Kubo
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00125J

Sliding friction at soft micropatterned elastomer interfaces
Elise Degrandi-Contraires, Christophe Poulard, Frédéric Restagno and Liliane Léger
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00121G

The mechanics of nanometre-scale molecular contacts
Katerina Busuttil, Nikolaos Nikogeorgos, Zhenyu Zhang, Mark Geoghegan, Christopher A. Hunter and Graham J. Leggett
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00133K

Please visit our website to find out more about Faraday Discussions and how to purchase this volume on Tribology.

There’s still just time to submit your poster abstract for Soft Matter Approaches to Structured Foods: Faraday Discussion 158 by the deadline date of 25 May.

Food materials are unusual as soft matter. They are highly complex, operating on multiple length scales and phases and structured via multiple externally applied fields.

Taking part in a Faraday Discussion is a great way to get your research work better known. To have your own poster space at the meeting submit yours now.

So join this discussion with top experts in the field and make sure you register now, or you will miss out on the early bird discount – £50 saving on the standard fee.

Registration is quick and simple via our online booking system, so act today to be able to exchange views with food scientists and non-food experts from the soft matter community.

Dr Ruud van der Sman and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you to Wageningen in July 2012

There’s still just time to register for Molecular Reaction Dynamics in Gases, Liquids and Interfaces : FD157 – by the deadline date of 25 May.

Remember that taking part in a Faraday Discussion is a great way to get your own research work better known.

Act today to ensure your place at this exciting discussion, which aims to bring together both experimentalists and theorists in reaction dynamics.

Professor Piergiorgio Casavecchia and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you to Assisi next month.

There is still just time to submit your poster abstract to Crystallisation – A Biological Perspective: Faraday Discussion 159 but don’t delay. Deadline: 25 May 2012

Act today to take advantage of:

• Early bird discount – £50 saving on the standard fee – register now

• Bursaries – a limited number offered to students and younger members of the RSC in
the early stages of their career – worth £150 – check your eligibility

• Poster presentation space – a chance to showcase your own work – submit your
abstract

Recent studies on crystal nucleation have found evidence of pre-nucleation clusters, a controversial result which apparently contradicts classical nucleation theory. Taking part in a Faraday Discussion can help to get your own research in the field better known.

The Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you to Leeds in July 2012.