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2nd Functional Oxide Thin Films for Advanced Energy and Information Technology Conference

The 2nd Functional Oxide Thin Films for Advanced Energy and Information Technology conference will be taking place from the 5th – 8th March 2016 in Cancun, Mexico.

The purpose of this meeting is to foster the exchange of ideas between the relevant energy and information themes with the overall aim of sparking extensive discussions of  the advances that materials physics and chemistry can make in thin film applications. Key sessions will include; Nanoionics, Batteries and supercapacitors, Fuel cells, Nanoelectronics, Ionic and electronic conductors, Heterostructures and interfaces, Resistive switching and Oxide electrochemistry.

Confirmed keynote speakers include; Albert Tarancón (Catalonia Institute for Energy Research-IREC), Jennifer L.M. Rupp (ETH Zurich), Ho Nyung Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William Chueh (Stanford University), Monica Burriel (University of Grenoble), Nina Balke (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Nini Pryds (Technical University of Denmark), Stephen Skinner (Imperial College London), Rotraut Merkle (Max Planck Institute) and Shriram Ramanathan (Harvard University).

To view all of the conference speakers or for further information concerning the conference, please visit: http://www.fusion-conferences.com/conference42.php

The deadline for Oral Submission is the 23rd November 2015.

There is an Earlybird registration deadline of the 18th December 2015 with a Late-breaking Oral Submission deadline of 30th December 2015.

Final registration deadline is the 8th January 2016.

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The Chemistry of Thermoelectric Materials web collection

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Journal of Materials Chemistry C is pleased to announce the publication of the Chemistry of Thermoelectric Materials themed collection.

Thermoelectrics are gaining increasing interests due to their important potential applications. Many novel thermoelectric materials have been developed by manipulating the doping, electronic structure, phonon structure and scattering, as well as microstructure. Chemistry affects all of these enabling, for example, the tuning and engineering of the electron band structure or phonon scattering.

The collection broadly covers the chemistry aspects of thermoelectric materials and is Guest Edited by G. Jeffrey Snyder (Northwestern University, USA).

Below are a selection of some of the high quality articles, and the full collection can be found here.

Thermoelectric properties of materials with nontrivial electronic topology
Koushik Pal, Shashwat Anand and Umesh V. Waghmare
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 12130-12139
DOI: 10.1039/C5TC02344K


Crystal structure and thermoelectric properties of Sr–Mo substituted CaMnO3: a combined experimental and computational study
D. Srivastava, F. Azough, R. Freer, E. Combe, R. Funahashi, D. M. Kepaptsoglou, Q. M. Ramasse, M. Molinari, S. R. Yeandel, J. D. Baran and S. C. Parker
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5TC02318A


Morphological effects on the thermoelectric properties of Ti0.3Zr0.35Hf0.35Ni1+δSn alloys following phase separation
Oshrat Appel, Tsvika Zilber, Sergey Kalabukhov, Ofer Beeri and Yaniv Gelbstein
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 11653-11659
DOI: 10.1039/C5TC03214H

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Bio-inspired and natural materials web collection

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Journal of Materials Chemistry B is pleased to announce the publication of the Bio-inspired and natural materials themed issue.

Bio-inspired and naturally-derived materials may derive their structure, crosslinking, fabrication or application from biological sources. Of particular interest are materials that are self-assembled, hierarchically structured, biologically active, dynamic, responsive or adaptable. Potential applications are diverse and include the medical, bioprocessing, environmental, energy, consumer or military fields. This themed issue aims to cover the most recent progress in the synthesis, processing and characterization of bio-inspired and natural materials, to highlight the new development in synthesis, engineering, and application of these materials.

The collection was Guest Edited by Jennie B. Leach (UMBC, USA) and Molly S. Shoichet (University of Toronto, Canada)

Below are a selection of some of the high quality articles, and the full collection can be found here.

Strategies for skeletal muscle tissue engineering: seed vs. soil
Brian M. Sicari, Ricardo Londono and Stephen F. Badylak
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2015, 3, 7881-7895
DOI: 10.1039/C5TB01714A


Mimicking biological phenomena in hydrogel-based biomaterials to promote dynamic cellular responses
Nicholas P. Murphy and Kyle J. Lampe
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2015, 3, 7867-7880
DOI: 10.1039/C5TB01045D


Hydrogels that allow and facilitate bone repair, remodeling, and regeneration
Aaron R. Short, Deepthi Koralla, Ameya Deshmukh, Benjamin Wissel, Benjamin Stocker, Mark Calhoun, David Dean and Jessica O. Winter
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2015, 3, 7818-7830
DOI: 10.1039/C5TB01043H

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#2 Molecules and Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis Conference

Journal of Materials Chemistry A is proud to announce sponsorship of the upcoming #2 Molecules and Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis Conference which will take place from the 25th – 28th February 2016 in Cancun, Mexico with Professors Jin Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Antoni Llobet (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia) hosting.

The conference will aim to bring together researchers in these two scientific communities to explore possible synergistic effects of “fusion” between molecular and materials systems. Confirmed speakers will include conference organiser Antoni Llobet amongst others.

Topics discussed will include:

a)      fundamentals of light capturing and conversion
b)      water oxidation catalysis
c)      proton and CO2 reduction catalysis
d)      interfacing molecules and materials for photosynthesis
e)      complete cells for the generation of solar fuels

Further details about the conference – including registration – can be found on the website.

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Poster prize winners at Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2015

PPS award winner: Kenji Setoura (centre)

Many congratulations to the poster prize winners at the Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2015. The meeting was held in Osaka, Japan from the 9th – 11th September this year with over 650 attendees. There were 137 oral presentations and 300 posters presented. 

Mr Kenji Sentoura (Osaka University) was awarded the Photochemical & Photobiological Science prize for his talk titled: ‘Stationary bubble formation and optofluidics induced by CW laser heating of a single gold nanoparticle’ and Mr Hajime Tsujioka (Osaka University) was awarded the Journal of Materials Chemistry A prize for his poster titled: ‘Photocontrol of birefringence in diarylethene crystals’. 

Further information about the meeting can be found here

JMC A poster prize winner: Hajime Tsujioka (centre)

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Congratulations Professor Lou

On behalf of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C Editorial Offices I would like to congratulate Dr David Lou, Nanyang Technological University, on his recent promotion to full professor, making him the youngest full professor at NTU Singapore.

Dr David Lou received his B.Eng (2002) and M.Eng. (2004) degrees from the National University of Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 2008. Right after graduation, he joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as an Assistant Professor, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in September 2013. He has published about 210 papers with a total citation of >21,000, and an H-index of 83. His main research interest is on designed synthesis of nanostructured materials for energy and environmental applications.

Dr Lou is currently an Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A and last year co-Guest Edited a themed issue for Journal of Materials Chemistry A on flexible energy storage and conversion.

Congratulations Professor Lou on this highly impressive achievement!

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Poster Prize Winners at IMMS-9

Congratulations to the poster prize winner and runners up at the 9th International Mesostructured Material Symposium, which took place at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia, from 17th-20th August 2015.

The overall aim of the symposium was to foster discussion on developments in the synthesis and characterization of mesostructured materials for a wide range of applications, such as energy storage and conversion, biological technology, catalytic and environmental applications, and gas separation and purification.

The Journal of Materials Chemistry A poster prize winners are pictured below:

 

More information on the symposium can be found here.

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Learn Chemistry Journal of the Month: Journal of Materials Chemistry B

We are pleased to announce that Journal of Materials Chemistry B is currently featuring as Learn Chemistry’s journal of the month. This journal of the month series showcases the high impact and globally renowned publishing work done by the Royal Society of Chemistry, whilst giving both learners and teachers an insight into our journals and the content they cover.

Learn Chemistry is our home for chemistry education. Educators and students at all levels from primary school to university can access thousands of high-quality free resources, and can search by age, topic or resource type. The journal of the month series is just one of the resources on offer, and during September 2015 Learn Chemistry users will be granted free access to article such as ‘Amelogenin and enamel biomimetics’ and ‘Water-soluble and phosphorus-containing carbon dots with strong green fluorescence for cell labeling’.  

Please do pass this valuable information on to any enthusiastic young Chemistry learners, and find out more about the journal of the month series and Learn Chemistry as a whole.

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Presentation & Poster Prize Winners at Annual Meeting on Photochemistry of Coordination Compounds

Many congratulations to the poster and presentation prize winners at the Annual Meeting onPhotochemistry of Coordination Compounds, held by the Photofunctional Complexes Research Association in Niigata, Japan from the 7th-9th August 2015.

For her presentation on “An Interfacial Europium Complex on SiO2 Nanoparticles for Valence-Controlled Emission System”, Ayumi Ishii (Aoyama Gakuin University) was awarded the Journal of Materials Chemistry A Presentation prize. Ryohsuke Ohno (Hokkaido University) was presented with the Journal of Materials Chemistry A Poster prize for his entry entitled “A luminescent Eu(III) complex: Novel design and synthesis strategies for the extended pi-conjugated system of ligands and their optical properties”.

Presentation prize winner Ayumi Ishii (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Poster prize winner Ryohsuke Ohno (Hokkaido University)

 

This annual meeting consists of presentations on a wide variety of topics such as artificial photosynthesis, carbon dioxide conversion, photocatalysis, sensors, photovoltaics and water splitting. Two special lectures were given this year by Professors Osamu Ishitani (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Tadaaki Ikoma (Niigata University).

Futher information on about the meeting can be found here.

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Poster Prize winners at FPi-12

Big congratulations to the poster prize winners at the 12th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems (Fπ-12) which took place in Washington, USA from the 19th – 24th July.

Matthias Stolte (Universitat Wurzburg, Germany) and Amir Mazaheripour (UC Irvine) were awarded first place poster prizes sponsored by Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry A, whilst the runner up prizes were sponsored by Materials Horizons, Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Journal of Materials Chemistry C. These were presented to: Sahika Inal (CMP-EMSE, France), Nathan Kirchhofer (UCSB), Ana Fokina (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz) and Suhyun Jung (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology). Titles of their winning posters can be found here.

The symposium regularly attracts world-wide participants who meet to discuss their new achievements in research fields. Another symposium, scheduled for 2017 will take place in Hong Kong and will be titled Fπ-13. Further information about the symposium including the program and speakers from this year can be found by clicking here.

Poster prizes winners at FPi-12

Poster prize winners at FPi-12 standing with Christine Luscombe (far right) who is the Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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