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Solar Future 2014 Workshop Poster Prize Winners

19 Nov 2014

A big congratulations to our student and postdoctoral poster prize winners at this year’s KAUST Solar Future Meeting!

Elisa Collado (Imperial College London) and Johannes Wilder (Institute For Applied Photophysics, Dresden University of Technology) were both first place student and post doc poster prize winners with Alexander Hyla (KAUST) and Taesoo Kim (KAUST) as the respective runner-ups.

Winners of the KAUST Solar Future Poster Session from left to right:

The meeting took place at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology from the 8th – 11th November 2014 and gathered together some of the main contributors in photovoltaic (PV) research across the scientific community and involved three days of invited presentations and poster sessions, spanning the three major rapidly-emerging areas of “Polymer and Small-molecule Organic PV”, “Quantum Dot PV”, and “Perovskite PV”.

Further information about the workshop can be found here on the workshop website.

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Poster Prize winners at the Excitonic Photovoltaics (XPV) 2014 conference

11 Nov 2014

(From top to bottom) 1st, 2nd & 3rd placed prize winners: Hilary Marsh, Ivan Kassel and Xiaodan Gu receiving their poster prizes from Peter Skabara

Journal of Materials Chemistry C are delighted to announce the Poster prize winners at the XPV 2014 conference which took place at Telluride Science Research Center, Colorado, USA from the 12^th – 15^thAugust this year.

The conference brought together leading researchers in the field of excitonic solar cells with the intention of generating discussions of the global energy outlook and the potential impact of emerging exciton-based PV technologies. Topics discussed during the four-day conference included: materials design, synthesis, and growth; combinatorial materials development (both experimental and computational); photophysics and exciton dynamics; charge generation, transport, and recombination studies; models of device physics; interface and electrode optimization; multijunction device architectures; and novel photophysical mechanisms such as singlet fission.

JMC C poster prize winners from left to right: Ivan Kassel, Xiaodan Gu and Hilary Marsh

Journal of Materials Chemistry C poster prize winners from left to right: Ivan Kassel, Xiaodan Gu and Hilary Marsh

The posters were ranked by the invited speakers with the following 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes being awarded to: Hilary Marsh (University of Colorado, Boulder), Ivan Kassal (University of Queensland) and Xiaodan Gu (Stanford University).

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Poster Prize winners!

29 Aug 2014

Antoniel C. Carolino Campos receiving his poster prize

Parashuram Kallem receiving his prize

Journals of Materials Chemistry A are delighted to announce the Poster Prize winners at the IX Ibero-American Conference on Membrane Science and Technology which took place in Santandar, Spain from the 25^th-28^th May this year.

The conference also known as CITEM was a forum for scientists and technicians from Ibero-American countries to meet and discuss the latest research trends and technologies used in membrane processes and as usual, scientists from non-Latin American countries were also welcomed.

During the conference, a poster prize for best oral communication was presented to Naser Tavajohi Hassankiadeh from Hanyang University, South Korea, for his communication: “Preparation hollow fiber membrane by combination of thermally induced phase inversion and non-solvent induced phase inversion with green solvent”.

Further prizes for best poster communications were awarded to Antoniel C. Carolino Campos from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for his communication: “Synthesis and characterization of films of silver nanoparticles dispersed in poly(urethane urea) for the separation of petrochemical gases” and Parashuram Kallem from Institute of nanoscience of Aragon, University of Zaragoza, for: “Incorporation of vinylimidazolium based Ionic liquid in well-defined straight porous PBI membranes: Novel polymeric ionic liquid/PBI membranes for high temperature fuel cell applications”.

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Recycled fish bones offer five star sun protection

24 Jul 2014

An effective new sunscreen based on iron-doped hydroxyapatite (HAp)-based materials derived from cod fish bones, a by-product of the food industry, has been developed by scientists in Portugal.

Fish bones could be converted into a valuable product © iStock

Commercial sunscreens are usually based on materials like TiO₂ and ZnO, which absorb UV to reduce its harmful effects on the skin. However, there are concerns regarding the potential toxicity of these materials and their adverse environmental effects when they accumulate in water supplies.

Interested? Read the full article at Chemistry World.

The original article can be read below:

Hydroxyapatite-Fe2O3 based material of natural origin as an active sunscreen filter
Clara Piccirillo, Catarina Rocha, David M Tobaldi, Robert Carlyle Pullar, Joao Antonio Labrincha, Marta Ferreira, Paula Castro and Manuela Pintado
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2014, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C4TB00984C

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Superelastic battery

27 Jun 2014

Lithium ion batteries that can be stretched by 600% have been unveiled by scientists in China. In the future, the fibre shaped batteries could be woven into textiles to satisfy the ever-growing requirement for wearable devices.

Huisheng Peng and colleagues at Fudan University made the superelastic batteries by winding two carbon nanotubes–lithium oxide composites yarns, which served as the positive and negative electrodes, onto an elastomer substrate and covering this with a layer of gel electrolyte. The batteries owe their stable electrochemical performance under stretching to the twisted structure of the fibre electrodes and the stretchability of the substrate and gel electrolyte, with the latter also acting as an anchor. When the batteries were stretched, the spring-like structure of the two electrodes was maintained.

The full article can be read at Chemistry World.

A link to the original article can be found below:

Super-stretchy lithium-ion battery based on carbon nanotube fiber
Ye Zhang, Wenyu Bai, Jing Ren, Wei Weng, Huijuan Lin, Zhitao Zhang and Huisheng Peng
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4TA01878H

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A good hair day for glowing nanoparticles

28 May 2014

By raiding their local barber’s shop, scientists in China have found the ideal raw material for an emerging class of fluorescent nanoparticles.

The desirable optical properties, chemical inertness and biocompatibility of carbon dots has led researchers to explore their application in anti-counterfeiting fields and flat panel displays…

Interested? Read the full article at Chemistry World.

Photographs of carbon dot ink patterns under UV light

The original article can be read below:

Hair-Derived Carbon Dots toward Versatile Multidimensional Fluorescent Hybrid Materials
Si-Si Liu, Cai-Feng Wang, Chen-Xiong Li, Jing Wang, Li-Hua Mao and Su Chen
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2014, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C4TC00636D

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Slow-setting bone glue for easier post-surgery access

30 Apr 2014

A patient is rushed into hospital. Doctors crack the patient’s chest to operate. A life is saved, but what comes next? In order to access the heart and lungs, the sternum had to be opened, but closing it again and healing the wound is often more problematic than the surgery itself.

Researchers in Ireland and Germany have developed an adhesive to address this issue. Standard practise for sternal closure winds steel wires around the bones to immobilise them as they heal. However, displacement can occur in active patients and older bones can be weak, resulting in the wires cutting through. If the bones part again, a patient can be in agony.

Interested? Read the full article at Chemistry World.

Cohesive coupling, complexation and redox radical polymerisation work together to resist displacement

The original article can be read below:

Biomimetic Hyperbranched Poly(amino ester)-based Nanocomposite as Tunable Bone Adhesive for Sternal Closure
Wenxin Wang, Hong Zhang, Ligia Bre, Tianyu Zhao, Ben Newland and Mark Dacosta
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2014, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C4TB00155A

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Foaming security system gives thieves a surprise

24 Mar 2014

Thieves could inadvertently destroy their intended loot if they attack a cash machine made from a material being developed by scientists in Switzerland. The self-defending system was inspired by a beetle and requires no electrical components, so could be cheaper and simpler than current security systems.

The visual effect and corresponding temperature evolution upon mechanical rupture

Interested? Read the full story at Chemistry World.

Self-defending anti-vandalism surfaces based on mechanically triggered mixing of reactants in polymer foils
Jonas G. Halter, Nicholas H. Cohrs, Nora Hild, Daniela Paunescu, Robert N. Grass and Wendelin Jan Stark
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3TA15326F

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Poster prize winners at the 2013 International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials

10 Dec 2013

Many congratulations to the winners at the 2013 International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials!

Chosen by an independent panel, the winners were: Akira Matsumoto (Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering at Tokyo Medical and Dental University) for the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C poster prize, Justin Poelma for Polymer Chemistry and Saemi Oh for Soft Matter (University of California, Santa Barbara).

The symposium which focuses on the field of stimuli-responsive materials from academia, industry, and government took place in October (20 – 22) this year at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country in Santa Rosa, CA and was co-sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Akira Matsumoto receiving his poster prize for Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, C

Justin Poelma receiving his prize for Polmer Chemistry

Saemi Oh winning the Soft Matter poster prize

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Self-defending seeds

09 Dec 2013

A two-layered protective coating that releases cyanide when bitten into could protect seeds from pests, say scientists in Switzerland. The system only becomes toxic when the layers are mixed, eliminating many of the problems of current pesticides.

Protecting agricultural crops against pests is a worldwide concern, particularly in developing countries, but pesticides can contaminate the surrounding environment, and can also hurt harmless insects like honey bees.

Malonitrile (MN) and hydroxynitrile lyase (HNL) only create hydrogen cyanide (HCN) upon rupture of the separating layer

Read the full story in Chemistry World.

Induced cyanogenesis from hydroxynitrile lyase and mandelonitrile on wheat with polylactic acid multilayer-coating produces self-defending seeds
Wendelin J. Stark et al.
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3TA14249C

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Recycled fish bones offer five star sun protection

Superelastic battery

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Foaming security system gives thieves a surprise

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