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RCS Solid State Chemistry Group

The RSC Solid State Chemistry Group would like to welcome you to their 33rd Annual Christmas Meeting.  This year’s event will be held in the historic city of Bath, a UNESCO World Heritage.  The event will run from lunchtime Wednesday the 18th of December to lunchtime on Thursday the 19th of December at the University of Bath with a conference dinner held at the Hilton Bath City Hotel on the Wednesday evening.

To find out more information on the keynote speakers, who include Professor Christian Masquelier, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Professor Graeme Watson, Trinity College Dublin and Professor Tony West, University of Sheffield, and other information about the meeting, please visit the website.

To register for the conference, please register here.

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Beetle feet inspire drug delivery patches

Researchers in Taiwan have developed a drug delivery plaster mimicking the wet adhesion of beetle feet.

The micropillar patch sticks to test surfaces and releases anti-inflammatory drugs in a controlled manner. Drug delivery patches are already is use for medical conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and helping people to quit smoking.

Read the full article by Sonja Hampelin Chemistry World
 
Chen-Yi Tsai and Cheng-Chung ChangJ. Mater. Chem. B, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3TB20735H
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BBC World Service Recording at ISACS12

Want to know what Daniel Nocera thinks about wirelessly beaming energy from space? Over the coming weekend, the BBC World Service will be broadcasting an episode of The Forum, which was recorded at the RSC’s ISACS12 conference last week entitled “Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy”.

Quentin Cooper hosts the programme in which Daniel Nocera of Harvard University, Clare Grey of the University of Cambridge, Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz of the State University of Campinas and Jim Watson of the UK Energy Research Council discuss the work in their areas of expertise and future challenges for renewable energy as a whole.

The programme will be broadcast at 23.06 GMT on Saturday 14th September, 10.06 GMT on Sunday 15th September and 2.06 GMT on Monday 16th September. Find out when this is in your local time at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmeguide/.

It will also be available to listen on the iPlayer shortly after the broadcasts have finished and you will be able to hear it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01g94yj.

– Written by Yuandi Li, RSC Science Executive

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