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Congratulations Professor Robertson

24 Jun 2015

On behalf of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C Editorial Office I would like to congratulate Dr Neil Robertson, University of Edinburgh, on his recent promotion to Professor.

Neil Robertson graduated from the University of Edinburgh for his BSc and PhD degrees, and then worked in the Freie Universität Berlin, University of Wales Bangor and Imperial College London before returning to Edinburgh where he has remained since 2001. His research is focused on the design, synthesis, characterisation and application of new molecules for electronic materials, including dye-sensitised and perovskite solar cells, and multifunctional molecular semiconductors incorporating optical and magnetic properties.

He has acted as Deputy Director of the Supergen Excitonic Solar Cells Consortium (UK) and Director of the Scottish Institute for Solar Energy Research and Energy Technology Partnership. He is a Fellow of the UK higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has initiated the Solar Spark project promoting low-cost solar energy to the wider public, which now links into Royal Society of Chemistry “Learn Chemistry”.

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Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C Editor-in-Chief Nazario Martin

14 May 2015

We are delighted to introduce the new Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C, Professor Nazario Martin.

Professor Martin completed his doctorate at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, where he is a full professor of Organic Chemistry and vice-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience of Madrid (IMDEA-Nanoscience). Recently he has been appointed as Dr. h.c. by La Havana University. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain and a fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry and in 2006-2012 he was the President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.

He was the recipient of the “Dupont Prize of Science” in 2007 and of the “Gold Medal and Research Award” in 2012, the highest distinction given by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and he was appointed with the national “Jaime I Award for basic research” 2012. He is the last chemist distinguished with the “EuCheMS Lecture Award” in 2012. More recently, he has received two prestigious international prizes, namely the Alexander von Humboldt Award (Germany) and the Richard E. Smalley Award de la Electrochemical Society (USA)

Nazario’s research interests span a wide range of topics with an emphasis on the molecular and supramolecular chemistry of carbon nanostructures such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphenes, Π-conjugated systems as molecular wires and electroactive molecules, in the context of electron transfer processes, photovoltaics applications and nanoscience. He has published over 450 papers in peer reviewed journals, given over 300 lectures in scientific meetings and research institutions, and supervised 29 theses and co-edited 6 books including:

Electron-deficient fullerenes in triple-channel photosystems
Javier López-Andarias, Altan Bolag, Christoph Nançoz, Eric Vauthey, Carmen Atienza, Naomi Sakai, Nazario Martín and Stefan Matile
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 7543-7545

Π-Extended TTF: a versatile molecule for organic electronics
Fulvio G. Brunetti, Juan Luis López, Carmen Atienza and Nazario Martin

J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4188-4205

Controlling the spatial arrangement of organic magnetic anions adsorbed on epitaxial graphene on Ru(0001)
Daniele Stradi, Manuela Garnica, Cristina Díaz, Fabián Calleja, Sara Barja, Nazario Martín, Manuel Alcamí, Amadeo L. Vazquez de Parga, Rodolfo Mirandabc and Fernando Martín
Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 15271-15279

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing Editor-in-Chief, Professor Dongyuan Zhao, for his direction during the last two and a half years. Professor Zhao is stepping down as he has been appointed as an Associate Editor for ACS Central Science.

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Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A Associate Editor Shizhang Qiao

07 Jan 2014

Professor Shizhang Qiao received his PhD degree in chemical engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2000, and is currently a professor (Chair of Nanotechnology) at School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research expertise is in nanomaterials and nanoporous materials for drug/gene delivery and new energy technologies. He has co-authored more than 170 papers in refereed journals (6400 citations with h-index 42), including Nature, Nature Communications, JACS, Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., and has filed several patents on novel nanomaterials that are promising for drug/gene delivery, fuel cells, photocatalysis and lithium ion batteries. He has attracted more than 6.5 million dollars in research grants from industrial partners and Australian Research Council (ARC).

In recognition of his achievements in research, he was honoured with a prestigious ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA), an Emerging Researcher Award (2013, ENFL Division of the American Chemical Society) and a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award. He was also awarded an ARC ARF Fellowship, an ARC APD Fellowship and an inaugural UQ Mid-Career Research Fellowship.

Dr Qiao is currently appointed to ARC College of Experts. He has been an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A since June 2013.

His recent papers include:

Functionalized large pore mesoporous silica nanoparticles for gene delivery featuring controlled release and co-delivery
Sandy Budi Hartono, Nghia Truong Phuoc, Meihua Yu, Zhongfan Jia, Michael J. Monteiro, Shizhang Qiao and Chengzhong Yu
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2014, Advance Article

Encapsulation of lipase in mesoporous silica yolk-shell spheres with enhanced enzyme stability
Zheng Yang Zhao, Jian Liu, Mandy Hahn, Shizhang Qiao, Anton P. J. Middelberg and Lizhong He
RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 22008-22013

Mesoporous hybrid material composed of Mn3O4 nanoparticles on nitrogen-doped graphene for highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction
Jingjing Duan, Yao Zheng, Sheng Chen, Youhong Tang, Mietek Jaroniec and Shizhang Qiao
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 7705-7707

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Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A Associate Editor Christine Luscombe

20 Dec 2013

Christine Luscombe received her Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2000. She then worked with Profs. Andrew Holmes and Wilhelm Huck in the Melville Laboratory of Polymer Synthesis at the University of Cambridge where her research focused on surface modifications using supercritical carbon dioxide for her PhD. She received the Syngenta Award for best organic chemistry project for her PhD. In January 2004, she joined the group of Prof. Jean Fréchet for her post-doctoral studies where she began her research on semiconducting polymers for organic photovoltaics. She was the recipient of the Lindemann Fellowship as well as the Trinity College Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge) for her post-doctoral studies.

In September 2006, she joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She received a number of young faculty awards including the NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, as well as the Sloan Research Fellowship. Her current research focuses on the synthesis of semiconducting polymers for energy applications. She is currently serving on the Editorial Advisory Board for Macromolecules and ACS Macro Letters, and is an Associate Editor for J. Mater. Chem. A. She is also serving on the IUPAC Polymer Education and Polymer Terminology Committees.

Her recent papers include:

Thiophene based hyperbranched polymers with tunable branching using direct arylation methods
Ken Okamoto, Jeremy B. Housekeeper, Forrest E. Michael and Christine K. Luscombe
Polym. Chem., 2013, 4, 3499-3506

Simple procedure for mono- and bis-end-functionalization of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene)s using chalcogens
Ken Okamoto and Christine K. Luscombe
Chem. Commun., 2014, advanced article

Influence of fluorine substituents on the film dielectric constant and open-circuit voltage in organic photovoltaics
Pinyi Yang, Mingjian Yuan, David F. Zeigler, Scott E. Watkins, Jason Lee and Christine Luscombe
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, accepted manuscript

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Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hiroshi Imahori

02 Sep 2013

We are delighted to introduce the new Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Professor Hiroshi Imahori.

Professor Imahori completed his doctorate in organic chemistry at Kyoto University. From 1990-1992, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA. In 1992, he became an Assistant Professor at ISIR, Osaka University. In 1999, he moved to the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, as an Associate Professor. Since 2002, he has been a Professor of Chemistry at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. Since 2007, he has also been a Principal Investigator at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University. He has been awarded the Japanese Photochemistry Association Prize (2004), JSPS Prize (2006), CSJ Award for Creative Work (2006), Tokyo Techno Forum 21 Gold Medal Prize (2007), Osaka Science Prize (2007), and NISTEP Researcher Award (2007).

Hiroshi Imahori’s current interests involve artificial photosynthesis, molecular photovoltaics, organic functional materials, and drug delivery systems. To date, he has written more than 250 original papers, including:

Conjugated donor–acceptor (D–A) copolymers in inverted organic solar cells – a combined experimental and modelling study
Venla Manninen, Mika Niskanen, Terttu I. Hukka, Felix Pasker, Simon Claus, Sigurd Höger, Jinseok Baek, Tomokazu Umeyama, Hiroshi Imahori and Helge Lemmetyinen
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1, 7451-7462

Synthesis of low bandgap polymers based on thienoquinodimethane units and their applications in bulk heterojunction solar cells
Tomokazu Umeyama, Yusuke Watanabe, Masaaki Oodoi, Douvogianni Evgenia, Tetsuya Shishido and Hiroshi Imahori

J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 24394-24402

Tunable, strongly-donating perylene photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells
Simon Mathew and Hiroshi Imahori
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 7166-7174

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Professor Kazuhito Hashimoto, for his direction during the last year. Professor Hashimoto is stepping down as he has been appointed as an Executive Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy for Japan. We would like to congratulate him on the role.

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Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C Advisory Board Members

12 Mar 2013

We are delighted to introduce the international scientists that are our Advisory Board Members!

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

From left to right: Amparo Fuertes, Saiful Islam, Paul Mulvaney, Linda Nazar, Markus Niederberger, Cheng-Yong Su and George (X S) Zhao.

Journal of Materials Chemistry B

From left to right: Etienne Duguet, Luis Liz-Marzan, George Malliaras and Jan van Hest

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

From left to right: From left to right: Top row: David Evans, Mark Green, Tomiki Ikeda, Takashi Kato, Kuang-Lieh Lu; Bottom row: Seth Marder, Paolo Samori, Ram Seshadri and Christoph Weder.

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Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A Associate Editor Stephen Skinner

14 Feb 2013

Stephen Skinner is a Reader in Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London with research interests in new materials for energy generation/storage technologies. He is primarily interested in the development of materials for solid oxide fuel cells and in understanding their transport properties, utilising a combination of diffraction and spectroscopic techniques. In-situ structural and electrical characterisation of oxides and the determination of the oxygen transport kinetics are key areas of interest. He is a member of the ISIS neutron source facility access panel, Diamond I20 working group and the Materials Chemistry Division Council of the RSC.

His recent papers include:

In situ compatibility studies of lanthanum nickelate with a ceria-based electrolyte for SOFC composite cathodes
R. Sayers, J. E. Parker, C. C. Tang and S. J. Skinner
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 3536-3543

Evidence for the catalytic oxidation of La₂NiO_4+δ
R. Sayers and S. J. Skinner
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 414-419

Structural properties of Ce-doped strontium titanate for fuel cell applications
Denis J. Cumming, John A. Kilner and Stephen Skinner
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 5021-5026

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Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry B Associate Editor Jeroen Cornelissen

08 Feb 2013

Jeroen Cornelissen is Professor in Biomolecular Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. He studied chemistry in The Netherlands with a minor in polymer chemistry carried out at the Eindhoven University of Technology with Prof. E.W. Meijer and a major in Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis at the University of Nijmegen with Prof. R.J.M. Nolte. He received his PhD (cum laude) from the latter university in 2001 for research carried out under the supervision of Prof. R.J.M. Nolte. After post-doctoral work at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, U.S.A. he returned to Nijmegen, where he was appointed as an Assistant Professor until 2009. His current research interests are in well-defined polymer architectures, hybrid systems of synthetic macromolecules and biopolymers and the use of viruses as building blocks in functional materials.

His recent papers include:

Time-programmed helix inversion in phototunable liquid crystals
Sarah J. Aßhoff, Supitchaya Iamsaard, Alessandro Bosco, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Ben L. Feringa and Nathalie Katsonis
Chem. Commun., 2013, Advance Article

Relative size selection of a conjugated polyelectrolyte in virus-like protein structures
Melanie Brasch and Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen
Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 1446-1448

Solution scattering studies on a virus capsid protein as a building block for nanoscale assemblies
Marta Comellas-Aragonès, Friso D. Sikkema, Guillaume Delaittre, Ann E. Terry, Stephen M. King, Dirk Visser, Richard K. Heenan, Roeland J. M. Nolte, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen and Martin C. Feiters
Soft Matter, 2011,7, 11380-11391

Hydrogen bonding and chemical shift assignments in carbazole functionalized isocyanides from solid-state NMR and first-principles calculations
Chandrakala M. Gowda, Filipe Vasconcelos, Erik Schwartz, Ernst R. H. van Eck, Martijn Marsman, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Alan E. Rowan, Gilles A. de Wijs and Arno P. M. Kentgens
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011,13, 13082-13095

Electrostatic self-assembly of virus–polymer complexes
Mauri A. Kostiainen, Panu Hiekkataipale, Jose Á. de la Torre, Roeland J. M. Nolte and Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen
J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 2112-2117

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Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry C Associate Editor Natalie Stingelin

04 Feb 2013

Natalie Stingelin is a Reader at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK, where she conducts research in the broad area of organic functional materials, including organic electronics, multifunctional inorganic/organic hybrids and smart, advanced optical systems based on organic matter. She has more than 70 papers, is an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, and in 2011 she received an ERC Young Investigator Award.

Her recent papers include:

Synthesis and charge transport studies of stable, soluble hexacenes
Balaji Purushothaman, Sean R. Parkin, Mark J. Kendrick, Daniel David, Jeremy W. Ward, Liyang Yu, Natalie Stingelin, Oana D. Jurchescu, Oksana Ostroverkhova and John E. Anthony
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 8261-8263

Solution-processed small molecule transistors with low operating voltages and high grain-boundary anisotropy
Liyang Yu, Xiaoran Li, Jeremy Smith, Steven Tierney, Richard Sweeney, B. K. Charlotte Kjellander, Gerwin H. Gelinck, Thomas D. Anthopoulos and Natalie Stingelin
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 9458-9461

A flexible n-type organic semiconductor for optoelectronics
Ke Gui, Karyn Mutkins, Paul E. Schwenn, Karsten B. Krueger, Almantas Pivrikas, Pascal Wolfer, Natalie Stingelin Stutzmann, Paul L. Burn and Paul Meredith
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 1800-1806

Fullerene crystallisation as a key driver of charge separation in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells
Fiona C. Jamieson, Ester Buchaca Domingo, Thomas McCarthy-Ward, Martin Heeney, Natalie Stingelin and James R. Durrant
Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 485-492

A low band gap co-polymer of dithienogermole and 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole by Suzuki polycondensation and its application in transistor and photovoltaic cells
Zhuping Fei, Jong Soo Kim, Jeremy Smith, Ester Buchaca Domingo, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Natalie Stingelin, Scott E. Watkins, Ji-Seon Kim and Martin Heeney
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 16257-16263

Low band gap selenophene–diketopyrrolopyrrole polymers exhibiting high and balanced ambipolar performance in bottom-gate transistors
Munazza Shahid, Thomas McCarthy-Ward, John Labram, Stephan Rossbauer, Ester Buchaca Domingo, Scott E. Watkins, Natalie Stingelin, Thomas D. Anthopoulos and Martin Heeney
Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 181-185

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Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A Associate Editor Zhiqun Lin

17 Jan 2013

Professor Zhiqun Lin received his B.S. degree in Materials Chemistry from Xiamen University in 1995, Masters degree in Macromolecular Science from Fudan University in 1998, and PhD degree in Polymer Science and Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2002. He joined Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University as an Assistant Professor in 2004, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. He moved to Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011. His research focuses on solar cells, functional nanocrystals, conjugated polymers, semiconductor organic/inorganic nanocomposites, block copolymers, hierarchical structure formation and assembly, and surface and interfacial properties.

His recent papers include:

Graphene-based transparent flexible electrodes for polymer solar cells
J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 24254-24264

Assembling and positioning latex nanoparticles via controlled evaporative self-assembly
J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 16968-16972

Conjugated rod–coil and rod–rod block copolymers for photovoltaic applications
J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 17039-17048

Controlled evaporative self-assembly of hierarchically structured bottlebrush block copolymer with nanochannels
J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 14248-14253

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Congratulations Professor Robertson

Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C Editor-in-Chief Nazario Martin

Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A Associate Editor Shizhang Qiao

Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A Associate Editor Christine Luscombe

Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hiroshi Imahori

Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C Advisory Board Members

Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry A Associate Editor Stephen Skinner

Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry B Associate Editor Jeroen Cornelissen

Introducing Journal of Materials Chemistry C Associate Editor Natalie Stingelin

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