Many congratulations to Kihara Shinsuke Kihara (Kobe University), who was awarded a Journal of Materials Chemistry B best poster prize at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials which took place from the 9th – 10th November 2015 in Kyoto, Japan.
Professor Yasuhiko Tabata of Kyoto University and the Japanese Society for Biomaterials Committee Chair was on hand to present the award to Kihara.
(left) Kihara Shinsuke Kihara and Professor Yasuhiko Tabata
Journal of Materials Chemistry A will be sponsoring the upcoming POLYMAT SPOTLIGHT 2016 conference taking place in San Sebastian, Spain from the 21st – 24th June 2016. The conference will be a series of workshops in cohesion with POLYMAT and the University of the Basque Country with an objective of increasing the visibility of emerging and technologically relevant macromolecular materials. The workshop will be chaired by Aurelio Mateo-Alonso (University of the Basque Country, Spain).
Speakers will include Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C Editor-in-Chief Nazario Martin (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) and Materials Horizons Editorial Board member, Markus Antonietti (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany) amongst others.
The deadline for abstract submission is 15th January 2016 with authors being notified about presentation type by the 15th February 2016.
Further information about the conference including a full list of speakers and keynotes lectures can be found by clicking on the logo below.
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.
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.
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)
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:
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More information on the symposium can be found here.
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) |
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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.
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 prize winners at FPi-12 standing with Christine Luscombe (far right) who is the Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A
ISNA-16 poster prize winners
Many congratulations to the poster prize winners at the 16th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds (ISNA-16) conference which took place from the 5th – 10th July in Madrid, Spain. Recipients of the poster prizes which were jointly sponsored by our journals: Nanoscale, Journal of Materials Chemistry A and C were: Hiroya Oshima (Nagoya University, Japan), Xiao-Ye Wang (Max Planck Institute, Germany), Evan Darzi (University of Oregon, USA), Takashi Hirose (Kyoto University, Japan) and Daniel R. Kohn (University of Oxford, UK).
Our recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C: Nazario Martín attended and acted as the symposium Chairman.
The symposium was founded in 1970 by Prof. T. Nozoe, who discovered the first non-benzenoid aromatic compound, hinokitiol, in Taipei. The program of the symposium included the Nozoe memorial lecture, plenary lectures, invited lectures, oral communications, and poster presentations.
Further information about ISNA-16 can be found here.
Elizabeth Santos (1st prize winner) and Zhegang Song (runner up)
Many congratulations to the Journal of Materials Chemistry C Best Student Talk prize winners at the Shape-responsive workshop which took place in Telluride, Colorado from the 23rd – 27th June 2015.
Elizabeth Santos (Michigan State University) was awarded first place for her talk with Zhegang Song (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) named as runner up.
The overall aim of the workshop was to bring together the scientists, both academic and industrial, from all over the world. Several topics were focussed upon during the workshop: An aggregation-induced emission phenomenon in a wide range of organic fluorophores; the fluorescent rotors; mechanofluorescence; encapsulation of fluorescent probes in small hosts; and the development of turn-on fluorescent ligands for proteins and DNA/RNA.
A themed issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry C in association with this workshop will appear in early 2016.
