Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

We are excited to announce the upcoming UK-Korea Symposium on Lithium and Sodium Batteries which will take place in London from the 18^th – 19^th January 2016.

The symposium will be a joint meeting organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and will be focussed upon covering all aspects of lithium-ion, sodium-ion and metal-air batteries (for e.g. Li, Na and Zn).

There will be talks showcasing some of the best research from Korea and the UK with opportunities to highlight recent developments and identify emerging and future areas of growth. There will also be a poster session with prizes and certificates awarded for the best poster presentations.

Further details about the symposium can be found here along with information on registration and abstract submission.

Many congratulations to Kihara Shinsuke Kihara (Kobe University), who was awarded a Journal of Materials Chemistry B best poster prize at the 37^th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials which took place from the 9^th – 10^th 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 21^st – 24^th 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 15^th January 2016 with authors being notified about presentation type by the 15^th 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 2^nd Functional Oxide Thin Films for Advanced Energy and Information Technology conference will be taking place from the 5^th – 8^th 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 23^rd November 2015.

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

Final registration deadline is the 8^th 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 25^th – 28^th 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 9^th – 11^th 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)