Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

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)

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 23^rd – 27^th 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.

We are delighted to annouce the upcoming Recent Appointees in Materials Science (RAMS) 2015 conference which will take place at the University of Warwick over 2 days (16-17^th September) and is the only National conference specifically aimed at new Academic appointees (Lecturers, Research Fellows and Postdocs) in Materials Science.

The RAMS 2015 conference will include symposia with plenary and contributed oral presentations and a poster session covering a broad range of subjects in Materials Science, networking opportunities as well as panel discussions to encourage collaboration, stimulate discussions and provide an open forum for advice. Please visit the conference website for more information on the conference programme, confirmed invited speakers and venue: http://rams2015.org/

The conference will incorporate Plenary lectures from leading UK materials scientists, Prof. Aron Walsh and Prof. Mary Ryan. Sessions on essential training and development and information on funding opportunities will be delivered through panel discussions led by successful Academics and representatives from funding bodies. RAMS is targeted towards Academics at the start of their career and aims to help recent appointees to build their national collaborative networks, exchange experiences and benefit from peer support.

We encourage Early Career Academics to submit an abstract for a contributed oral presentation or poster through our online system. Abstracts will be competitively assessed. Deadline for abstract submission: 30^th June

Registration will cost £125, including meals and refreshments throughout, on-campus accommodation on 16^th Sept and conference banquet (to be held at Warwick Castle). Registration will open shortly and will close on 1^st September. Delegates not requiring accommodation can register for the reduced rate of £70.

A limited number of bursaries are available for those with limited travel budgets and will be assessed on an individual basis. This conference has been made possible through generous support from the Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry Division, Royal Society of Chemistry Journals, Institute of Physics Publishing and Materials and Characterisation Group, Royal Microscopic Society and the University of Warwick Materials Global Research Priority, Warwick Manufacturing Group and Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. The conference has been organised by: Dr Claire Dancer (Warwick Manufacturing Group), Dr Gemma-Louise Davies (Department of Chemistry) and Dr John Murphy (School of Engineering), University of Warwick, UK.​​​​