Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

The first issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry for 2012 is now online. You can read the full issue here:

Dr Liz Davies and Professor Seth Marder look over the highlights of the last year and look forward to 2012 in their Editorial.

The outside front cover features an article on Supramolecular mechanisms in the synthesis of mesoporous magnetic nanospheres for hyperthermia by Daniel Arcos, Vanesa Fal-Miyar, Eduardo Ruiz-Hernández, Mar Garcia-Hernández, M. Luisa Ruiz-González, José González-Calbet and María Vallet-Regí

Tailored star-shaped statistical teroligomers via ATRP for lithographic applications is the article highlighted on the inside front cover by Florian Wieberger, Drew C. Forman, Christian Neuber, André H. Gröschel, Marietta Böhm, Axel H. E. Müller, Hans-Werner Schmidt and Christopher K. Ober





Issue 1 contains the following Highlight, Application and Feature articles:

• Metal sulfide nanostructures: synthesis, properties and applications in energy conversion and storage
• Magnetic carbon nanostructures in medicine 
• Stimuli responsive gels based on low molecular weight gelators 

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Prizes and Awards open for 2012 of interest to readers of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, Soft Matter & Polymer Chemistry: 

Prizes:

Centenary Prizes  
For three outstanding chemists from overseas to give lectures in the British Isles

Corday-Morgan Prizes
For the most meritorious contributions to chemistry.

Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes  
Awarded for the most meritorious and promising original investigations in chemistry and published results of those investigations

Interdisciplinary Prizes  
For work at the interface between chemistry and other disciplines.

Tilden Prizes  
For advances in chemistry

Materials Chemistry Division Awards:

Peter Day Award  
For outstanding contributions to, and advancement of, the field of materials chemistry. This year’s award is for those specialising in the broad area of soft matter. 

Gibson-Fawcett Award  
To recognise original and independent contributions to Materials Chemistry

Stephanie L Kwolek Award  
To recognise exceptional contributions to the area of Materials Chemistry from a scientist working outside the UK

Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award  
For outstanding and innovative research in soft condensed matter and/or the application of physico-chemical techniques to biological problems

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The latest issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry is now online. You can read the full issue here:

• Atomic layer deposited HfO2 and HfO2/TiO2 bi-layer films using a heteroleptic Hf-precursor for logic and memory applications
• Graphene and its derivative-based sensing materials for analytical devices

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Scientists from China have developed a new lithographic printing technique to layer a pattern onto photonic paper. The development could be significant for anti-counterfeit applications, such as hidden writing for anti-theft labels, because the pattern created is effectively invisible until the material is immersed in water.

The standard approach to photonic printing is to print a responsive material onto photonic paper, which will then react to an external stimulus and reveal the pattern. To see the pattern clearly, a high loading of the responsive material is needed, which often renders it visible before it has reacted. Creating the pattern is not a challenge, but keeping it hidden until it reacts to the stimulus is. Interested to know more? Read the full article in Chemistry World here…

The ‘invisible’ patterns on photonic prints are revealed in water and go back to their original state when dry

Read the paper from Journal of Materials Chemistry:

Invisible photonic prints shown by water
R Xuan and J Ge
J. Mater. Chem., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/c1jm14082e

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Researchers in China have made a new strain sensor to monitor the safety of buildings and other structures. Strain sensors are used to monitor structural damage, so can detect problems in the integrity of buildings during earthquakes, or in the structure of vehicles and aircraft.

Guojia Fang and co-workers from Wuhan University made a sensor out of polymer nanofibres – poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). They used electrospinning to draw out fibres from a mixture of the polymers, then formed a structure of interconnecting strands. Interested to know more? Read the full article in Chemistry World here…

Electrospun PEDOT:PSS–PVA nanofiber based ultrahigh-strain sensors with controllable electrical conductivity
N Liu, G Fang, J Wan, H Zhou, H Long and X Zhao,
J. Mater. Chem., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/c1jm14491j
 
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The latest issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry is now online. You can read the full issue here:




The outside front cover features a Feature Article on Electrical transport characteristics through molecular layers by Gunuk Wang, Tae-Wook Kim and Takhee Lee






Issue 45 contains the following Feature articles:

• Functional block-like structures from electroactive tetra(aniline) oligomers 
• Biofunctionalization of nanoparticles for cytosensing and cell surface carbohydrate assay

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Congratulations to Azzedine Bousseksou and co-workers for winning the 2011 Le Prix La Recherche award (Chemistry Section) for their research on ‘bistable fluorescent nanoparticles’.

The full winning team was: A.  Bousseksou, L.  Salmon, G.  Molnár, L. Rechignat, W.nicolazzi, T. Mahfoud, C. Quintero, A. Akou, S. Bedoui, I.  Goralsky, H. Shepherd, M. Lopes, MT Carayon, K.  Abdulkader, G.felix, A. Routarou, F. Dang.

An important part of the team’s research on bistable fluorescent nanoparticles was published in Journal of Materials Chemistry in 2010. You can read the paper here:

A novel approach for fluorescent thermometry and thermal imaging purposes using spin crossover nanoparticles: Lionel Salmon, Gábor Molnár, Djelali Zitouni, Carlos Quintero, Christian Bergaud, Jean-Claude Micheau and Azzedine Bousseksou, J. Mater. Chem., 2010, 20, 5499-5503.

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The latest issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry is now online. You can read the full issue here:

The outside front cover features an article on Sequential logic and random access memory (RAM): a molecular approach by Graham de Ruiter and Milko E. van der Boom
 
 
 





Multishelled Co3O4-Fe3O4 hollow spheres with even magnetic phase distribution: Synthesis, magnetic properties and their application in water treatment is the article highlighted on the inside front cover by Xi Wang, Yeteng Zhong, Tianyou Zhai, Yanfeng Guo, Shimou Chen, Ying Ma, Jiannian Yao, Yoshio Bando and Dmitri Golberg



Issue 44 contains the following Highlight and Feature articles:

• Sequential logic and random access memory (RAM): a molecular approach
• Thiophene-based conjugated oligomers for organic solar cells
• Eco-friendly visible-wavelength photodetectors based on bandgap engineerable nanomaterials

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Yi Xie at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, and colleagues made the robot by combining an actuator,  a device that converts energy into motion, with an electronic device, which responds to infrared light to curl and uncurl to pick up and drop objects. Interested to know more? Read the full article in Chemistry World here…

Large-area graphene realizing ultrasensitive photothermal actuator with high transparency: new prototype robotic motions under infrared-light stimuli
Changzheng Wu, Jun Feng, Lele Peng, Yong Ni, Haiyi Liang, Linhui He and Yi Xie
J. Mater. Chem., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/c1jm13311j