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The 114th General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society

20 Nov 2014

Journal of Materials Chemistry B would like to congratulate Won Hoon Choi (Kyung Hee University) and Dawoon Song (Chungbuk University) who were

Won Hoon Choi (pictured) won for his poster prize titled: Mutation in the Core Particle Enhances Mammalian Proteasome Activity by Open-Gate and Dawoon Song was awarded for his title: Synthesis and evaluation of novel 2,4-diaminopyrimidines bearing substituted tetrahydrobenzoazepines for anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor as anticancer agents. awarded Poster prizes at the Korean Chemical Society Fall Meeting which took place at the Kimdae jung Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea from the 15th – 17th October 2014.

The KCS (Korean Chemical Society) meets twice a year and aims to cover all aspects of chemistry. A workshop on scientific publishing was hosted by Dr. Richard Threlfall on the final day of the meeting which provided information on the full publishing process with the intention of enabling authors to gain the best outcome in journal publishing.

Further information about the organisation can be found here.

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Solar Future 2014 Workshop Poster Prize Winners

19 Nov 2014

By Aliya Anwar.

A big congratulations to our student and postdoctoral poster prize winners at this year’s KAUST Solar Future Meeting!

Elisa Collado (Imperial College London) and Johannes Wilder (Institute For Applied Photophysics, Dresden University of Technology) were both first place student and post doc poster prize winners with Alexander Hyla (KAUST) and Taesoo Kim (KAUST) as the respective runner-ups.

Winners of the KAUST Solar Future Poster Session from left to right:

The meeting took place at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology from the 8th – 11th November 2014 and gathered together some of the main contributors in photovoltaic (PV) research across the scientific community and involved three days of invited presentations and poster sessions, spanning the three major rapidly-emerging areas of “Polymer and Small-molecule Organic PV”, “Quantum Dot PV”, and “Perovskite PV”.

Further information about the workshop can be found here on the workshop website.

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Self-assembled growth of Sn@CNTs on vertically aligned graphene for binder-free high Li-storage and excellent stability

12 Nov 2014

By H. L. Parker.

The first thing I did after reading this article was google Li-ion batteries. I know the general stuff about them but I wanted to know more – typical scientist. They really are pretty fantastic, even lithium itself is rather special. I have never really thought about it before but lithium is the lightest of all the metals yet it has the greatest electrochemical potential and provides the largest energy density for weight. Although Li-ion does have a slightly lower energy density than lithium metal it makes a safer battery, especially where recharging is concerned. Sony were the first to commercialise the use of the Li-ion battery in 1991 and they are still the battery of choice especially for tech items such as mobile phones.

Self-assembled growth of Sn@CNTs on vertically aligned graphene for binder-free high Li-storage and excellent stability

Anyway enough of a history lesson. Despite being an incredily promising battery there are drawbacks to the use of Li-ion batteries. One of which is addressed in this work by Li et al is the lack of suitable electrodes with enhanced energy and power density, cycling stability, energy efficiency and cycling life. Metallic Sn has attracted significant attention as a promising anode material that over comes some of these issues. This paper reports for the first time a new stratergy to grow self-assembled tin carbon nanotubes on vertically aligned graphene. The work uses microwave plasma irradiation to produce the encapsulated Sn nanoparticles in the CNTs.

The resulting Sn anode is shown to give the best performance values of any other Sn anode to date. The authors write that they “expect the proposed route to be adopted by the rapidly growing energy storage research community” and with these results they might not be far off the mark.

Self-assembled growth of Sn@CNTs on vertically aligned graphene for binder-free high Li-storage and excellent stability
Na Li, Huawei Song, Hao Cui, Guowei Yang and Chengxin Wang
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 2526-2537. C3TA14217E

H. L. Parker is a guest web writer for the Journal of Materials Chemistry blog. She currently works at the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, the University of York.

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Poster Prize winners at the Excitonic Photovoltaics (XPV) 2014 conference

11 Nov 2014

By Aliya Anwar.

(From top to bottom) 1st, 2nd & 3rd placed prize winners: Hilary Marsh, Ivan Kassel and Xiaodan Gu receiving their poster prizes from Peter Skabara

Journal of Materials Chemistry C are delighted to announce the Poster prize winners at the XPV 2014 conference which took place at Telluride Science Research Center, Colorado, USA from the 12^th – 15^thAugust this year.

The conference brought together leading researchers in the field of excitonic solar cells with the intention of generating discussions of the global energy outlook and the potential impact of emerging exciton-based PV technologies. Topics discussed during the four-day conference included: materials design, synthesis, and growth; combinatorial materials development (both experimental and computational); photophysics and exciton dynamics; charge generation, transport, and recombination studies; models of device physics; interface and electrode optimization; multijunction device architectures; and novel photophysical mechanisms such as singlet fission.

JMC C poster prize winners from left to right: Ivan Kassel, Xiaodan Gu and Hilary Marsh

Journal of Materials Chemistry C poster prize winners from left to right: Ivan Kassel, Xiaodan Gu and Hilary Marsh

The posters were ranked by the invited speakers with the following 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes being awarded to: Hilary Marsh (University of Colorado, Boulder), Ivan Kassal (University of Queensland) and Xiaodan Gu (Stanford University).

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Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C Review articles

15 Sep 2014

By Sarah Thirkell, Development Editor.

We are constantly working to improve our procedures to benefit our journal authors. In light of this, from issue 1s 2015, Feature Articles will be published as Review articles in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C. Reviews will replace Feature Articles as the principle review-type article in the Journal of Materials Chemistry family of journals. All newly submitted Review articles this year will be published with a 2015 publication date.

We believe that this will further improve the discoverability and searchability of these articles for our authors and readers.

For more information, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C article guidelines can be found below:

Journal of Materials Chemistry A article guidelines
Journal of Materials Chemistry B article guidelines
Journal of Materials Chemistry C article guidelines

When will I see a change?
This change has taken affect from now and is applicable for all new Review article submissions. Feature Articles currently under review or accepted and going through production will be published as Feature Articles with a 2014 publication date.

Further questions?
Please contact the Editorial Office at materials-rsc@rsc.org.

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Ever heard of useful collision? Here it is!!

02 Sep 2014

By Padmanabh Joshi.

“It’s cold and white everywhere. What else can you expect on early January’s very snowy evening!” I mumbled to myself and was heading towards home exhausted when I witnessed the almost ungovernable sliding inevitable collision of two nice looking vehicles with people on driving seats trying hard to salvage the situation. It was not a gratifying view for the spectators let alone for the vehicle owners and insurance companies (of course). Knowing that not much could be done from my side, I resumed my meticulous “frictionless” walk but this time pondering over the collisions.

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Poster Prize winners!

29 Aug 2014

By Aliya Anwar.

Antoniel C. Carolino Campos receiving his poster prize

Parashuram Kallem receiving his prize

Journals of Materials Chemistry A are delighted to announce the Poster Prize winners at the IX Ibero-American Conference on Membrane Science and Technology which took place in Santandar, Spain from the 25^th-28^th May this year.

The conference also known as CITEM was a forum for scientists and technicians from Ibero-American countries to meet and discuss the latest research trends and technologies used in membrane processes and as usual, scientists from non-Latin American countries were also welcomed.

During the conference, a poster prize for best oral communication was presented to Naser Tavajohi Hassankiadeh from Hanyang University, South Korea, for his communication: “Preparation hollow fiber membrane by combination of thermally induced phase inversion and non-solvent induced phase inversion with green solvent”.

Further prizes for best poster communications were awarded to Antoniel C. Carolino Campos from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for his communication: “Synthesis and characterization of films of silver nanoparticles dispersed in poly(urethane urea) for the separation of petrochemical gases” and Parashuram Kallem from Institute of nanoscience of Aragon, University of Zaragoza, for: “Incorporation of vinylimidazolium based Ionic liquid in well-defined straight porous PBI membranes: Novel polymeric ionic liquid/PBI membranes for high temperature fuel cell applications”.

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Call for Papers: Themed Issue on Perovskite Solar Cells

19 Aug 2014

By Sarah Thirkell, Development Editor.

Submission has now closed

Journal of Materials Chemistry A is planning to produce a themed issue on Perovskite Solar Cells in 2015. Please e-mail the Editorial Office at materialsA-rsc@rsc.org if you are interested in contributing an article. The Guest Editors for this issue are Zhiqun Lin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Gang Li (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) and Nam-Gyu Park (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea).

This themed issue aims to cover the most recent progress in the synthesis, preparation, characterization, and mechanistic studies of perovskite-based solar cells, to highlight the new development in synthesis, engineering, and application of perovskites. Our aim is to highlight the remarkable contributions made by the leading scientists in this important research area and the broad impact of perovskite solar cells.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED

Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s online article submission service. Please clearly state that the manuscript is submitted in response to the call for papers for the themed issue on Perovskite Solar Cells.

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Journal of Materials Chemistry Impact Factor increases to 6.626

29 Jul 2014

By Sam Keltie, Executive Editor.

We are delighted to announce that the 2013 Impact Factor* for Journal of Materials Chemistry is 6.626! Journal of Materials Chemistry is the parent journal of the Journal of Materials Chemistry family, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C. These three new journals will receive their first individual Impact Factors next summer in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports®.

Journal of Materials Chemistry has again recorded its highest ever value of Impact Factor, which represents a continued increase over previous years. We would like to thank our authors, referees, readers and Editorial and Advisory Board members for all your contributions to the success of the Journal of Materials Chemistry family.

We are also delighted to announce the 2013 Immediacy Indexes^# for the Journal of Materials Chemistry family of journals:

Journal of Materials Chemistry A – 1.238
Journal of Materials Chemistry B – 0.889
Journal of Materials Chemistry C – 0.951

We envision these successes to continue with the three new journals. Submit your next high impact paper to Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B or C and enjoy all the benefits of being a Royal Society of Chemistry author!

Find out how other Royal Society of Chemistry journals are ranked in the latest Impact Factor release.

Top cited Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C articles:

Feature Articles
LiMnPO4 – A next generation cathode material for lithium-ion batteries
Vanchiappan Aravindan, Joe Gnanaraj, Yun-Sung Lee and Srinivasan Madhavi
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013,1, 3518-3539
Carbon “quantum” dots for optical bioimaging
Pengju G. Luo, Sushant Sahu, Sheng-Tao Yang, Sumit K. Sonkar, Jinping Wang, Haifang Wang, Gregory E. LeCroy, Li Cao and Ya-Ping Sun
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2013,1, 2116-2127
Development of high performance OLEDs for general lighting
Hisahiro Sasabe and Junji Kido
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013,1, 1699-1707

Full Papers
Synthesis and crystal chemistry of the hybrid perovskite (CH3NH3) PbI3 for solid-state sensitised solar cell applications
Tom Baikie, Yanan Fang, Jeannette M. Kadro, Martin Schreyer, Fengxia Wei, Subodh G. Mhaisalkar, Michael Graetzel and Tim J. White
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013,1, 5628-5641
Biopolymer functionalized reduced graphene oxide with enhanced biocompatibility via mussel inspired coatings/anchors
Chong Cheng, Shengqiang Nie, Shuang Li, Hong Peng, Hang Yang, Lang Ma, Shudong Sun and Changsheng Zhao
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2013,1, 265-275
Laminated magnetic graphene with enhanced electromagnetic wave absorption properties
Xin Sun, Jianping He, Guoxian Li, Jing Tang, Tao Wang, Yunxia Guo and Hairong Xue
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013,1, 765-777

*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. Data based on 2013 Journal Citation Reports®, (Thomson Reuters, 2014). There will be an impact factor for either Journal of Materials Chemistry, or Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, every year. The 2014 Journal Citation Reports® will include the last impact factor for Journal of Materials Chemistry, and the first impact factors for the three new journals.
^#Immediacy Index is the numbers of citations in a given year to papers published in that year.

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Recycled fish bones offer five star sun protection

24 Jul 2014

By Aliya Anwar.

Written by Cally Haynes for Chemistry World

An effective new sunscreen based on iron-doped hydroxyapatite (HAp)-based materials derived from cod fish bones, a by-product of the food industry, has been developed by scientists in Portugal.

Fish bones could be converted into a valuable product © iStock

Commercial sunscreens are usually based on materials like TiO₂ and ZnO, which absorb UV to reduce its harmful effects on the skin. However, there are concerns regarding the potential toxicity of these materials and their adverse environmental effects when they accumulate in water supplies.

Interested? Read the full article at Chemistry World.

The original article can be read below:

Hydroxyapatite-Fe2O3 based material of natural origin as an active sunscreen filter
Clara Piccirillo, Catarina Rocha, David M Tobaldi, Robert Carlyle Pullar, Joao Antonio Labrincha, Marta Ferreira, Paula Castro and Manuela Pintado
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2014, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C4TB00984C

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Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

The 114th General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society

Solar Future 2014 Workshop Poster Prize Winners

Self-assembled growth of Sn@CNTs on vertically aligned graphene for binder-free high Li-storage and excellent stability

Poster Prize winners at the Excitonic Photovoltaics (XPV) 2014 conference

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C Review articles

Ever heard of useful collision? Here it is!!

Poster Prize winners!

Call for Papers: Themed Issue on Perovskite Solar Cells

Journal of Materials Chemistry Impact Factor increases to 6.626

Recycled fish bones offer five star sun protection

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