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12th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems

17 Dec 2014

The 12th International Symposium on Functional pi-Electron Systems (Fpi-12) will be held in Seattle, Washington, USA on July 19 – 24^th 2015.

These conferences have become one of the major conferences in the area of organic electronics, and we hope that Fpi-12 will follow the success of previous Fpi conferences organized in Japan (Osaka in 1989, 1999, and 2006 and Kobe in 1992), USA (Santa Cruz in 1995, Ithaca in 2004, Atlanta in 2009), Europe (Ulm, Germany, in 2002, Graz, Austria, in 2008 and Arcachon, France in 2013), and China (Beijing, in 2011).

Fpi-12 is expected to attract 400-500 participants from all over the world to discuss their new achievements in research fields including:

design and synthesis of new π-conjugated molecules and polymers
organic and polymeric semiconducting materials for thin film transistors
organic and polymeric photovoltaic and photo-detective materials and devices
organic light-emitting materials for display and lighting application
hybrid/perovskite materials and devices
conjugated polymers and oligomers in chemo/bio-sensors
bioelectronics

Abstract submission is open till January 31^st 2015.

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Web collection on molecular materials with the 5th Molecular Materials Meeting @ Singapore 2015

15 Dec 2014

By Sam Keltie, Executive Editor.

We are delighted to announce a cross journal web collection on molecular materials in conjunction with the 5th Molecular Materials Meeting @ Singapore 2015 conference, which will cover the latest developments in molecular materials.

Ten Royal Society of Chemistry journals are encouraging submissions for the collection:

Biomaterials Science
An international, high impact journal bringing together the molecular and mesoscopic interactions of biomaterials and their potential applications
Chemical Communications
Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.
Green Chemistry
The home of cutting-edge research on the development of alternative sustainable technologies
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
High impact applications, properties and synthesis of exciting new materials for energy and sustainability
Journal of Materials Chemistry B
High impact applications, properties and synthesis of exciting new materials for biology and medicine
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
High impact applications, properties and synthesis of exciting new materials for optical, magnetic and electronic devices
Nanoscale
A high impact peer reviewed journal publishing experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology
Polymer Chemistry
Encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and related emerging areas
RSC Advances
An international journal to further the chemical sciences
Soft Matter
Where physics meets chemistry meets biology for fundamental soft matter research.

The overall theme of the conference is “The Next 50 Years in Materials Research”, and this conference will focus on the latest developments and discuss the future of the most promising areas in molecular materials. It will cover a wide range of topics:

Metamaterials and Plasmonics
Hybrid Materials and Nanocomposites
2D Materials and Devices
Biomimetic, Biosynthetic, and Bioinspired Materials
Materials for Sustainability
Materials for Bioapplications and Sensing
Materials for Consumer Care and Healthcare
Materials for Food Nanotechnology

Submissions are welcome to the relevant journal across the themes of the conference.

Articles can be submitted from now until the 1st of May 2015 and the collection will receive promotion at the conference in August. Please indicate in your submission that your manuscript is for consideration for the cross-journal MMM3 2015 web collection. Please note all submissions will be handled following each specific journal’s standard procedures and in that respect articles submitted for the web collection will be treated as regular submissions.

If you have any queries or for more information, please contact the relevant journal Editorial Office: biomaterialsscience-rsc@rsc.org, chemcomm-rsc@rsc.org, green-rsc@rsc.org, materialsa-rsc@rsc.org, materialsb-rsc@rsc.org, materialsc-rsc@rsc.org, nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org, polymers-rsc@rsc.org, advances-rsc@rsc.org or softmatter-rsc@rsc.org.

For your information, Conference abstract submission templates can be found here and you may submit the abstract here: http://bit.ly/1AuY7wU.

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Plastic bottles recycled into cigarette filters

09 Dec 2014

By Aliya Anwar.

Written by Emma Cooper for Chemistry World

A method to recycle the common plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from fizzy drinks bottles into membranes for filtration, including cigarette filter tips, has been developed by scientists in Sweden and the US. The process involves dissolving PET in a solvent mixture of trifluoroacetic acid and dichloromethane, which is then electrospun to produce fibre mats to be used as filters.

PET is widely recycled into engineered plastics, automobiles, fleece fabric, containers and films, however some applications such as protective clothing and membrane separation and filtration still use the more expensive virgin PET. This work, which stemmed from a collaboration between researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the University of Illinois, provides a proof-of-concept for synthesising filters from recycled PET to give cigarette filters which absorb up to 20 times more cigarette smoke than classic filter tips.

Interested? The full article can be read at Chemistry World.

The original article can be read below:

Electrospinning of recycled PET to generate tough mesomorphic fibre membranes for smoke filtration
I. N. Strain, Q. Wu, A. M. Pourrahimi, M. S. Hedenqvist, R. T. Olsson and R. L. Andersson
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4TA06191H

The filtration capacities of the fibre mats were tested using a cigarette as the smoke source

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Take 1…minute for chemistry in health

27 Nov 2014

By Sarah Thirkell, Development Editor.

Can you explain the importance of chemistry to human health in just 1 minute? If you’re an early-career researcher who is up to the challenge, making a 1 minute video could win you £500.

The chemical sciences will be fundamental in helping us meet the healthcare challenges of the future, and we are committed to ensuring that they contribute to their full potential. As part of our work in this area, we are inviting undergraduate and PhD students, post-docs and those starting out their career in industry to produce an original video that demonstrates the importance of chemistry in health.

We are looking for imaginative ways of showcasing how chemistry helps us address healthcare challenges. Your video should be no longer than 1 minute, and you can use any approach you like.

The winner will receive a £500 cash prize, with a £250 prize for second place and £150 prize for third place up for grabs too.

Stuck for inspiration? Last year’s winning video is a good place to start. John Gleeson’s video was selected based on the effective use of language, dynamic style, creativity and its accurate content.

The closing date for entries to be submitted is 30 January 2015. Our judging panel will select the top five videos. We will then publish the shortlisted videos online and open the judging to the public to determine the winner and the runners up.

For more details on how to enter the competition and who is eligible, join us at the Take 1… page.

Good luck!

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The 114th General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society

20 Nov 2014

By Aliya Anwar.

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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Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

12th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems

Web collection on molecular materials with the 5th Molecular Materials Meeting @ Singapore 2015

Plastic bottles recycled into cigarette filters

Take 1…minute for chemistry in health

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!!

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