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Celebrating the first RSC Applied Symposium!

28 Jul 2026
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RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces were delighted to host the inaugural RSC Applied Symposium at Burlington House, London on Thursday 23rd July 2026, welcoming more than 70 attendees, 10 speakers, and 30 poster presenters. It was a fantastic day of networking filled with fascinating talks linked to sustainability in materials and polymer science. 

We would like to extend our thanks to all our speakers for sharing their exciting research with us and to our session chairs for facilitating the question and answer sessions. You can explore their recent research below! 

🔸Claire Carmalt  🔸Serena Margadonna 
🔸Pengfei Cao  🔸Jenny Nelson 
🔸Matthew Davies  🔸Emily Pentzer 
🔸Andrew Dove  🔸Ryan Richards 
🔸Rachel Evans  🔸Federico Rosei 
🔸Marina Freitag  🔸Magdalena Titirici 
🔸Matthew Gibson  🔸Peter Wich 

 

Congratulations to our poster prize winners! 

We would like to congratulate our poster prize winner Meiyi Chen, University of Edinburgh and runner-ups Megan Gutman, Queen Mary University of London and Francesca Patel Burrows, University of Manchester. Well done on this excellent achievement and thank you to all that attended and took part in the flash presentations and poster session. The standard of work was incredibly high which was great to see at our first symposium! 

 

Congratulations to our winner Meiyi Chen (left) and runner-ups Francesca Patel Burrows (right) and Megan Gutman (bottom).

 

RSC Applied Interfaces is a dedicated, interdisciplinary reference journal for cutting-edge research on the applications of surfaces and interfaces. In addition to the applied focus, work considered for publication in RSC Applied Interfaces is expected to be highly original and of top quality. The journal seeks to report major scientific advances beyond the state of the art, at the cutting edge of this interdisciplinary field.

 

RSC Applied Polymers is a leading international journal for the application of polymers, including experimental and computational studies on both natural and synthetic systems. In this journal, you can discover cross-disciplinary scientific research that leverages polymeric materials in a range of applications. This includes high impact advances made possible with polymers across materials, biology, energy applications and beyond.

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Hear from our authors: Alicja Bachmatiuk, Xiaoqin Yang, Maria Zdończyk, Szymon Abrahamczyk, Gražyna Simha Martynková and Mark H. Rümmeli

24 Jul 2026
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RSC Applied Interfaces publishes interdisciplinary work with an applied focus, which can be read for free here. To celebrate the excellent articles that have been published so far in our journal, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.

In this post, we hear from Alicja Bachmatiuk, Xiaoqin Yang, Maria Zdończyk, Szymon Abrahamczyk, Gražyna Simha Martynková and Mark H. Rümmeli as they discuss their recently published review entitled ‘No substrate required: electron-beam-enabled, single-atom-thick 2D metals and metal oxides‘.

 

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Hear from our authors: Taame Abraha Berhe

17 Jul 2026
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RSC Applied Interfaces publishes interdisciplinary work with an applied focus, which can be read for free here. To celebrate the excellent articles that have been published so far in our journal, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.

In this post, we hear from Taame Abraha Berhe as they discuss their recently published article entitled ‘Strategic engineering of perovskite solar cells: revolutionary developments from interfacial stabilization to copper-based semiconductor innovations‘.

 

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Hear from our authors: Xinhao Li

02 Jul 2026
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RSC Applied Interfaces publishes interdisciplinary work with an applied focus, which can be read for free here. To celebrate the excellent articles that have been published so far in our journal, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.

In this post, we hear from Xinhao Li as they discuss their recently published article entitled ‘Zr-based metal–organic frameworks for colorimetric sensing applications‘.

 

 

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Yeng Ming Lam: New Editorial Board Member

03 Jun 2026
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We are delighted to introduce you to our new RSC Applied Interfaces Editorial Board member, Professor Yeng Ming Lam.

Yeng Ming LAM (FRSC) received her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2001. She is currently a Professor and holds the President Chair in Materials Science and Engineering. Yeng Ming is also the Director of the Facility for Analysis, Characterization, Testing and Simulations (FACTS), a university facility for advanced characterization using electrons and X-ray since 2016. She was the Chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), NTU, from Jan 2019 to Dec 2024.

 

Her research aims to understand and design novel nanostructured functional nanomaterials for application in sustainable energy, sustainable food production and also environment remediation.

 

She is the co-Chair of the governing board for International Symposium for Polymer Analysis and Characterization (ISPAC), USA. She held a concurrent Senior Scientist position in RWTH University in Aachen, Germany, between 2011 and 2014 and a concurrent Senior Scientist position in IMRE, A*Star, from 2010-2011. She was awarded the inauguration L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science National Fellowship and the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2009. In 2024, she was awarded the ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women (Senior Category, First Prize). In 2025, she was named Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders 2025 and is the current SEARCA Regional Professorial Chair 2025-2026. She was awarded American Chemical Society (ACS) Salute to Excellence Award and she is also the elected Academician of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM) in 2025.

Discover Prof. Lam’s recent work

Unravelling the role of nanoparticle morphology during uptake and transport in eggplants
Lifei Xi, Yamin Wang, Alfiz Muhammad Qizwini, Yee Yan Tay, Chris Boothroyd and Yeng Ming Lam
Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2026

 

Formamidinium-based Pb–Sn mixed-halide perovskite solar cells with near-optimal bandgap: FAPb1−xSnx(I0.8Br0.2)3
Yan Chen, Ying Fan Tay, Mingjie Li, Than Zaw Oo, Sing Yang Chiam, Yeng Ming Lam, Tze Chien Sum and Lydia Helena Wong
Nanoscale, 2025

 

Chemical origin of effective functionalization of single atom-MXene catalysts
See-eun Tae, Zhihao Yen, Yejin Kim, Mengyuan Zhang, Wenyu Luo, Qingyu Yan, Hyeonseo Jang, Byoung Gun Han, Yeng Ming Lam and Deok-Yong Cho
Nanoscale Adv., 2025

 

Please join us in welcoming Professor Lam to the RSC Applied Interfaces Editorial Board.

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Hear from our authors: Soumantika Jana, Debika Gogoi, Neha Patel, Bo-Yan Feng, Jeffrey Chi-Sheng Wu and Rakesh Kumar Sharma

03 Jun 2026
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RSC Applied Interfaces publishes interdisciplinary work with an applied focus, which can be read for free here. To celebrate the excellent articles that have been published so far in our journal, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.

In this post, we hear from Soumantika Jana, Debika Gogoi, Neha Patel, Bo-Yan Feng, Jeffrey Chi-Sheng Wu and Rakesh Kumar Sharma as they discuss their recently published article entitled ‘Bifunctional NaGdF4:Yb3+/Er3+ upconversion nanoparticles for efficient overall water splitting‘.

 

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Hear from our authors: Subhashree Mohanty, Bibekananda Marai and Sushanta Kumar Badamali

29 May 2026
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RSC Applied Interfaces publishes interdisciplinary work with an applied focus, which can be read for free here. To celebrate the excellent articles that have been published so far in our journal, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.

In this post, we hear from Subhashree Mohanty, Bibekananda Marai and Sushanta Kumar Badamali as they discuss their recently published article entitled ‘Solar light driven type-II heterojunction TiO2@ZIF-8 nanocomposite for sustainable chlorpyrifos detoxification: physicochemical insights, mineralization pathways and antibacterial performance‘.

 

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Hear from our authors: Anuradha Yadav, Manoj Kumar Singh and Chandra Sekhar Rout

29 May 2026
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RSC Applied Interfaces publishes interdisciplinary work with an applied focus, which can be read for free here. To celebrate the excellent articles that have been published so far in our journal, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.

In this post, we hear from Anuradha Yadav, Manoj Kumar Singh and Chandra Sekhar Rout as they discuss their recently published article entitled ‘Magnetic-field-induced enhanced electrochemical energy storage performance of nickel cobalt phosphide‘.

 

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Hear from our authors: Rindia M. Putri and Nadia Tuada Afnan

08 May 2026
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RSC Applied Interfaces publishes interdisciplinary work with an applied focus, which can be read for free here. To celebrate the excellent articles that have been published so far in our journal, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.

In this post, we hear from Rindia M. Putri and Nadia Tuada Afnan as they discuss their recently published article entitled ‘Biogenic transformation of marine diatoms into MFI-type aluminosilicate catalytic interfaces for selective etherification‘.

 

 

RSC Applied Interfaces – hear from our authors: Rindia M. Putri and Nadia Tuada Afnan

 

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Hear from our authors: David Muñoz-Rojas, Javier Frechilla and Alejandro Frechilla

28 Apr 2026
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RSC Applied Interfaces publishes interdisciplinary work with an applied focus, which can be read for free here. To celebrate the excellent articles that have been published so far in our journal, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.

In this post, we hear from David Muñoz-Rojas, Javier Frechilla and Alejandro Frechilla as they discuss their recently published article entitled ‘Laser annealing of transparent ZnO thin films: a route to improve electrical conductivity and oxygen sensing capabilities‘.

 

 

RSC Applied Interfaces – hear from our authors: D. Muñoz-Rojas, J. Frechilla and A. Frechilla

 

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