Molecular Systems Design & Engineering Blog

ChemEngDayUK 2017 will take place from 27-28 March 2017 at Birmingham University and will welcome UK Chemical Engineering academics, industry partners and international guests, to discuss developments and innovations towards a more sustainable future.

The conference will bring together researchers, engineers and scientists from around the UK to explore the latest technological advances and research results in core areas of chemical engineering.

Through a combination of a distinguished plenary speakers, parallel technical sessions with invited talks by leading experts from academia and industry, and interactive poster sessions, participants will showcase their research efforts and technologies, and share visions with researchers in the UK.

Key speakers include:

• Lynn Gladden (University of Cambridge, UK)
• David Mooney (Harvard University, USA)
• Ian Noble (Mondelez R&D, UK)
• Nigel Brendon (Imperial College, UK)
• Chris Hardacre (University of Manchester, UK)
• Steven M Howdle (University of Nottingham, UK)
• Omar Matar (Imperial College, UK)
• Nigel Titchener-Hooker (University College London, UK)
• David York (University of Leeds, UK)

As the supernumerary of the ChemEngDayUK 2017, the University of Birmingham will hold a one-day event UK Particle Technology Forum 2017 on 29th March, on behalf of IChemE Particle Technology Special Interest Group (PTSIG), to bring together early career researchers to discuss the challenges and opportunities for Particle Technology.

For more details and to register for the UK Particle Technology Forum 2017, please visit the events page.

The Eleventh International Congress on Engineered Material Platforms for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials’2017, will comprise a 4-day Conference (28–31 August), and a 2-day Doctoral School (1–2 September).

Organized by the METAMORPHOSE VI AISBL and hosted by the Institut Fresnel of Marseille, this Congress follows the success of Metamaterials 2007-2016 and continues the traditions of the highly successful series of International Conferences on Complex Media and Metamaterials (Bianisotropics) and Rome International Workshops on Metamaterials and Special Materials for Electromagnetic Applications and Telecommunications.

The Congress will provide a unique topical forum to share the latest results of the metamaterials research in Europe and worldwide and bring together the engineering, physics, applied mathematics and material science communities working on artificial materials and their applications from microwaves to optical frequencies, as well as in acoustics, mechanics, hydrodynamics and thermodynamics.

The submission deadline is 5 March 2017 – apply here today!

For more information, including the committee lists and topics to be covered, please visit the Congress website.

The Molecular Systems Design & Engineering team is proud to announce our sponsorship of the upcoming Materials Research Society of Singapore event ICMAT 2017: 9th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, which will be taking place on 18–23 June 2017 at Suntec Singapore.

At ICMAT 2017 there will be 29 Symposia covering contemporary topics of importance for the science, engineering and technology of materials. The meeting will be a multidisciplinary forum providing over 2,000 research scientists and engineers a first-hand learning platform, as well as the opportunity to share and exchange ideas with some of the best minds in the field.

Abstract submission closes on 27 January

In addition to public lectures from Nobel laureates Hiroshi Amano (Physics, 2014) and Andre Geim (Physics, 2010), there will be plenary lectures from:

• Hiroshi Amano (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Andre Geim (University of Manchester, UK)
• C. N. R. Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
• George Whitesides (Harvard University, USA)
• Zhenan Bao (Stanford University, USA)
• Yury Gogotsi (Drexel University, USA)
• Ben Zhong Tang (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China)
• Qi-Kun Xue (Tsinghua University, China)

Registration opens 10 February!

The 2017 E-MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit will be held in the extended and modernized Convention Centre of Strasbourg (France), from May 22 to 26, 2017.

The conference will consist of 26 parallel symposia with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations and a plenary session to provide an international forum for discussing recent advances in the field of materials science. The conference will be augmented by an exhibition of products and services of interest to the conference participants.

In particular, Semiconductors Symposium M, Novel transport phenomena in organic electronic devices: heat, spin and thermoelectricity, will review our physical understanding of such processes and the state-of-the-art for devices.

Abstract submission closes on 18 January – submit yours today!

Invited speakers for this symposium:

• Sir Richard Friend (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Zhigang Shuai (Tsinghua University, China)
• Valy Vardeny (University of Utah, USA)
• Mariano Campoy-Quiles (ICMAB, Spain)
• Henning Sirringhaus (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Peter Bobbert (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)
• (TBC) Rachel Segalman (UCSB, USA)
• Stefano Sanvito (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
• Xavier Crispin (Linköping University, Sweden)
• Martijn Kemerink (Linköping University, Sweden)
• Alek Dediu (CNR Bologna, Italy)
• Jairo Sinova (Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany)

For more information, including the Scientific Committee and hot topics to be covered, please see the symposium page on the MRS 2017 website.

We are delighted to announce that Molecular Systems Design & Engineering will be sponsoring the 2017 Asia-Pacific Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics Conference (AP-HOPV17), to be held at Yokohama, Japan on 3–4 February 2017.

Organised by Chair Tsutomo Miyasaka (Toin University of Yokohama, Japan) and co-Chairs Hiroshi Segawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) and Ivan Mora-Seró (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) and building upon the success of previous HOPV conferences, AP-HOPV17 will provide an excellent opportunity for scientists and engineers worldwide to exchange information and discussions on the latest developments in photovoltaics.

Poster abstract submission deadline: 9 January 2017

Invited speakers include:

• (Keynote) Martin Green, University of New South Wales, Australia
• (Keynote) Anders Hagfeldt, EPFL, Switzerland
• Chris Case, Oxford PV Ltd, UK
• Yi-Bing Cheng, Monash University, Australia
• James Durrant, Imperial College London, UK
• Liyuan Han, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
• Jenny Nelson, Imperial College London, UK
• Nam-Gyu Park, Sunkyunwan University, Korea
• Sang Il Seok, UNIST, Korea
• Tze-Chien Sum, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Koichi Yamashita, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Kai Zhu, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
• Atsushi Wakamiya, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan
• Peter C. Y. Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Annamaria Petrozza, Istituto Italiano de Tecnologia, Italy
• Qing Shen, University of Electrocommunications, Japan
• Elizabeth von Hauff, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands
• Yanfa Yan, University of Toledo, USA

We are delighted to announce the winners of prizes sponsored by Molecular Systems Design & Engineering awarded at the ANNIC 2016 conference, recently held in Barcelona, Spain.

• The outstanding ANNIC 2016 abstract was awarded to Prof. Won-Gun Koh from Yonsei University, Korea for the abstract “Hydrogel Micropattern Incorporating Nanostructures for Fluorescence-based Biosensing”

• The best ANNIC 2016 student abstract was awarded to Mr Armandas Balcytis from the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia for the abstract “Mode control in SOI microring resonators through sub-wavelength modifications”

• The best ANNIC 2016 poster presentation was awarded to Dr Sergey Dubkov from the National Research University of Electronic Technology, Russia for the abstract “CVD-growth of MWCNT arrays on Me-Ct-N-(O) thin films”

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Koh, Mr Balcytis and Dr Dubkov! The winners’ abstracts can be read in the ANNIC 2016 Book of Abstracts, available from the conference website.

ANNIC 2016 General Chair Prof. Joan Ramon Morante of the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) presenting the awards to (left) Prof. Won-Gun Koh, (centre) Mr Armandas Balcytis and (right) Dr Sergey Dubkov