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Congratulations to the CEMDI oral prize winners!

Materials Horizons, Digital Discovery and MSDE were delighted to sponsor three oral prizes at the 2nd Annual Computational Energy Materials Design Infrastructure (CEMDI) symposium held in Montreal, Canada from 27 – 29 May. Congratulations to Parastoo Agharezaei, Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb and Mehdi Shamekhi!

 

Find out more about our winners below:

 

Smiling headshot Parastoo Agharezaei

Parastoo Agharezaei is a researcher in the field of materials science and engineering, holding a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Tehran, awarded in 2017. She pursued a Joint Master’s degree with an Erasmus Mundus excellence full scholarship, earning dual Master’s degrees in Materials Science from TU Darmstadt, Germany, and in Physics with a minor in Quantum Modeling of Nanomaterials from the University of Liege, Belgium, in 2020. Currently, Parastoo is advancing her expertise in Computational Materials Science through a Ph.D. program at INRS, University of Quebec, focusing her doctoral thesis on the design of alloy catalysts for ammonia production using Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning.

Title of presentation: Design of CuNi-based single-doped alloy catalysts for ammonia production via Density Functional Theory

 

Smiling headshot in the sunshine

 

Mehdi Shamekhi

Mehdi Shamekhi is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of
Physics at Concordia University, working under the supervision of Prof.
Gilles H. Peslherbe on the computational design and investigation of bimetallic
alloys for the electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR). Mehdi employs a combination of machine
learning and computational chemistry to advance his research, using
machine learning algorithms to screen the chemical space of bimetallic alloy
catalysts and identify promising candidates for further characterization
via density functional theory. Detailed knowledge of the electronic structure
of these catalysts indeed enables the design of catalysts that are both
active and selective toward the NRR, contributing to the development of efficient
catalysts for sustainable ammonia synthesis. Mehdi aspires to continue
his research in computational chemistry and electrocatalysis, aiming to make
significant contributions to the field of sustainable energy solutions. His longterm
goal is to develop innovative materials that can address global energy
challenges through green chemistry and advanced computational methods.

Title of presentation: Machine learning assisted screening and DFT characterization of bimetallic alloy catalysts for the nitrogen reduction reaction

Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb

Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb is currently pursuing a Ph.D. program at INRS, University of Quebec, working under the supervision of Prof. Kulbir Ghuman, and co-supervised by Prof. Jonathan Shock, on the design of alloy catalysts for CO2 PhotoCapture using Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning.

Title of presentation: Screening binary alloys for CO2 photo capture using GNN

 

Congratulations to our winners!

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Horizons Symposium 2023: Round-up

Did you attend the 2023 Horizons Symposium on electronic and energy materials in Berlin? Don’t worry if you missed out, catch up on all the excitement below!

In late September this year, the first annual Horizons Symposium finally took place at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Featuring exciting talks from our invited speakers and an engaging poster session, the breadth and quality of science presented was truly outstanding!

Hosted by Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons, the two-day symposium was rounded off with a ‘meet the editor’ session led by Editorial Board Chair of Materials Horizons, Martina Stenzel. Overall, the symposium offered a unique opportunity for plenty of networking and discussing the future of materials for electronic and energy applications! We very much look forward to the 2024 event!

 

Meet our poster prize winners!

Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons were delighted to award two poster prizes – congratulations to Vaidehi Lapalikar and Thorsten Schultz!!
Thorsten receives his poster prize certificate from Executive Editor Michaela Dr. Thorsten Schultz
Scientist, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie.

Poster prize awarded for poster entitled: “Work function and energy level alignment tuning at Ti₃C₂Tx MXene surfaces and interfaces using (metal-)organic donor/acceptor molecules”Thorsten Schultz graduated from the University of Leipzig (Germany) in 2014 and obtained his PhD degree in physics in 2018 from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany), working in the group of professor Norbert Koch on energy level alignment mechanisms at inorganic-organic semiconductor interfaces investigated with photoelectron spectroscopy. In 2019, he joined the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie as a Postdoc, deepening his experience in the field of photoelectron spectroscopy. He continued working on the energy level alignment manipulation at organic/inorganic semiconductor interfaces, culminating in a universal method to adjust the energy level alignment at such interfaces over a wide range by the insertion of thin molecular donor/acceptor interlayers, the so-called interlayer method.  He is now permanently employed as a beamline scientist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and will be responsible for the ENERGIZE beamline after its completion, which will be dedicated to research on hybrid materials and energy efficient technologies.

Vaidehi Lapalikar
Doctoral researcher, Technische Universität Dresden.

Poster prize awarded for poster entitled: “Solution-processed electronics based on BiOI”“The RSC Horizons Symposium on electronic and energy materials gave me a particularly exciting opportunity to interact with a diverse spectrum of professionals associated with this field, ranging from doctoral students to established researchers, publishing editors, and experts doing pioneering work towards open science. The event left me thoroughly inspired and full of fresh ideas for the future!”

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Vaidehi Lapalikar receives her poster prize

Congrats to our best student question winners!

The Royal Society of Chemistry was also delighted to award two special prizes for the best question asked by a student – we were overwhelmed by the many insightful questions from all attendees but were delighted to award Emily Albert and Anton Dzhong with a pair of colour changing RSC mugs for their excellent and engaging questions!

 

Emily Albert poses with her colour changing mug mid-transition Emily Albert
Master student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. 

Emily Albert is a Masters student in the group Supramolecular Systems led by Prof. Dr. Norbert Koch at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

“The Horizon Symposium provided  a familiar and open-minded environment, perfect for asking questions as a student!”

Anton Dzhong
Master student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. 

Anton Dzhong is currently working on his Masters Thesis in Eva Unger’s Research Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin on Perovskite Solar Cell Materials.

“The Symposium posed a great opportunity to explore the field of energy materials and it was fun having fruitful discussions with so many dedicated researchers!”

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Anton poses with his poster

 

Thanks to all attendees, speakers and the organising committee for a truly engaging and enjoyable symposium – we look forward to meeting more of our community next year! Sign up to our journal email alerts to make sure you are the first to hear when registration opens!
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RSC Desktop Seminar series – Hosted by Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons

Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons are pleased to announce a free Webinar series featuring scientific talks from Editorial and Community Board Members on a range of topics.

RSC Desktop Seminars are an ongoing initiative from the Royal Society of Chemistry to bring cutting-edge research directly to you! Now, more than ever, there is a crucial need for sharing research, and each seminar in this series will feature presentations from Editorial and Community Board members of Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.

Each 90 to 120-min webinar will feature scientific talks as well as dedicated time for questions & answers. The schedule for the series will be as follows:

Wednesday, 25 November 2020 (7am GMT; 15:00 CST; 16:00 JST)

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“Machine learning accelerated design of new functional material” – Professor Jinlan Wang (Southeast University, China)

Thursday, 3 December 2020 (08:00 GMT; 13:30 IST; 19:00 AEDT)

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“Soft Gold Elastronics for Connected Healthcare” – Professor Wenlong Cheng (Monash University, Australia)

“Smart Sensors for Environmental Monitoring and Healthcare” – Professor Ritu Gupta (IIT Jodhpur, India)

Thursday, 10 December 2020 (07:00 GMT; 15:00 CST; 17:00 AEST; 18:00 AEDT)

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“The interaction between micelles and cells: Small changes in the nanoparticle shells have big impacts” – Professor Martina Stenzel (University of New South Wales, Australia)

“Emerging trends in oral drug delivery using stimuli responsive nanomedicine” – Dr Amirali Popat (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Thursday, 17 December 2020 (08:00 GMT; 16:00 CST; 17:00 JST)

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“Sub-1nm Ultrathin Nanocrystals” – Professor Xun Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

“Metal-Organic Frameworks for Polymer Recognition and Separation” – Dr Nobuhiko Hosono (University of Tokyo, Japan)

“Stability of Photocatalysts” – Dr Mengye Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

 

We hope you will be able to join us for some of the events in this Desktop Seminar Series.

Best wishes,

 

Dr Michaela Mühlberg
Executive Editor, Materials Horizons
Dr Charlotte Marshall
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

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11th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2020] calls for papers

You have gained interesting research results in the field of laser material processing and want to discuss them with experts from all over the world? If so, submit an abstract for the 11th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2020] until January 24, 2020.

 

Especially recent developments in the field of

 

Laser Material Processing

  • Beam sources & components
  • Laser beam welding, brazing & soldering
  • Laser beam cutting & drilling
  • Surface treatment & forming
  • Laser assisted processes

including

  • Experimental results
  • Simulation & modeling
  • Sensing & control
  • Laser safety

 

and the Emerging Technologies

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Precision processing with ultrashort laser pulses
  • Fast laser beam manipulation
  • Laser material processing in the visible wavelength range
  • E-Mobility/Batteries

 

are of interest.

 

In order to give a detailed overview, LANE aims not only at scientific contributions, but integrates the industrial perspective and their relevance for application, as well. It takes place from September 06-10, 2020 in Fürth, Germany. Visit the conference website for more information: https://www.lane-conference.org

 

Materials Horizons is delighted to support the conference with two prizes for the best talks.

 

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Congratulations to the winners of POLYMAT Spotlight 2018 prizes!

POLYMAT Spotlight 2018 was the second edition of a series of meetings that take place in San Sebastian (Northern Spain), which after the success of the first edition in 2016 is now organized on a biannual basis.

 

POLYMAT Spotlight is organized by Aurelio Mateo-Alonso from POLYMAT, an institution which encompasses two research organisations that focus in fundamental and applied polymer research, respectively. The meeting brings together a small audience of world-wide recognized scientists (~100 participants) in a beautiful location, San Sebastian’s Miramar Palace, with some of the most spectacular views of the bay, which favour interactions between the participants with a social and gastronomical program in the same Palace.

 

POLYMAT Spotlight 2018 was devoted to 2D and Porous Polymers and had arranged an impressive line-up of plenary and keynote speakers from all over the world:

  • William Dicthel
  • Dirk Guldi
  • Andreas Hirsch
  • Kiang Ping Loh
  • Dieter Schlüter
  • Omar Yaghi
  • Rahul Banerjee
  • Thomas Bein
  • Cinzia Casiraghi
  • Carlos Martí-Gastaldo
  • Francesco Paolucci
  • Diego Peña
  • Dmitrii Perepichka
  • Stephanie Schubert
  • Ronald Smaldone
  • Arne Thomas
  • Cafer Yavuz
  • Felix Zamora

In addition, 19 contributing lectures, 10 flash presentations and 26 posters have been carefully selected to provide a solid research forum.

 

Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Horizons have supported POLYMAT Spotlight 2018 with the award of two poster prizes that were selected by Plenary Lecturers William Dichtel and Dieter Schlüter in a ceremony conducted by Luis Hueso, associate editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

 

Awardees:

Journal of Materials Chemistry C Prize

Elisabetta Zuccatti, CIC NanoGUNE, Spain

Ambipolar Vertical Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Inverters

Materials Horizons Prize

Dr. Jose I. Martínez, POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Making it Functional from Trivial Starting Materials: Gaining Processability in 2D Conjugated Microporous Polymers

After this second edition, POLYMAT Spotlight has established itself as reference scientific meeting in macromolecular materials and we are looking forward for the next edition in 2020.

 

You can find all pictures at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/142817369@N04/albums/72157696916725371

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Congratulations to the winners of ICEAN 2018 poster awards!

Materials Horizons is delighted to have supported the International Conference on Emerging Advanced Nanomaterials (ICEAN) 2018, along with the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C.

A special congratulations to Van Chinh Hoang (University of Sydney, Australia) and Sung Ho Kim (University of Newcastle, Australia) for winning the Materials Horizons poster awards!

Sung Ho Kim receives his Materials Horizons poster award, presented by Professor P. M. Ajayan, Rice University USA.

Van Chinh Hoang was awarded first prize for his poster entitled “High efficiency supercapacitors based on carbon quantum dots from vegetable waste”.

Sung Ho Kim was awarded the runner-up prize for his poster entitled “Ordered N-rich mesoporous carbon nitride-MoS2 hybrids as an anode materials for Li and Na ion batteries”.

The poster awards were evaluated by an international team of expert researchers:

  • Professor Thomas Nann, Victoria University, New Zealand
  • Professor Huijun Zhao, Griffith University, Australia
  • Professor Siva Umapathy, Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Professor Samuel Adeloju, Monash University, Australia
  • Professor Yoshio Bando, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
  • Professor Vipul Bansal, RMIT University, Australia
  • Professor Seong-Ju Hwang, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
  • Professor Dmitri Golberg, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Professor Prashant Sonar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Professor Xiaolin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia

Congratulations to everyone who presented a poster at ICEAN 2018!

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8th International Symposium on Carbon for Catalysis, CarboCat–VIII

The Carbon Group of the Portuguese Chemical Society (C@SPQ) cordially invites you to attend the 8th International Symposium on Carbon for Catalysis, CarboCat–VIII, that will take place in Porto, Portugal, on June 26 – 29, 2018.

Following the previous CarboCat meetings held in Lausanne (2004), Saint-Petersburg (2006), Berlin (2008), Dalian (2010), Brixen (2012), Trondheim (2014) and Strasbourg (2016), CarboCat-VIII will be devoted to new developments and fundamental advances on carbon materials (conventional and nanostructured carbons) for catalytic applications.

Catalysis Science & Technology together with Energy & Environmental ScienceMaterials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry A are delighted to be supporting the event.

Register now!

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QD2018, Tthe Tenth International Conference on Quantum Dots

QD2018 is the Tenth International Conference on Quantum Dots, the leading conference on quantum dot research and it will be held in Toronto, Canada from 25-29 June 2018. QD2018 will gather 500 of the world’s leading quantum dot researchers from epitaxial, colloidal, and lateral quantum dot communities.

Topics will include:

  • Fundamentals – Quantum Dot Theory, Quantum Dot Spin, Analytical Techniques, Quantum Optics and Magneto-Optics, Quantum Dot Coherence, Exciton/Charge Carrier Dynamics.
  • Materials – Hybrid Quantum Dot Systems, Material Growth and Fabrication Techniques, Emerging Materials and Synthesis, Nanoplatelets and Superstructures.
  • Applications – Energy Harvesting, Sensors and Detectors, Light Emission, Quantum Information Technology and Quantum Computing, Bio Applications.

And the list of confirmed speakers so far is below:

Plenary Speakers

  • Dmitri Talapin (University of Chicago)
  • Xiaoyang Zhu (Columbia University)
  • Manfred Bayer (Dortmund University)
  • Yasuhiko Arakawa (University of Tokyo)
  • Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Invited Speakers

  • Akira Oiwa (Osaka University)
  • Sohee Jeong (Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials)
  • Maurice Skolnick (University of Sheffield)
  • Zeger Hens (University of Ghent)
  • Liberato Manna (Italian Institute of Technology)
  • Jacek Kasprzak (CNRS France)
  • Horst Weller (University of Hamburg)
  • David J. Norris (ETH Zurich)
  • Eva Monroy (CEA Grenoble)
  • Edo Waks (University of Maryland)
  • Maksym Kovalenko (ETH Zurich)
  • Emily Weiss (Northwestern)
  • Osman Bakr (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
  • Hunter McDaniel (UbiQD)
  • Hilmi Volkan Demir (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Cherie Kagan (University of Pennsylvania)
  • John Rarity (University of Bristol)
  • Armando Rastelli (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
  • Jelena Vuckovic (Stanford University)
  • Jason Petta (Princeton University)
  • Vladimir Bulovic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Patanjali Kambhampati (McGill University)
  • Eunjoo Jang (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology)
  • Gerasimos Konstantatos (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences)

Materials Horizons, Nanoscale Horizons, and Nanoscale are delighted to provide support for QD2018. Visit the conference website for full information about how to register.

 

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9th International Nanomedicine Conference

Journal of Materials Chemistry BNanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons are proud to support the 9th International Nanomedicine Conference.

The International Nanomedicine Conference is regarded as the most significant nanomedicine meeting in the Southern Hemisphere, taking place annually at our local beach, Coogee Beach Sydney. This event will be brought to you by the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine (ACN) and the ARC Centre for Bio-Nano Science (CBNS). The conference aims to showcase great research, in an environment conducive to network­ing with colleagues from around the world.

Visit the website to find out more! http://www.oznanomed.org/

 

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10th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies – LANE 2018

10th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies  – LANE 2018 takes place 3 – 6 September 2018 in Fürth, Germany.

The meeting offers a platform for an international exchange of ideas, opinions, perspectives, results and solutions concerning photonic technologies. In order to give a detailed overview, the conference aims not only at scientific contributions, but integrates the industrial perspective and their relevance for application, as well.

Especially recent developments in the field of:

Laser Material Processing:

  • Beam sources & components
  • Laser beam welding, brazing & soldering
  • Laser beam cutting & drilling
  • Surface treatment & forming
  • Laser assisted processes

including

  • Experimental results
  • Simulation & modelling
  • Sensing & control

and

Emerging Technologies:

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Precision processing with ultrashort laser pulses
  • Fast laser beam manipulation
  • E-Mobility/Batteries

Materials Horizons is delighted to support LANE 2018 with two prizes for the best talks.

Register before 4 June 2018 for early bird rates, or 9 August 2018 for standard rates.

Visit the conference website for more information: https://www.lane-conference.org/

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