Science Outreach and Career Support: Strategies & Insights

Join us for this special Forum panel discussion, held at ICMAT 2025, which will provide an overview of how to enhance the visibility of your research and support your career advancement in a dynamic and diverse scientific community. The panel discussion features Editorial Board members and authors from Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons, who will share their experiences and offer valuable insights on science outreach. The panel will also discuss key resources for researchers, including strategies to support early-career researchers and women in science, helping you navigate the competitive landscape and expand your impact within the global materials science community.

Meet the Panellists:

Rose Amal University of New South Wales, Australia	Wenlong Cheng The University of Sydney, Australia	Pooi See Lee Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Yi Long Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China	Helge Stein Technical University of Munich, Germany

Date and Time: 1 July 2025, Tuesday at 12:45pm (1 hour), Room 328. Find out more.

Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry C were pleased to sponsor oral presentation awards at the recent MATSUS Fall 2024 symposium on understanding mixed ionic-electronic conductors #OMIEC. Congratulations to Bryan Paulsen, University of Notre Dame, USA  and Maximilian Horn, University of Bern, Switzerland for being awarded a prize for their presentations. Find out more about our winners below:

Maximilian obtained his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Würzburg in 2021 and then moved to Hamburg for his Master’s studies. In November 2023, he joined the research group of Natalie Banerji in Bern, Switzerland, for a PhD project. His research focusses on chemical doping of organic semiconducting polymers and photo(electro)catalysis.

Bryan is a Jesuit priest and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Trine University, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, under the direction Prof. C. Daniel Frisbie. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University under the direction of Prof. Jonathan Rivnay. As part of his religious formation, he also earned a Masters of Arts in Social Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago, and a Masters of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology – Santa Clara University. At Notre Dame his lab develops organic mixed ionic-electronic conductor (OMIEC) materials and devices for bioelectronic, chemical sensing, and energy management applications. He has particular interests in fundamental structure-property investigations leveraging in situ and operando synchrotron X-ray studies, and the application of hysteretic transport in OMIECs to enable innovative device functionality.

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

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 11^th 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.

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:

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

The Carbon Group of the Portuguese Chemical Society (C@SPQ) cordially invites you to attend the 8^th 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 Science, Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry A are delighted to be supporting the event.

Register now!

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.