Materials Horizons Blog

This  two-day symposium will focus on active and adaptive nanomaterials on October 22nd and 23rd, 2015 at CUNY’s Advanced Science Research Center. In addition to presentations from Internationally-recognized leaders in nano-molecular chemistry, there will be contributed talks, tours of the facility and a poster session in the ground floor lobby.

Confirmed Speakers:

Samuel I. Stupp – Northwestern University
Joanna Aizenberg – Harvard University
Lee Cronin – University of Glasgow
Jan van Esch – Delft University of Technology
David G. Lynn – Emory University
Elisa Riedo – CUNY Advanced Science Research Center & The City College of New York
Nathan Gianneschi – UC San Diego
Adam Braunschweig – University of Miami

From left: Professor Kensuke Naka (Kyoto Institute of Technology / workshop committee co-chair), Mr. Yasuyuki Irie (Kyoto Institute of Technology) & Hiromitsu Urakami (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Materials Horizons would like to give a hearty congratulations to PhD student Mr. Yasuyuki Irie for his poster titled: ‘Single component self-standing films based on carbazole terminated polyhedral octasilicate-core dendrimers’ which was awarded a prize at the US-Japan Workshop on Advances in Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials 2015 which took place in Himeji, Japan from the 18^th – 22^nd May 2015.

The purpose of the workshop was to showcase new research and application directions in the area of organic/inorganic hybrids, inorganic polymers, and nanocomposite materials and provide an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of new and unpublished results in the area as well as providing a special opportunity to exchange ideas and information between leading US and Japanese researchers in the field.

This workshop aims at giving an up-to-date description and review of the different materials and technologies currently being implemented for various energy applications, with a special focus on renewables. It will be organized in three main blocks: materials for energy conversion, materials for energy storage, materials for an efficient use of energy.  The 5 Plenary sessions will cover the fundamentals of each thematic axis.  Related topics such as modeling and characterization will be tackled both through the plenary talks and the lectures.

In addition, the symposium will also provide an overview of the most promising materials being investigated at present.

All participants are invited to present their work in a poster session. The best posters of the conference, regardless of the field, will be awarded by APL Materials, the Royal Society of Chemistry and their new journal Materials Horizons http://bit.ly/1noj1K8

Heading to San Francisco for the Spring MRS meeting?

Drop by RSC Publishing booth #602 to find materials that matter.

If you’ve seen us before at the Fall MRS meeting, you’ll know we publish a diverse range of books and journals covering the breadth of materials science – from the synthesis of materials through to an assortment of applications.

At this meeting, we’re celebrating the launch of our new title, Materials Horizons. The journal will publish first reports of exceptional significance at the cutting-edge interface of materials science with chemistry, physics, biology and engineering – and the great news is that all the content will be free to access until the end of 2015. It opens for submissions on 2 April 2013 – find out more at the booth.

Of course, we’ll have our other top titles on display, including Biomaterials Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C and the flagship general chemistry journal, Chemical Science.

You can enjoy a conference discount of 30% (or 35% if you’re an RSC member) on all RSC books on display at our booth, including Janus Particle Synthesis, Self-assembly and Applications from our Smart Materials book series and our popular science title, The Science of Chocolate.

So to find out more about cutting-edge research, top quality reference works or the best place to publish – make sure you visit booth #602.

Meet the editors:

Liz Dunn Editor, Soft Matter, Materials Horizons Managing Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, Polymer Chemistry and Biomaterials Science Contact to arrange a meeting	Sam Keltie Deputy Editor Materials Horizons, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C,