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Three new members named to the NJC Editorial Board

20 Feb 2013

Professors Dai-Wen Pang, Christina Moberg and Sijbren Otto have joined the editorial board of New Journal of Chemistry for 2013 to 2015.

New Journal of Chemistry is proud to welcome three new Board Members. They will take part in the future development of the journal with their colleagues on the board. To get to know them, here is some information about our new members.

Dai-Wen Pang from Wuhan University, PR China

Dai-Wen PANG (庞代文) was born in 1961 in Songzi, China. Luojia Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine at Wuhan University, his research interests focus on the development of new nanobioprobes and nanobioprobe-based methodologies for biomedical research and clinical diagnosis, especially quantum dot-based dynamic biotracking and bioimaging for virus invasion, tumor metastasis and cancer diagnosis. Dai-Wen has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Dai-Wen earned both his B.S. in Chemistry (1982) and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (in 1992, under the direction of Profs. Chuan-Sin CHA and Zong-Li WANG) at the University of Wuhan. Appointed in 2011 as Chief Scientist by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China to work on the Project of National Basic Research Program of China, he will bring to the Board all of his experience and knowledge. Among his various distinctions, Dai-wen received the First Award of the Natural Science Prize of the Ministry of Education of China (2006) and most recently the distinction of National Outstanding Scientist (2012).

Dai-Wen’s reaction on accepting his nomination: “It is really my honor to be an NJC Editorial Board member. In my opinion, chemistry should intercross with other disciplines, especially, it should get into life sciences. We chemists should be able to contribute to the fight against diseases such as viruses, cancers and so on. We have great opportunities at the interfaces among chemistry, biology, and nanoscience. I will try my best to promote interdisciplinary study of chemistry with biology, medicine, and nanoscience etc..”

Christina Moberg of KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Christina MOBERG was born in 1947. Full Professor at the KTH School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Organic Chemistry Department in Stockholm since 1997, she obtained her B.Sc. at the University of Stockholm and her Ph.D. at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm with Prof. Martin Nilsson. Her research interests are centered on asymmetric metal catalysis and concern mainly the development of selective synthetic methods. Christina’s special interests are to determine the role of symmetry in asymmetric reactions and in the design of self-adaptable ligands.

Christina has received several awards, such as the “Göran Gustafsson Prize” from the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the “Sixten Heyman Prize” from Gothenburg University and the “Ulla and Stig Holmquist Prize” from Uppsala University; Christina was also awarded the Rosalyn Franklin Lecture tour in Britain in 2005. She has been “knighted” by the French President into the French National Order of Merit in 1999. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Christina served as vice-President of the former academy until mid 2011.

Christina feels that Board members and play an important role in today’s scientific community: “As the borders between the traditional sub-disciplines of chemistry are becoming less pronounced, a broad-based forum such as the New Journal of Chemistry has an important role to fulfill. As a member of the Editorial Board I will be happy to assist in future development of the journal. Strict adhesion to ethical guidelines is a prerequisite for the promotion of science, and the Board, together with the authors, reviewers, and Editors, should do its best to ensure that strict ethical rules are obeyed.”

Sijbren Otto from Groningen University, The Netherlands

Sijbren OTTO was born in Groningen in the Netherlands in 1971. Associate Professor in the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, he received his M.Sc. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees cum laude from the same university, working in the group of Prof. Jan B. F. N. Engberts. After his Ph.D. he moved to the United States for a year as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Steven Regen, investigating synthetic systems mediating ion transport through lipid bilayers. In 1999 he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and moved to the University of Cambridge, where he worked for two years with Prof. Jeremy Sanders on dynamic combinatorial libraries. Sijbren then embarked on an independent research career in Cambridge as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.

Sijbren moved back to the University of Groningen in 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. His research interests are broad and range from supramolecular chemistry to systems chemistry, embracing topics like catalysis, molecular recognition, self-assembly and self-replication. Sijbren was awarded an ERC starting grant in 2011, a VICI grant in 2013 and currently coordinates a Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Systems Chemistry.

Regarding NJC, Sijbren has these thoughts: “I think it is important to support a general chemistry journal carried by non-profit chemical societies in order to maintain the balance between commercial and non-profit journals. At the same time, it is important to safeguard the quality of such journals at a time of an ever-increasing quantity of manuscripts that are produced throughout the world. “

We extend a warm welcome to our three new Board members on behalf of all the actors of the journal! We look forward to collaborating with them in the coming years.

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NJC Poster prize winners at E-WISPOC 2013

12 Feb 2013

By Laurent Vial, Assistant Editor.

Two NJC poster prizes were awarded during the European-Winter School on Physical Organic Chemistry, which was held in Bressanone (Italy) from 27 January to 1 February 2013.

The two laureates received a one-year subscription to the journal and a RSC book. Our thanks go to the organizers of the conference for their help in organizing these awards, and our deep gratitude to all of the senior scientists who served on the jury to select the two following winners:

Giulia Iadevaia, who graduated in chemistry from the University La Sapienza in Rome and completed her Masters thesis under the supervision of Prof. Antonella Dalla Cort. During this time, she collaborated with Prof. Giulia Licini (University of Padova) and Prof. Kari Rissanen (University of Jyväskylä), where she carried out part of the work. Giulia is currently undertaking a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Christopher Hunter (University of Sheffield), studying cooperative hydrogen bonded systems. Her current research interest is in supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition, and host-guest complexes.

Matea Vlatković was educated at the University of Zagreb. For her master research project, she moved to the University of Warsaw to work on constitutionally dynamic anion receptors with Dr. Michał Chmielewski. Matea is currently a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Ben Feringa at the University of Groningen. Her main research interests include organic synthesis, molecular switches, supramolecular chemistry, and catalysis. Besides her research activity, Matea enjoys dancing salsa, reading, traveling, and hiking.

NJC wishes them continuing success in their research!

A list of all previous NJC Poster Prize winners can be found here.

: From left to right: Christiano Zonta, Laurent Vial, Giulia Iadevaia, Matea Vlatković, and Giulia Licini.

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NJC’s February issue published

08 Feb 2013

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

2013’s second issue contains 38 original research articles in all areas of chemistry, contributing to fields as diverse as the fight against cancer and the development of solar photovoltaics.

The front cover this month highlights a collaborative research effort between groups at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, India, and the European School of Chemistry, Polymers and Materials in Strasbourg, France. The groups of Mula and Ziessel have designed novel dyes that show sustainable lasing activity in polar solvents.

Design and synthesis of sulfobetainic diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) laser dyes by Soumyaditya Mula, Delphine Hablot, Krishna K. Jagtap, Elodie Heyer and Raymond Ziessel, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 303-308. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40569E

A novel thermoregulated ionic liquid, used as the recyclable catalyst and co-solvent in a Knoevenagel condensation, is featured on this month’s inside cover. The group of Prof Jun Luo at Nanjing University of Science and Technology used their new system to synthesize substituted benzylidenes with >90 yields in most cases.

A PEG bridged tertiary amine functionalized ionic liquid exhibiting thermoregulated reversible biphasic behavior with cyclohexane/isopropanol: synthesis and application in Knoevenagel condensation by Jun Luo, Tantan Xin and Yinglei Wang, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 269-273. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40890B

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NJC’s new Associate Editor is from Brazil

16 Jan 2013

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

Prof. Jaïrton Dupont, a leading world expert on ionic liquids, catalysis and nano materials, has been named as NJC’s Associate Editor for the Americas.

Prof. Jairton Dupont, NJC's new Associate Editor

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Jairton Dupont as NJC‘s Associate Editor for the Americas. He is a professor of the Institute of Chemistry at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) located in Porte Alegra in Brazil’s southernmost state. He replaces Prof. Michael Scott (formerly at the University of Florida and now at NSF).

Jaïrton has close ties to France and the UK (NJC‘s two “homes”), having received his Ph.D. degree from the Université Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg (France). After a period as a post-doc at the University of Oxford (UK), he joined the UFRGS, taking up his current position in 1992. His research interests are mainly centered on ionic liquids with special emphasis in catalysis, nanomaterials and alternative energies. Jaïrton has authored well over 200 scientific works, including an organometallic chemistry textbook.

Among his various distinctions, Jaïrton is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and he has received many awards such as the Humboldt Research Award, the Conrado Wessel Award, the TWAS Award and the Brazilian Gran Cruz. He has returned to the “Old World” on numerous occasions, including as an invited professor at ULP, the University of Nuremberg-Erlangen (Germany) and Universidad de Alcala de Henares and Rovira i Virgili (Spain). Click here to see his CV (in Portuguese).

Jaïrton’s commitment to excellence in scientific publishing is based on the following: “The worldwide dissemination of scientific achievements relies mostly on periodicals and therefore reputable professional journals are the most significant platform tool in this process. New Journal of Chemistry is certainly one of the platforms for the dissemination of the most important scientific global achievements in chemistry in their whole diversity.”

I extend a warm welcome to Jaïrton on behalf of the NJC Editorial Board, the editors of NJC, RSC Publishing and the CNRS.

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Meet Our Authors from the January 2013 Issue of NJC

16 Jan 2013

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

Two members of NJC’s Advisory Editorial Board plus a regular contributor to NJC are interviewed for this month’s Meet Our Authors feature.

Prof. George Gokel

Our first author is George Gokel, a former NJC Associate Editor, who is Distinguished Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Nanoscience at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. George’s research is in the field of supramolecular and biological chemistry of membrane active and channel-forming compounds.

The article by George and his co-authors looks into the little-studied branched-chain chemistry of pyrogallolarenes. These compounds have led to at least one remarkable nanotube structure. The group’s NJC paper addresses the membrane behavior of resorcinarenes that have hard-to-obtain, very long chains that are aligned (rccc). The typical synthesis of pyrogallols depends on crystallization of a single product from a complex mixture. Long-chain pyrogallols or resorcinarenes crystallize poorly owing to their extended hydrocarbon chains. Jochen Mattay had previously prepared and characterized very long chain compounds containing varied headgroups. The collaboration with the group of Gokel probed the monolayer behavior (Langmuir trough) and membrane activity (bilayer clamp) to obtain new information about the amphiphilic behavior of these difficult-to-obtain derivatives.

One of George’s favorite films is KPAX. In this film, Kevin Spacey claims to be a tourist from the planet KPAX. Jeff Bridges plays the psychiatrist who seeks conventional explanations for a range of phenomena that point to Spacey’s alien origins. George applies the moral of this film to science: “It humbles one to think that we often try to make our data fit our preconceived notions rather than applying Sherlock Holmes’ advice in the Sign of the Four that ‘when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'”

Properties of long alkyl-chained resorcin[4]arenes in bilayers and on the Langmuir trough by Priyanka Ogirala, Saeedeh Negin, Ceno Agena, Christian Schäfer, Thomas Geisler, Jochen Mattay and George W. Gokel, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 105–111. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40337D

Luca (on the right) indulging in one of his passions with two friends.

The second NJC board member is Luca Prodi, who is a Full Professor in the Chemistry Department “G. Ciamician” of the University of Bologna.

Luca explains how his research interests have expanded over the years, while remaining centered on light: “I have been always fascinated by luminescence-related processes. Because of this curiosity, I directed my interest to the design of luminescent chemosensors and labels, especially for biological applications. The advent of nanotachnology has allowed the design of brighter systems, and for this reason I have recently started the study of nanoparticles, in particular those possessing a silica core. The possibility to design multicomponent systems opens up a huge number of strategies to improve the analytical signal. It is not possible to get bored studying these materials!”

All of these topics come together in the Focus review contributed by the Prodi group. “The design of chemosensors able to give information about the concentration of a given analyte can have a tremendous impact on many disciplines, such as medical diagnosis, molecular biology, and environmental monitoring, to cite only a few. Since the use of chemosensors based on silica nanoparticles is, to our opinion, very promising for obtaining systems featuring better performances, we have reviewed some interesting examples of what is reported in the literature indicating also some perspectives in the field.”

Reading is one of Luca’s favourite activities besides chemistry (and cycling—see the photo!). He notes that he is a “curiosity-driven reader” so his interests span many areas but in particular he likes detective stories by northern Europe writers, while one of his favourite Italian authors is Andrea Camilleri; Luca particularly enjoyed reading the first novel by this author, introducing Inspector Montalbano in La Forma dell’Acqua (The Shape of Water—sounds quite fitting for a chemist!).

Luminescent chemosensors based on silica nanoparticles for the detection of ionic species by Marco Montalti, Enrico Rampazzo, Nelsi Zaccheroni and Luca Prodi, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 28–34. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40673J

David visiting Mgarr in Malta, with a view of the harbor and church.

Lastly let us meet David C. Magri, a recently appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of Malta (Malta is a small archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, with a long and fascinating history, having been ruled by a succession of powers going from the Phoenicians to the British crown). Getting back to David, his research is in the area of luminescent sensors and molecular logic gates.

In their NJC paper, David with student Thomas report the first examples of molecular AND logic gates that can simultaneously measure the pH and the pE (redox ability of a solution). In honour of Marcel Pourbaix, a formerly renowned electrochemist, they have named them Pourbaix sensors. Such probes could be useful in environmental monitoring, and also in cell biology and medicine, for example, as high concentrations of protons and redox active metal ions, such as iron, have been linked to certain types of cancer.

With a background in both photochemistry and electrochemistry David often contemplated how to intertwine elements from both to the field of molecular information processing. Fluorescent logic gates for pH and pE was the result.

A book that has left its mark on David from his graduate training is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (published in 1962 by the University of Chicago Press). David explains: “The book explores the psychology of science dealing with the acceptance of new paradigms. I would recommend all researchers give it a read.”

‘Pourbaix sensors’: a new class of fluorescent pE–pH molecular AND logic gates based on photoinduced electron transfer by Thomas J. Farrugia and David C. Magri, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 148–151. DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40732A

We hope you enjoyed meeting some of your fellow chemists. Check back next month on the NJC blog to see who we’ll interview next!

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New Journal of Chemistry issue 1 now online

16 Jan 2013

By Eva Balentova, deputy editor.

We welcome you to January’s “All aboard“ issue of New Journal of Chemistry.

Featuring in this issue:

This month NJC highlights the research of NJC’s Editorial Board members. Sixteen current members of the NJC Editorial Board have contributed 10 research articles and 5 reviews, among them 2 Focus reviews and 3 Perspectives reviews.

In all, the twenty-eight articles in this issue, including Focus and Perspective reviews, Letters and full Papers, feature high-quality, original and significant research works in the areas of coordination and supramolecular chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, sensing, nanostructures, material sciences, electrochemistry, synthetic chemistry, crystallographic engineering and much more.

The outside cover of this month’s issue highlights the work of Debbie Crans and Michael Johnson (USA) on vanadium complexes in water-in-oil reverse micelles.

In their study, the authors were exploring the complexation reaction between a ligand (catechol) and a metal ion (aqueous vanadium(V); [VO₂(OH₂)₄]⁺) along with the reverse reactions; aquation of the corresponding vanadium(V)–catechol complex.

Stabilization of a vanadium(V)–catechol complex by compartmentalization and reduced solvation inside reverse micelles by Brant G. Lemons, David T. Richens, Ashley Anderson, Myles Sedgwick, Debbie C. Crans and Michael D. Johnson, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 75-81, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40524E.

The inside front cover features work by Takashi Kato and co-workers (Japan) who present the first example of bisphenylsulfone- based molecular assemblies. Thermotropic columnar liquid crystals and fibrous aggregates are formed by 1D self-assembly of sulfonyl moieties through the dipole–dipole interactions.

The electric field alignment of the sulfone-based columnar liquid crystals has been successfully achieved.

Bisphenylsulfone-based molecular assemblies: polar columnar liquid crystals aligned in electric fields and fibrous aggregates in organic solvents by Masafumi Yoshio, Reiku Konishi, Takeshi Sakamoto and Takashi Kato, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 143-147, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40681K

Hot articles in this themed issue:

* Photochromism of novel chromenes constrained to be part of [2.2]paracyclophane: remarkable ‘phane’ effects on the colored o-quinonoid intermediates by Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy, Susovan Mandal and Amrit Kumar, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 82-88, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40575J

* Precursors for pyromellit-bridged silica sol–gel hybrid materials by Stefan Pfeifer, Anke Schwarzer, Dana Schmidt, Erica Brendler, Michael Veith and Edwin Kroke, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 169-180, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40538E

* Self-assembly of graphene oxide on the surface of aluminum foil by Qingye Liu, Meng He, Xiaojuan Xu, Lina Zhang and Junping Yu; New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 181-187, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40493A

* Mixed-solvothermal synthesis, structures, luminescent and surface photovoltage properties of four new transition metal diphosphonates with a 3D supramolecular structure by Hui Tian, Yan-Yu Zhu, Zhen-Gang Sun, Fei Tong, Jiang Zhu, Wei Chu, Shou-Hui Sun and Ming-Jing Zheng, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 212-219, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40737J

* Rapid preparation of high surface area iron oxide and alumina nanoclusters through a soft templating approach of sol–gel precursors by Fernando Hung-Low, Geneva R. Peterson, Marauo Davis and Louisa J. Hope-Weeks, New J. Chem., 2013, 37, 245-249, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40781G

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Photocurrent response of strontium titanate films decorated with carbon quantum dots

11 Jan 2013

By Eva Balentova, deputy editor.

In this NJC Hot paper Chinese researchers (Soochow University and Jiangsu University) describe a facile route for the fabrication of porous and solid SrTiO₃ films by a template-free hydrothermal method using TiO₂ NTs precursor and loading CQDs on the SrTiO₃ surface by electrodeposition. As a result, the CQDs–SrTiO₃ is responsive under near NIR irradiation owing to the energy upconversion ability of the CQDs. Based on the their results, a possible electron–hole transfer mechanism was also assumed.

Enhanced photoelectrochemical response in SrTiO₃ films decorated with carbon quantum dots by Fang Wang, Yang Liu, Zheng Ma, Haitao Li, Zhenhui Kang and Mingrong Shen; New J. Chem., 2013, Advance Article; DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40988G, Letter

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The last of 2012’s NJC Poster Prize winners

21 Dec 2012

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

Profiles of 3 young chemists who were awarded NJC poster prizes in the spring of 2012.

Yang Wang

Yang Wang, a young Chinese Ph.D. student in the group of Dr Ling Peng at the CINaM in Marseille, won the NJC Poster Prize awarded at the 7th Organic Chemistry Meeting of Marseille. His research interests lie in synthesizing different kinds of dendrimers and their bio-application in drug delivery, especially nucleic acids drug delivery.

Yang’s winning poster was entitled “Synthesis of amphiphilic poly(aminoester) dendrimers for drug delivery”. Poly(aminoester) dendrimers show great promise as biodegradable nanocarriers for drug delivery due to their advantageous properties: biodegradability, potentially lower toxicity and possibility of diverse chemical conjugations. This work presented the design and synthesis of amphiphilic poly(aminoester) dendrimers bearing amine terminal functionalities for effective drug delivery.

Konstantin Chegaev

Two NJC poster prizes were awarded at the 6th French-Italian Chemistry Days, also held in Marseille and organized under the auspices of the French Chemical Society (SCF).

Dr Konstantin Chegaev is a researcher in the group of Prof. Roberta Fruttero, in the Department of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology of the University of Torino. He is focusing his research in the field of anticancer drugs with particular interest to the problem of multi-drug resistance.

The title of Konstantin’s poster was “Multitarget drugs: NO-donor doxorubicins”. The major result presented in this work is the reversal of multitarget drug resistance in doxorubicin-resistant cell lines. The use of exogenous NO-donor molecules provoke the nitration of tyrosine residue of MDR pumps with consequent increase of doxorubicin accumulation and toxicity in HT29dx cell lines. The authors believe that NO-donor doxorubicins warrant further investigations in preclinical and clinical settings.

Momar Toure

Ph.D. student Momar Toure was the 2nd laureate at this meeting. He is completing his studies in the groups of Jean-Luc Parrain and Olivier Chuzel in the iSm2 laboratory at the University of Aix-Marseille.

Momar’s poster was on “Self-assembled calixborate macrocyclic anion receptors“. Well-designed macrocyclic calixborates incorporating imidazolium functinalities were synthesized in high yield. These new macrocycles display a high binding affinity for halides and oxoanions.

Congratulations to all 3 laureates!

A list of all previous NJC Poster Prize winners can be found here.

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Hot article: Highway to Gel

20 Dec 2012

By Laurent Vial, Assistant Editor.

In this NJC letter, Christine Gérardin-Charbonnier and co-workers (Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France) report a supramolecular hydrogel resulting from the mixture of a cationic pseudopeptide (beta-AlaHisC8) and lauric acid in water at pH 8.5. The subsequent thermo-responsive aggregate displays a lamellar structure, which is stabilized by strong intermolecular hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic interactions.

This hydrogel could be a promising candidate for original biocompatible formulations in cosmetics or pharmaceuticals.

“A supramolecular hydrogel based on an original pseudopeptidic catanionic surfactant”

Firmin Obounou Akong, Andreea Pasc, Mélanie Emo and Christine Gérardin-Charbonnier

New J. Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40960G.

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NJC at the first ERC Grantees Conference

11 Dec 2012

By Denise Parent, Managing Editor.

Frontier Research in Chemistry was the theme of this first conference gathering winners of ERC grants from the first 5 years of the program. A young researcher from the ENS in Paris working on proteo-liposomes won the NJC Poster Prize.

I attended the first ERC Grantees Conference at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last month, to hear about the research of recent winners of ERC starting and advanced grants in chemistry. The conference was proposed and organized by two chemists at the Institut Charles Sadron of Strasbourg: Nicolas Giuseppone and Jean-François Lutz.

The first two days began with plenary lectures by Jean-Marie Lehn and Ben Feringa, sponsored by Angewandte Chemie (Wiley) and NJC (RSC), respectively. The presentations by 24 grantees of the 2007–2011 grant period were strongly oriented towards complex systems, both chemical and biological.

European Research Council officials were also on hand to present the grants program and give an update on what to expect in the coming proposal period.

Conference participants board the sightseeing boat in front of the European Parlement that will take them to the conference dinner.

On Friday evening, a boat ride on the Ill river flowing through the center of Strasbourg took participants to the conference dinner held at the historic Maison Kammerzell, next to the cathedral.

The next morning, the younger participants eagerly awaited the announcement of the four poster prizes, provided by three scientific publishers (Nature, Wiley and the RSC for NJC). Dr Yan-Jun Liu, a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Damien Baigl (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) won the NJC prize. Her poster was entitled “High-yield preparation of proteo-liposomes: a synthetic biology approach”.

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Three new members named to the NJC Editorial Board

NJC Poster prize winners at E-WISPOC 2013

NJC’s February issue published

NJC’s new Associate Editor is from Brazil

Meet Our Authors from the January 2013 Issue of NJC

New Journal of Chemistry issue 1 now online

Photocurrent response of strontium titanate films decorated with carbon quantum dots

The last of 2012’s NJC Poster Prize winners

Hot article: Highway to Gel

NJC at the first ERC Grantees Conference

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