ChemComm is delighted to invite nominations for the very first ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship. The lectureship, which will be awarded annually, will recognise an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. Deadline for nominations: 28th February 2011. Visit the ChemComm blog for more information.
Soft Matter is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the Soft Matter Lectureship 2011. This annual lectureship was established by the journal in 2009 to honour a younger scientist who has made a significant contribution to the soft matter field.
To be eligible for the Soft Matter Lectureship, the candidate should be in the earlier stages of their scientific career, typically within 15 years of attaining their doctorate or equivalent degree, and will have made a significant contribution to the field.
The recipient of the lectureship will be asked to present a lecture three times, one of which will be located in the home country of the recipient. The Soft Matter Editorial Office will provide the sum of £1000 to the recipient for travel and accommodation costs.
The recipient will be presented with a certificate at one of the three lectures. They will also be asked to contribute a lead article to the journal and will have their work showcased on the back cover of the issue in which their article is published.
The recipient of the lectureship will be selected and endorsed by the Soft Matter Editorial Board.
Those wishing to make a nomination should send details of the nominee, including a brief C.V. (no longer than 2 pages A4) together with a letter (no longer than 2 pages A4) supporting the nomination, to the Soft Matter Editorial Office by 18 February 2011. Self nomination is not permitted.
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The outside front cover features a review on Imaging and manipulation of single viruses by atomic force microscopy written by M. Baclayon, G. J. L. Wuite and W. H. Roos, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The paper featured on the inside front cover is Body-centered cubic phase in 3-arm star mesogens: a torsional tapping AFM and GISAXS study by Goran Ungar and co-workers at University of Sheffield, UK, Seoul National University, South Korea, and Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
The issue also includes a mammoth 5 Hot Articles:
Read the full issue here: Soft Matter issue 21, 2010
We are delighted to welcome Christos Likos to the Soft Matter Editorial Board. Christos Likos is Professor of Multiscale Computational Physics at the Faculty Physics, University of Vienna, Austria.
Christos’ current research interests include theoretical and computational physics of soft condensed matter. In particular the Likos group focuses on coarse-graining, structure and dynamics of complex fluids, solutions of colloidal particles and macromolecular aggregates.
A polymer that changes shape in response to a variety of temperatures could be used in a wide range of applications from temperature sensors to weather-responsive public art scientists claim.
Indents viewed using polar optical microscopy disappear on heating
Polymers that return to a previous conformation after stimulation are called shape memory polymers. Normally they have one critical temperature where the shape change begins and a different shape memory polymer is needed get responses at different temperatures. Now a team led by Patrick Mather at Syracuse University in the US has overcome this problem. ‘You can use one material with one base formulation’ says Mather. ‘It’s the first time that someone’s graded the response of a shape memory polymer.’
To view the full Highlights in Chemical Technology article, please click here: Shape memory polymers get graded
A functionally graded shape memory polymer
Andrew M. DiOrio, Xiaofan Luo, Kyung Min Lee and Patrick T. Mather, Soft Matter, 2010
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00487a
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