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Congratulations to Poster Prizewinners at The 2019 Graham Lecture and Symposium

17 Jul 2019

Soft Matter was proud to sponsor 3 Poster Prizes at the recent Graham Lecture and Symposium, which took place in London on the 9th July and focused on the industrial and interdisciplinary applications of suspensions. Speakers presented on a wide range of applications, including ice cream, ceramics and paint, and on interdisciplinary topics, such as volcanoes. The awards were presented by Andrew Walton from Malvern Panalytical.

Ben Guy receives his award from Andrew Walton (Malvern Panalytical)

Rory O’Neill (University of Edinburgh) receives his award from Andrew Walton (Malvern Panalytical)

Soichiro Makino (University of Edinburgh) receives his award from Andrew Walton (Malvern Panalytical)

Congratulations to all three prize winners!

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Congratulations to the Soft Matter Poster Prizewinners at the 3rd Edwards Symposium

14 Sep 2018

The Edwards Symposium series is a series of annual conferences on soft matter research areas, run as a collaboration between the Turing Gateway to Mathematics, Unilever and the Edwards Centre for Soft Matter. This year’s symposium focused on microscale fluid dynamics, jamming and flow, soft interfaces and responsive and programmable soft matter. One hundred delegates attended the symposium representing both academia and industry.

Soft Matter was proud to sponsor three poster prizes, presented by Professor Tom McLeish (University of York). All winners will receive a subscription to the journal and affiliate membership to the Royal Society of Chemistry for one year.

Shari Patricia Finner (Eindhoven University of Technology) won for her poster presentation titled Conducting Plastics! – Geometric percolation in liquid crystals

Surabhi Kottgegollahalli (IISER Pune) won for her poster presentation titled Computing with Droplets

Deepika Srivastva (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) won for her poster presentation titled Flow Behaviour of Chain and Star Polymers and their Mixtures.

Award winners at the 3rd Edwards Symposium

From left to right Deepika Srivastva, Professor Tom McLeish, Shari Patricia Finner and Surabhi Kottgegollahalli

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Congratulations to Soft Matter Prizewinners at Polymer Gels Symposium

18 Jan 2018

The 29th Society of Polymer Science Japan (SPSJ) – Research Group on Polymer Gels Symposium was held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology on the 11th & 12th January. Soft Matter was proud to sponsor two awards at this symposium and both winners will receive one years free subscription to Soft Matter!

Takumi Watanabe (Shinshu University) won the Soft Matter Presentation Award for his presentation titled ‘Polystyrene-Composited Microgels Prepared in the Presence on Polyelectrolyte Microgels’.

Takeshi Fujiyabu (The University of Tokyo) won the Soft Matter Poster Award, for his Poster Presentation titled ‘Comparison of Three Diffusion Coefficients Describing Dynamics of Polymer Gel’.

Prof Furukawa with Soft Matter award winners Takumi Watanabe and Takeshi Fujiyabu

Prof Furukawa (central) with Soft Matter award winners Takumi Watanabe (left) and Takeshi Fujiyabu (right)

Congratulations to both Award Winners!

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Congratulations to Soft Matter Award Winners at IUMRS-ICAM 2017

11 Oct 2017

Soft Matter was proud to sponsor IUMRS-ICAM 2017, which took place this year in Kyoto, from the 27^th August to the 1^st of September. Over 1,200 oral presentations and 700 poster presentations were given across the 6-day conference.

There were 7 Soft Matter Award Winners, across 3 different sessions, focusing on ‘Soft Active Interfaces’, ‘Structure and Physical Properties of Polymers in Confined Systems’, and ‘Soft Matter Science and Technology – Revisit to Unsolved Problems and Challenges’.

Award Winners were;
NienTing Hsieh (Chung Yuan Christian University) for her Oral Presentation on ‘Molecular Design of a Dual-Functional Quaternary Amine Copolymer for Bacterial Reversible Self-Cleaning Control via Zwitterionic Counterion Activation’

NienTing Hsieh with Prof. Yung Chang (Supervisor)

Yoji Yamashita (Osaka City University) for his Poster Presentation on ‘Synthesis of Curable Hyperbranched Polymers Containing Dense Degradable Groups and Their Application to Degradable Cured Materials’

Yoji Yamashita with Prof. Eriko Sato (Supervisor)

Nozomi Arai (University of Kyoto) for his Poster Presentation on ‘Direct Observation and Modeling of Attachment Behavior of Colloid Particles on A Bubble Surface’

Nozomi Arai with Dr. Satoshi Watanabe

Dr. Yukari Oda (Kyushu University) for her Oral Presentation on ‘Interfacial Modifications of Thin Films by Preferential Segregation of Janus Macromolecules’

Dr. Yukari Oda

Dr. Keita Sakakibara (Kyoto University) for his Poster Presentation on ‘Preparation of High-Density Polyethylene Nanocomposites Well Reinforced by Cellulose Nanofiber Using Diblock Copolymer-type Dispersants’

Dr. Keita Sakakibara

Thanh-Tam Mai (Kyoto Institute of Technology) for his Oral Presentation on ‘Novel Features of the Mullins Effect in Filled Elastomers Revealed by Stretching Measurements in Various Geometries’

Thanh-Tam Mai with Prof. Kenji Urayama (supervisor)

Dr. Shohei Ida (The University of Shiga Prefecture) for his Poster Presentation on ‘Precision Synthesis of Controlled Telechelic PNIPAAm with Thiol-Termini for Construction of Homogeneous Network by Thiol-Ene End-Crosslinking’

Dr. Shohei Ida

Congratulations to all winners! We wish you the very best for the future.

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Congratulations to the Soft Matter award winners at GelSympo2017

13 Mar 2017

The 11th International Gel Symposium was held at Nihon University in Chiba, Japan last week, and Soft Matter would like to congratulate the following, who were awarded prizes for their poster presentations:

Ai Saito (Graduate School of Chem. Sci. and Eng., Hokkaido University)
Role of concentration of microtubule and a depletant in the emergence of collective motion of microtubules driven by kinesins

Gantumur Enkhtuul (Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University)
Cytocompatible hydrogelation through enzymatic cross-linking mediated by glucose and cysteine residues in the enzyme

Gargi Joshi (Energy and Environment Area, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Directional control of diffusion and swelling in hydrogels prepared from cyanobacterial exopolysaccharide

Kateryna Khairulina (School of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, The University of Tokyo)
Mobility of low molecular weight compounds in tetra-PEG-graphene oxide hydrogels

Koki Sano (Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo)
Ultralarge mechanical anisotropy of a hydrogel with aligned nanosheets

Michika Onoda (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
Artificial amoeba: Self-oscillating polymeric fluids with autonomous sol-gel transition

Takahiro Matsuda (Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University)
Mechanical stress triggers productive mechanochemical reactions in double network gels

Takuma Kureha (Graduate School of Textile Science & Technology, Shinshu University)
Selective adsorption of halide compounds from aqueous solution by poly(2-methoxyethylacrylate)-based hydrogel microspheres

Yasushi Shojima (Graduate School of Science, Osaka University)
Dissimilar solid materials binding with self-healable supramolecular materials through host-guest interaction

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Winners of the Soft Matter award at the Polymer Gel Symposium

09 Feb 2017

The 28th Symposium organized by the Research Group on Polymer Gels, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan was held on 16,17th January 2017, in Tokyo, Japan.

This is the third year in a row that Soft Matter supported this event, which has been continuously very well received.

The winners of the price will receive a free subscription to Soft Matter.

On the image, from the left

Prof. Hidemitsu Furukawa (Yamagata University) conference organizer

Kenta Honma (The University of Tokyo)

Dr. Ryota Tamate (The University of Tokyo)

The other winners were awarded other poster/presentation awards

Mr Honma’s poster was titled: “Micro Patterning of the Self-Oscillating Polymer Brush for Control of its Spatio-temporal Function”

Dr Tamate’s talk was titled: “Fabrication of self-oscillating colloidosomes undergoing cell-like complex shape oscillations”

Congratulations to all winners!

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Soft Matter Best Poster Prize awarded

05 Jan 2017

On behalf of the Soft Matter Editorial Board, with the help of jury members, we are delighted to announce Mr. Raj Kumar Manna, from Complex Fluid & Biological Physics Lab IIT Madras, India, as the winner of the “Best Poster Prize” by Soft Matter at ICSM 2016 for his poster on “Colloidal transport by active filaments”. Congratulations!

Mr. Raj Kumar Manna (front, left) receiving the prize from Prof. Holger Stark (front, right), Prof. Volker Abetz (back, right) and Dr. Kamlendra Awasthi (back middle)

The poster prize was awarded by Prof. Holger Stark (TU, Berlin Germany) along with Prof. Volker Abetz (HZG, Geesthacht, Germany) and Dr. Kamlendra Awasthi (University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India).

We would like to thank the organisers of ICSM 2016 for their collaboration with the award ceremony.

Please join us in congratulating Raj in his fantastic achievement!

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RSC Materials Chemistry Division Poster Symposium – final registration deadline

03 Nov 2016

RSC Materials Chemistry Division Poster Symposium

This is your last chance to attend RSC Materials Chemistry Division Poster Symposium as the final registration deadline is just a few days away. Be sure to register by 15 November 2016 to secure your place.

For full details of speakers and conference themes, please visit the event web page.

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Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC2017)

03 Nov 2016

3 – 6 April 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

Abstract Submission & Registration are now open!

The AERC meetings have seen an ever-growing number of delegates in the past years, and this year’s conference is expected to reach new heights.

With a cross-disciplinary organizing committee, the meeting caters for rheologists from every field of the science, from a variety of industrial applications to the topics of more academic interest. This year, AERC2017 will be jointly organized with the 26^th Nordic Rheology Conference. The Nordic conferences are organized annually, and offer an excellent platform for networking with old and new colleagues, and to newcomers to the field, thanks to its welcoming, informal and laid back atmosphere.

Scientific Sessions:

Rheology of powders and granular material
Food and biorheology
Interfacial rheology
Micro and nanorheology, microfluidics
Gels and self-assembled systems
Suspensions and colloids
Solids, glasses, and composites
Polymer solutions and melts
Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and fluid instabilities

A rheology course will be organized before the conference, on 3^rd April 2017, at the Technical University of Denmark. The venue can be easily reached using public transportation within approximately 40 minutes from the centre of Copenhagen.

Professor Dimitris Vlassopoulos

Soft Matter proudly sponsors this event: our Associate Editor Professor Dimitris Vlassopoulos will be delivering a poster prize.

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Soft Matter Prize Winners at the 27th Symposium of the Research Group on Polymer Gels

11 Feb 2016

Congratulations to Yuto Jochi and Nobuyuki Watanabe who both won Soft Matter sponsored prizes at the 27th Symposium of the Research Group on Polymer Gels, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan held at Tokyo University on 18–19 January 2016.

: From left to right: Royal Society of Chemistry Manager: Hiromitsu Urakami, Prize winner: Yuto Jochi and Chair: Takao Aoyagi

The Soft Matter Poster Award was won by Nobuyuki Watanabe (not pictured), who is based at Tokyo University of Science, for his poster Probe diffusion in Polymer Solution and Gels.

The Soft Matter Presentation Award was awarded to Yuto Jochi from Nagoya University for his presentation One-pot Synthesis of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Gels with Homogeneous Polymer Network Structure.

We thank Mr Watanabe and Mr Jochi for their excellent contributions and we look forward to hearing more about them in the future!

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