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Congratulations to the poster prize winners at the 2012 AIChE Annual Meeting, Emerging Areas in Polymer Science and Engineering.

The two winners were Saber Naserifar (University of Southern California) and Xiao Wang (University of Akron). Both winners won a years online subscription to Soft Matter.

Saber Naserifar – “Simulations of the Pyrolysis of Hydridopolycarbosilane (HPCS) Polymer Using Reactive Force Fields”

Xiao Wang – “Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes / Syndiotactic Polystyrene Composite Aerogels”

The 2012 AIChE Annual Meeting was held October 28 – November 2, 2012 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, USA.

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Congratulations to the poster prize winners at the 9^th International Gel Symposium 2012!

The four joint winners were Tasuku Nakajima (Hokkaido University), Xiang Li (The University of Tokyo), Eri Kawamura (Tokyo University of Science) and Shinji Sugiura (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) (not pictured). Each winner won a year’s online subscription to either Soft Matter, Journal of Materials Chemistry or Polymer Chemistry. The Biomaterials Science winner won a free copy of ‘Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World’ by John Emsley from RSC books.

From left to right:  Eri Kawamura, Xiang Li and Tasuku Nakajima.

Tasuku Nakajima (Soft Matter winner)
“A Universal “Molecular Stent” Method to Toughen any Hydrogels Based on Double Network Concept”

Xiang Li (Polymer Chemistry winner)
“Application of Tetra-PEG gel as a high-performance separation medium for biomolecules”

Eri Kawamura (Journal of Materials Chemistry winner)
“Electrophoretic adhesion of stimuli-responsive hydrogels utilizing polyion complex and segmental entanglement of polymers”

Shinji Sugiura (Biomaterials Science winner)
“Cell Micropatterning and Manipulation on Photodegradable Hydrogel Sheet”

The 9^th International Gel Symposium was held  9^th – 12^th October in Tsukuba, Japan.

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Congratulations to the Soft Matter Poster Prize winners at Pierre-Gilles de Gennes school Physics of Cells: From Soft to Living Matter conference.

The three joint winners were Philipp Khuc Trong (University of Cambridge, UK), Callen Hyland (Yale University, USA) and Rabea Sandman (University of Goettingen, Germany).

From left to right: Philipp Khuc Trong, Callen Hyland and Rabea Sandman

Philipp Khuc Trong

Poster title: Coupling of active motion and advection shapes intracellular cargo transport

Callen Hyland

Poster title: Substrate-dependent traction force in regenerating neurons

Rabea Sandman

Poster title: Surface structure influences blood platelet behavior

The Pierre-Gilles de Gennes school Physics of Cells: From Soft to Living Matter was held 2^nd – 4^th September in Hyeres, France.

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Well done to Eric Appel (University of Camrbidge, UK), Kosai Al Khateb (University of Reading, UK) and Mellany Ramaekers (Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands) for winning the Soft Matter poster prizes at the Polymeric and Self-Assembled Hydrogels 2012 conference held at King’s College London, UK. (more…)

Congratulations to Dr. Michele Griffa for winning a Soft Matter poster prize at the conference ‘Micro-structure, setting and aging of cement: from soft-matter physics to sustainable materials.’

His winning poster was titled “Nonlinear Mesoscopic Elasticity and microstructural developments in cement-based materials due to micro-damage processes”.

Dr. Michele Griffa works at the Concrete and Construction Chemistry Laboratory Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology.