Soft Matter Blog

Congratulations to Hiro Takahashi (Tokyo University of Science) for winning a Soft Matter poster prize at 12th Australia-Japan Colloid and Interface Science Symposium. The title of Takahashi’s winning poster was: ‘Electrochemical Control of Spontaneous Vesicle Formation in Aqueous Solutions of Single tailed Ferrocenyl Surfactant’.

Two runners up prizes were awarded to Masafumi Nakaya (Tohoku University) for “Randon Dope of transition Metal Ion into CdS nanoparticles in Zincblende Phase and their Magnetic Properties” and Shinya Nakano (Tohoku University) for “Synchrotron X-ray Diffiaction Study of Liquid Crystal Nano-Films Confined between Mica Surfaces”

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Congratulations to Ana West (Emory University) for winning a Soft Matter poster prize at International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials. The title of Ana’s winning poster was: ‘Effects of Defects on Stress Relaxation in Self-Assembled Protein Networks’. 

Ryan Hensarling (The University of Southern Mississippi) won a Polymer Chemistry poster prize at International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials for his poster ‘Efficient Post-polymerization Surface Modification Utilizing Pendant Thiol Polymer Brushes’ and Jake Ray (The University of Southern Mississippi) won the Journal of Materials Chemistry poster prize.

From left to right: Jake Ray, Ana West and Ryan Hensarling.

The International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials was held 24th – 26th October 2011 at The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA.

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Congratulations to Niels Boon, Labrini Athanasopoulou & Aurélie Papon for winning the Soft Matter poster prizes at the 8th Liquid Matter Conference 2011.  

Pictured left to right: Aurélie Papon, Niels Boon, Labrini Athanasopoulou.

The titles of the winning posters were:

“Blue energy” from ion adsorption and electrode charging in sea- and river water
Niels Boon, Utrecht University
co-author: Rene van Roij

Stability of ordered soft disks through linear theory of elasticity
Labrini Athanasopoulou, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
co-author: Primoz Ziherl

Gradient of glass transition in nanocomposites : evidence by NMR and scanning differential calorimetry
Aurélie Papon, ESPCI, Paris
co-authors: Helene Montes, Laurent Guy, Kay Saalwachter, Francois Lequeux

The 8th Liquid Matter Conference 2011 was held 6-10th September 2011, at Universität Wien in Wien, Austria.

Congratulations to Jason Morvan (Kent State University, USA) for winning the Soft Matter poster prize at the 13th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals.  

Jason Morvan’s winning poster was entitled “Electro-mechanical response of electro-spum polylactic acid fibers dispersed with ferroelectric barium titanate nanoparticles”

Jason Morvan with his winning poster

 Nélida Gimeno (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) won a Journal of Materials Chemistry poster prize for her poster “Liquid Crystalline Janus-type co-dendrimers based on bent-core units“.

The 13th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals was held 29th August  – 2nd September at Niagara Falls, Canada.

Congratulations to Rona Chandrawati from The University of Melbourne, Australia, for winning a Soft Matter poster prize at ESF-EMBO Symposium: Biological Surfaces and Interfaces held at Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.

The title of Chandrawati’s winning poster was: Capsosomes: Enzyme-Loaded Liposomal Subcompartments within Polymer Carrier Capsules.

Congratulations to Nicholas Ballard from the University of Warwick for winning the Soft Matter poster prize at the 13th European Student Colloid Conference (14th–17th June, 2011).

Nicholas in front of his winning poster.