Vincent Poon, a PhD student in Christophe Corre’s group, has attended Parliament to present his research on exploiting soil bacteria to unlock the production of novel antibiotics. Vincent presented to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of SET for Britain on Monday 9th March.

For further information about the event, please visit http://www.setforbritain.org.uk/.

Other colleagues were nominated for an award and enjoyed the opportunity of celebrating with Sharon.

Congratulations to Sharon Udall who won the first ever Warwick unsung hero staff award.

Congratulations to James Silk who won the Salters’ Graduate Prize at their Annual Awards Ceremony.

PhD student David Burnett from Richard Walton’s group was awarded best poster prize at the International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association conference held in Bordeaux October 26-29^th. His poster, "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Doped RuO₂ Materials", concerned new synthetic routes to conducting oxide materials.

Congratulations to all our graduands, who are receiving their degrees today.

All staff, colleagues and friends from the Department look forward to this occasion and the opportunity to celebrate your achievements with you and your guests on such a memorable day.

We wish you well and many congratulations on your success!

Congratulations to all our graduands, who are receiving their degrees today.

All staff, colleagues and friends from the Department look forward to this occasion and the opportunity to celebrate your achievements with you and your guests on such a memorable day.

We wish you well and many congratulations on your success!

The 11^th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC11) is being hosted by the Department of Chemistry this week (8-11^th July). Monday 8^th July saw the visit of two Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. Professor Dan Shechtman, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Nobel Prize 2011) and Professor Sir Harry Kroto FRS, Florida State University, (Nobel Prize 1996) each gave a lecture to an audience of over 500 delegates from around the world.

TEDxWarwick 2013

Stefan Bon is an associate professor in Chemistry at Warwick, famously making the headlines in 2012 for halving the fat content of chocolate by replacing it with fruit juice. He studied Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Eindhoven and has a background in developing (living) radical polymerizations. Since 2005 Bon has become an international player in the area of polymer colloids, and continues to innovate in the area.

He is the founder of the BonLab, where the study of chemistry and physics of the assembly of molecular and/or colloidal entities into complex structures is conducted. This technology is applicable in everything from sensors and devices, coatings and adhesives, to food, personal care, agricultural and biological systems.

To watch the TEDx talk, click here.

Find out more about the BonLab at www.bonlab.info.

The O’Connor group has developed a computation which simultaneously doubles the resolution, sensitivity and mass accuracy of Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry at no extra cost.

At a celebration lunch today, the achievements of the Warwick Chemistry Class of 2012 were recognised by the Department. This year's prize winners were:

Establishing an independent academic career is an exciting and challenging process. The data available for UK chemistry suggests that more women than men find the process not exciting enough or too challenging. A key aspect of success in any career path is finding role models, establishing networks, and being tapped into good sources of information. Our aim is therefore to create opportunities for all of these in the first (and subsequent) Irène Joliot-Curie conference.