Ross Jaggers and Stefan Bon from BonLab report in Materials Horizons the fabrication of hydrogel objects which can be individually programmed to uniquely respond to a shared external trigger, and have the ability to communicate with one another when in proximety.

Ross Jaggers and Stefan Bon from BonLab report in Materials Horizons the fabrication of hydrogel objects which can be individually programmed to uniquely respond to a shared external trigger, and have the ability to communicate with one another when in proximety.

Ross Jaggers and Stefan Bon from BonLab report in Materials Horizons the fabrication of hydrogel objects which can be individually programmed to uniquely respond to a shared external trigger, and have the ability to communicate with one another when in proximety.

For more information, see

https://warwickvolunteers.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/volunteering-with-chemsoc-outreach/

David Fox who spearheaded the project along with Anish Mistry in collaboration with IBM have synthesised and imaged a highly reactive molecule for the first time, Triangulene. It was first hypothesised in the 1950’s and ever since, chemists have struggled to synthesise it until now.

Triangulene, a triangular fragment of graphene which contains two radicals is predicted to have desirable properties for electronic devices. For more information see the article attached.

http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano.2016.305.html

Warwick is privileged to attract high fliers. To reward hard work and promote outstanding achievement in Chemistry, we are proud to offer scholarships of up to £1000 for our top performing students. These are available to every UK and EU student that chooses us as their first choice and achieves A* at A Level Chemistry, or 7 in higher Level Chemistry, and excels in their other subjects too.

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I am pleased to be able to write to you with the news that we have appointed Professor Mike Ward from the University of Sheffield as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and new Head of Department from 1^st August 2017 (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profiles/michael_ward ). We are really looking forward to having Professor Ward with us. In the meantime, I will be taking over as interim Head of Department from the end of this term (from 10^th December). I would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Alison Rodger for her leadership and hard work for over 20 years at Warwick and wish her all the best when she moves to Australia in the new year.

Martin Wills

Solar energy research by Hatton and Walton groups published in Nature Energy.

A breakthrough in solar power could make it cheaper and more commercially viable, thanks to research at the University of Warwick. For more information see the article attached.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/solar_power_could/

Collaborative work between the Blindauer group and the teams of Prof. Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), Dr Maksymilian Chruszcz (University of South Carolina) and Dr Alan Stewart (University of St. Andrews) has been highlighted in a press release entitled “Here’s How Your Body Transports Zinc to Protect Your Health“.

This relates to a recent joint publication which reports the first X-ray crystal structures of human and equine serum albumins bound to zinc. Serum albumin is the major carrier of zinc in the blood and is required for the effective systemic distribution of this essential nutrient. The new findings are published in the RSC journal Chemical Science. Full text of the open-access article is available here.

Congratulations to Professor Julie MacPherson who has been named on the 2016 Top 50 Women in Analytical Science Power List.

https://theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/the-power-list-2016/

Dr Joanna Collingwood has been awarded a £418k grant at the September 2016 EPSRC Physical Sciences Panel. The three-year project includes Professor Peter Sadler and Professor Peter O’Connor from Warwick Chemistry as co-investigators (/pictured/). The award is made alongside an award of £338k to collaborator and Principal Investigator Dr Neil Telling at Keele University, for the joint project “Nanoscale metallomics and mineralization: advanced spectromicroscopy determination of the role of iron and calcium in Alzheimer's disease”. This project area became especially topical in the autumn when new research suggested that air pollution may cause the accumulation of iron oxide nanoparticles in the human brain, a question which made front-page news internationally, and on which Drs Collingwood and Telling were invited to comment:

http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-magnetite-air-pollution-and-alzheimers/

The EPSRC project grant will increase the impact that the team can deliver in this field, it ensures that Dr James Everett (currently a postdoctoral researcher in Dr Collingwood’s group in the School of

Engineering) can continue making a significant contribution in this specialist area, and it will support recruitment of an additional experienced postdoctoral researcher to the collaborator team. A summary of the project is available here:

http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/N033140/1

Congratulation to Samantha Roberts and her family on the slightly early but safe arrival of their baby boy. Introducing Daniel Roberts. We wish you all well.