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Warwick Chemists Dr. Luke Rochford and Mr. Phil Blowey are featured on the back cover of Chemical Science Link for their work on quantitive measurement of the surface 'trans' effect Link

Dr. Luke Rochford and Prof. Tim Jones, in collaboration with Dr. Christian Nielsen (QMUL), demonstrate crystal structure control in C60 thin films in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Link

A part of an ongoing Warwick and Monash effort on studying photoactivatable metal-based anticancer prodrugs using vibrational spectroscopic techniques has recently been published in Inorganic Chemistry.

Warwick-Monash joint-PhD student, Robbin Vernooij, presents some of the main findings of their recent work, in a format called LiveSlides by ACS, in order to engage readers in a new way:

LiveSlide Presentation

As previously communicated Emeritus Professor Malcom Wallbridge sadly passed away recently. The family have asked us to communicate details of his funeral.

Professor Malcolm G H Wallbridge FRSC

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Warwick

9 May 1933 – 7 June 2016

Funeral: Canley Crematorium, Coventry, 21 June 1.30pm

Further details: A J Lloyd 02476 331900

followed by a reception at Scarman House at 3pm.

A comprehensive obituary is to be published in due course

Sadly Professor Malcolm Wallbridge passed away on Tuesday this week.

Malcolm was one of our first Professors at Warwick and really shaped the Department in its early years and throughout its growth in the 1990’s. His influence on what we do today is great. He was responsible for shaping both Inorganic and Polymer Chemistry at Warwick as it is today as well as an even more wider contribution as Head of Department. The Department would be a very different place without his considerable influence.

His wife and son are making funeral arrangements and a wake will be held in Scarman House on Tuesday 21st June – the department will have more details in due course.

Malcolm will be sadly missed.

Andrew won this honor in recognition of his exceptional contributions to development of synthetic methodologies for degradable polymer materials with exquisitely-tuned structures, stereochemistries and functionalities, and with compositions that are sustainable. His co-awardee is Cyrille Boyer of the University of New South Wales.

Prestigious RSC awards for Prof. Rachel O'Reilly, Dr Józef Lewandowski and PhD student Zoe Ayres.

Congratulations to Lynne Bayley who recently gave birth to a Baby Boy. The latest addition to the department is Miles Harrison Bayley. We wish Lynne and her family all the very best.

Research carried out on solvothermal crystallisation of metal-organic frameworks is published as a science highlight at Diamond Light Source.

The work was carried out by Richard Walton in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and from National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. Using high energy X-rays at Diamond Light Source, the UK synchrotron radiation facility, it has proved possible to penetrate solvothermal reaction vessels and measure high resolution powder diffraction data during the formation of extended solid structures, such as metal organic frameworks. This has provided unprecedented information about the formation mechanism of these topical materials, including direct observation of phase transformation and exchange of solvent within porous structures during chemical reaction.

The work has been published in two papers in the journal Angewandte Chemie in the past few months:

In situ observation of successive crystallizations and metastable intermediates in the formation of metal-organic frameworks. Angew Chem Int Ed. 2016. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201508763.

Exchange of Coordinated Solvent During Crystallisation of a Metal–Organic Framework Observed by In Situ High Energy X-ray Diffraction. Angew Chem Int Ed. (2016) DOI: 10.1002/anie.201600896.

The science highlight article is linked here:

http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Science/Research/Highlights/2016/I12-MOF-formation.html

An antibody that senses one enantiomer of plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is characterised and published by Marsh and Napier groups in Chemistry and Life Sciences in PLOS ONE.

Warwick in Africa is a project delivering big results in Maths and English teaching in secondary schools in Tanzania, Ghana and South Africa. Nick Barker and Vas Stavros recently held a night of Molecular Mayhem and Chemical Chaos all in an effort to raise funds for Warwick in Africa. The lecture was a great success and raised over £800. Congratulations to all involved.

Medherant's painkiller patches have now been showcased in a recent Royal Society publication: 'Translating Innovation'. See page 22 of:

https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/topics/industry-innovation/case-studies/DES4113_Translating%20innovation%20booklet_web.pdf?la=en-GB