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Dr Ross Hatton awarded £1.15M Research Fellowship
The Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have awarded an Early Career Research Fellowship to Ross Hatton to develop electrodes for the emerging generation of photovoltaics (PVs)
Organic heteroepitaxy demonstrated by the Jones group in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
Dr. Luke Rochford and Dr. Alex Ramadan from Prof Tim Jones' group, in collaboration with Dr. Sandrine Heutz (Imperial college london) and Prof. Phil Woodruff (Warwick Physics), publish a study of the formation of ordered heteroepitaxial organic films in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
Ordered growth of vanadyl phthalocyanine (VOPc) on an iron phthalocyanine (FePc) monolayer
Dan Warr wins departmental Art and Photography competition 2015
Congratulations to Dan Warr (Costantini group), winner of our annual Art and Photography Competition, with his entry "Molecular triangles".
Bethany Dean wins Award to Present Science in Australia
A Warwick Chemistry undergraduate researcher, Bethany Dean has won an award to allow her to travel to Australia (!) to attend the ICUR undergraduate reserach conference . She will present the work she conducted in the GibsonGroup
on understanding how synthetic polymers affect ice nucleation - A process which is still not understood despite its obvious important in process from cloud formation, to cryopreservation to making ice cream!
Read her paper on this topic here (with another undergrad student, Jamie Kasperczak-Wright);
Ross Jaggers invited to the Stonewall Young Leaders Programme
Ross Jaggers, a second year PhD student in the research group of prof.dr.ir. Stefan Bon (BonLab) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, has been invited to attend the Stonewall Young Leaders Programme in London this coming September. The programme, sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, explores how sexual orientation and gender identity relates to the workplace and career aspirations, as well as inspiring participants to think about their impact on others as young LGBT leaders and role models.
For more information on Stonewall, the UK’s leading LGBT rights charity, visitwww.stonewall.org.uk.
Corinna Preuss awarded Newton International Fellowship
Dr Corinna Preuss has been awarded a Newton International Fellowship to conduct research at the University of Warwick’s Department of Chemistry.
Jointly run by The British Academy, The Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society, the Fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and provides the opportunity for the best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world to work at UK research institutions for a period of two years.
Speaking after being awarded the Fellowship Dr Preuss said:
“I’m very honoured and delighted to be awarded the Newton International Fellowship. Not only will it support my personal development but is also emphasises the novelty and importance of our proposed research project.”
Dr Preuss will work as part of a team led by Professor Stefan Bon to mimic the motional behaviour of zooplankton by fabricating artificial jelly-objects that have the capability to transform shape, swim, and – as an additional feature – release payloads. Dr Preuss says these hydrogel objects will have these three pre-programmed functions “which can be triggered on demand in a controlled fashion”. For this purpose, recent scientific advances in polymer and colloid chemistry will be merged with soft matter physics and robotics in order to create a promising and interdisciplinary research program
Further to the research with Professor Bon, Dr Preuss is keen to use the Fellowship to teach undergraduate chemists and to create a network with other fellow scientists, saying that: “In my opinion, exchanging knowledge and listening to different opinions is essential for the formation of a highly efficient scientific society”.
Discussing why she chose the University of Warwick Dr Preuss said:
“I met Professor Stefan Bon during a conference in Mexico. I was impressed by his research and the passion he presented it with. Later on, whilst I was presenting my research at the poster session, we got the chance to chat more and discovered that our interests in each other’s research would create a promising base for a further collaboration. In working with Stefan and coming to the University of Warwick, I’m taking the chance of changing my field of research to colloidal chemistry and engineering, which provides a new, challenging and fascinating area for me”.
2 September 2015
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Congratulations to Richard Walton
Congratulations to Richard Walton who has been awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Johnson Matthey.
Cryopreservation in Chemistry World
A recent paper by the GibsonGroup in Chem Commun has been highlighted in the RSC Magazine 'Chemistry World'. The Gibson Group have a research program focussed on mimicking the function of Antifreeze Proteins which are found in Polar fish species. These proteins can slow the rate of ice growth, which has been identified as a challenge in the cryopreservation of donor cells and tissue for transplantation. In this work they showed a facile route to new cryoprotective polymers, using cheap, commodity polymer starting materials. These polymers were shown to have ice growth inhibition activity and to signficantly reduce the ice-induced damage during red blood cell freeze/thaw storage. In a second paper, the group also reported signficantly enhanced cryopreservation using poly(vinyl alcohol).
Read the Chemistry World article here
Read the Chemical Communications article here; Rational, yet simple, design and synthesis of an antifreeze-protein inspired polymer for cellular cryopreservation
Read our recent ACS Biomaterials Science and Enginneering paper here Glycerol Free Cryopreservation of Red Blood Cells Enabled by Ice Recrystallization Inhibiting Polymers
Highlight of Diamond Science
Work performed in Richard Walton’s group has been selected as a Research Highlight in the Diamond Light Source Annual Review for 2014-2015. In this work, carried out by PhD student Craig Hiley, the structures of three new metastable ruthenium oxides were determined in a collaborative project between Warwick and sustainable technology company Johnson Matthey. Ruthenium oxides are used in electro-catalysis for water oxidation and reduction, in heterogeneous catalysis, and are also of interest for their electronic and magnetic properties
Award for Peter
Professor Hong Liang, President of Guangxi Normal University, presents an award to Peter Sadler after his Plenary Lecture to the International Symposium on Medicinal Bioinorganic Chemistry, held in Guilin, China, on 18 July 2015.
THE - The postdoc experience: hopes and fears
Read Elena Riva's published interview in the THE
https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/the-postdoc-experience-hopes-and-fears?page=0%2C2
ISIS award for James Crosland
James Crosland, one of Peter Sadler’s tutees, has won an award during his placement at ISIS this year. James was presented with an Individual Staff Recognition Award for the category Those Who ‘Go the Extra Mile', specifically ‘for carrying out additional duties and becoming more involved in direct user support, coordinated user visits, discussing user requirements, providing user training, and running experiments on behalf of users.’ (Users being those making use of the kit/facilities across the support laboratories and neutron beamtime).