News

Peter Sadler and the other Plenary Lecturers were called upon to ‘paint the dragon’ at the Asian Coordination Chemistry Conference (ACCC5) held in Hong Kong from 12-16 July 2015

In research led by PhD student Jess Hearn and post-doc Isolda Romero, Peter Sadler’s group has reported in PNAS an organo-osmium anticancer compound with an unusual mechanism of action that is 49x more active than the clinical drug cisplatin in 809 cancer cell lines

http://www.targetedonc.com/articles/more-powerful-than-cisplatin-preclinical-cancer-drug-study-shows

Dr Matthew Gibson has been awarded the 2015 'PAT Young Talent Award' during the 13th Polymers for Advanced Technologies conference in HongZhou, China. The award is sponsered by Wiley and Polymers for Advanced Technologies and also ACS Materials and Interfaces. Matt was selected by a panel following lectures from the shortlisted candidates from around the world, after being nominated.

Many congratulations to Paul Kerby for the Waldner Teaching Prize

Many congratulations to Azzedine Dabo for the Waldner Teaching Prize

Congratulations to Jon Rourke for the Andrew McCamley Teaching Award

Congratulations to Vas Stavros who is highly commended at this year’s Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence

Józef Lewandowski was awarded Anatole Abragam Prize of International Society of Magnetic Resonance "for his outstanding accomplishments to date and his promise in the development of solid-state NMR methodology and its application to the study of biomolecular structure and dynamics." The prize will be presented during ISMAR Conference in Shanghai.

Anish Mistry (supervisor: David Fox) is a finalist in the Three Minute Thesis competition being held this afternoon as part of the Postgraduate Research Showcase: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/scs/pgr/opportunities/showcase

Warwick Chemistry took part in the 2015 Cheltenham Festival of Science with hands-on demonstrations by Nick Barker and helpers, and a lecture by Matt Gibson.

ACS Nano has highlighted new work from Warwick on graphene electrochemistry in its "In Nano" section ('Living on the Edge for Graphene and Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite'), featuring the most important work in the journal. Led by Dr. Aleix Guell and Prof. Patrick Unwin, the team employed the unique Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy (SECCM) technique - invented at Warwick - to highlight how the number of graphene layers and graphene edges influenced electrochemical activity; and, further, how any differences in activity depended on the redox mediator and the electronic band structure of the different characteristic graphene and graphite structural motifs. With this work, the Warwick Electrochemistry and Interfaces Group has brought definitive new insights that help to reveal the complex and exciting world of graphene electrochemistry, contributing major understanding on the electrochemical activity of sp2 carbons, which are finding increasing use for energy and sensing applications.

Redox-Dependent Spatially Resolved Electrochemistry at Graphene and Graphite Step Edges

Aleix G. Güell *, Anatolii S. Cuharuc , Yang-Rae Kim , Guohui Zhang , Sze-yin Tan , Neil Ebejer , and Patrick R. Unwin *

Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (4), pp 3558–3571

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00550

The Postgraduate Symposium took place on Wednesday 27th May 2015.

Full details including the programme and a list of prizewinners are here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/chemintra/postgrad/phdinfo/postgraduatesymposium/postgraduatesymposium2015