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The Gibson's group Cryopreservation research has been highlighted in an article in Chemical and Engineering News. The group are developing a range of macromolecules which mimic the function of antifreeze proteins, found in Polar fish species, which can slow the rate of ice crystal growth. The group have shown these unique polymers to enhance the cryopreservation of donor tissue/cells, particulary blood. (Image is ice crystals which are inhibited by the polymers)Read the article here (Login required) and also the Chemistry World Feature here(login required).

Read Popular Science (USA) article on this here or BBC TV story here.

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Members of the Jones’ group collaborate with the Department of Physics to publish work on ZnO electron extracting interlayers for organic photovoltaic cells in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

Richard Walton’s group have this week published a paper in Angewandte Chemie describing some new mixed oxides of ruthenium and iridium that show favourable properties for electrochemical oxygen evolution from water. The work was part of an ongoing collaboration with industrial partner Johnson Matthey, and involved further collaboration with electrochemistry colleagues at the University of Southampton and the electron microscopy group in Warwick. An important aspect of the work was the use of in situ X-ray spectroscopy at Diamond Light Source: this has allowed new insights into the mode of operation of these important materials for energy applications, showing cooperative redox behaviour of two metals in mixed oxides.

“Water-Splitting Electrocatalysis in Acid Conditions Using Ruthenate-Iridate Pyrochlores” K. Sardar, E. Petrucco, C.I. Hiley, J.D.B Sharman, P.P. Wells, A.E. Russell, R.J. Kashtiban, J. Sloan and R.I. Walton, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 53 (2014) 10960–10964. October 6^th 2014.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201406668/abstract

(Open Access publication)

Congratulations to the winner of “The Magic of Chemistry" Art & Photography Competition, Samantha Benson (PhD student in Tosin group), for her entry "Is it a cumulus? Is it a stratus? No! It's Streptomyces coelicolor!"

Supramolecular guanosine-borate hydrogels have been made and characterised in a collaboration led by Jeff Davis (University of Maryland) with Andrew Marsh (Chemistry) and Steven Brown (Physics). The physiologically compatible gels, published in Journal of the American Chemical Society are featured in a Spotlight article. Lead author Gretchen Peters and Jeff Davis will visit Warwick again, 17-21 November to further explore applications of the materials.

A warm welcome to Professor Philip Chan, who joins the Department from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In partnership with the Monash-Warwick Alliance, Professor Chan will take up the role of Professor of Sustainable Chemistry. In this role, he will be pursuing the development of new green and sustainable catalytic strategies for complex molecule synthesis and their potential applications in the fields of natural products and functional materials synthesis, and drug discovery.

Professor Tom Davis, one of Chemistry's joint appointments with Monash, has been awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship for an exciting new research project.

Robert Deller, in the GibsonGroup won the prize for the best poster at the 2014 RAPS Conference

Members of the Jones’ group, in collaboration with the Department of Physics, have published two studies. High voltage hybrid organic photovoltaic cells using ZnO and SubPc have been published in PCCP. The comparison of DMSO treatment methods for highly conductive PEDOT:PSS electrodes has been published in Organic Electronics.

Read all about it! Two papers in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) from the Warwick Electrochemistry and Interfaces Group. No ordinary accomplishment.

Helical arrays of small organic molecules around a core of Fe(II) ions act as highly potent and highly selective anticancer compounds. The work is published in Nature Chemistry.