On 20th June, the group were invited to Pat's house and gig at Birdingbury Club to witness the legendary Papa Roro play! Papa Roro, fronted by our very own Professor Patrick Unwin also contains several other members of WEIG, Rob Channon and Alexander Parker. Everyone who attended had a wonderful time!

 Members of the Warwick Electrochemistry and Interfaces group completed the Spring 10K Wolf Run together. The wolf run is a 10 k run, through rough terrain and obstacles designed to encourage teamwork and test endurance. Congratulations everyone!

Congratulations to Emma Ravenhill who received the best poster prize a the WE-heraeus-Seminar, Electrochemical Surface Science on the 18th-22nd of January in Germany. The poster was on the "Use of chemical force microscopy to understand nanoparticle-substrate interations in electrochemical collisions. "

Congratulations to Zoë Ayres for winning the "Early Career Researcher Prize" at WWEM 2014. The aim of the SWIG Early Career Researcher Prize for Sensing the Water Environment is to raise awareness of technological development and novel applications related to water measurements and thereby promote innovation in sensor research and commercial application. The competition is run every two years and is open to all ‘early career researchers’ within the first 4 years of employment within their area of expertise.

The national competition required the submission of a poster summarising PhD research and 3 entries were selected for the finals. The 3 finalists then had to give a talk on their research which was judged by a panel of industry professionals. Zoë, who's research is sponsored by Element Six, was awarded with first prize for her research on Electrochemical X-ray Fluorescence, with second prize going to Gary Black of Cranfield University for his work on "Developmnent of a biological early warning system: In-sewer on-line toxicity detection", and third prize going to Brendan Heery from Dublin University for his work on "Metabolism based fluorescence assay and portable device for E.coli quantification in recreational waters".

The recent paper "Surface Charge Mapping with a Nanopipette" published in JACS by the group has been featured in the latest C & EN (Chemical and Engineering) News, "Expanding The Capabilities of Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy". The paper explores the power of a nanopipette when combined with SICM, showing that simultaneously both surface charge mapping and topographical data can be conducted. This has vast implications in a variety of different research areas including cell biology and material characterisation where understanding the surface charge is of key importance.