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 Zoe Ayres for winning a poster prize in the #RSCAnalyticalPoster competition. The competition was based on twitter, getting global interest, with the aim of creating a poster that succinctly summarised an application of method in analytical science. The competition attracted significant interest with > 1k tweets to an audience of >300 k. Zoe's poster was based on Electrochemical x-ray fluorescence.

Congratulations to Warwick's Sarah-Jane Richards (right) from Dr Matt Gibson's group who also won a prize.

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. "

Prof. Sam Kounaves from Tufts University, USA visited the department on 24th November to talk about his work with NASA and the Phoenix Mars mission. The talk was titled: “The New Surface Chemistry of Mars: Implications for Habitability and Organics”​.

The talk presented the results of the in-situ martian soil analyses by the electrochemically-based Wet Chem Lab (WCL) on the Phoenix lander and the GC-MS instruments on the Curiosity rover. This was inspiring as Kounaves showed the use of electrochemistry as a tool for getting important information from other planets.