Congratulations to Anatolii Cuharuc, who won the groups bimonthly image competition for June/July with his submission 'Microcosm'. The runner-up prize was awarded to Eleni Bitziou, for her submission '2012 - A Diamond Year'. All submissions can be viewed here.

Another paper by the group featured as an inside back cover of the high-impact journal Angewandte Chemie. In this Communication, high-resolution electrochemical imaging, micro-Raman, and electron-microscopy data revealed heterogeneous electron-transfer (HET) kinetics correlate directly with the local density of electronic states in boron-doped diamond.

Once again the group performed strongly at the Midland Electrochemistry Group (MEG) meeting held at University of Birmingham in June. James won an award for the best talk ‘Electrochemical and Spectroscopic properties of boron doped diamond’. Barak and Hui also walked away with 1^st prize in the poster competition for their work on ‘Visualising single grain activity on polycrystalline Pt’.

Congratulations to Rehab who won the best poster prize at the 4^th European Conference of Crystal Growth (ECCG4) held in Glasgow, Scotland

Participation at the two caste run is an annual event in the group. The ten kilometre run between Warwick and Kenilworth castles left Pat, Aleix, and Lucy slightly out of breath but they all reached the finish at very respectable times…well done to you all!