Congratulations to Amy for winning best poster prize at the departmental postgraduate symposium for her 3D poster on “Quantitative Plane-Resolved Crystal Growth and Dissolution Kinetics by In Situ Microscopy and Diffusion Models: the Case of Salicylic Acid”

The RSC magazine “Chemistry World” highlighted the Chem. Commun. paper by Tom Miller et. al. showing that the sidewalls and closed ends of CNs both promote fast electron transfer, in contrast to the current model in literature.

A study by Stanley Lai et. al. in the electron transfer at basal plane graphite has recently been featured as a ‘Very Important Paper’ and on the inside cover of Angewandte Chemie. In this paper, it is unequivocally shown that electron transfer across the graphite basal surface is fast, in sharp contrast to the current textbook model that pictures the basal surface as either inert or to only support very slow electron transfer, demonstrating the need for a radical revision of the current model.

Many congratulations go to Haytham Hussein for passing his viva and completing his PhD on the 21st of December 2018. We all wish him good luck for the future.

Congratulations to Paul for winning best poster at the Lubrizol 2012 Technical Symposium held in Hazelwod, Derbyshire. Poster titled "Probing the Adsorption and Interaction of Succinimide Dispersants with Model Soot Surfaces"