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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!

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.

The RSC Tilden Prize 2012 for advances in chemistry was awarded to Pat for the development of interfacial flux imaging, enabling quantitative visualisation of interfacial processes with high spatial and temporal resolution, and impact that spans electro-catalysis, crystal growth and physiological processes.