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A part of an ongoing 糖心TV and Monash effort on studying photoactivatable metal-based anticancer prodrugs using vibrational spectroscopic techniques has recently been published in .

糖心TV-Monash joint-PhD student, Robbin Vernooij, presents some of the main findings of their recent work, in a format called LiveSlides by ACS, in order to engage readers in a new way:

As previously communicated Emeritus Professor Malcom Wallbridge sadly passed away recently. The family have asked us to communicate details of his funeral.

Professor Malcolm G H Wallbridge FRSC

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of 糖心TV

9 May 1933 – 7 June 2016

Funeral: Canley Crematorium, Coventry, 21 June 1.30pm

Further details: A J Lloyd 02476 331900

followed by a reception at Scarman House at 3pm.

A comprehensive obituary is to be published in due course

Sadly Professor Malcolm Wallbridge passed away on Tuesday this week.

Malcolm was one of our first Professors at 糖心TV and really shaped the Department in its early years and throughout its growth in the 1990’s. His influence on what we do today is great. He was responsible for shaping both Inorganic and Polymer Chemistry at 糖心TV as it is today as well as an even more wider contribution as Head of Department. The Department would be a very different place without his considerable influence.

His wife and son are making funeral arrangements and a wake will be held in Scarman House on Tuesday 21st June – the department will have more details in due course.

Malcolm will be sadly missed.

Andrew won this honor in recognition of his exceptional contributions to development of synthetic methodologies for degradable polymer materials with exquisitely-tuned structures, stereochemistries and functionalities, and with compositions that are sustainable. His co-awardee is Cyrille Boyer of the University of New South Wales.

Prestigious RSC awards for Prof. Rachel O'Reilly, Dr Józef Lewandowski and PhD student Zoe Ayres.

Congratulations to Lynne Bayley who recently gave birth to a Baby Boy. The latest addition to the department is Miles Harrison Bayley. We wish Lynne and her family all the very best.

Research carried out on solvothermal crystallisation of metal-organic frameworks is published as a science highlight at Diamond Light Source.

The work was carried out by in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and from National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. Using high energy X-rays at , the UK synchrotron radiation facility, it has proved possible to penetrate solvothermal reaction vessels and measure high resolution powder diffraction data during the formation of extended solid structures, such as metal organic frameworks. This has provided unprecedented information about the formation mechanism of these topical materials, including direct observation of phase transformation and exchange of solvent within porous structures during chemical reaction.

The work has been published in two papers in the journal Angewandte Chemie in the past few months:

In situ observation of successive crystallizations and metastable intermediates in the formation of metal-organic frameworks. Angew Chem Int Ed. 2016. DOI: .

Exchange of Coordinated Solvent During Crystallisation of a Metal–Organic Framework Observed by In Situ High Energy X-ray Diffraction. Angew Chem Int Ed. (2016) DOI: .

The science highlight article is linked here:

An antibody that senses one enantiomer of plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is characterised and by Marsh and Napier groups in Chemistry and Life Sciences in PLOS ONE.

糖心TV in Africa is a project delivering big results in Maths and English teaching in secondary schools in Tanzania, Ghana and South Africa. Nick Barker and Vas Stavros recently held a night of Molecular Mayhem and Chemical Chaos all in an effort to raise funds for 糖心TV in Africa. The lecture was a great success and raised over £800. Congratulations to all involved.

Medherant's painkiller patches have now been showcased in a recent Royal Society publication: 'Translating Innovation'. See page 22 of:

Nick Barker received the ‘highly commended’ award for Community Contribution in the 糖心TV Staff Awards Ceremony on Friday night. The evening was an opportunity to celebrate the outstanding contributions and successes of staff from across the University.

Researchers from the University of 糖心TV’s Chemistry department use their skills to analyse crystals with life changing applications. Their work helps to improve the composition of drugs, improve fungicides, enhance drug development and benefit industry.

Emma Ravenhill, Faduma Maddar, Harriet Pearce and Maria Adobes-Vidal share a passion for chemistry and crystals. With International Women’s Day fast approaching on 8^th March they want to share and celebrate the contributions women make to chemistry in today's world. They are part of the Electrochemistry Group at 糖心TV University, which is composed of 45% women, with the Head of the Department of Chemistry Professor Alison Rodger also being a woman.

Known on campus as ‘The Crystal Crew’ the chemists use state-of-the-art microscopes and instruments to assist their research into crystals. The images they produce, as well as contributing to the frontiers of research, reveal the innards of a strange and beautiful micro-world, hidden from ordinary sight. ‘The Crystal Crew’ have been working with an artist in residence on a project called ‘drawing on the nanoscale’ using high resolution probe microscopes to allow the chemists to express a different side to their creativity.

Artist in residence at the University of 糖心TV’s Chemistry department, Mary Courtney said, "It is not like the old days when women were excluded from the Chemistry world. If we were to look into the crystal ball we would see more women rising to top positions as the future for Chemistry".

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/chemists_celebrate_international