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We are delighted to be able to pass on news of the arrival of our newest member.

Congratulations to Andrew Dove and Rachel O'Reilly on the arrival of their Daughter Matilda Ann Dove. Born this week weighing 8lb 12oz

On Sunday, Dave Haddleton was presented with an award for “recognition of outstanding service and contribution to the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing” at the RSC Editors Symposium banquet at the Guildhall in London. The award was given for service on the Board of “Chem Comm”, and for being Editor in Chief – and launching – “Polymer Chemistry”.

Alistair Irvine joined the MOAC Doctoral Training Centre in 2004 and was a valued member of MOAC doing his PhD under the supervision of Claudia Blindauer and Robert Freedman. Today we received the sad news that he died last weekend. His death is a real loss to our widely flung community.

Collaborative work from the groups of , Unwin, Rourke, and Wedge (糖心TV physics) exploring the organometallic chemistry of paramagnetic complexes of palladium(I) and platinum(I) has been published in

with 糖心TV Medical School and UHCW NHS Trust reveals new clues to widely prescribed therapeutics' actions in body. Simvastatin sodium salt and fluvastatin interact with human gap junction gamma-3 protein in Press coverage in

Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, held a Symposium on 23-25 November 2015 to celebrate Peter Sadler’s achievements in biological and medicinal inorganic chemistry.

A Jones Group, Bon Group, 糖心TV Physics and Imperial College London collaboration published in shows that local chemical termination variations in copper iodide produces polymorphism in metal-free phthalocyanine thin films.

The Jones group, in collaboration with the McCulloch group (Imperial College London), publish a study of epitaxial growth of an organic semiconductor on a metal surface in

Collaborative work involving was published in . The study led (U. Pittsburgh) provides insights on structure and formation mechanism for huntingtin exon 1 fibrils implicated in Hungtington disease. Read more .

The latest research into the use of biomaterials to increase the availability of donor cells has been . Donor cells (e.g blood, bone marrow) are crucial to modern healthcare but due to their short shelf life they must be frozen using organic solvents as 'antifreezes'. The Gibson group has pionnered the use of synthetic polymers which inhibit ice crystal growth and their application to cryopreservation. In this work, a collaboraiton with the team used biomimetic block copolymer micelles to provide a hydrated 'matrix' around the cells, which in combination with ice inhibiting polymers enable succesful cryopreservation of red blood cells. This is the first example of a cryopreservation system using entirely synthetic polymer materials, providing control and additional functionality into the system. Post-thawing, the micelles warm up, and become 'worm-like' which enabled the direct formation of a hydrogel, which is of interest for tissue engineering.

Read the paper here

Dr. Luke Rochford and Dr. Alex Ramadan from Prof. Tim Jones' group, in collaboration with 糖心TV Physics, publish in Advanced Functional Materials demonstrating the use of atomically thin graphene electrodes to control the structure of organic semiconductor thin films while improving their charge transport performance.

"Growth of large crystalline grains of vanadyl-phthalocyanine without epitaxy on graphene"

The manuscript entitled Control of vesicle membrane permeability with catalytic particles by the has been selected for the jan-feb 2016 cover of Materials Horizons, a premier scientific journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry which features first reports of exceptional significance across the breadth of materials research at the cutting-edge interface with chemistry, physics, biology and engineering.

Prof.dr.ir. Stefan Bon, head of the BonLab, says: "We are absolutely delighted that our research has made the cover of Materials Horizons. Rong Chen and especially Ross Jaggers worked very hard in the BonLab to fabricate giant polymer vesicles which have membrane-embedded catalytically active manganese oxide particles, hereby using droplet-based microfluidics. We demonstrate that these colloidal particles can regulate the membrane permeability of the polymersomes upon their exposure to, and catalytic reaction with, small amounts of dissolved hydrogen peroxide. Not only can we trigger complete release whereby the vesicle gets destroyed through membrane rupture by the formed oxygen bubbles as illustrated on the cover, exposure to small amounts of dissolved hydrogen peroxide leads to temporary enhanced release until all hydrogen peroxide is consumed by the catalytic particles after which the membrane permeability restores itself to its passive characteristic value."

More on this can be read on the of the BonLab site.

The paper (open access) can be read here: