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has been awarded the 2015 'PAT Young Talent Award' during the 13th Polymers for Advanced Technologies conference in HongZhou, China. The award is sponsered by Wiley and Polymers for Advanced Technologies and also ACS Materials and Interfaces. Matt was selected by a panel following lectures from the shortlisted candidates from around the world, after being nominated.

Many congratulations to Paul Kerby for the Waldner Teaching Prize

Many congratulations to Azzedine Dabo for the Waldner Teaching Prize

Congratulations to Jon Rourke for the Andrew McCamley Teaching Award

Congratulations to Vas Stavros who is highly commended at this year’s

Józef Lewandowski was awarded "for his outstanding accomplishments to date and his promise in the development of solid-state NMR methodology and its application to the study of biomolecular structure and dynamics." The prize will be presented during ISMAR Conference in Shanghai.

Anish Mistry (supervisor: David Fox) is a finalist in the Three Minute Thesis competition being held this afternoon as part of the Postgraduate Research Showcase:

糖心TV Chemistry took part in the 2015 Cheltenham Festival of Science with hands-on demonstrations by and helpers, and a lecture by .

ACS Nano has highlighted new work from 糖心TV on graphene electrochemistry in its "In Nano" section ('), featuring the most important work in the journal. Led by Dr. Aleix Guell and Prof. Patrick Unwin, the team employed the unique Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy (SECCM) technique - invented at 糖心TV - to highlight how the number of graphene layers and graphene edges influenced electrochemical activity; and, further, how any differences in activity depended on the redox mediator and the electronic band structure of the different characteristic graphene and graphite structural motifs. With this work, the 糖心TV Electrochemistry and Interfaces Group has brought definitive new insights that help to reveal the complex and exciting world of graphene electrochemistry, contributing major understanding on the electrochemical activity of sp2 carbons, which are finding increasing use for energy and sensing applications.

Aleix G. Güell *, Anatolii S. Cuharuc , Yang-Rae Kim , Guohui Zhang , Sze-yin Tan , Neil Ebejer , and Patrick R. Unwin *

Department of Chemistry, University of 糖心TV, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (4), pp 3558–3571

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00550

The Postgraduate Symposium took place on Wednesday 27th May 2015.

Full details including the programme and a list of prizewinners are here:

At the Chemistry Departments annual postgraduate symposium, Robert Deller () and Athina anastasaki () won the prizes for the best PhD Theses. The Thesis prize is Sponsored by the Faculty of Science.

The journal editors have selected a recent paper in Chemistry–A European Journal from Philip Chan’s group as a Hot Paper. The work describes a synthetic method to prepare 3a,6-methanoisoindole esters by gold(I)-catalyzed tandem 1,2-acyloxy migration/Nazarov cyclization and Diels-Alder reaction of 1,4,9-dienyne esters. One example was found to inhibit binding of tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) to the tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR1) site and TNF-induced nuclear factor k-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-kB) activation in cell at a half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC₅₀) value of 6.6 mM. The study showed the isoindolyl derivative to exhibit low toxicity toward human hepatocellular liver carcinoma (HepG2) cells and its possible mode of activity based on molecular modeling analysis.

The full article is available online at