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Chemistry for Everyone 175 Faces Leading the Way RSCNEWS NOVEMBER 2015 www.rsc.org Chemistry for everyone 175 Faces leading the way Consultancy and chemistry p6 Supporting new routes to higher education p10 Find out more about the recent Our feature on p10 celebrates the EuCheMS General Assembly, in Access to Science programme and Snapshot, on p5. Registered Scientist Technician Awards. Our annual Science and Stormont event took place in October, discussing the theme of Energy and the Environment at Northern Ireland’s Assembly buildings. See p5 for more details. WEBSITE Find all the latest news at www.rsc.org/news/ Volume 1 Number 1 January 2016 Pages 1–100 Contents Molecular SystemsNOVEMBER 2015 Design & Engineering Building and designing systems from the molecular level Editor: Edwin Silvester http://rsc.li/molecular-engineering Assistant editor: Ruth McAvinia REGULARS Design and production: Vivienne Brar 4 Snapshot 4 Contact us: News and updates from around RSC News editorial office the organisation Thomas Graham House Science Park, Milton Road 6 Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK One to one Tel: +44 (0)1223 432294 Find out more about consultancy Email: [email protected] Burlington House, Piccadilly 7 Profile London W1J 0BA, UK ISSN 2058-9689 Tel: +44 (0)20 7437 8656 You’re hired! Meet chemistry apprentice Charlotte Vincent of LGC @RSC_Newsroom 12 Opinion 7 Your latest letters to the editor facebook.com/RoyalSocietyofChemistry Photography: Cover: © Shutterstock. Photos FEATURES © Royal Society of Chemistry or courtesy of the subject. 8 Left: top © EuCheMS; centre row © Chemistry for everyone Gatsby Foundation / Stuart Boreham; News about 175 Faces and our bottom row © Michael Cooper. anniversary 10 Second chance at science Celebrating the Access to Science programme and RSciTech Awards 8 DIARY 13 Conferences Upcoming meetings and deadlines 14 Events Your guide to events by region and section 18 Notices 10 Exciting events from your community 21 Admissions Welcome to our newest members © Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 Registered charity number 207890 Snapshot A look at the latest news from around the world INBRIEF New molecular engineering journal Help protect the We’ve announced a new interdisciplinary materials or useful devices – using design science budget journal with the Institution of Chemical concepts, an element of theory, or simulation. Engineers (IChemE). Molecular Systems Later this month, the UK Government “The journal will help popularise this way Design and Engineering is already accepting of working, and this new field that we call will be deciding the budgets of submissions for its first issue in 2016, and will molecular engineering.” each of its departments as part of its be published six times per year. Comprehensive Spending Review. Big Authors wishing to find out more about “It is a unique journal in terms of scope and cuts are anticipated for a number of Molecular Systems Design & Engineering aims to foster greater collaboration between should visit: rsc.li/molecular-engineering departments, and it’s a concern that the scientists working in different disciplines,” The journal is now open for submissions via: science budget will be hit. says our director of publishing, Emma https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/msde The UK already spends far less than Wilson. “We are delighted to be working our competitors on science. We in partnership with the IChemE to bring invest only 1.6% of GDP on research our combined expertise into shaping and and development, far behind our developing Molecular Systems Design and competitors such as the USA and Engineering.” Germany, who invest 2.8% and 2.9% The journal will focus on understanding respectively. molecular properties, behaviour and If the science budget is reduced this will interactions, and how this can be applied damage our capability to innovate, and to the design of processes, to solve global technological problems. It will bring together will affect our ability to attract private selected disciplines in biology, chemistry, sector investment and world-leading physics, engineering, computational and researchers. materials science. If you’re concerned about this, we urge Molecular Systems Design and Engineering you to write to your MP as soon as will be free to access for the first two years of possible, to call for George Osborne to publication and will be led by Professor Juan protect the science budget in de Pablo, based at the Institute of Molecular real terms. Engineering in Chicago, USA. On rsc.org, you can find a template “The journal will help to shape and advance letter, which you can send via the the field of molecular engineering for the website. If you have time, we would future,” says Professor de Pablo. “We want recommend that you personalise your to highlight this way of working at very small letter. scales, whilst trying to build or assemble useful For full details see: rsc.li/science- support Nominations open for our prizes and awards 2016 Submissions are now open for our annual Royal Society of Chemistry awards have gone prizes and awards, celebrating exceptional on to win Nobel prizes for their pioneering achievements across academia, education work, including Harry Kroto, Fred Sanger and and industry. Linus Pauling. For more than 140 years, we’ve been Our chief executive, Dr Robert Parker, says: acknowledging and celebrating exceptional “Our winners are the very best in their fields, talent in the chemical sciences. This could and they can be very proud to follow in the be anything from inspiring a new generation footsteps of some of the most influential and of scientists through their teaching, to their chemical science research helping combat important scientists around the world”. the global challenges we all face. If someone you know is making an With over 60 prizes and awards for outstanding contribution to the chemical individuals, teams and organisations, sciences, nominate them now. we cover a breadth of diverse areas and Nomination information and the different recognition is open to all. categories are available on rsc.org/awards- © SHUTTERSTOCK An illustrious list of former winners of funding/awards/ 4 RSC NEWS NOVEMBER 2015 Science and Stormont 2015 INBRIEF Our annual Science and Stormont event concluded proceedings, saying: “I’m Periodic Tales: The Art of took place in October, discussing the theme delighted that we have been able to bring the Elements of energy and the environment in the grand such a diverse group of scientists together This autumn, the stunning setting of surroundings of the Senate Chamber, part with assembly members for science in Compton Verney art gallery plays host to of Northern Ireland’s Assembly buildings at Stormont this year and that we have again Periodic Tales: The Art of the Elements. Stormont. This annual event was once again had such a good level of debate. This exhibition explores a selection of the hosted by Basil McCrea MLA, chair of the “But this event will only have been a success, elements drawn from the periodic table Northern Ireland Assembly All-Party Group if you are able to build on the connections and looks at how artists have used them on Science and Technology. you have made, and work together in the and their cultural meanings in their art. Sessions included a lively debate on energy future. It is only by working together that Alongside historic and contemporary security, chaired by Clare Viney, Royal Northern Ireland will be able to harness the works – by artists including Eduardo Society of Chemistry director of membership full power of science for sustainable growth. Paolozzi, John Constable, Antony and external affairs, including the keynote “I hope that this afternoon has given you Gormley, Cornelia Parker and Lucy speech from Anna Lo MLA, chair of the some new insights into how Northern Ireland Skaer – our education coordinator Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for can make the most of its natural resources Selina Kermode took part in a chemistry the Environment. and left you optimistic about the future of exhibition evening with Professor Andrea Our chief executive, Dr Robert Parker, the scientific community here.” Sella, on 30 October. © MICHAEL COOPER Andrea is fascinated by one element in L-R: Leigh Jeffes, Patsy particular. He explains: “Mercury is for McGlone MLA many the most beautiful and mysterious (Social of the elements in the periodic table; yet Democratic and it is also one of the most reviled. No one Labour Party), who has ever used it for science or simply Robert Parker, come across it by accident ever forgets Clare Viney, that first encounter, yet the story is always Paul Frew MLA accompanied by a guilty giggle because (Democratic deep down we know that we survived a Unionist Party), Basil McCrae close shave with danger. MLA (NI21). “Until quite recently, for chemists and physicists, mercury was never far away, whether in thermometers, manometers, pumps or electrodes. Indeed our understanding of the physical world around us owes a great debt to mercury- based apparatus. “Among the strangest was Lipmann’s electrometer which relies on the uncannily weird electrocapillary effect which, in the right circumstances, allows EuCheMS General Assembly 2015 one to build a mercury automaton, which develops a frenzied chemically-driven motion that defies common sense. Robert Parker also recently spoke at the “There is a great opportunity to help EUCheMS general assembly in Geneva people connect with chemistry, by giving “While we can explain the dance about the Royal Society of Chemistry’s them relevant and tangible examples of scientifically,
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