COLUMNS CHIMIA 2021, 75, No. 7/8 695 doi:10.2533/chimia.2021.695 Chimia 75 (2021) 695 © Swiss Chemical Society 2021 Chemistry Travel Award by SCNAT and SCS Leo Merz* Viktoriia MORAD *Correspondence: Dr. L. Merz, E- mail: [email protected] Group: Prof. Maksym Kovalenko Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), Platform Chemistry, Conference: MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit Laupenstrasse 7, CH-3001 Bern Contribution: Hybrid 0D Antimony Halides as Air-Stable Luminophores for High-Spatial- The Platform Chemistry of the Swiss Academy of Sciences Resolution Remote Thermography (SCNAT) together with the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) an- nounces the «2021 Chemistry Travel Award». This program sup- ports excellent PhD students in the chemical sciences by sponsor- Sophia THIELE ing them to participate in an international conference. After most Group: Prof. Harm-Anton Klok conferences have been cancelled or virtualized, the organizers Conference: Pacifichem 2021 of the Travel Award expanded the program with a new alterna- Contribution: Shining light on surface- tive. This second option offers support to visit a foreign lab for a initiated organocatalyzed atom transfer radical short research project abroad. Students from all fields of chemis- polymerization try and from any Swiss institution were invited to participate. The selection committee consists of four chemists working in diverse fields of chemistry: Prof. Dr. Christian Bochet (SCS, University Jyoti DHANKHAR of Fribourg), Dr. Remo Gamboni (SCS, NANDASI Pharma Group: Prof. Ilija Cˇorić Advisors), Prof. Dr. Laura Nyström (SCNAT, ETH Zurich), and Conference: International Symposium on Prof. Dr. Shana Sturla (SCNAT, ETH Zurich). They each reviewed Synthesis and Catalysis 2021 (ISySyCat2021) and rated all of the applications of both categories, based primarily Contribution: Spatial Anion Control on on the submitted conference abstract or project plan. Palladium for Mild C-H Arylation of Arenes On behalf of SCNAT and SCS we hereby congratulate this year’s winners and wish them a very successful conference par- ticipation or research stay. Alexandre ANTHIS We proudly present the winners of the «2021 Chemistry Travel Group: Prof. Inge Herrmann Award»: Conference: Materials Research Society (MRS) – Fall Meeting 2021 Conference Participation Contribution: Leak-tight anastomosis hydrogel sealants using mutually interpenetrating networks Qinlei LIU Group: Prof. Renato Zenobi Maximilian BECKER Conference: 69th ASMS Conference on Mass Group: Prof. Corsin Battaglia Spectrometry and Allied Topics Conference: 240th ECS Meeting Contribution: High-throughput single- Contribution: The Hydrotropic Effect of Ionic cell metabolomics using dielectric barrier Liquids in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes discharge ionization – high resolution mass spectrometry Hanna TRAEGER Marie BISCHOFF Group: Prof. Christoph Weder Group: Prof. Arianna Marchioro Conference: ACS Spring Meeting: Bonding Conference: Electrochemistry Gordon Through Chemistry Research Conference and Seminar Contribution: Loop structures as non-covalent Contribution: Ion specificity at the aqueous mechanochromic motifs electrolyte/nanoparticle interface J. Madhusudhan NAIK Michèle CLERC Group: Prof. Greta R. Patzke Group: Dr. Luciano Boesel Conference: 2021 MRS Fall Meeting & Conference: Macromolecular Colloquium Exhibit 2022 Contribution: Reversible phase transitions Contribution: Visible-light responsive in novel Ce-substituted perovskite oxide on-demand drug-delivery systems using composites for solar thermochemical CO2 Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adduct (DASA) redox splitting photoswitches 696 CHIMIA 2021, 75, No. 7/8 COLUMNS Adam EÖRDÖGH Jimmy MAILLARD Group: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes Group: Prof. Alexandre Fürstenberg Conference: Pacifichem 2021 Host: Prof. Mike Heilemann, Goethe Uni, Contribution: Single-Molecule Imaging Frankfurt a. M., D with Environment-sensitive Photoactivatable Project: Fluorescence labelling of the G Probes protein-coupled receptor CCR5 for single- molecule applications using CRISPR/Cas12 gene editing technology Lab Visit Kaila YALLUM Group: Prof. Natalie Banerji Moritz BERNHARDT Host: Prof. Carlos Silva, Georgia Institute of Group: Prof. Christophe Copéret Technology, Atlanta, USA Host: Prof. Olivier Cador, Uni Rennes, FR Project: Two Dimensional Coherent Project: Lanthanide Sandwich Complexes Photocurrent Spectroscopy of Non-Fullerene used for Surface Immobilized Single- Acceptors Molecule Magnets Devi Prasad ADIYERI SASEENDRAN Group: Prof. Greta R. Patzke Scott DOCHERTY Host: Prof. Serena DeBeer, Max-Planck Group: Prof. Christophe Copéret Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Host: Prof. Atsushi Urakawa, TU Delft, NL Mülheim, D Project: Molecular Approaches for the Study Project: Understanding Hybrid Molecular of Bimetallic Catalysts in the Hydrogenation Photoanodes using Operando X-ray Emission of CO2 to Methanol Spectroscopy Depending on the state of the pandemic, the attendance of the Michal SWIERCZEWSKI winners to the conferences may change from this list. The rules Group: Prof. Thomas Bürgi regarding these changes have been published on the web page of Host: Prof. Lay-Theng Lee, CEA-Saclay the Platform Chemistry. L’Université Paris-Saclay, FR Additional information about the Platform Chemistry and its Project: X-ray reflectivity structural study activities may be found at chem.scnat.ch of gold nanocluster ultrathin films prepared Do not miss the «2022 Chemistry Travel Award», which will using Langmuir-Blodgett technique be announced early in 2022 on chem.scnat.ch/travel_award and in CHIMIA. Jasper MÖHLER Group: Prof. Helma Wennemers Host: Prof. Wolfgang Kroutil, Uni of Graz, AT Project: Development of cascade reactions employing enzyme and peptide catalysts in a single chemical reaction vessel.