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This was the second colloid science conference in this series and will be held in London from July 6th – 9th 2014. It was jointly organized by the RSC Colloid and Interface Chemistry Group and the SCI Colloid and Surface Chemistry Group (www.colloidsgroup.org.uk), the Institute of Physics, Polymer Physics Group (http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/pol/index.html) and the UK Polymer Colloid Forum (http://www.uk-pcf.org/) and provided a perfect opportunity for UK and international researchers interested in colloid and interface science to meet, present and discuss issues related to current developments in the fields of Colloid, Interface and Biomedical Nanoparticle science.

Organising Committee:
Peter Dowding (Chair)
Jeroen van Duijneveldt (Treasurer)
Deborah Constable (Conference Secretariat)
For any additional information please e-mail: peter.dowding@infineum.com

The flyer for this event can be downloaded from this link.

Professor Penfold has made three major scientific contributions to surfactant, colloid and interface science. The first is that he and Hayter were the first people to formulate a strategy and the necessary analytical methods for the quantitative interpretation of neutron small angle scattering data from micellar solutions (these methods are still the main ones used). Second, with colleagues at Unilever, he pioneered the development of shear methods in conjunction with small angle scattering. Thirdly, he played a major pioneering role in both the instrumental and methodological development of neutron reflectometry, now widely used for studying interfaces of all kinds. Professor Penfold is much in demand as an invited contributor to scientific conferences around the world.

Prof. Penfold gave his Rideal Lecture at the symposium concentrating on scattering techniques and their applications 18-19th March 2013 at Keble College.

The McBain medal was presented to Dr Khutoryanskiy at a one-day symposium on the theme of “Self-assembled materials for biomedical applications “, held at the SCI HQ in London on Thursday 10 January 2013. Dr Khutoryanskiy’s presented his medal lecture and there were also talks from Prof. Edman Tsang, Dr. Peter Griffiths, Prof. Joseph Keddie, Prof. Ljeoma Uchegbu and Prof. Nicola Tirelli.

The 2012 McBain Medal winner Dr Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy MRSC is a Reader in Pharmacetical Materials in the University of Reading. Dr Khutoryanskiy, an active member of the UK polymer colloids community, has quickly gained an international reputation for his imaginative use of colloid, polymer and interface science in the development of novel materials: for his work on muco-adhesion and materials for drug delivery, for example. His wide-ranging work demonstrates strategic vision, technical facility and ambition, and his publications metrics and record of invited talks show that his work receives widespread attention. A summary of his research interest can be found at:

http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/pharmacy/Current_research_activities.pdf 

This 2-day conference bought together academics as well as industrialists with interest in hydrogels research, including their structure, properties and applications, either in polymeric networks – of synthetic or biological origin – or self-assembled surfactants or peptides.

Speakers were:

• Alan Rowan, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Mitsuhiro Shibayama, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto, Canada
• Madeleine Djabourov, ESPCI, France
• John Mitchell, University of Nottingham, UK
• Rein Ulijn, University of Strathclyde, UK

Organising committee

• Cecile Dreiss, King’s College, London
• Oren Scherman, University of Cambridge
• Dave Adams, University of Liverpool
• Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy, University of Reading
• Claire Pizzey, Diamond Light Source

A flyer from the conference can be downloaded from this link.

 Website: www.constableandsmith.com/hydrogels

The Rideal lecture is an annual award given by SCI’s Colloid and Surface Chemistry Group and the RSC’s Colloid and Interface Science Group.

The recipient of this years Rideal lecture is Geoff Maitland. He studied Chemistry at Oxford University where he also obtained his doctorate in Physical Chemistry. After a period as an ICI Research Fellow at Bristol University, he was appointed to a lectureship in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College in 1974. In 1986 he moved to the oil and gas industry with Schlumberger. He rejoined Imperial College in September 2005 as Professor of Energy Engineering and his current research covers clean and efficient fossil fuel production. Geoff was awarded the Hutchison Medal by the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1998 and served as President of the British Society of Rheology from 2002-2005. He was recently awarded the IChemE Chemical Engineering Envoy Award for 2010 for his media work explaining the engineering issues involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil-spill.

A flyer for the conference can be downloaded from this link.