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.

Designing colloidal formulations is an exceptionally complex process that requires a combination of scientific knowledge, experimental skill, experience, imagination and enthusiasm. Combining these with the correct inspiration can produce innovative colloidal systems and solutions to problems.

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

Sponsors

Malvern Instruments

Zinsser Analytic

Formulaction

Capturing Colloids II (11-12th October 2011, Manchester, UK)

This meeting was for chemists that regularly use microscopes and image capturing techniques as a tool and people that specialise in developing microscopical and image capture techniques within the colloids area. We discussed leading edge science in the fields of Microscopy, Image Analysis and Colloid Science. The meeting was an enjoyable interactive event with invited speakers, posters and a conference dinner.

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