Recognition: Julian Zhu

Polymer Chemistry (RSC) profiles Prof. Julian Zhu (Université de Montréal) as the author of the week. http://blogs.rsc.org/py/2012/04/27/author-of-the-week-julian-zhu/

NMR paper in Science

P. Neudecker, P. Robustelli, A. Cavalli, P. Walsh, P. Lundström, A. Zarrine-Afsar, S. Sharpe, M. Vendruscolo, and L.E. Kay, "Structure of an Intermediate State in Protein Folding and Aggregation," Science 336 (2012) 362-366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1214203

Science Perspective: David Eliezer, "Visualizing Amyloid Assembly," Science 336 (2012) 308-309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1220356

Physics of MRI: A Primer

An introductory lecture on physics of MRI by Donald Plewes and Walter Kucharczyk (University of Toronto).

D.B. Plewes and W. Kucharczyk, "Physics of MRI: A Primer," Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 35 (2012) 1038–1054. (Review: MR Physics for Clinicians) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmri.23642

Recognition: 53rd ENC Student Travel Awards

ENC has announced winners of 2012 Student Travel Stipends attending the 53rd ENC, April 15-20, 2012, Miami, Florida. The stipends are funded by the ENC, the Suraj P. Manrao Science Foundation, and the generous contributions of companies. Among awardees there are several Canadian recipients, including

Andrée Gravel (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Emily Ritz (University of Guelph)
Siqi Zhu (McGill University)
Bryan Lucier (University of Windsor)
Hussain Masoom (University of Toronto)
Erick Meneses Ramirez (McGill University)

Congratulations to all the winners!

The finalized 53rd ENC program is now available online
http://www.enc-conference.org

IV Ibero-American NMR Meeting

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to participate in the IV Ibero-American NMR Meeting which will be celebrated along with the VI GERMN Bienal Meeting and the III Iberian NMR Meeting, at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, from 25 to 28 September, 2012. This special arrangement will offer the Ibero-American NMR spectroscopists and others interested, a large audience and a great opportunity to present and share their results.

Registrations are open and abstracts to be considered for oral contribution can be submitted until April 30th.

Confirmed speakers:

Brian Goodfellow (CICECO, Aveiro, Portugal)
Claudio Fernandez (UNR, Rosario, Argentina)
Claudio Tormena (IQM, UNICAMP, Campinas Brazil)
Luis Alberto Colnago (EMBRAPA, Brasília, Brazil
Hartmut Oschkinat (FMP, Berlin, Germany)
Jarbas Resende (UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Jesús Angulo (CSIC, Seville, Spain)
João Rocha (CICECO, Aveiro, Portugal)
Marta Bruix (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
Natàlia Carulla (IRB, Barcelona, Spain)
Julien Wist (Universidade del Valle, Cali, Colombia)
Volker Dötsch (IBC, Goethe Univ. Frankfurt, Germany)

Travel stipends:
http://www.spq.pt/eventos/iberoanmr2012/?ver=travel

For full details, important deadlines and updates, please visit our website:
http://www.spq.pt/eventos/iberoanmr2012/

Looking forward to meet you in Aveiro,

The organizing committee

Cover article in Chemical Science

C.J. Capicciotti, M. Leclère, F.A. Perras, D. Bryce, H. Paulin, J. Harden, Y. Liu and R.N. Ben, "Potent inhibition of ice recrystallization by low molecular weight carbohydrate-based surfactants and hydrogelators," Chem. Sci. 3 (2012) 1408-1416. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2SC00885H

3rd Canadian Magnetism Meeting

Dear colleagues,

The 3rd Canadian Magnetism Meeting will be held in Calgary on May 25th, right before the CSC kicks off. This day-long meeting is intended to allow researcher in all fields of magnetism to share their recent research developments, and network with other members of the Canadian magnetism community.

All interested are welcome to attend. In order to help organization, please send an email to confirm if you and your group will attend (contact information below).

We have a lineup of invited speakers covering various areas of magnetism: Daniel Gamelin (U Washington), Daniel Leznoff (SFU), Natia Frank (UVic), Laurie Thompson (MUN), TK Sham (Western), Kathryn Preuss (Guelph), and Arthur Mar (UofA).

There will be a poster session for students with best poster awards. We will be accepting email submissions of abstracts (200-word abstract, 1 picture) until May 7th.

There is no registration fee for this meeting.

More info can be found at:
http://www.chem.ucalgary.ca/research/groups/trudels/canadian-magnetism-meeting.html

Visit often, the website will get regular updates in the coming weeks.

All those interested to attend and/or to submit an abstract, please email Robin Arseneault.

We are looking forward to seeing all of you in Calgary.

NSERC awards $2.3 million for lithium ion battery research

Gillian Goward (McMaster) is leading a major collaborative research project in lithium ion batteries which has been awarded a $2.3 million NSERC grant in the Automotive Partnership Canada program. The total value of this four years project is $3.5 million with contributions from industrial partners, GM Canada, Bruker Ltd., and Heka Electronics.

Researchers from McMaster include Prof. Gillian Goward, in electrochemistry and magnetic resonance, Prof. Gianluigi Botton, in electron microscopy, and Prof. Bartek Protas, in mathematical modeling. Prof. Janine Mauzeroll at McGill provides expertise in scanning electrochemical microscopy, and two electrochemistry groups lead by Prof. Andy Sun at the University of Western Ontario, and Prof. Steen Schougaard at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

For more about this project:

$3.5 million partnership to jumpstart confidence in lithium ion car batteries (McMaster Daily News)

Gillian Goward Gets $3.5m for Electric Car Battery Research (C&CB, McMaster)

McMaster gets $3.5m jolt for electric car battery research (Hamilton Spectator)

Bringing Minds to Market: Government of Canada Invests in Auto Innovation (NSERC news release, March 20, 2012)

Solid-State NMR in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

A special issue of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance guest-edited by Clare Grey (Cambridge) and Gillian Goward (McMaster), Volume 42, Pages 1-98 (April 2012) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09262040/42

Editorial

Clare P. Grey, Gillian R. Goward, Editorial "Solid-State NMR in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion," Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
42 (2012) 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2012.03.001

Canadian contributions

A. Kuhn, M. Kunze, P. Sreeraj, H.-D. Wiemhöfer, V. Thangadurai, M. Wilkening, P. Heitjans, "NMR relaxometry as a versatile tool to study Li dynamics in potential battery materials," Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 42 (2012) 2-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2012.02.001

L.J.M. Davis, X.J. He, A.D. Bain, G.R. Goward, "Studies of Lithium Ion Dynamics in Paramagnetic Cathode Materials Using 6Li 1D Selective Inversion Methods," Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 42 (2012) 26-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2012.01.002

62nd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, CSChE 2012

The call for papers is now open and will close May 31, 2012
Details are available at http://www.csche2012.ca/

On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee and the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE), we are pleased to welcome you to the website for the 62nd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia from October 14-17, 2012.

The main themes of this year’s conference are Energy, Environment and Sustainability, which are critical issues faced by chemical engineers both in Canada and around the world. Five international symposia: gasification, biomass and bioenergy, fuel cells-battery-electrochemical technologies, sustainability and spouted beds, are to be organized by multinational committees of experts in each field. Regular programs in all aspects of chemical engineering are also planned by the Subject Divisions of the CSChE. Separate graduate and undergraduate programs are organized by our student committees to showcase the student contributions and to promote exchange of ideas for our young and bright chemical engineers.

We look forward to seeing you at the Conference!
Maja Veljkovic, Conference Chair
X. Tony Bi, Conference Co-Chair