In Support of Excellence in Science and Technology
Professor Reihnard Genzel (Honorary Member of EurASc), from Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching (Germany) and University of California, Berkeley (USA), is the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work “the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy”.
The China – Europe Frontier Forum “Progress on Ocean Science and Technology”, co-organised by the Dpt of Earth Siences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and by the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division of EurASc will be held on line on 20-21 October (program in attachment).
Please note that this EurASc action is supported by the “Fondation Prospective et Innovation” FPI.
All EurASc fellows are invited to join the Forum by (1) listening to the 20-min presentations, and (2) actively participating in the discussions.
Program and details are available here.
Link for ZOOM Metting:
Subject: CAS-EurASc Frontier Forum on Marine Sciences and Technologies
Time: 20-21 October 2020, each day 8:00-15:00 CEST
Conference ID: 680 7127 3480
Password: 523291
For Audiences (limited to 900 people) to connect (no audio and no video) to connect to Zoom video conference:
https://zoom.com.cn/j/68071273480?pwd=WHRiOFhwaUR3N09jalQxaUh3aVRwUT09
Professor Elvira Fortunato, fellow of EURASC and officer of Materials Science Division won the European Commission Impact Award 2020 with her project INVISIBLE (AdG ERC, connected to the development of oxide semiconductors to substitute silicon on display technology, then called transparent electronics.
More information:
https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/stories/see-through-electronics
The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, created by Mark Zuckerberg and Yuri Milner, awards significant discoveries in the subject.
Prof. Martin Hairer, Honorary Member of EurASc, has been awarded the Prize in Mathematics for 2021.
You can consult more about the Prize here: https://breakthroughprize.org/Prize/3
You can consult the page of 2021 Prize Winners here: https://breakthroughprize.org/News/60
Prof. Gogotsi is organizing an online conference on MXenes:
MXene Virtual Conference 2020 (August 3-7, 2020) and Virtual Courses on Synthesis and Characterization of MXenes (July 27-31).
In view of the major revision of the ERC panel structure for the 2021 and 2022 calls, the ERC Scientific Council has decided to publish the full panel structure well ahead of time.
In this new structure we would like to highlight that by the first time the Materials Science and Engineering has a specific panel, Panel 11 to which we are proud to contribute through different policy makers for the need of such a panel, thanks to the role of Materials as an enabler for science and technology.
This should allow the scientific communities to familiarise themselves with the changes in preparation for the first calls under the 2021 Work Programme.
(Article from https://erc.europa.eu/)
There is now an ERC panel fully devoted to Materials Science.
The last Ordinary General Assembly of the Presidium took place by Internet on May 29th, 2020.
Prof. Malcolm Pope, Fellow of EurASc passed away on January 22nd.
Obituaries
As a symbol of excellency towards outstanding scientists as Professor, The Chemistry View Magazine hightgts the excellency of Professor H. Schwarz, connecting him to our 2011 Blaise Pascal Chemical awards. Besides that, they also mention a list of our fellows distinguished with such awards from different divisions, a recognition of the outstanding science commitments of EURASC.
The European Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Award to Prof. Klaus Müllen for his outstanding activity in the field of physical organic chemistry.
Klaus Müllen received his academic training in physical and physical organic chemistry, later held a chair in organic chemistry and became director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research where he was responsible for macromolecular synthesis. Deeply rooted in methods of organic synthesis and with an emphasis on organic electronic materials, he introduced a wealth of new polymer architectures, but also advanced the need for precision polymer synthesis. Many of his polymers have become classics of materials science.
His work stands out for both depth and breadth, extending from organic colorants to conjugated polymers, from graphenes to polyolefins and from organic-inorganic composites to functional organic nanoparticles. His whole scientific career is a tribute to interdisciplinarity and trustworthy collaboration. This has allowed their consortia to jointly make major contributions to nanoscience, photophysics, device fabrication, sensing and even tumor therapies. In his belief, materials synthesis must, first, be reliable to allow sound structure-property relations and to rationally „synthesize desired properties and functions“, and, secondly, include methods of processing, i.e. of creating defined macroscopic states of matter. Along these lines, he has described liquid-crystalline phases, thin films and fibers with unique supramolecular architectures.
In 1995 his group published a seminal paper on large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons together with their electronic characterization by scanning tunneling microscopy. By making these disc structures larger and larger, they have established the class of „nanographenes“ . These, in turn, have culminated in the synthesis of graphene nanoribbons, a new type of electronic materials bridging the worlds of conjugated polymers and graphenes. Classical polymer synthesis is thereby combined with synthesis after immobilization of monomers on surfaces and even with chemical vapor deposition.
In Klaus Müllen’s research, creativity in synthesis has always served a goal in materials research. In 2007, they published a first paper towards nowadays widely used donor-acceptor polymers as semiconductors for organic field-effect transistors . Likewise, their graphene nanoribbons are not only relevant for established device applications, but also for spintronics and even for future quantum computing. From a strategic point of view, their graphenic (2D-) structures are made from multiply branched (3D-) polyphenylene precursors. The latter, in turn, are functional materials in their own right as shape-persistent, tree-like polymers (dendrimers) for biomedicine, light harvesting and catalysis.