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12-15 September 2021: International Conference on Nanobubbles

Nanodroplets and their Applications (Nanobubble 202)
Magdeburg, Germany
Conference Organizers: Claus-Dieter Ohl (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany), Holger Schönherr (University of Siegen, Germany), Manolis Gavaises (CITY University, London, UK)  

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Prizes awarded during the 49th General Assembly 2019 in Stuttgart

During the 49th General Assembly (Colloid Conference "Complex Fluids"), which took place during September 23-25, 2019 in Stuttgart, the following prized were awarded by the Colloid Society:

• Ostwald Award: Dominique Langevin, Paris
• Graham Award: Michal Borkovec, Genf
• Liesegang Award: Tobias Kraus, Saarbrücken
• Steinkopff Award: Werner Kunz, Regensburg
• Zsigmondy Scholarship: André Gröschel, Duisburg-Essen

Dominique Langevin (left), CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, received the Ostwald Award in recogniztion of her work on thin films and foams.

Michal Borkovec (right), Université de Genève, received the Graham Award in recognition of his accomplishments by international collaboration in the colloid sciences.

Tobias Kraus (left), Leibniz-Insitut für Neue Materialien, Saarbrücken, received the Liesegang Award in recognition of his work on nanoparticle-bases materials.

Werner Kunz (left), Universität Regensburg, received the Steinkopff Award in recognition of his work on sustainable colloidal formulations.

André Gröschel (left), Universität Duisburg-Essen, received the Zsigmondy Scholarship to support his work on self-assembling colloids.

 

Virtual Issue of Langmuir dedicated to Helmuth Möhwald

Langmuir has published a virtual issue entitled “Growth of Colloid and Interface Science”,  which is dedicated to the scientific work of Helmuth Möhwald (1946–2018). Former coworkers of Helmuth Möhwald report in 12 articles on current research topics, which had been initiated with Helmuth. The virtual issue contains 12 additional articles published previously in ACS journals. Guest editors: Profs. Regine v. Klitzing und Thomas Zemb, Langmuir Senior Editor: Prof. Walter Richtering. (https://pubs.acs.org/page/langd5/vi/growth-colloid-interface?ref=vi_collection)

 

15th Zsigmondy Colloquium 2019

Photo: Participants at the 15th Zsigmondy Colloquium in Dresden

The annual conference for young scientists took place during July 10-12, 2019, for the first time at Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung (IPF) in Dresden. The Zsigmondy-Kolloquium addresses young researchers at the PhD student and postdoc level in the field of colloids, surfaces und inferfaces. The conference series is named after the Austrian-Hungarian chemist Richard A. Zsigmondy (born 1 April 1865 in Vienna, died 23 September 1929 in Göttingen), who is known as researcher in the field of colloidal chemistry and microscopy and as Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1925). Helmut Möhwald (Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Science, Golm) initiated the conference series.

The Zsigmondy Colloquium 2019 at IPF Dresden covered various topics, such as the synthesis of colloidal particles, their multi-scale assembly, their optical and electronic properties and the properties as functional materials. Colloidal particles are dielectric, metallic or semi-conducting nanoparticles. Via controlled self-assembly, these colloids can acquire special spectroscopic and optical properties. Such material properies are also part of the Freigeist research group of Dr. Tobias A.F. König, who has organized the conference. The event had about 90 participants. The scientific program consisted of 34 oral contributions, two invited lectures, and 36 poster contributions.

Photo: Invited speakers Prof. Dr. Paul Mulvaney, University of Melbourne, Australien, and Prof. Dr. Silvia Vignolini, University of Cambridge, UK

The prize for the best oral presentation was awarded to Hanbo Yang (third from the right), University of Melbourne. The prizes for the best posters in the categories gold, silver and bronze were awarded to Fabian Schröer (center), HHU Düsseldorf, Teresa Walter (third from the left), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and Dimitri Wilms (second from the left), HHU Düsseldorf.

Photo: Award of the prizes for the best presentations

The Zsigmondy Colloquium established a connection between „classical colloid scientists" und „semiconductor-nanocrystal researchers“. These two communities were als represented in the organizing committee [chair Dr. Tobias A. F. König (Colloidal Nanophotonics, IPF), Prof. Dr. Andreas Fery (Institute of Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physics, IPF) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Eychmüller (Physical Chemistry, TU Dresden)] and the advisory board [Priv.-Doz. Dr. habil. Alla Synytska (IPF), Dr. Günter K. Auernhammer (IPF), Prof. Dr. Nikolai Gaponik (TU Dresden) and Dr. Vladimir Lesnyak (TU Dresden)].

 

Prof. Dr. Helmuth Möhwald (1946 - 2018)

The Colloid Society mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Helmuth Möhwald.
Prof. Dr. Helmuth Möhwald died on March 27, 2018. He was closely connected to Colloid Society for many years. In 1998 he was the first Liesegang Prize winner, and from 2003 to 2007 he was chairman of the Colloid Society. Until 2017 he continued to support work of the Colloid Society very actively as a member of the advisory board. In 2009 the Colloid Society awarded him the Ostwald Prize. Helmuth Möhwald was an outstanding scientist and will be remembered as an impressive personality and very inspiring person.

 

14th Zsigmondy Colloquium 2018

The 14th Zsigmondy Colloquium of the Colloid Society took place in Mainz from April 9th to 11th. The almost 100 participants discussed the properties of surfaces and interfaces with 36 lectures and 35 posters.

(Group picture with all participants)

On the occasion of this Zsigmondy Colloquium, a prize for the best lecture and two poster prizes were awarded:

Best lecture: Kathrin Voigtländer
1st poster prize: David van Duinen
2nd poster prize: Tanja Paul

From left to right: Günter Auernhammer, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Kathrin Voigtländer, David van Duinen, Doris Vollmer

 

Prize winner of the Colloid Society 2017

On the occasion of the 48th Annual General Meeting in Garching near Munich, the Colloid Societz's prizes were awarded by its board of directors. The 2017 winners are:

•    Ostwald Award: Reinhard Lipowsky, Potsdam
•    Steinkopff Award: Rainer H. Müller, Berlin
•    Liesegang Award: Regine von Klitzing, Darmstadt
•    Zsigmondy Scholarship: Annette Andrieu-Brunsen, Darmstadt    

Reinhard Lipowsky (left)

receives the Ostwald Award in recognition of his work on the the theoretical foundations of colloidal systems in bulk and at surfaces.
 

 

Awards of the Colloid Society in 2015

The laureates of the year 2015 are:

• Ostwald-Preis: Matthias Ballauff, Berlin

• Zsigmondy- Stipendium: Matthias Karg, Bayreuth

 

Awards of the Colloid Society in 2013

The laureates of the year 2013 are:

• Steinkopff award: Reinhard Strey, Köln
• Graham award: Thomas Zemb, Montpellier
• Liesegang award: Werner Goedel, Chemnitz
• Zsigmondy Scholarship: Dmitri Volodkin, Potsdam

	Reinhard Strey received the Steinkopff Prize in recognition of his work about nucleation, microemulsion structure and the practical application of these findings in Microemulsion boosting, nanofoams and H2Oleum
Thomas Zemb received the Graham Prize in recognition of his transboundary work on structure determination of complex fluids and catanionic systems.
	Werner Goedel  received the Liesegang Prize in recognition of his work on particle-assisted wetting and the application of the findings in the production of nanostructured materials.
Dmitry Volodkin received the Zsigmondy Scholarship for his contributions to the preparation of functionalized capsules, particles and films.