The Department of Chemistry was strongly represented at this year's Electrochem conference, “Electrochemical Horizons”.

Professor Andy Abbot, Dr Emma Smith, Greg Forrest, Jenny Hartley, Claire Fullarton, Chris Zaleski and Agab Hewas all contributed to the event. Posters were presented by Greg Forrest, Claire Fullarton, Chris Zaleski and Agab Hewas. Greg was successful in winning one of the three poster prizes (pictured right) awarded at the conference. Greg was presented with the “SCI ECTG Enterprise Award 2011” at the city's Roman baths and he will be attending an IP course by Withers & Rogers courtesy of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) as part of his prize.

The University of Leicester had a bumper year for oral presentations with Professor Andy Abbott giving a talk entitled “Electrocrystallisation of silver in deep eutectic solvents: and electrochemical kinetic study using real time in-situ holographic imaging”; Jenny Hartley gave a talk on “Ionometallurgy – properties and applications of metal ions in ionic liquids” and finally Emma Smith introduced the “Electrochemical characterisation of mixed poly (pyrrole-thiophene) films immersed in choline chloride based deep eutectic solvents”.

The “Electrochemical Horizons” conference took place on 5-6th September 2011 and was organised by Prof Frank Marken and his team at the University of Bath.  Electrochem is a Science and Technology forum for the UK & Ireland electrochemistry community in industry and academia and for the upcoming generation of interdisciplinary researchers.