A new research collaboration led by Professor Dominic Campopiano in the UK is one of 14 new projects recently announced that have been jointly supported by funding bodies in the UK and USA.

Congratulations to a team from EaStCHEM and the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh for winning this year's Ekeberg Prize. They were awarded the prize for their research paper "Tantalum recycling by solvent extraction: chloride is better than fluoride", in the journal Metals.

A research team including Dr Mathew Horrocks has recently published a paper detailing a new super-resolution imaging technique that allows scientists to track proteins inside living cells.

Dr Amanda Jarvis and Prof. Dominic Campopiano have both recently been announced as winners of a Principal's Innovation Award.

The Principal's Innovation Award is a new competition for 2020. It is open to all research staff including PDRAs, for high risk, blue sky projects that have transformative potential.

Dr Jarvis's awarded will allow her to develop research into amino acids.

A new paper in Biomacromolecules from Dr Fabio Nudelman and Prof. Philip Camp has revealed new information about the multi-step self-assembly process of collagen fibrils. The work combined mutliple techniques including electron microscopy and molecular-dynamics simulations.

Shona Richardson, a postgraduate student in the Campopiano group, has written an article for the Royal Society of Chemistry about her experiences at the 50th anniversary of the European Young Chemists' Network.

The Cockroft group recently had two papers accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition and both have been highlighted by the journal.

The first, "Reconciling Electrostatic and n→π* Orbital Contributions in Carbonyl Interactions", has been highlighted as a "hot paper".

Dr Adam Kirrander is part of the team that contributed to the draft science case for a UK based X-ray Free Electron Laser, which was launched on the 2nd of July.

The case explores the science and technology benefits from such a facility. The consultation, which closes on the 15th September, is accompanied by a series of interactive webinars covering topics such as Life Sciences, Chemical and Material Sciences, and Physical and Extreme Conditions Sciences, broadcast in the period 23 July - 5 August.

Congratulations to Professor Mark Bradley, who has been elected to the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry Biology Interface Division Council.

The council represents the areas where the two core disciplines of chemistry and biology meet. As such it represents RSC members across the breadth of chemistry, unifying groups across several other RSC divisions.

Dr Antonia Mey is contributing to the online exhibition I AM A.I., which looks at the impact artificial intelligence will have on our lives.