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The British Carbon Group is a special interest group of the Royal Society of Chemistry , the Institute of Physics and the Society of Chemical Industry devoted to the advancement of carbon science. It is also a member of the European Carbon Association.
The Carbon Group was originally formed in 1965 as a Subject Group of The Institute of Physics. In 1977 the Group became the Joint Carbon Group of The Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Since January 1994 the Group has been joined with the Industrial Carbon and Graphite Group of The Society of Chemical Industry and is known as The British Carbon Group. In addition to physicists and chemists, the Group welcomes professional members from other disciplines with an interest in carbon and is attracting interest from scientists working in Europe and the developing countries.
Naturally-occurring graphite in a dolerite matrix from Sleathwaite, Cumbria, UK. This image appears in the BCG's latest newsletter in an article by members of the British Geological Survey. The picture appears by permission of Dr. D. Millward and of the Director of the BGS.
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Vice-Chairman
Dr. Nicole Grobert
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Department of Materials, University of Oxford
Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH
Tel: +44 1865 273672
Fax: +44 1865 283 333
E-mail: nicole.grobert/~a~/materials.ox.ac.uk
Affiliation: DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft), RMS (Royal Microscopical Society)
Retires : 2007 AGM
Hon. Secretary
Dr. John Fisher
7 Blake Close
Rotherham
SHEFFIELD S66 1UN
Tel(Home): +44 1709 547886
Mobile: +44 7787 106608
Email : john.fisher1/~a~/btconnect.com
Affiliation : SCI
Retires: 2008 AGM
1st elected @ 2002 AGM
Hon. Treasurer
Dr. A.J. Wickham
Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester University
Cwmchwefru Farm
Llanafan Fawr
BUILTH WELLS
Brecknockshire LD2 3PW
Home/ Fax: + 44 1597 860244
Mobile : + 44 7785 567 577
Office : + 44 1597 860633
E-mail: confer/~a~/globalnet.co.uk
Affiliation : RSC
Retires:
1st elected @ 2006 AGM
Prof. K M Thomas
Director, Northern Carbon Research Laboratories
Department of Chemistry
Bedson Building
University of Newcastle
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE1 7RU
Tel: +44 191 222 7085/6839
Fax: +44 191 222 6929
E-mail: mark.thomas/~a~/newcastle.ac.uk
Affiliation RSC
Retires : 2008 AGM
Dr Ian Kinloch
Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellow
School of Materials
University of Manchester
Grosvenor Street
Manchester
M1 7HS
Tel: +44 (0)161 306 3615
Fax: + 44 (0)161 306 3586
E-mail: ian.kinloch/~a~/manchester.ac.uk
Affiliation IoM3 and IoP
Retires : 2009 AGM
Dr Chris Ewels
Institute of Materials,
CNRS UMR6502,
2 rue de la Houssiniere
B.P. 32229,
44322 NANTES
France
Tel: 0033-240376407
Fax: 0033-240373991
Email: chris.ewels/~a~/cnrs-imn.fr
Web: http://www.ewels.info/
Affiliation - IoP
Retires : 2009 AGM
Dr A. J. Fletcher
Northern Carbon Research Laboratories
School of Natural Sciences
Bedson Building
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Tel:
Fax:
Email: A.J.Fletcher/~a~/newcastle.ac.uk
Dr J. Andresen
School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering
University of Nottingham
Beeston
UK
Tel:
Fax:
Email: john.andreson/~a~/nottingham.ac.uk
Prof. Sergey Mikhalovsky
CChem, FRSC
Professor of Materials Chemistry
School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
University of Brighton
Cockcroft Building, Lewes Road
Brighton BN2 4GJ
Tel +44 (0)1273 642034
Fax +44 (0)1273 679333
E-mail: s.mikhalovsky/~a~/bton.ac.uk
Affiliation RSC
Retired: 2006 AGM
Newsletter Editor
Dr. N. Parkyns
28 Highclere Drive
Hemel Hempstead
HP3 8BY
Tel. / Fax. : +44 1442 255429
Email : norman.parkyns/~a~/tesco.net
Affiliation : RSC
RSC
Dr. A.J. Wickham
Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester University
Cwmchwefru Farm
Llanafan Fawr
BUILTH WELLS
Brecknockshire LD2 3PW
Home/ Fax: + 44 1597 860244
Mobile : + 44 7785 567 577
Office : + 44 1597 860633
E-mail: confer/~a~/globalnet.co.uk
Affiliation : RSC
IOP
Dr. J. Goss
School of Natural Sciences
Bedson Building
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newscastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Tel: +44 191 2227425
Fax: +44 191 2227361
Email: j.p.goss/~a~/newcastle.ac.uk
Prof. Malcolm I. Heggie
Department of Chemistry,
Chichester Building
University of Sussex
Falmer
BRIGHTON BN1 9QJ
Tel : +44 1273 678402 ; Home +44 1884 861245
Fax : +44 1273 677 196
Email : m.i.heggie/~a~/sussex.ac.uk
Affiliation : IOP
Retires: 2007 AGM
1st elected @ 2003 AGM
Prof. John W. Patrick
School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Enginering
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
Tel : +44 (0)115 951 4175
Fax : +44 (0)115 951 4115
E-mail : john.patrick/~a~/nottingham.ac.uk
Retires: 2007 AGM
1st elected @ 2003 AGM
Dr C.J. Hindmarsh
Leader Environmental Control
Bldg 231, Physical Sciences Department
Dstl, Porton Down
Salisbury
SP4 0JQ
Tel: +44 (0)1980 613469
Fax: +44 (0)1980 613611
Email: chindmarsh/~a~/dstl.gov.uk
Affiliation - None at present.
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The British Carbon Group has funds available to assist student travel for participation in national and international meetings relating to the science and technology of carbon materials.
Preference will be given to students who are:
The application form is available as a pdf file or a Word document. Applications should be accompanied by a letter from the students supervisor or Head of Department supporting the application and specifying to whom any cheque should be made payable.
Please note that applications are for travel funds only, not for conference fees or accomodation. Sums awarded are normally up to 75GBP for a UK conference and up to 200GBP for international conferenes. Cheques will only be issued after the conference has taken place and on receipt of the short article mentioned above.
Application Form (pdf)
Application Form (word).
This annual award was established in 1996 in memory of Brian Kelly, a leading authority on graphite physics.
The award is intended as a travel grant for students or young researchers under the age of 35 to attend the annual international carbon conference. Anyone living or working, at the time of that conference, in the country where the conference is held is not eligible. As a consequence, applications will not be accepted from the US on this occasion.
The award is made upon the basis of an appraisal of the extended abstract or paper submitted to the conference organisers, together with a short CV and commentary provided normally by the candidate's supervisor or close colleague. However, self-nomination is permitted. A committee of British Carbon Group officers will choose the successful applicant.
The closing date for applications for C2007 will be 22nd April 2007.
The award is (currently) one thousand dollars ($1000) and is presented at the time of the conference. It is a condition of the award that the winner attends the conference and presents his or her paper either orally or as a poster.
Applications may be transferred electronically to the Chairman of The British Carbon Group, Prof. Malcolm Heggie, at m.i.heggie@sussex.ac.uk or mailed to him at the following address:
Prof. Malcolm Heggie
Chairman, The British Carbon Group
Department of Chemistry,
Chichester Building,
University of Sussex,
Falmer,
Brighton BN1 9QJ
United Kingdom.
Previous Winners:
| 1996: | Y. Kawabuchi, Kyushu University, Japan |
| 1997: | J. Barbosa-Mota, Inst. Biologia Experimental e Tecnologica, Oeiras, Portugal |
| 1998: | B. Fathollahi, University of California, San Diego, USA |
| 1999: | no award |
| 2000: | J. Klett, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA and J. Andresen, Penn State University, USA (two awards) |
| 2001: | Z.-X. Ma, Tohoku University, Japan |
| 2002: | J. Y. Howe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA and M. Guellali, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (two awards) |
| 2003: | no award |
| 2004: | Q.H.Yang, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan. |
| 2005: | no award |
| 2006: | An-hui Lu, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany and Emmanuel Flahaut Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (two awards) |
| 2007: | Philip Adelhelm, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Potsdam, Germany |
These details are available as a Pdf document
Membership of The British Carbon Group is open to all those with an interest in any aspect of carbon and carbonaceous materials. Those who already are Members, Associates or Fellows of one of our sponsoring bodies (The Royal Society of Chemistry, The Institute of Physics or The Society of Chemical Industry) can automatically become members of The British Carbon Group by ticking the appropriate "box" on their annual membership renewal form, and paying a small additional fee with their subscription to cover postages etc. At present, Members of The Society of Chemical Industry need to pay that fee to us directly, but we hope that this anomaly will shortly be removed.
Others may join as Subscribing Members on payment of an annual fee which is currently £10.
Further details may be obtained from The Honorary Treasurer, Dr. A. J. Wickham
All Members receive an occasional Carbon Newsletter (approximately twice per year) and also receive reduced fees for all scientific meetings sponsored or co-sponsored by the Group. There is no specific student membership, but bona fide students may apply for bursaries to assist their attendance at conferences both in the UK and overseas.