Hi there, my name is Robin Gloop-Taylor. I teach a course on scientific skills to the

students of the Elite Masters programme in Advanced Materials and Processes. During this

course the students learn, amongst other things, how to make scientific posters. And this is

an area where there's nothing like learning by doing and so each student makes a poster

either on their mini project or maybe on a past project, for instance their bachelor's

degree. Normally the students show their posters in a poster session where we have poster boards

and we gather around the posters and talk about them and we have drinks and it's a very

relaxing atmosphere. Unfortunately due to the current pandemic situation we cannot run

such a session so in 2021 we thought about how could we realise this in a digital format

and we decided to put all 29 posters on a digital whiteboard called a mural and on that

mural you could see each individual poster, you could zoom into them, you could leave

questions or comments next to the poster on sticky notes, you could even visit a zoom

room by clicking on the portrait of the poster presenter to discuss the poster with that

presenter. We divided the event which took place on 12 February 2021 into two sub-sessions.

The first took a look at the two focal subjects of map, advanced processes and computational

material science and process simulation. The second looked at the focal subjects biomaterials

and bioprocesses and nanomaterials and nanotechnology. Before each session the students held one-minute

talks, something we called super flash talks, in order to introduce the main topics of their

poster and now I'd like to invite you to join me in visiting the three prize-winning posters

from our session. Let's go. And the first poster I'd like to present is our second prize

winner and that is from Erika Abella. Hello everyone, I am Erika Abella and my study

is about the electrochemical conversion of five hydroxymetals for ferals to direct in

fuel precursors. So this study is conducted in partnership with Helmholtz Institute for

Renewable Energy located here in Erlangen, Germany and to move further I want to introduce

the 5-HMF, it's a biomass-based platform chemical which has a variety of applications.

While electrochemical conversion is a promising alternative route from traditional chemical

synthesis. So basically combination of this biomass conversion and electrochemistry will

give the possibility towards cleaner chemistry. By just controlling the electrochemical conversion

parameters, the action selectivity and efficiency can be fine-tuned. Furthermore, electricity

needed for the chemical conversion can be harnessed from other renewable energy resources.

In my research, I investigated the effect of varying potential and concentration on

the electrochemical conversion. I then used HPLC for quantification. So for further detailed

analytical results, please check my poster and I would be very glad to answer any questions.

The poster prizes were voted for by lecturers in the BAT program, supervisors, senior students

and also members of our external advisory panel. Let's now move to the two first prizes.

So it was a tie and the first of those was presented by Nayeon Kang.

Hi everyone, my name is Nayeon and I'm going to briefly tell you about my mini project.

I assume that everyone has a washing of liquid at home, so surfactant. So what I did is to

put surfactant into non-polar liquid, which is in my case toluene and mix it really well.

And then what I did is to put silica gel in it, which is a mesoporous material. And I

observed how surfactant molecule is absorbing on the silica surface. How? By using conductivity.

Then what is so special about my seemingly simple experiment? So there is only one paper

published using conductivity to see absorption kinetics. So I was the first one to use this

novel method to determine insertion equilibrium, which is constructing an isosome. It was confirmed

that measurement of conductivity can be indeed utilized as a tool to monitor to surfactant

concentration in non-polar medium. Thank you. And I look forward to seeing you guys in my

zoom room. Thank you.

As you can see, two of the prizes were awarded to students doing projects in the focal topic

advanced processes. Our second first prize went to a student who was taking the focal

subject nanomaterials and nanotechnology. Let's take a look. And this poster was presented