Events Calendar

"6th World Congress on Oxidation Catalysis"

"Towards an integrated approach in innovation and development"

The Congress is intended to offer an update of recent innovation in fundamental and applied aspects and it is focused on highlighting progress, new developments and new directions in oxidation. Importance will be given to heterogeneous, homogeneous, bio- and enzymatic catalysis. Our goal is to give the opportunity to researchers from different fields of oxidation catalysis to exchange points of view, to meet convergence in the research domains and to take advantage of the progress, in order to create a synergy of knowledge.

Organised by SCI Fine Chemicals Group

To the benefit of academia, industry and the public at large, the harnessing of innovative ideas and expertise that reside within Universities into significant products is enabled by the partnerships brokered and developed through Technology Transfer.

This meeting looks at the many aspects of Technology Transfer, with an overview of the key processes, perspectives from academia and industry, sources of funding, the importance of securing strong intellectual property rights and how those rights may be licensed effectively. The government’s role in enabling Technology Transfer will be discussed as will successful case histories.

"16th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry"

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Catalysis in Organic Synthesis
Total Synthesis of Natural Products
Medicinal Chemistry
Bioorganic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Supramolecular Chemistry
Synthesis of Functional Materials
Physical Organic Chemistry

Covers all aspects of contemporary organic synthesis and provides a forum for the ever more exciting methodologies and strategies that continue to emerge.

"14th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry"

Bioenergetics (Respiration, Denitrification, Photosynthesis, Electron Transfer)
Small Molecules Activation
Sensor Proteins
Sensing and Dynamics of Metal Ions in Cell
Traffic and Storage of Metal Ions
Metalloproteins
Biogenesis of Metalloproteins
Molecular Design of Metalloproteins
Metal-DNA/RNA Interaction
Metal Ions in Drug Design, Neuroscience, and Disease
Bioorganometallic Chemistry
Bionanomaterials
New Trends in Bioinorganic Chemistry

"5th International Conference on the Science, Technology and Applications of Gold"

"15th IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis"

Brings together chemists from industry and academia from all over the world to present and discuss the latest advances in new metal-catalysed and metal-mediated reactions, novel preparations and reactions of organometallic reagents, mechanistic insights into important metal-based reactions, and new or improved methods for the synthesis of functional molecules and materials, in which the metal plays a key role.

"Japan-UK Symposium on Chirality and Supramolecular Chemical Synthesis 2009"

A symposium, with talks and a networking and research workshop event to faciliate continued collaborations between Japan and the United Kingdom and develop new and exciting research ideas.

Confirmed Speakers:

Shu Kobayashi (Tokyo)
Makoto Fujita (Tokyo)
Akira Harada (Osaka)
Steve Davies (Oxford)
Sue Gibson (Imperial)
Dave Leigh (Edinburgh)
Phil Gale (Southampton)

Themes will include:

• Chemistry for Health
• Analysis & Detection
• Materials
• Communication & Education
• Industry & Innovation
• Energy & Environment
• Synthesis & Mechanisms

Themes will overlap in several places and the programme will be designed to be accessible and relevant to all.

"42nd IUPAC Congress"

Future global prosperity will depend on new or improved processes that are economically and environmentally sustainable. This is the paradigm shift of the early 21st century, driven by the threat of climate change and the increasing scarcity of raw materials. Catalysis has a leading role in many of the chemistry solutions, as the key enabling science in some cases, and as part of general technology in others. Interdisciplinary collaboration and communication will be essential.

This symposium is an opportunity for universities and industrial companies to show a wider audience what they have got to offer on issues of global concern.

"42nd IUPAC Congress"

The provision of green and clean sources of energy is of paramount importance to society. In particular the need to decrease pollution in terms of sulphur content of liquid fuels, using bi-sustainable feedstocks for energy provision as well as ensuring that auto-exhaust emissions are minimised. These are all key areas in which catalysis plays a major role in providing new green sustainable technology.

This conference session will focus on key recent developments in the fields of:

• Designing catalysts for new gas to liquids technology to ensure low sulphur diesel and gasoline can be secured
• Designing effective catalysts for the use of renewable feedstocks for the provision of energy, for example the generation of bio-diesel
• The latest approaches to catalysis in terms of auto emission controls

"18th International Symposium on Olefin Metathesis and Related Chemistry"

Alkene and alkyne metathesis
Theory and mechanism
Catalyst and initiator design
Catalyst immobilization
Applications in organic synthesis
Applications in polymer chemistry
Applications in medical chemistry
Applications in materials science
Applications in chemical engineering

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will showcase its cooperatively funded R&D with its partners, national laboratories, the nation's automotive transportation industry, universities, and other national and international organizations. DEER fosters the exchange of information and best practices through presentations and posters from new and on-going engine R&D and networking with industry colleagues.

"Materials Innovations for Medical Devices"

The only medical devices conference and exposition that brings together materials scientists and engineers, metallurgists, product designers, researchers, and clinicians. This event brings together the world’s foremost experts from academia, industry, and national laboratories involved in cardiac, vascular, neurological and GI implants, orthopaedic implants, dental devices and surgical instrumentation/devices. Materials covered include biomedical alloys (stainless steels, Ti alloys, Co-Cr alloys, Ni-Ti alloys, noble and refractory metals), biopolymers, bioceramics, surface coatings, and nanomaterials.

"HFCE 2009"

China's biggest hydrogen and fuel cell event: fuel cell systems, fuel cell components, hydrogen generation and storage, safety, evaluation and testing, certification as well as manufacturing.

"Conference of Metallurgists 2009"

"Nickel, Cobalt and PGMs"

MetSoc (Metallurgical Society of the CIM)

Includes:

'Advances in the Processing of Nickel, Cobalt and PGMs Using Hydrometallurgical, Mineral Processing, or Pyrometallurgical Techniques'

"This symposium focuses on the pyrometallurgical treatment of ores, concentrates and other materials. Papers will be presented on: existing operations, projects in the pipeline, R&D initiatives, emerging technologies, laterite processing, processing of sulphides, etc. We are planning on a good balance between industrial and academic papers."

"Summer School 2009"

"World Hydrogen Technologies Convention 2009"

Brings together researchers, policy makers, investors, energy producers and consumers in an endeavour to align their efforts and knowledge relating to the production, usage, and safe handling for promoting hydrogen as a potent energy carrier.

"Catalysis for a Sustainable World"

New cleaner processes and more selective catalysts towards the minimization of by-products, including homogeneous and enzymatic catalysis; elimination of pollutants and/or undesired products whenever present; new energy vectors and the rational use of energy; and catalyst design, characterization and recovery.

"Faraday Discussion 145"

Organic reaction mechanisms, including synthetic and natural (enzymes, ribozymes) catalysts
Theoretical methods (ab initio and computer simulation)
Non-covalently bonded structures (intermolecular interactions, supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition, surfactant aggregation, polymer-surfactant complexes, liquid crystals, self-assembly)
Organic surfaces (structure, properties and reactivity)
Gas phase structure and reactivity and its relationship to solution behaviour
Ultrafast processes: solvation, charge transfer, electron transfer

"Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Nanoparticles"

Organised by:

SCI Colloid and Surface Chemistry Group
RSC Colloid and Interface Science Group

"Showcases the UK’s most exciting research in the production, processing and applications of nanoparticles (and nanomaterials), with a view to their fundamental chemistries, property measurement, formulation/arrangement and latterly, their commercial exploitation."

"7th Edition International School of Organometallic Chemistry"

"New Perspectives in Organometallic Chemistry: From Modelling to Applications"

"First International Meeting on Organic Materials for a Better Future"

Will focus on new organic materials for photonics and electronics including conjugated oligomers and polymers, molecular materials, transition metal complexes and covering synthetic methodologies, characterization aspects as well as devices.

Includes organometallic phosphorescent complexes of transition metals (and also iridium, platinum, osmium) as emitters in OLEDs.

"The biennual Conference of the South African Chemical Institute (SACI), primarily focusing on INORGANIC Chemistry.

Will be hosted by the Department of Chemistry of the University of the Free State (UFS), on the UFS Campus in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

It is sponsored partly by the Royal Society of Chemistry: Dalton Division, who will provide support for a significant contingent of speakers from Europe and elsewhere.

"International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis"

"The aim of this international meeting is to bring together practioners in the three fields of catalysis, heterogeneous, homogeneous and enzyme, that utilize mostly nanosize particles. Recent advances in instrumentation, synthesis and reaction studies permit the nanoscale and molecular characterization of the catalyst systems, often for the same reaction, under similar experimental conditions. It is hoped that this circumstance will permit the development of correlations of these three different fields of catalysis on the molecular level. To further this goal we aim to uncover and focus on common concepts that emerge from nanoscale studies of structures and dynamics of the three types of catalysis. The use of these catalysts in selective organic transformations will also be an important topic of this conference."

"9th International Conference on Engines and Vehicles"

Conference topics include fuel injection and combustion processes, alternative fuel power systems, powertrain technology, and exhaust aftertreatment and emissions.

"International Symposium on Modelling of Exhaust-Gas After-Treatment"

This is the first symposium in Europe that specifically focuses on modelling and numerical simulation in automobile exhaust-gas aftertreatment.

The symposium will cover all relevant systems: Diesel Oxidation Catalysts (DOCs), Three-Way Catalysts, SCR-techniques, NOx Storages Catalysts (NSCs), and Particulate Filters.

"ChemOutsourcing offers a unique conference featuring over 100 speakers, mostly from pharma and biotech companies, and sessions cover the chemical gamut from discovery, pre-clinical development, and commercial scale manufacturing. Milligrams to tons. We keep apace the fast-globalizing chemical industry so you can gather critical information and contacts you need for your business.

The show attracts small pharmaceutical and biotech company sourcing management plus a large assembly of suppliers from around the world."

Training course presented by a group of talented, enthusiastic, academics from European Universities.

This is a general meeting, primarily intended to bring together the U.K. electrochemical community – the meeting covers all aspects of electrochemistry, from chemical physics/theory to more applied aspects (energy conversion, electroanalysis). There will also be a corrosion symposium at this year’s meeting.

Emission Control Strategies
Global Harmonization of Emission Standards
Improved Fuel Economy
Euro-6 and EPA 2010 Mandates

"The Second International Symposium on Combinatorial Sciences in Biology, Chemistry, Catalysts and Materials"

The Changing Environment for Fuel Cells in Buildings
Hydrogen and Fuel Technology
Vehicles
Electronic and Portable Systems
Electricity Generation and Transmission

"10th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry"

Structural and functional models of metalloenzymes
Inhibition of metalloenzymes
Metal ion interactions with biomolecules (DNA, peptides, etc.)
Chelation therapy: Design and synthesis of selective chelating agents
Metal based drugs
Metal complexes as anticancer and antiviral agents
Metal complexes in the clinical diagnosis
Human diseases related to metal ion excess and/or deficiency
Metal ions and neurodegeneration
Bioorganometallic chemistry
Metal ion toxicology
Environmental aspects of bioinorganic chemistry, phytomining and phytoremediation
Analytical sensors based upon metal ions and/or ligands

"3rd International Conference on STRUCTURED CATALYSTS AND REACTORS

1. New developments in geometrical configurations, materials and manufacturing technologies of structured substrates.

2. Preparation and characterization of structured catalysts.

3. Kinetics and transport phenomena in structured catalysts.

4. Modeling and scale-up of structured reactors and microreactors.

5. Structured catalysts and reactors for innovative environmental, automotive and energy applications.

6. Structured catalysts and reactors in intensification of industrial processes.

Mechanism, Method and Strategy

Provides a conceptual framework for the multitude of reactions currently emanating from the impact of transition metal catalysis on the field of aromatic and heteroaromatic synthesis and to place it into practical perspective.

"Automobile and Engine Technology"

Will provide a wide range of technical presentations addressing current challenges of the vehicle and powertrain industry.

The Forum will feature plenary sessions and round tables, panel discussions and presentations covering all areas of nanoindustry and nanotechnology development, as well as the Second International Exhibition which will demonstrate practical application of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies.

Organised by RSC Applied Catalysis Group and SCI Fine Chemicals Group

Confirmed speakers include: John Blacker (NPIL Pharmaceuticals, Leeds), Michael Krische (Texas), Matthias Beller (Rostock), David Cole-Hamilton (St. Andrews), Peter Quaedflieg (DSM), Paul Murray (Astra Zeneca) and Alan Armstrong (Imperial College).

Topics to be covered will include: the latest developments in coupling redox processes with C–C bond formation, cross coupling reactions, nitrile hydrogenation, organocatalysis, amide bond formation by catalysis and novel techniques for development of catalysed reactions.

Will provide a forum for understanding developments to meet future exhaust emissions regulations and CO₂/fuel economy requirements. It will focus on alternative powertrain technologies such as hybrids and electric vehicles together with developments in exhaust aftertreatment systems.

Classical deactivation and modeling
Automotive catalyst deactivation
Deactivation in homogeneous catalysis
Catalyst deactivation in fuel cells
Catalyst deactivation in microreactor units
Deactivation during valorization of renewables
Deactivation during Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
High throughput testing and artificial deactivation
Mechanical stability
Deactivation during polymerization
Operando techniques to study deactivation (in situ)
Regeneration of catalysis
Photo-catalysis

"Materials Science and Technology 2009"

"15th Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Conference"

"Will focus on solutions for sustainable mobility concepts for people and goods in all areas of passenger car, truck and bus, transportation as part of total mobility concepts. Emphasis will be placed on the development of future powertrain systems, conservation of the environment and energy resources as well as new vehicle concepts, materials, electronics and essential improvements in vehicle safety. Special attention will be devoted to the product creation process including virtual reality techniques, simulation and testing methods."

"The challenge – exhaust aftertreatment for diesel engines"

Topical Workshop and Tabletop Exhibition

"A unique forum that brings together scientists, engineers, manufacturers, academia, and business people from around the world who have been working in the area of Microelectronic packages and uses Precious Metals in their applications. This workshop has been specifically organized to allow for the presentation and discussion of some of the best ways to economize and save cost with a valuable set of commodities."

• Uses of Precious Metals in Microelectronics
• Recovery/Recycling/Refining
• Precious metal trading
• Future outlook for Precious Metal prices
• Cost savings techniques and technologies
• Leasing and pool accounts
• Advantages of Precious Metals over non Precious Metals
• Substitute materials
• Volume reduction (diameter, thickness etc.)
• New Applications using Precious Metals

Organised by the Catalysis Society of South Africa (CATSA)

Hosted by Stellenbosch University

Heterogeneous catalysis
Homogeneous catalysis
Biocatalysis

"Fuel Cells: The New Generation of Green Power"

"Reduction of vehicles particlulates emission – experiences and challenges"

"Nanoscale and Amorphous Materials
Aluminum and Magnesium
Electronic Materials
Advanced Characterization and Modeling
High Performance Structural Materials
Materials Processing
Materials and Society"

Will review developments in production technology and topical aspects of commerce for synthesis gas and downstream products, including ammonia, nitrogen fertilizers and chemicals such as urea, AN, UAN, methanol, hydrogen and synthetic fuels (GTL).

"6th International Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Expo"

Experts from vehicle and engine manufacturers, suppliers, development suppliers and science will report on the most recent status and the forthcoming concepts regarding exhaust gas emission reduction. Further discussion topics will evolve around legislation, instrumentation, sensor technology and simulation. Moreover, these topics will be complemented by a review of different combustion methods linked to alternative fuels as well as exhaust gas emission by hybrid drives.

"23rd Conference of the Organic Reaction Catalysis Society"

Selective homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis for the synthesis of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Catalyst materials: solid acids, supported metals, activated base metals, heterogenized homogeneous catalysts
Catalysis for selective oxidation, hydrogenation, and hydrogenolysis
Catalysis applied to chemical production from bio-renewable resources
Transition metal catalyzed coupling reactions
Chiral catalysis and environmentally friendly catalysis

Emission Control Technology

"2^nd International Conference on Innovation for Sustainable Production"

Sustainable Production
Sustainable Chemistry
Sustainable Energy
Materials for Sustainable Production
Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS)
In vitro methods replacing animal testing (CARDAM)

One-stop-shop for cutting edge technology: stationary, mobile and portable/micro fuel cell systems, hydrogen production, transport and infrastructure, catalysts, testing, components and more.

"Each year at the Symposium, industry experts from around the world come together to share ideas and discuss the latest advancements in jewelry technology, processes and more."

"Automobiles and Sustainable Mobility"

Includes:

Environmentally friendly vehicles

1. IC engines: goals and developments
2. Tools for emission reduction, zero emission in the future
3. Alternative fuels and related systems (e.g. electric, hybrid, fuel cell, NCG, LCG, biofuel)
4. Sources of noise, reduction of vehicle noise
5. Means to reduce energy consumption

Will deal with all aspects of the processing of gold, silver and PGM ores, such as flotation, bio and hydrometallurgy.

There will be three and a half days of technical sessions, including several keynote talks, dedicated space and time for poster discussions and core displays, pre- and post-meeting field trips, workshops and short courses. There will be technical sessions on highly siderophile elements, the geology and genesis of PGE and Ni-Cu-(PGE) deposits, and the mineralogy, metallurgy, and beneficiation of disseminated PGE ores.

"PREPA10"

Innovative approaches in catalyst preparation for specific performances and purposes
catalysts for fuel cells
electrocatalysts
photocatalysts
catalysts for artificial photosynthesis
catalysts for environmental application and energy production
catalysts for biomass (constituents) conversion
catalysts for nanotube synthesis
multifunctional catalyts for petro- and fine chemistry
catalysts with metal organic frameworks
hybrid (bio + inorganic + organic) catalysts

Advanced preparation of supports and supported catalysts
hierarchical porous supports
heterogenized soluble catalysts
supported nanoparticles and organometallic catalysts
nanotubes/fibers as catalysts (or supports)
immobilisation of biocatalysts

Key concepts in catalyst preparation
scaling-up of catalyst preparation and shaping
innovation in unit operations for catalyst preparation
in situ spectroscopies in relation with catalyst preparation
structured and membrane catalysts

Will encompass all aspects of coordination chemistry through plenary, keynote and section lectures and poster presentations. Fundamental chemistry through to chemistry specifically addressing the pressing concerns of the 21st century exemplified by energy, environmental and medicinal chemistry will be melded to give comprehensive coverage in parallel streams.

"The Road to Greener Industry"

Benign synthesis (catalysis, solvents, reagents)
Green chemistry for energy production (hydrogen, fuel cell, greener energy production, fuels from biomass)
Chemicals from renewables (chemicals from biomass, waste plastics, waste CO₂)
Green engineering (process intensification, energy savings, separations)
Education in green chemistry and engineering
Policy (corporate and governmental)

Innovative Materials
Resources and Environment
Supramolecular Systems
Synthetic Methods and Catalysis
Molecular Life Sciences
Analysis, Manipulation, and Simulation
Advances in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
Sustainability in Chemistry Education

"XIX International Solvent Extraction Conference"

Will provide an international forum where scholars and practitioners may analyse and discuss latest innovations in technologies and methodologies in solvent extraction operations and processes.

"15th International Congress on Catalysis"

"Mechanisms", "Materials" and "Processes"