Events Calendar

"6th Asian Conference on Electrochemistry in Taipei"

"Electrochemistry in the 21st Century for Sustainable Society"

"XL Annual Polish Conference on Catalysis"

Will address recent progress in the field of catalysis and its impact on various aspects of life in modern society, such as sustainable development, improving living standards and the protection of the environment.

"Understanding surface properties and the atomistic processes that govern them is critically important for the creation and performance of advanced materials serving modern technologies such as electronic, magnetic, and optical devices, sensing, catalysis, or coating. First-principles simulations are a powerful approach for reaching this understanding, in particular when the multi-scale nature (from nanoscopic to mesoscopic and beyond) of phenomena in real materials is properly addressed. This summer school gathers leading theoretical and experimental researchers in the materials sciences to review recent advances in such simulations in the light of topical, material-specific problems and experimental findings.

This Marie Curie Psi-k Training summer school is ideally suited for young researchers (graduate students, postdocs, junior faculty) from physics, chemistry, and materials sciences who seek to come abreast with the latest developments in the field and discuss their own research projects with their peers and senior experts.

All participants are asked to present a poster on their research.

Young colleagues are invited to take part in the "Young Investigator Competition". The winner will be awarded a diploma plus 500 Euro in cash."

Includes:

Challenges for Palladium Casting Alloys, Dr. Jorg Fischer-Bühner

Investment Casting Behaviour of Pd-Based Alloy, Paolo Battaini

Platinum and Lasers: The Natural Solution, Jurgen J. Maerz

A Study of the Effects of CAD/CAM-Derived Materials In the Casting of Platinum Alloys, Teresa Fryé

High-Temperature Corrosion and Protection of Materials

Main Industrial Fields Concerned with High-Temperature Corrosion

• Land-based gas turbines, diesel engines
• Aerospace industry
• Boilers, incinerators, burners
• Coal gasification
• Fuel cells
• Exhaust systems; high-temperature gas separation; hot gas clean up
• The process industries (chemical; petrochemical; steelmaking; glassmaking; pulp and paper)

Advanced Materials and Associated Problems Concerned with High-Temperature Corrosion

• Development in understanding of high-temperature corrosion and protection in aggressive environments
• High-temperature coatings (including thermal barrier coatings)
• High-temperature alloys and intermetallics
• Ceramics and composites
• Carburisation and metal dusting
• Role of steam and water vapour on high-temperature corrosion
• Oxide spalling, and influence of mechanical aspects on corrosion
• Quantification of corrosion; modelling; and lifetime prediction
• Advanced characterisation techniques for environmental degradation

"The symposium will provide an overview of new developments in Chinese IP law, including IP enforcement issues and protection issues, with an emphasis on IP issues relating to chemistry, pharmacology, and biotechnology. The symposium is aimed at UK patent practitioners and other interested persons. The organizers intend that attendees should leave the symposium with an enhanced understanding of potential problems and opportunities relating to Chinese IP law, particularly in the chemical arts. The keynote speaker will be Sir Hugh Laddie (former Senior Patent Judge). Other speakers will include leading legal and patent practitioners from the PRC."

A meeting to bring to the industry new developments in techniques used for catalyst characterisation. Laboratory-based techniques as well as those requiring synchrotron sources will be presented in addition to applications involving more conventional techniques. There will also be a manufacturers update from some major players in the field.

"Hydrogen and Fuel Cells 2008"

"Spotlight on Scotland: Developments in Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in Scotland"

Cross-Coupling
Asymmetric Hydrogenation
Enantiofacial Discrimination of Carbon Nucleophiles
Biocatalysts
Synthetic Route Development of NK-1 Antagonists

Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group

This meeting will revisit the area of open-access publishing. Speakers include Simon Coles (Southampton), Peter Murray-Rust (Cambridge), Robert Kiley (The Wellcome Trust), Diana Leitch (Manchester), Bryan Vickery (Chemistry Central) and Christoph Steinbeck (EBI), together with representatives from Nature Publishing Group and other relevant organisations.

Create breakthrough innovations with green chemistry that have the potential to revolutionize the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries.

Share successes and opportunities to challenge ourselves to achieve greener process design.

Implement green chemistry solutions through the supply chain.

"Concepts, Complexity and Diversity in Catalysis"

Materials/Nanoparticles
Theory
Catalysis/Engineering
Reactivity

"2008 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show"

A multi-disciplinary and multi-sector conference on global sustainability addressing advancements in traditional technologies, emerging technologies and clean business practices. CSI Cleantech 2008 brings together the entire cleantech ecosystem, accelerating the flow of technologies from the research phase to the viable market phase. Cleantech links scientists, engineers and researchers with potential business, financial and government partners.

IChemE's Catalysis Subject Group

Research and Technologies to help solve the World Energy Challenge

One of the main themes will be the commercial impact of the latest emissions standards on diesel truck manufacturers and emissions control equipment suppliers. The conference will combine top-level strategy presentations with case studies and panel discussions from the businesses and authorities that will continue to shape the future of diesel emissions reduction.

An international market place designed to assist technology based companies and organisations to develop their business through effective partnering.

ESF-FWF Conference in Partnership with LFUI

"Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (N&N) can contribute to a positive development in this direction in several ways, for instance by contributing to more efficient harvesting of sun light, by providing thermoelectric materials to harvest energy from temperature gradients, by providing energy storage technology e.g. in batteries and for hydrogen storage, by enabling light-weight materials for transportation, by influencing the energy efficiency of industrial production and of household energy use (e.g., through fuel cells, catalysis, reduced friction losses), and by offering schemes to clean up harmful emissions resulting from various energy systems.

Topical areas covered by this conference are those where N&N will, or may, have an impact on the development of a sustainable energy system, including environmental aspects. The conference includes both basic science of relevance for energy/environmental technology and more application oriented research. The objective is to gather experts in the respective fields at one conference, with the aim to make both an inventory and exposure of the state-of-the-art N&N based energy research, technologies and opportunities. We thereby hope to foster scientific excellence in this area, to identify synergies between disciplines and people, and to catalyze global contacts and collaborations among world-leading experts and laboratories. The conference has a strong educational character in as much as it shall provide a younger generation of researchers with a vision, as well as the knowledge and tools to realize this vision."

"Clean Air, Climate Change and Catalysis"

Topical areas that have been chosen for additional focus include:

Fuel Cell Catalysis
Transition Metal Catalysis
Catalysis for Biomass Utilisation
Computational Modelling of Catalytic Processes
Catalysis for Cleaner Energy
Catalysis for Green Chemistry

Will cover a range of topics highlighting the complex issues of hydrogen as an energy carrier. These will include methods of generating hydrogen, materials for hydrogen storage, infrastructure development and hydrogen utilisation technologies, particularly fuel cell systems.

"RSC Speciality Chemicals Sector Symposium"

Will highlight the approaches being taken by the industry in response to environmental concerns and long-term sustainability.

The focus of the Congress is on how research and development in fuel and propulsion technology is being directed towards environmental goals. The Program Committee is particularly interested in papers on the following principal topics:

• Hydrogen production and handling
• Fuel cell powered vehicles
• Fuels derived from biological sources
• The formulation and performance of synthetic fuels.
• Design and performance of utility and stationary engines

"Third International Conference"

"Platinum Metals in the Modern Industry, Hydrogen Energy and Life Maintenance in the Future"

1. Platinum metals production

2. Platinum metals in the modern industries

3. Platinum metals in fuel cells and of hydrogen energy technologies

4. Platinum metals in life maintenance technologies and consumption goods

"Using Green Chemistry & Engineering to Advance Sustainable Solutions"

Focuses on current plant practices to convert metal-containing wastes to products. Processors, raw materials, and markets are identified and quantified. Speakers with decades of hands-on experience detail multiple approaches to recycling metals and associated materials - backed up by slides, videos, and the syllabus.

Particular emphasis is given to combinations of physical, hydrometallurgical, and pyrometallurgical processing, along with associated regulations, to facilitate economical recycling. The presentations are on a practical level, focusing on plant operations, with ample opportunity for interaction by the course participants.

Fuel Cells
Advanced Primary and Secondary Batteries
Electrochemical Super-capacitors
Bio-electrochemical Devices
Sensor Systems
Solar Cells
Photo-electrochemical Cells
Elaboration and Characterization

"2008 Electronic Materials Conference"

"Balticum Organicum Syntheticum 2008"

BOS is a conference series held every two years in the Baltics. It is a combination of Plenary Lectures and poster sessions on the general topics of organic, synthetic, pharmaceutical, catalytic and process chemistry. A full social calendar including opening reception, concert, tours and a final banquet will also be planned. The conference is limited to 275 participants in order to maintain an intimate conference.

"The intersection of Inorganic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry offers a rich scientific landscape to address current unsolved problems in clinical health care. Metals in Medicine is a field that is growing far beyond the classic “success stories” of cisplatin and Gd-MRI contrast agents. At this crossroad, there are nearly unlimited possibilities for applying the unique chemical properties of inorganic building blocks to difficult problems in all areas of health.

This meeting will focus on developing an understanding of the big picture opportunities, ongoing forefront research, and necessary approaches required to move basic scientists closer to real results in the clinic. We also expect the meeting to appeal to researchers from a wide range of backgrounds, facilitating better collaborations and partnerships among inorganic chemists, biologists, physicians, and the pharmaceutical industry.

The meeting will be organized around presenting both current clinical practices and discovery-level research in seven medicinally relevant areas (Oncology, Diagnostics, Infectious Diseases, Neurodegenerative Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Metabolic Diseases, and Aging). Speakers and poster presenters are encouraged to present the most pressing biological problems, best strategies, key criteria involved in design, and appropriate research networks required to address the special issues associated with problems in medicinal bioinorganic chemistry."

"Africa Uncovered – Mineral Resources for the Future"

Joint Conference of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) and the Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)

Incorporating SEG 2008 and Geoforum 2008

Technical programme, Session 3: "Platinum in Africa"

"International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis XVI"

"Faraday Discussion 140"

Advances in theoretical methodology; to describe the state of the art and to address what is still missing.
Development of spectroscopic techniques; moving from studies of model surfaces to more realistic surfaces and in situ investigations.
Electrocatalyst discovery; what can be learned from high throughput screening methods and theoretical calculations?
Beyond fuel cells; the future of electrocatalysis.

"There is a growing abundance of global conferences and symposia on bio fuels simply because of the political and legislative pressures to encourage the use of these alternatives. This has been brought on by the wake of continuing high oil prices, the growing insecurity of crude oil and petroleum based fuels, and increasing concerns about road transport's contribution to global warming. However, virtually all of these conferences neglect the in-depth issues of global fuel specifications and how these affect the performance of future fuels in the vehicles in the market place. This symposium will be unique for it will be organized in support of the needs of the motor industry and its alliances with representation from the U.S., Europe and Asia. All will address the question, "how will rapid growth in global bio fuels affect the global specifications and performance of future fuels?""

"International Symposium on Creation and Control of Advanced Selective Catalysis"

Celebration of 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Catalysis Society of Japan.

Pre-conference of the 14th International Congress on Catalysis

Synthesis of nanomaterials
Metal and metal oxides
Nanocomposites
Porous nanomaterials
Novel catalytic materials

Characterization and theory
Size and morphology
Nanoassembly
Surface properties
New characterization techniques
Theoretical simulation
Mechanism at molecular level

Applications of nanocatalysis
Energy conversion
Environmental protection
Green chemistry

"Learn about green chemistry and engineering, renewable resources, and energy sources, and take advantage of this unique opportunity to engage in a number of activities designed to provide a solid foundation in sustainability and green chemistry."

"Catalysis as the Pivotal Technology for the Future Society"

Innovations in catalyst design
New findings in reaction mechanism
Advances in catalytic reaction engineering
Catalysis in energy/fuel production
Catalysis for fine chemicals/industrial chemicals production
Catalysis for clean environment

"23rd International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry"

1. Theoretical approaches for the catalyst discovery: Informatics and data mining
2. High throughput characterization in catalysis
3. Synthesis of catalyst libraries using combinatorial technology
4. High throughput screening in homogeneous, heterogeneous, electro- and bio-catalysis
5. Industrial application with HTE
6. H₂ storage materials
7. Fuel cell & energy conversion catalysis
8. Miscellaneous

Post-symposium of the 14th International Congress on Catalysis

Hydrogen production
Hydrogen production from fossil fuels
Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production
Electrocatalytic hydrogen production
Hydrogen from biological feedstocks
Nanomaterials for hydrogen energy production
Other hydrogen production technologies
Intergrated systems for hydrogen production

Hydrogen Storage
Solid state hydrogen storage
Catalysis for accelerating charge and discharge kinetics of hydrogen
Organic hydrides for hydrogen storage
Nanomaterials for hydrogen storage

Fuel Cells
New electrode materials
Electrodes of low noble metal loadings
Stability of electrodes
Inorganics in fuel cell membranes
Characterization and modeling of fuel cell electrodes

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