Bridging Core Discoveries and Applications in Inorganic Chemistry

Catalysis - From Theory to Commercialization

The School will address all aspects of crystallographic analysis of structural phase transitions, including basics of thermodynamics, kinetics and atomistic mechanisms ruling the processes. These concepts will be presented along with phenomenological theories for the treatment of phase transitions, with emphasis on the application of general theory to experimental data.Â

Phase transformations occur in most types of materials, including minerals, diverse organic, inorganic and hybrid compounds, pharmaceuticals, foods, ceramics and even crystalline viruses, and have been studied in almost all branches of science. Perovskites will be the teaching tool of AICS2016, with examples spanning from mineralogical to hybrid organic-inorganic samples. Therefore, the School is mainly directed to students working in the fields of chemistry, Earth sciences, mineral physics and materials science, and is as well of interest for metal-organic chemists and molecular crystallographers.

Ambition of the School is to give the attendees a unitary view, despite the many and apparently diverse materials such phenomena occur in, and the sometimes different terminologies used in the different fields.

Confirmed speakers Mois I. Aroyo (Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain), Tiziana Boffa Ballaran (Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany), Michael A. Carpenter (University of Cambridge, UK), Angelo Gavezzotti (University of Milan, Italy), A. Mike Glazer (University of Oxford, UK), Lucia Maini (University of Bologna, Italy), Marcus Müller (Dectris Ltd., Switzerland), Massimo Nespolo (University of Lorraine, Nancy, France), Emanuela Schingaro (University of Bari, Italy), Serena C. Tarantino (University of Pavia, Italy), Ian D. Williams (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Deadlines:

Bursary request: 15 May 2016
Registration and payment: 12 June 2016Â

The Intersection of Organic and Hybrid Materials for Electronics and Optoelectronics

Materials and Biology from Many Perspectives

The World Largest Multidisciplinary Conference & Art Festival

• Symmetry Festival 2013, Delft
• Symmetry Festival 2009, 2006, 2003, Budapest
• Symmetry Congress 1998, Haifa
• Symmetry Congress 1995, Washington D.C.
• Symmetry Congress 1992, Hiroshima
• Symmetry of Structure Symposium 1989, Budapest.
  

From Photobiological Phenomena to Mechanistically Inspired Synthetic Photobiology

Molecular Clusters from Bimolecular Complexes to the Onset of Bulk Matter

New Developments in Unraveling Cluster Nucleation and Structure

This meeting focuses on the most recent advances dedicated to the description of small to very large aggregates of atoms and molecules. It gathers young experimentalists and theoreticians interested in the study of the growing properties and the structure of such aggregates.

International School and Conference on Biological Materials Science

Topics will encompass the formation mechanisms as well as the characterization of complex-shaped and hierarchically structured multifunctional materials present in living nature. Based on this, a further key topic will be the consideration of these architectures as archetypes for the generation of novel functional materials with an expanded property spectrum. We invite you to submit your contributions with regard to materials synthesis and design inspired by biological principles and structures. The conference will address Bio-inspired materials based on organic and/or inorganic phases including their mechanical, optical, electronic and magnetic properties as well as actuated systems. Further discussions will be dedicated to materials, which display their function in contact with biological systems, e.g. tissues. Moreover, theoretical modelling of the formation, structure and properties of biological and bio-inspired materials will play a main role.

Winter School of the Priority Program 1569 (SPP 1569) supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG). In addition to this satellite meeting also contributions of the SPP 1569 are included into the poster sessions of the conference.

The key objective of the SPP 1569 is to explore the principles of gene-regulated biomineralization for the production of multifunctional inorganic materials. The scientific aim is the application of biomolecules for the in vitro generation of inorganic functional materials as well as the biomineralization of these materials by living organisms in vivo. By using this route, materials with an enhanced property spectrum, which is not available via conventional processing techniques, shall be gained at ambient conditions by molecular architecture. The main objective is to generate materials with improved properties and novel property combinations by the conjunction of inorganic and organic components. Contact Juliane Kränzl spp1569@imw.uni-stuttgart.de

Plenary session

Transport and Mass Storage in Macro- and Nanosized Solids

Symposia & program

• Materials
• Semiconductors
• Biomaterials
• Energy
• Nanomaterials

Workshops & Tutorials

Sustainable knowledge and preservation of Cultural Heritage for future generations

Advanced materials and technologies for renewable energies - AMREN-2 (5 - 6 May 2016)

Function-assembly of nano-materials towards electronics, energy and biological applications (one day symposium)

Confirmed plenary speakers include:

Professor Sharon Ashbrook (University of St Andrews)
Professor Andrew Harrison (CEO of Diamond Light Source)
Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon (Collège de France)

Confirmed invited speakers include:

Dr Sian Dutton (University of Cambridge)
Dr Julian Dean (University of Sheffield)
Dr Houria Kabbour (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, France)