Calendar

Oct
22
Mon
2012
IX International Conference Mechanisms of Catalytic Reactions
Oct 22 – Oct 25 all-day
May
12
Sun
2013
7th International Symposium on Acid-Base Catalysis
May 12 @ 1:45 pm – May 15 @ 2:45 pm
Jun
20
Thu
2013
Symposium on Advanced Surface Analysis: Unique Surface Characterization Tools
Jun 20 all-day

High Sensitivity — Low Energy Ion Scattering (HS-LEI S)

[Ion-TOF Qtac 100]

 
The world’s most sen­si­tive spec­trom­e­ter for iden­ti­fy­ing sur­face atoms (top­most lay­er ~0.3nm), offer­ing a 3,000-fold improve­ment in sen­si­tiv­i­ty over con­ven­tion­al spec­trom­e­ters allow­ing for ele­men­tal 2-D sur­face map­ping and depth pro­fil­ing.

High Resolution — X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HR-XPS)

[Scienta ESCA 300]

 
One of the world’s most pow­er­ful XPS sys­tems allow­ing for chem­i­cal analy­sis of the top 10–20 atom­ic lay­ers (~1–3nm).

These two sur­face ana­lyt­i­cal tech­niques com­ple­ment each oth­er well and the com­bi­na­tion of these two tech­niques allow for a very com­pre­hen­sive under­stand­ing of a material’s sur­face com­po­si­tion and chem­i­cal state, which is of par­tic­u­lar inter­est for cat­a­lysts, fuel cells, semi­con­duc­tors, LEDs, ceram­ics, etc.

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

[NT-MD T Solver NE XT]

 
In addi­tion to stan­dard sur­face topol­o­gy, the elec­tri­cal and mag­net­ic prop­er­ties can also be detailed with respect to a material’s sur­face.

Special Introductory Offer

 
One sam­ple will be accept­ed per com­pa­ny for a free explorato­ry analy­sis on the instru­ment of your choice and the data will be avail­able for dis­cus­sion dur­ing the sym­po­sium on June 20, 2013. Con­tact Dr. Robert Pafchek at pafchek@​lehigh.​edu to sub­mit your sam­ple in advance of the sym­po­sium.

Jul
7
Sun
2013
17th International Zeolite Conference
Jul 7 – Jul 13 all-day

Web­site: 17th IZC

Jul
22
Mon
2013
Second International Conference Catalysis for Renewable Sources: Fuel, Energy, Chemicals
Jul 22 – Jul 29 all-day

 
Web­site: http://​conf​.nsc​.ru/​C​R​S-2
 
The sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram will com­prise ple­nary invit­ed lec­tures, key-note pre­sen­ta­tions, oral pre­sen­ta­tions and posters.

Scientific trends of the conference

  • Cat­alyt­ic process­es for valu­ables pro­duc­tion from bio­mass
  • Cat­a­lyst appli­ca­tion for clean syn-gas and clean hydro­gen pro­duc­tion, pow­er and CHP via bio­mass gasi­fi­ca­tion
  • Catal­y­sis in com­bus­tion and co-com­bus­­tion of renew­able sources
  • Cat­alyt­ic inter­ester­i­fi­ca­tion and hydro­c­rack­ing of lipids to bio­fu­el
  • Cat­alyt­ic approach to pro­duc­tion of bio­fu­els via bio­mass pyrol­y­sis
  • Bio­catal­y­sis: Fer­men­ta­tion and enzy­mat­ic process­es for bio­fu­els pro­duc­tion

The Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee plans to offer the par­tic­i­pants the vis­its to the pow­er plants, as well as the objects on pro­duc­tion and obtain­ing of the bio­log­i­cal mate­ri­als, the prod­ucts of fine and organ­ic syn­the­sis from renew­able raw mate­ri­als dur­ing the con­fer­ence and post-con­fer­­ence peri­od.

The offi­cial lan­guage of the con­fer­ence is Eng­lish.

Sep
1
Sun
2013
EuropaCat — XIth European Congress on Catalysis
Sep 1 – Sep 7 all-day
Sep
8
Sun
2013
First International Symposium on Mesoporous Zeolites (ISMZ)
Sep 8 – Sep 13 all-day

 
ACS Chemistry for LifeDear col­leagues, it is our plea­sure to announce the 1st Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium on Meso­porous Zeo­lites (ISMZ) to be held in the 246th ACS Nation­al Meet­ing & Expo­si­tion, Sep­tem­ber 8–12, 2013, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana, USA.

The sym­po­sium is intend­ed for build­ing a com­mu­ni­ty for the sci­en­tists and engi­neers involved in research, devel­op­ment, and uti­liza­tion of meso­porous zeo­lites, hier­ar­chi­cal zeo­lites, nano-zeo­lites, etc., from both acad­e­mia and indus­tries, to pro­mote open shar­ing inter­nal­ly and exter­nal­ly with the broad­er sci­en­tif­ic com­mu­ni­ty. The two-day pro­gram (exact date to be deter­mined) will be host­ed with­in the sem­i­nar ses­sions of the Divi­sion of Ener­gy and Fuels, which includes oral pre­sen­ta­tions (30–40 min for keynote speak­ers and 20–30 min for the rest) on any or all of the area involv­ing the prepa­ra­tion, char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, and appli­ca­tions of such mate­ri­als.

Abstract sub­mis­sion will be open between Feb. 1- Apr. 1, 2013 through abstracts​.acs​.org. Instruc­tions on how to sub­mit abstracts can be found here and the pre-print tem­plate here. Trav­el and accom­mo­da­tion infor­ma­tion is avail­able at www​.acs​.org.

If you have any ques­tion, please con­tact the sym­po­sium orga­niz­ers: ISMZ-Online, Prof. Javier Gar­­cia-Mar­tinez, or Dr. Kun­hao (Eric) Li. We sin­cere­ly wel­come you and look for­ward to meet­ing you this Fall.

Symposium on Frontiers in energy conversion and fuel production
Sep 8 – Sep 13 all-day

 

Division of Energy and Fuels — American Chemical Society

 
ACS Chemistry for Life246thACS Nation­al Meet­ing & Expo­si­tion
Sep­tem­ber 8–12, 2013 ♦ Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana USA

Call for Papers

 
Sym­po­sium fea­tures research, devel­op­ment, and plan­ning on ener­gy con­ver­sion and fuel pro­duc­tion. Based on invi­ta­tion, inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized experts will rep­re­sent promis­ing research devel­op­ments of the next gen­er­a­tion of ener­gy and fuels. Top­ics include, but are not lim­it­ed to:

  • Ener­gy Con­ver­sion, Stor­age and Uti­liza­tion
  • Smart Grid Tech­nolo­gies
  • Fuel Pro­duc­tion and Uti­liza­tion
  • Advance­ments in Ener­­gy-relat­ed Mate­ri­als

Organizers

 
Prof. Xian­qin Wang
Depart­ment of Chem­i­cal, Bio­log­i­cal and Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Engi­neer­ing
New Jer­sey Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy
323 MLK Blvd., Uni­ver­si­ty Heights
Newark, NJ 07102–1982 USA
973–596‑5707
Xianqin@​NJIT.​EDU
 
Prof. Yun Hang Hu
Depart­ment of Mate­ri­als Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing
Michi­gan Tech­no­log­i­cal Uni­ver­si­ty
Houghton, MI 49931 USA
906–487‑2261
YunHangh@​MTU.​EDU
 
Abstract and pre-print sub­mis­sion due date: 10 April 2013
Sub­mis­sion of both an abstract and a pre-print are required. Please do this on-line at abstracts​.acs​.org. Instruc­tions and pre-print tem­plate are avail­able at web​.anl​.gov/​P​C​S​/​E​N​F​L​/​p​r​e​p​r​i​n​t​i​n​f​o​.​h​tml.

Sep
16
Mon
2013
Advanced Materials World Congress — AMWC 2013
Sep 16 – Sep 20 all-day

 
Web­site: amw​c2013​.org/​w​e​l​c​o​m​e​—​1​4​.​h​tml
 
The goal of con­gress is to pro­vide a glob­al plat­form for researchers and engi­neers com­ing from acad­e­mia and indus­try to present their research results and activ­i­ties in the field of mate­ri­als sci­ence and engi­neer­ing with a spe­cial atten­tion on inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research of advanced mate­ri­als. The con­fer­ence will pro­vide oppor­tu­ni­ties for the del­e­gates to exchange their face-to-face nov­el ideas and expe­ri­ences with the inter­na­tion­al experts dur­ing ple­nary & invit­ed talks, oral pre­sen­ta­tions and poster ses­sions. We will set up ten ses­sions with keynote forum, pan­el dis­cus­sion, project nego­ti­a­tion along with wel­come cock­tail and gala din­ner.

Dec
13
Fri
2013
Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association — NECZA 2013
Dec 13 – Dec 14 all-day

 
Web­site: www​.necza​.org
 
If you plan to give a pre­sen­ta­tion please con­tact:
 
Joe Fedeyko
Pro­gram Chair
John­son Matthey
Joseph.​Fedeyko@​jmusa.​com

Jun
1
Sun
2014
Seventh Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology — TOCAT7
Jun 1 – Jun 7 all-day

 
First Cir­cu­lar: TOCAT7_1st.pdf
 
Key Dates
Dis­tri­b­u­tion of sec­ond cir­cu­lar: May 2013
Dead­line for extend­ed abstracts: October2013
Notice of accep­tance of papers: Jan­u­ary 2014
Dead­line for advanced reg­is­tra­tion: March 2014
Dead­line for full paper: June 2014
 
Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Japan will orga­nize this meet­ing as a con­tin­u­a­tion of TOCAT (1990), TOCAT2 (1994), TOCAT3 (1998), TOCAT4 (2002), TOCAT5 (2006) and TOCAT6/APCAT5 (2010). The past six TOCAT con­fer­ences have earned a good rep­u­ta­tion as a new series of inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences on catal­y­sis that has sig­nif­i­cant­ly filled the gap between research and tech­nol­o­gy in catal­y­sis.
 
Scope
Stim­u­lat­ing clos­er ties between acad­e­mia and indus­try and encour­ag­ing young researchers in the field of catal­y­sis are the cen­tral con­cept of this con­fer­ence. This con­fer­ence sould great­ly con­tribute to exchang­ing new ideas and tech­nolo­gies and pro­mot­ing devel­op­ments of new out­stand­ing cat­a­lysts and sys­tems under the scope that catal­y­sis is a high­ly and eager­ly demand­ed tech­nol­o­gy in indus­tries and for sus­tain­able soci­ety and dri­ves inno­va­tion in many oth­er fields.

Papers on the fol­low­ing top­ics are wel­come.
Gen­er­al Ses­sion

  • New con­cepts for catal­y­sis
  • Advanced mate­ri­als for catal­y­sis
  • Fun­da­men­tals and char­ac­ter­i­za­tion
  • Green and sus­tain­able catal­y­sis
  • Envi­ron­men­tal catal­y­sis
  • Catal­y­sis in ener­gy con­ver­sion
  • Bio­catal­y­sis
  • Pho­to­catal­y­sis
  • Sol­id acids and bases
  • Selec­tive oxi­da­tion
  • Organometal­lic catal­y­sis
  • Reac­tor engi­neer­ing

 
Indus­tri­al Ses­sion

  • Intro­duc­tion of recent­ly devel­oped and/or com­mer­cial­ized indus­tri­al cat­a­lysts and process­es
  • Emis­sion con­trol
  • Green and sus­tain­able process­es
  • Petro­le­um refin­ing and petro­chem­i­cals
  • Fine and chi­ral syn­the­sis
  • Poly­mer­iza­tion
Jul
6
Sun
2014
11th International Symposium: Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts — PREPA11
Jul 6 – Jul 11 all-day

 
Web­site: 11th Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium: PREPA 11
 
It has become a tra­di­tion that every four years, the Uni­ver­sité catholique de Lou­vain and the Katholieke Uni­ver­siteit Leu­ven joint­ly orga­nize a sym­po­sium devot­ed to the sci­en­tif­ic bases for the prepa­ra­tion of het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts. These meet­ings bring togeth­er researchers from acad­e­mia and indus­try and offer a forum for dis­cus­sions on the chem­istry involved in the prepa­ra­tion of indus­tri­al het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts.
We cor­dial­ly invite all sci­en­tists active in the field of het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis to par­tic­i­pate in the 11th Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium on Sci­en­tif­ic Bases for the Prepa­ra­tion of Het­ero­ge­neous Cat­a­lysts.

The sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram will con­sist of invit­ed lec­tures, oral and poster pre­sen­ta­tions.

Con­tri­bu­tions are solicit­ed that focus on the aspects of cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion. Reports on physi­­co-chem­i­­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of cat­a­lysts and cat­alyt­ic per­for­mances should be lim­it­ed to cor­re­la­tions with the prepa­ra­tion para­me­ters.

Papers will be select­ed by a sci­en­tif­ic com­mit­tee, con­sist­ing of rep­re­sen­ta­tives from indus­try of catal­y­sis (man­u­fac­tur­ers and users), based on the sci­en­tif­ic val­ue of the abstract, nov­el­ty and the com­pli­ance of the sub­ject to the sym­po­sium top­ics.

Main Topics

  • Inno­v­a­tive approach­es in cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion for spe­cif­ic per­for­mances and pur­pos­es
  • Advanced prepa­ra­tions of cat­a­lysts and sup­ports
  • Key con­cepts and tools in cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion