Dear col­leagues, it is our plea­sure to announce the 1^st Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium on Meso­porous Zeo­lites (ISMZ) to be held in the 246^th 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.