Recent Developments and Future Perspectives in Spectroscopy of Working Catalysts

April 29 — May 3, 2012 — Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA

Key Dates

• April 29, 2011: 2nd Cir­cu­lar and call for abstracts
• Octo­ber 1, 2010: Abstract sub­mis­sion dead­line
• Decem­ber 3, 2010: Noti­fi­ca­tion of accep­tance
• March 2, 2012: Reg­is­tra­tion dead­line
• April 29, 2012: Sub­mis­sion of man­u­scripts
• April 29 — May 3, 2012: Con­fer­ence

Venue

Sit­u­at­ed on a 5,250-acre cam­pus, Brookhaven Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry – in Upton, New York – is part of Long Island’s Cen­tral Pine Bar­rens region and home to 230 plat species, 15 ani­mal species, and 85 species of birds. With innu­mer­able restau­rants, the­aters, and inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized sites of New York City 65 miles to the west, beau­ti­ful beach­es stretch­ing along the near­by coasts to the north and south, and an exten­sive array of vine­yards and charm­ing Hamp­tons towns to the east, Brookhaven offers vis­i­tors access to a lit­tle of every­thing.

Scope and Invitation

The study of cat­a­lysts in their work­ing state, the so-called in situ or operan­do approach, has become a well-estab­lished and crit­i­cal research area in catal­y­sis. In this method­ol­o­gy the behav­ior of work­ing cat­a­lysts is probed using physi­co-chem­i­cal meth­ods while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly mea­sur­ing the cat­alyt­ic activ­i­ty and selec­tiv­i­ty. The operan­do approach is an excel­lent one to assess struc­ture-activ­i­ty rela­tion­ships at the mol­e­c­u­lar lev­el since struc­tur­al and cat­alyt­ic para­me­ters are deter­mined togeth­er.

We invite you to attend and con­tribute to the Fourth Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress on Operan­do Spec­troscopy, to be held at Brookhaven Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry in April 2012. This con­gress fol­lows on to the pri­or con­fer­ences in 2003 (Lun­teren), 2006 (Tole­do), and 2009 (Ros­tock).

This con­fer­ence will cov­er all aspects of operan­do spec­troscopy of cat­a­lysts: both het­ero­ge­neous and homo­ge­neous catal­y­sis, appli­ca­tion of the­o­ry, new exper­i­men­tal approach­es and tech­niques, time and spa­tial res­o­lu­tion, and com­bi­na­tion of tech­niques. It is antic­i­pat­ed that there will be an empha­sis on fuel cells, elec­tro-catal­y­sis, and catal­y­sis relat­ed to the pro­duc­tion of bio­fu­els, and oth­er ener­gy-relat­ed areas where catal­y­sis is play­ing a major role in renew­able ener­gy.

The pro­gram will com­prise ple­nary lec­tures, invit­ed keynote lec­tures, and con­tributed oral and poster pre­sen­ta­tions cov­er­ing the whole field of catal­y­sis. An exhi­bi­tion of com­mer­cial prod­ucts and equip­ment relat­ed to cat­a­lyst char­ac­ter­i­za­tion will be held dur­ing the meet­ing.
Please add the con­fer­ence dates to your cal­en­dar now, and join us at Brookhaven Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry in April, 2012.

Session Topics

• Elec­tro­catal­y­sis: Fuel Cells and Relat­ed Tech­nolo­gies
• Cat­alyt­ic Bio-con­ver­sion Tech­nolo­gies
• Homogeneous/Liquid Phase Catal­y­sis
• Bridg­ing the Gap between Mod­el and Tech­ni­cal Con­di­tions
• Mul­ti-tech­nique Approach to Operan­do Spec­troscopy
• Com­bin­ing Operan­do Spec­troscopy and The­o­ret­i­cal Stud­ies
• New Advances in Reac­tion Cells includ­ing Improved Time and Spa­tial Res­o­lu­tion

Registration Fees

$350 – Ear­ly Bird (until March 2, 2012)

Accommodations

Dor­mi­to­ry Rooms @ $42/night to Local Hotels @ $114/night

Vendor Exhibition

An exhi­bi­tion of com­mer­cial prod­ucts and equip­ment relat­ed to in situ and operan­do spec­troscopy will be held dur­ing the meet­ing. Com­pa­nies wish­ing to exhib­it their prod­ucts at the meet­ing should con­tact Ms. Gretchen Cis­co, cisco@​bnl.​gov.

Further Information

Full infor­ma­tion about the Con­gress can be found at:
http://​operan​doiv​.nsls​.bnl​.gov/