4th International Seminar on Aerogels
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Justin Griffin
April 19, 2017
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SolGel 2017
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Justin Griffin
April 10, 2017
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19th International Sol-Gel Conference

About the Conference:

 The 19th International Sol-Gel Conference will be held on September 3-8, 2017 in Liege, Belgium. The conference is organized in conjunction with the International Sol-Gel Society (ISGS). Previous editions gathered around 500 participants from all over the world. For the 19th edition, the conference will be organized in three parallel sessions. The great success of the Sol-Gel Conference series over the past 35 years attests that sol-gel science and technology is an extraordinarily multidisciplinary research area. The biennial conference gathers the most relevant and innovative advances in the field from the point of view of scientific research and industrial developments. Intensive promotions to interdisciplinary and academia-industry collaborations will be emphasized.
For more information, visit SolGel2017Liege.com

Venue:

The conference will be organized in the Palais des Congrès, a centrally located convention centre just a few minutes from downtown.
The convention centre is located on the banks of the Meuse river and is surrounded by a majestic park.
Just recently renovated, the convention center combines modern comfort and specialized hi-tech facilities. The centre is spread over three levels, and is host to over twenty multi-purpose convention rooms, the largest of which has a capacity of one thousand people.
Visitors will have a large choice of hotels within walking distance or easily reachable by the well developed public transport in Liege.

Keynote Speakers:

  • José Luís FIGUEIREDO (University of Porto, Portugal)
  • Kazuyuki KURODA (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Sidney J. L. RIBEIRO (São Paulo State University-UNESP, Araraquara-SP, Brazil)
  • Dongyuan ZHAO (Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China)

Invited Speakers:

  • Sara A. BILMES (University of Buenos Aires – National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Cedric BOISSIERE (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
  • Carole CARCEL (ENSCM Montpellier, France)
  • David LEVY (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid – ICMM, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  • Kazuki NAKANISHI (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Ryong RYOO (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
  • Jan SEFCIK ( University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
  • Jun SHEN (Tongji University, Shanghai, China)
  • Masafumi UNNO (Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan)
  • Gustaaf VAN TENDELOO (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Philippe BELLEVILLE (CEA / Le Ripault Monts, France)
  • Marc FRICKE (BASF Polyurethanes GmbH, Lemfoerde, Germany)
  • Stephen STEINER (Aerogel Technologies, LLC, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

Local Organizing Committee:

University of Liege (ULG)

Department of Chemical Engineering
Nanomaterials, Catalysis & Electrochemistry (NCE)
  • Benoît Heinrichs (Chair)
  • Nathalie Job (Vice-Chair)
  • Christelle Alié
  • Cédric Calberg
  • Stéphanie Lambert
  • Alexandre Léonard
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Research group in Energy and Environment from Materials (Greenmat)
  • Rudi Cloots (Vice-Chair)
  • Frédéric Boschini
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2017 MRS Spring Meeting
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Justin Griffin
April 10, 2017
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Symposium NM3—Aerogels and Aerogel-Inspired Materials

Aerogels are a diverse class of functional nanostructured, porous materials that simultaneously display extreme values of a number of materials properties typically found in disparate materials. Consequently aerogels and aerogel-inspired materials serve as versatile and tailorable 3D architectures for enabling technologies where the combination of nanosizing, high surface area, and inclusion of multiple functionalities is advantageous. In that regard, aerogels bridge the gap from micro to macro via meso and thus comprise a most versatile vehicle for transitioning the benefits of nanotechnology to everyday life. Aerogels of various types have been shown to exhibit unmatched performance in thermal superinsulation, energy storage, catalysis, acoustic damping, energetic materials, and drug delivery. Whereas aerogel technology was limited to only a few compositions in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, in the last ten years compositions of aerogels and aerogel-inspired materials have undergone an accelerated expansion to numerous organic polymers, organic-inorganic hybrids, quantum dots, nanocarbons, metal chalcogenides, and metals, resulting in unprecedented mechanical, catalytic, photonic, and chemical properties. Functionality-driven design has resulted in impressive volumetric supercapacitors and batteries, high strength-to-weight ratio materials, and drug delivery technologies, thus magnifying the potential of nanotechnology and porous architectures for many disciplines. Commercialization of aerogels and aerogel-like materials is also undergoing rapid development with several new players having entered the field, from small startups to global corporations.

The last major meeting of the aerogel community was at the Fall 2010 Meeting of the MRS and many new groups and numerous important technological developments have emerged since then. This symposium will survey the latest developments in the field and explore new uses, synthetic techniques, and applications of aerogels and aerogel-inspired materials that will benefit many subfields of materials science, including structural materials, catalysis, energy storage, electronics, and biomedical engineering. In addition to sessions on fundamental developments in aerogel science, this symposium will have a commercialization session with speakers from established and emerging aerogel companies. A panel with experts from organizations that have transferred technology to commercialization will be included.

For more information, visit us at MRS.org

Topics will include:

  • Novel synthesis and processing methods
  • Theory, fundamentals, and modelling
  • Polymeric, inorganic, and composite aerogels
  • Synthesis of large-scale parts and additive manufacturing
  • Assemblies of 0D, 1D, and 2D nanostructures
  • Metal, carbide, nitride, and other reduced compositions
  • Electronic, magnetic, photonic, and plasmonic properties
  • Mechanical, thermal, ballistic, and acoustic properties
  • Biological materials, drug delivery, and tissue scaffolds
  • Catalysis
  • Commercialization, applications, and sustainability
  • Batteries, supercapacitors, and hybrid electrochemical storage devices

A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.

Invited Speakers:

  • Indika Arachchige (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
  • Nadja Bigall (University of Hannover, Germany)
  • Hai Duong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Marc Hodes (Tufts Unversity, USA)
  • Kazuyoshi Kanamori (Tohoku University, Japan)
  • Matthias Koebel (EMPA, Switzerland)
  • Hongbing Lu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  • Barbara Milow (DLR, Germany)
  • Rainer Ostermann (BASF, Germany)
  • Jieshan Qiu (Dalian University of Technology, China)
  • Anna Roig (Institut de Ciencia de Materials, Spain)
  • Debra Rolison (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
  • Firouzeh Sabri (University of Memphis, USA)
  • Thomas Schmidt (Paul Scherrer Institut and ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Stephanie Vivod (NASA Glenn Research Center, USA)
  • Marcus Worsley (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

Symposium Organizers:

Stephen Steiner III
Aerogel Technologies, LLC
USA

Stephanie Brock
Wayne State University
Department of Chemistry
USA
313-577-3102, sbrock@chem.wayne.edu

Alexander Eychmüller
TU Dresden
Physical Chemistry
Germany

Nicholas Leventis
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Department of Chemistry
USA
573-341 4391, leventis@mst.edu
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