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FD 151: Hydrogen Storage Materials – submit an abstract now!

Faraday Discussion 151 will be on the exciting and highly topical subject of Hydrogen Storage Materials

Submit an abstract today for oral presentation to take part in this unique and dynamic conference!

It is being held at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK, and has a host of top invited speakers, including:

• Katsuhiko Hirose (Introductory) -Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
• Bill David (Closing) – University of Oxford, UK
• Tom Autrey – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

• Andreas Borgshulte – EMPA Switzerland
• Maximilian Fichtner – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Craig Jensen – University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
• Scott Jorgensen – General Motors, USA
• Michel Latroche – CNRS Thiais, France
• Martin Schroder – University of Nottingham, UK

The discussion will focus on both themes, from synthesis and characterisation to application of such novel materials. The focus will be on the wider issues involved in synthetic routes, characterisation, materials properties, rather than simply on examples. The importance of the interplay of theory and experiment will be stressed.

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Bioinorganic chemistry Faraday Discussion – a great success

Faraday Discussion 148 on the topic of Spectroscopy, Theory and Mechanism in Bioinorganic Chemistry was held last week at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

For more information on this and future Faraday Discussion please visit our website. We also welsome suggestions for new discussions – so please send us your proposal.

Ed Solomon (Stanford, USA) and Les Dutton (Pennsylvania, USA) gave insightful Introductory and Closing Lectures, respectively, and there were great talks from invited speakers including: Gerard Canters, Peng Chen, Fraser MacMillan, Frank Neese, Arwen Pearson, Per Siegbahn and Walter Thiel.

spectroscopyThemes which were covered in the lively discussion included:
• Copper chemistry. Redox behaviour, oxygen binding, multi-copper centres, catalysis and mechanisms
• Haem and non-haem iron, and other metal centres
• Insight from advanced spectroscopic methods, including time-resolved structural studies
• Reaction mechanisms: what do we learn from computation and spectroscopy?
• Computational techniques: DFT, QM/MM, MD, and much, much more….

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