Faraday Discussion 152: Gold – call for oral abstracts

Faraday Discussion 152: Gold
4 – 6 July 2011, Cardiff, UK

Submit your abstract for oral presentation by 10 September 2010

FD152 will focus on the origins of high catalytic activity observed with gold nanoparticles. The aim is to bring together the catalysis and surface science communities with materials scientists and theoreticians, so that new insights can be gained.

Invited speakers:

  • Professor Masatake Haruta (Introductory) – Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • Professor Martyn Poliakoff (Closing) – University of Nottingham
  • Dr Mathias Brust – University of Liverpool
  • Professor Charlie Campbell – Universityof Washington
  • Professor Cynthia Friend – Harvard University
  • Professor Wayne Goodman – Texas A&M University
  • Professor Peijun Hu – Queen’s University Belfast
  • Professor Laura Prati – Universita degli Studi di Milano
  • Professor Pekka Pyykko – University of Helsinki
  • Professor Vincent Rotello -Universityof Massachusetts Amherst

Themes:

  • Gold catalysis at the gas solid interface
  • Gold catalysis and materials science
  • Theoretical insights on gold catalysis
  • Gold catalysis and enhanced selectivity
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Analysis for Healthcare Diagnostics and Theranostics conference

FD149Faraday Discussion 149: Analysis for Healthcare Diagnostics and Theranostics
6 – 8 September 2010
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Last chance to register!

The need in healthcare to detect biomolecular species such as proteins, oligonucleotides (DNA and RNA) and cells for diagnostics is driving the current development of physical techniques.

Themes of this meeting include:

  • Systems/Devices to Inform Therapy (SDIT)
  • Physical Techniques for Diagnostics (PTD)
  • High-Throughput Measurement and Analysis (HTMA)
  • Towards Real-time Clinical Measurement (TRCM)


For further information about about this meeting and to register, please visit the website.

Faraday Discussion 149 is organised by the Faraday Division in association with the Analytical Division.

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Wetting Dynamics – FD146 now published

Faraday Discussions 146 now published online – view it here.

This exciting volume is on the topic of Wetting Dynamics of Hydrophobic and Structured Surfaces and focuses on a number of highly topical and controversial issues related to wetting and dewetting at hydrophobic surfaces.

wetting dynamicsThe discussion includes many exciting contributions on this dynmaic topic including an Introductory lecture Exploring nanoscale hydrophobic hydration by Peter J Rossky and Closing remarks given by Frank H Stillinger.

In this volume the topics covered include:

  • Superhydrophobic Surfaces
  • Dynamic Transitions
  • Liquid-vapour Interfaces and Nanobubbles
  • Heterogeneous Surfaces
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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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