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Metal Complexes in Biology: Imaging and Detection, 24 – 27 September

16 Aug 2019

The Institute of Metals in Biology of Grenoble has organized the 8th International Conference from the 24-27 September 2019 in Villard de Lans. The village is located in proximity to Grenoble in the magnificent Vercours Mountains. The conference will be preceded by a summer school the 22-24 September focusing on both experimental and spectroscopic techniques in the scope of the conference.

This conference is localized in well reknowned scientific pole of Grenoble in Imaging and detection and it benefits from the exceptional environment provided by the institute of Metal in Biology of Grenoble. RSC Advances is pleased to be sponsoring 2 oustanding poster presentation prizes.

RSC Advances Royal Society of Chemistry

The Conference

The conference covers all aspects of the use of metal complexes in biological imaging and detection, including:

– Spectroscopy (fluorescence X).

– Radiolabeling, emission tomography .

– Luminescence.

– Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI).

– Contrast agents for PARACEST.

– In cellulo detection.

The Advanced Course

This course will host a limited number of lectures given by internationally renowned scientists. The format of the courses will facilitate strong interactions between lecturers and attendees. The aim is to provide a top-level teaching in a highly stimulating and non-intimidating environment for graduate students, post-doc, and young scientists. Students and young researchers are strongly encouraged to attend these courses. Topics will focus on the use of metal complexes in spectroscopy, radiolabeling, luminescence, MRI and cellular imaging.

Find out more on the conference website: https://imbg2019.sciencesconf.org/

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Charge & Substrate Transport in 3D Electrocatalytic Materials, ACS Fall Meeting

12 Jul 2019

ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting & Exposition

RSC Adavances along with RSC journals Chemical Science, Energy & Environmental Science, Sustainable Energy & Fuels and Nanoscale Advances are pleased to be sponsoring the Charge & Substrate Transport in 3D Electrocatalytic Materials symposium at the ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting and Exposition in San Diego this August. It will be held at 8:30 am on Tuesday 27th in the Marina Ballroom Salon G at Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina.

Organized by Anthony Hall, Charles McCrory and V. Sara Thoi as part of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, this symposia will be presided by Charles McCrory (University of Michigan) and feature presentations from Shelley D Minteer (University of Utah), Daniel Esposito (Columbia University), Yogesh Surendranath (MIT), Joseph Thomas Hupp (Northwestern University), Casey R Wade (Ohio State University), Amanda J Morris (Virginia Tech) as well as Charles McCrory.

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ENQA meeting sets record for attendance

17 Oct 2018

The 19^th National Meeting of Analytical Chemistry (ENQA) was held from September 16^th – 19^th in Caldas Novas/GO together with the 7^th Ibero-American Congress of Analytical Chemistry (CIAQA). The event received 1218 registrations from 25 Brazilian states and the Federal District with 1112 works presented in poster form.

The event was attended by speakers and participants from different countries such as Argentina, Portugal, Canada and the United States and had three thematic sessions. One of was titled a “Meet the Editor Session” and was sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. This had the participation of the following editors: Dr. Carlos D. Garcia (associate editor, RSC Advances), Dr. Susan M. Lunte (former editor in chief, Analytical Methods) and Dr. Jailson Bittencourt de Andrade (associate editor, Analytical Methods). The present public had the opportunity to discuss general and ethical aspects about “What to publish”, “Where to publish” and “How to publish with quality”.

The following were awarded for their work:

RSC Advances Award

Title: Amperometric detection of citrus tristeza virus using a disposable microfluidic device
Winner: Tayane A. Freitas (Federal University of São Carlos)
Full list of authors: Tayane A. Freitas, Camila A. Proença, Thaísa A. Baldo, Elsa M. Materón, Ademar Wong, Rodrigo F. Magnani and Ronaldo C. Faria

Analyst/Analytical Methods Award

Title: Analytical method for the determination and chemical analysis of selenium speciation in milk and infant formula: analysis by isotope dilution and hyphenated techniques
Winner: Bernardo F. Braz (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Full list of authors: Bernardo F. Braz, Vânia O. Trinta, Hélio F. da Rocha, Patrícia de C. Padilha, Cláudia Saunders Maria L. Fernández-Sánchez, Alfredo Sanz-Medel and Ricardo E. Santelli

There were also four symposiums were held at the event, covering “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, “Passive Sampling in Environmental Chemistry”, “Advances in Spectrometric Analysis” and “Recent Advances in Analytical Instrumentation” and “Development of Chemical Sensors”. All the symposiums had the participation of renowned researchers in the area and had crowded rooms. The Symposium “Advances in Spectrometric Analysis” was dedicated to the memory of Professor Bernhard Welz.

Further information about the meeting can be found on the ENQA webpage.

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RSC Advances sponsors 6th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces

20 Mar 2015

RSC Advances is proud to sponsor the 6th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces, which will be held in the Hotel Guimarães – Guimarães, Portugal, from 8th to 10th July 2015.

The meeting will consist of 5 Plenary Lectures and 5 Invited Lectures, given by outstanding young researchers, together with a large number of Oral Contributions and Posters.

The topics covered will include all areas of colloid and interface science, from a broad and interdisciplinary perspective.

View the preliminary programme here.

Abstract submission deadline: 31 March 2015
Early bird registration: 1 April 2015

Register and submit your abstract now!

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International Conference on Clean Energy and Advanced Materials (ICCEAM)

21 Oct 2014

The International Conference on Clean Energy and Advanced Materials (ICCEAM) will be taking place from the 14–17th November in Chongqing, China. The ICCEAM will consist of plenary lectures, invited talks, short talks and posters.

Clean energy and advanced materials have become a worldwide focus, due to energy demands and environmental pollution. The ICCEAM is a multidisciplinary international conference exploring new green energy and novel materials for energy conversion/storage, biosensors, biomedicine etc. It will provide an academic exchange platform to discuss the challenges, solutions and perspectives of green energy and advanced materials for global needs, as well as the new opportunities for green energy/advanced materials commercialization.

Topics to be covered during the conference include:

Energy Materials & Clean Energy
     – Organic and inorganic photovoltaics
     – Batteries and supercapacitors
     – Fuel cells
     – Hydrogen generation and storage
     – Water splitting and photocatalysis
     – Solar fuels and thermosolar power
Biosensors
     – DNA chips, nucleic acid sensors and aptasensors
     – Enzyme-based biosensors
     – Immunosensors
     – Lab-on-a-chip
     – Microfluidics and immobilisation technology
     – Printed biosensors and microfabrication
     – Proteomics, single-cell analysis and cancer-cell detection
New materials for biomedicine
     – Controlled-release systems
     – Microcapsules
     – Targeted drug delivery
     – Vesicles and macromolecular conjugates
Industrialization of clean energy and advanced materials

The Chair of the conference is Professor Changming Li (Southwest University, China, and RSC Advances Editorial Board member). For more details about the conference and to register, please visit the website: http://www.2014icceam.com

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International Symposium on Macro- and Supramolecular Architectures and Materials (MAM-14)

17 Oct 2014

The 7th International Symposium on Macro- and Supramolecular Architectures and Materials (MAM-14) Conference will take place from 23–27th November in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference will cover topics such as nanotechnology; materials chemistry and analysis; material functionalization; and macro- and supramolecular architectures.

Three Nobel laureates (Prof. Dan Shectman – Nobel Prize for the discovery of quasicrystals; Prof. Robert Huber – Nobel Prize for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre; and Prof. Dr. Klaus von Klitzing – Nobel Prize for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect) will be speaking at the event. They will be joined by a host of other Plenary and invited speakers. To view the full speaker list, please click here.

To find out more about the conference and to register, please visit the website.

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Total Food 2014

14 Aug 2014

The Total Food 2014 Conference will be taking place from the 11th–13th November in Norwich, UK.

Total Food 2014 is the fourth in a series of international conferences which focus on the sustainable exploitation of agri-food co-products and related biomass, thereby helping to minimise waste.

Under the auspices of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Food Group), this three day event will provide an open forum to highlight recent developments and to facilitate knowledge transfer between representatives of the agri-food industries, scientific research community, legal experts on food related legislation and waste management, and consumer organisations. The 2014 conference will be run by the Institute of Food Research in collaboration with the COST Action Network TD1203 Food waste valorisation for sustainable chemicals, materials and fuels (EUBis), and will comprise plenary lectures, short talks, poster sessions, and focussed workshops. The conference is currently open for registration and abstracts can be accepted for poster presentation.

For more details about the conference and to register, please visit the website: http://www.ifr.ac.uk/totalfood2014/

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8th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis – ICEC 2014

08 Jul 2014

The 8th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis (ICEC 2014) will be held in Asheville, North Carolina, USA between the 24-27 August 2014.

The conference aims to discuss technological challenges in environmental catalysis and the scientific programme will be based around the following main topics:

Sustainable and clean energy production
– Bio-fuel catalysis
– Fuel cells, electrolysis and solar fuels
– Fuel reforming
– Catalytic oxidation
– Photocatalysis
– Hydrotreatment of fuels
Emission control
– Mobile and stationary source emissions
– TWC, Lean de-NOx, and diesel emissions

Indoor air cleaning
– Catalytic processes to clean indoor air (VOCs, PAH)
Water treatment
– Non-biodegradable organic oxidation
– Nitrates reduction
– Sludge removal
Green Chemistry
– Biomass to chemicals
– Catalytic conversion of CO2
– Environmentally friendly catalytic processes
– Photocatalysis

The conference programme will also include three Plenary lectures by:

Professor Masakazu Anpo (Osaka Prefecture University)
Dr Klaus Harth (BASF)
Professor Enrique Iglesia (UC Berkeley)

Advanced registration ends the 31st July 2014 – click here to register today.

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Nanofair 2014 – 10th International Nanotechnology Symposium

23 May 2014

The 10th International Nanotechnology Symposium – Nanofair 2014 – will be held at the International Congress Center Dresden, Germany between the 1st-3rd July 2014.

The theme for Nanofair 2014 is “New ideas for industry” and will provide a forum for presenting current research and exchanging ideas and information between scientists and engineers for industry, research laboratories and academia. Contributions presented at the conference will cover fundamental scientific aspects as well as application orientated research and development. Specific topics include:

Functional nanocomposites
Nanostructured surfaces
Nanomaterials for life sciences
Nanomaterials for energy applications
Nanoelectronics & photonics
Processing aspects of nanomaterials
Nanoanalytical methods
Carbon nanotubes & graphene

In addition, the 2nd Dresden Nanoanalysis Symposium of the Dresden Centre for Nanoanalysis will be held as part of nanofair 2014 on the 2nd July. This international symposium will provide highlights in the field of nanoanalysis and its applictions in materials science and engineering, advanced electronics, energy research and other branches.

Registration deadline is the 6th June 2014 – click here to register today.

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20th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution (SIS 2014)

05 May 2014

The 20th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution (SIS 2014) will be held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal from the 22nd-27th June 2014.

SIS 2014 will provide the ideal forum to stimulate ideas and establish collaborations as well as to initiate discussions on the most diverse topics of surfactant and colloid science, ranging from biocolloids to nanostructured interfaces, from self-assembled materials to formulations.

Click here to register for this conference.

Topics that will be presented on at the conference include:

– Adsorption at interfaces	– Polymeric and polymerizable surfactants
– Wetting, spreading and capillarity phenomena	– Bioderived and bioinspired surfactants
– Interfacial tension, interfacial rheology and interfacial forces	– Surfactant-polymer and -biopolymer interactions
– Monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett films	– Surfactants in pharmaceutics and life sciences
– Electrostatic and electrokinetic phenomena	– Surfactants in energy production and environment
– Surfactant phase behavior and self-assembly	– Surfactants in tribology
– Thermodynamics and kinetics of surfactant-based systems	– Surfactants in nano- and microtechnology
– Solubilization and reactivity in self-organized systems	– Self-assembled materials
– Micelles, emulsions and microemulsions	– Modelling and simulation
– Vesicles, liposomes, niosomes, colloidosomes	– Techniques in surfactant research

As well as 30 invited lectures, 5 Plenary lectures have also been confirmed:

Colin Bain (University of Durham, UK) – Dynamics of surfactants at interfaces
Henk N.W. Lekkerkerker (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) – Muddy Water-Clay Colloid Mixtures: From Liquid Crystals to Drilling Muds
Maria Graça Miguel (Coimbra University, Portugal) – From Surfactants to Cells
Yeshayahu Talmon (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) – The Coming of Age of Cryo-EM in the Study of Surfactants in Solution
Kenichi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) – Real-world Modeling of Living System with Surfactant: Self-organized Structure and Dynamic Function

To find out more about this exciting event, please visit the conference website.

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