Quantachrome Instruments is the exclusive industrial sponsor of the 4th international characterisation of porous materials workshop, 'From Angstroms to Millimetres'.
This prestigious symposium, organised and hosted by the TRI/Princeton research institute, will be held in New Jersey, 21-23 June 2006.
The workshop's goal is to review and discuss the state-of-the-art theoretical and experimental approaches to the characterisation of porous materials in the wide range of scales.
The range of practical applications includes regular, disordered and fractal structures of nanomaterials, adsorbents, catalysts, membranes, filters, fibrous materials, textiles, paper, soil, geomaterials, and other porous systems of different origin.
The workshop programme will include invited keynote lectures, oral presentations and posters.
The volume of proceedings will be published by Elsevier as a special issue of Colloids and Surfaces A, an international journal with worldwide circulation.
The workshop is intended for scientists and engineers involved in research and development of processes where porous materials play a key role.
This workshop will be similar to the previous meetings in this series held in Princeton in 1997, 2000, and 2003.
The proceedings of the previous workshops were published as special issues of Advances of Colloids and Interface Science, Vol 76-77 (1998) and Colloids and Surfaces A, Vol 187-188 (2001) and Vol 241 (2004).
Based on previous experience, about 125 participants from academia and industry are expected.
1 May 2006 is Early Registration deadline, and regular registration closes 1 June 2006.
The Center for Modeling and Characterization of Nanoporous Materials at TRI/Princeton is an internationally recognised leader in porous materials science and engineering.
Nanoporous materials, which contain pores in the size range of 0.5 to 50nm, play an important role in a diverse range of modern technologies.
The centre specialises in the adsorption of gases and vapours in porous solids, and the absorption and spreading of liquids on fibres, structured substrates, and porous and fibrous materials.
