Two poster awards sponsored by ISGS have been awarded during the joint TINC / HINT School meeting held last May in Stockholm.

Congratulations to both awardees :

Anna May MASNOU

from Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)  Bellaterra - Spain

for her work entitled

Photocatalytic hybrid nanocomposites of bacterial cellulose and Au/TiO₂ nanoparticles for hydrogen production

Mirtha Lorenço

from CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials,  Portugal

for her work entitled

Tuning functionalized periodic mesoporous phenylene-silica for CO₂/CH₄ separation: DFT calculations and gas adsorption measurements

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International Seminar on AEROGELS

Synthesis-Properties-Applications

Organized by International Society for the Advancement of Supercritical Fluids

Sophia Antipolis, France
22-23 September 2016

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The 2017 Sol-Gel conference will be held in Liege, Belgium.

The website of the conference is already opened :

www.solgel2017liege.com

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The contract between ISGS and the Local Organizing Comitee has been signed in Kyoto during the 2015 conference.

From left to right : Dr. N. Job, vice-chair of Sol-Gel 2017, Pr. B. Heinrichs Chairman of Sol-Gel 2017, Pr. J.-M. Nedelec, President ISGS, Dr. M. Wong-Ci-Man member of the board ISGS

The ISGS board is pleased to welcome three new members :

Dr Luca Malfatti

Dr Hubert Mutin

Pr Sidney Ribeiro

The ISGS board would like to express its sincerest thanks to the 3 members leaving the board :

Pr R. Almeida

Pr G. Dubois

Pr M. Guglielmi

The awardees for ISGS Travel Grant have been selected :

Olga L. Galkina from Institute of Solution Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences in Russia will present her work on "Nanocellulose‐titania composite drug delivery systems by sol‐gel approach"

Diego Ariel Onna from University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, will present her work on " Enhanced photo-luminescence of CdX (X= S, Se, Te) Q-dots embedded in ordered mesoporous silica thin films "

Congratulations to both of them!!

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> Sol-Gel 2015 - Kyoto, Japan

The international Sol-Gel conference came back to Kyoto in 28-years after. The most advanced topics in materials science had been discussed in the most historical and ancient capital of Japan. The conference site was suitably located in front of Kyoto station. The participants could enjoy high science in variety of research domains. In addition, they can also enjoy culture, foods and drinks of this historic city.

This biennial conference was organized by Prof. Kazuki nakanishi, Prof. Hiromitsu Koduka and Dr. Kazumi Kato from 6 to 11 of September, 2015. It attracted 372 participants from 31 countries worldwide. 2 keynote, 20 invited, 122 oral presentations, and 159 posters presented most-advanced and interesting outcomes from their research groups. Prof. Schubert presented in his keynote lecture the important fundamental aspects of the sol-gel science through molecular and synthetic approach for functionalities. Contrary, Prof. Fujishima’s keynote was more directed to an industrial importance of the sol-gel. These 2 keynote lectures indicate the diversity of sol-gel science and technology as an important feature. This is also shown by a variety of sessions exceeding 15 involved in the conference.