ISGS NewsLetter – N°4 – Nov2010-Jan2011

Newsletter

ISGS NewsLetter – N°4 – Nov 2010-Jan 2011 The ISGS Board wishes you an Happy New Year
! Interview of the quarter…… Vadim G. Kessler, professor in Uppsala, Sweden
“the sol-gel process and sol-gel materials are in fact entering their golden age now“… More >>	! Top news
! Events	! Top news
> The 16th International Sol-Gel Conference will be hosted in Hangzhou, China, 28th August-2nd Sept. Online registration is open. Abstract deadline is March 15… More >> > Event Announcement – Hybrid Materials 2011, 2nd International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials – France, Strasbourg – March 6-10,… More >> > Event Announcement – 2011 American Ceramic Society Glass and Optical Material Division Meeting – Savannah, GA, USA – May 15-19 – For further information, see conf website > Event Announcement – EUROMAT 2011, including Symposium Beyond mesoporous materials – France, Montpellier – Sept 12-15… More >> > Event Announcement – ACIN 2011, International Symposium on Advanced Complex Inorganic Nanomaterials – Namur, Belgium – Sept 11-14,… More >> > Report on Event in the aera – On June 17-18 , 2010, the Italian Research Groups involved in Sol-Gel met in Napoli at the VII Workshop Italiano Sol-Gel… More >> > Report on Event in the aera – Aerogels Summer School 2010, Germany, Cologne – Sept 2010… More >>	> Prof. David Avnir, awarded by the Israel Chemical Society Prize… More >> > 2011 ISGS Ulrich Award – last days to apply – Why apply?… More >> > Hosting 2015 International Sol-Gel Conference – last days to apply – Why apply? … More >> > JSST – Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology – Volume 57 – Issue 1 is available on Springer Link… More >> > The International Year of Chemistry 2011 will be a year-long celebration in which anyone can participate… More >> > Welcome to the new sol-gel revolution: take part into ISGS to contribute to the success of this ambitious realization – join us as member or renew your membership… More >> – join us as ISGS partner and benefit of interesting opportunities to present your know-how and to happen to meet with new contacts… More>> – sponsor an isgs event… More>>
! Job offer	! Pick of the quarter
> A major company in Southeast USA is looking for a PhD Synthesis chemist with 3-8 years experience in Sol-Gels or Aerogels… More >> ! Contributions >We are looking for contributions – if you have a piece of news related to the sol-gel field, a book you’ve just read, a workshop you are organizing or have attended, a job proposal, please register and post your contribution on our website (or send a message at contact).	> Hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles for intracellular delivery of fluorescent dye… More >> > Nanotechnology solutions for self-cleaning, dirt and water-repellent coatings… More >> > Large-scale engineered synthesis of BaTiO3 nanoparticles using low-temperature bioinspired principles… More >> > Hybrid materials for optics and photonics… More >> > Design and properties of functional hybrid organicinorganic membranes for fuel cells… More >>
! Technology News	! One young researcher in the spotlight
> Characterization of material surface properties – Nanovea Nanoindentation… More >>	> Enrico Della Gaspera is a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Padova (Italy)… More >>
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professor for materials chemistry at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria.

ISGS is an international, interdisciplinary, not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose and objective is the advancement of sol-gel science and technology. ISGS aims are both to represent the particular needs and aspirations of the international sol-gel community and to support this sol-gel community.

Since the inception of the highly successful Sol-Gel Workshop series in Padova during 1981, sol-gel science and technology has evolved from its origins within traditional materials science (mainly glass and ceramics) to become an extraordinarily multidisciplinary area of research, spanning chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and nanotechnology.

ISGS, grouping of scientists who are interested in sol-gel science and technology at the begining, evolved over time in a professional, fully functional, scientific society.