MC9

MC9 at the 42nd IUPAC Congress - 2-7 August 2009 - Glasgow, UK

The RSC Materials Chemistry Forum's 'MC' series has provided a showcase for developments in Materials Chemistry every two years for almost two decades.

The last edition in the series, MC8, played host to nearly 500 delegates from 31 different countries in 2007. It proved that materials chemistry has now come of age, as a truly interdisciplinary field with "chemistry" at its centre, but extending seamlessly into biology, medicine, physics, nanotechnology and materials engineering.

MC9, embedded in the 42nd IUPAC Congress, will hold symposia across the traditional core areas of Materials Chemistry, namely, Soft Matter, Solid State Materials, Nanomaterials and Biomaterials.

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Symposia

Solid State (MC9)

Convener: Edmund Cussen (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speakers: Matt Rosseinsky (Liverpool, UK), Tony Cheetham (Cambridge, UK), Mercouri Kanatzidis (Northwestern, USA)

Adaptive Nanomaterials (MC9)

Convener: Mathias Brust (Liverpool, UK); Keynote Speaker: Vincent Rotello (Massachusetts, USA), Andrew Cooper (Liverpool, UK)

Computational Nanoscience (MC9)

Convener: Nick Besley (Nottingham, UK); Keynote Speakers: George Schatz (Northwestern, USA), Jeff Grossman (UC Berkeley, USA), Jim Chelikowsky (Texas, USA).

Crystal Engineering (MC9)

Convener: Stuart James (Belfast, UK), Jamie Humphrey (CrystEngComm); Keynote Speakers: Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto, Japan), Joel Bernstein (Ben-Gurion, Israel)

Green Materials Synthesis (MC9)

Convener: Adam Lee (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speaker: Andrew Abbott (Leicester, UK)

Biomaterials (MC9)

Convener: Cameron Alexander (Nottingham, UK); Keynote Speakers: Kevin Healy (UC Berkeley, USA), Claus-Michael Lehr (Saarland, Germany)

Polymers

Developing Polymer Materials (MC9)

Conveners: Chris Ober (Cornell, USA), Wilhelm Huck (Cambridge, UK); Keynote Speaker: Uli Wiesner (Cornell, USA)

Polymer Molecular Characterisation (MC9)

Conveners: Harald Pasch (Darmstadt, Germany); Taihyun Chang (Pohang, Korea); Keynote Speakers: Peter Rinaldi (Akron, USA), Robert Gilbert (Queensland, Australia)

Polymerisation Kinetics - Fundamentals for the Design of Novel Processes (MC9)

Convener: Michael Buback (G�ttingen, Germany); Keynote Speakers: David Haddleton (Warwick, UK), Robin Hutchinson (Kingston, Canada), Igor Lacik (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Phili...

Energy

Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion (MC9)

Convener: Mathias Brust (Liverpool, UK); Keynote Speakers: Fr�d�ric Chandezon (Grenoble, France), Thomas Nann (Norwich, UK)

Energy Materials: Batteries and Fuel Cells (MC9)

Convener: Saiful Islam (Bath, UK); Keynote Speakers: Sossina Haile (Caltech, USA), John Irvine (St Andrews, UK), Christian Masquelier (Picardie, France), Linda Nazar (Waterloo, Can...

Catalysis for Energy (MC9)

Convener: Graham Hutchings (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speakers: Michel Che (Paris, France), Enrique Iglesia (UC Berkeley, USA)

Hydrogen Storage (MC9)

Convener: Duncan Gregory (Glasgow, UK); Keynote Speakers: Peter Edwards (Oxford, UK), Andreas Z�ttel (EMPA, Switzerland)

Electronics and Devices

Organic Electronics (MC9)

Convener: Pete Skabara (Strathclyde, UK), Keynote Speakers: John Reynolds (Florida, USA), Iain McCulloch (London, UK), Nazario Martin (Madrid, Spain), Stephen Yeates (Manchester, U...

Molecular Electronics and Magnetics (MC9)

Convener: Euan Brechin (Edinburgh, UK); Keynote Speakers: Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (Grenoble, France), Eugenio Coronado Miralles (Valencia, Spain)

Molecular Machines and Devices (MC9)

Convener: Graeme Cooke (Glasgow, UK); Keynote Speakers: David Leigh (Edinburgh, UK), Itamar Willner (Jerusalem, Israel)

MC9 Scientific Committee

The following are members of the Scientific Committee for MC9:

Duncan Gregory, University of Glasgow (Chair)
Cameron Alexander, University of Nottingham
Euan Brechin, University of Edinburgh
Mathias Brust, University of Liverpool
Howard Colquhoun, University of Reading
Graeme Cooke, University of Glasgow
Eddie Cussen, University of Strathclyde
Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University
M. Saiful Islam, University of Bath
Pete Skabara, University of Strathclyde (Materials theme co-ordinator)

MC9 International Advisory Committee

The following are members of the International Advisory Committee for MC9:

Eugenio Coronado, University of Valencia, Spain
Francis DiSalvo, Cornell University, USA
Andrew Holmes, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sanjay Mathur, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany
Geoff Ozin, University of Toronto, Canada