HYCELTEC 2009 conference

Hyceltec 2009 is the second Iberian symposium devoted to various aspects of research on hydrogen, fuel cells and advanced batteries. Following on from the success of the first event that took place last year in Bilbao (Spain), the meeting will provide an opportunity to highlight recent developments in a field which represents one of the greatest challenges of the present society: building a sustainable and environmentally friendly energy future. Key topics, such as, energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies and environmental sciences will be addressed. Emerging and future areas of growth will be identified.

Hyceltec 2009 aims at bringing together experts from the various sub-disciplines to share current research and create an interdisciplinary forum for discussion that will include not only the Iberian scientific community, but also experts from other European countries, North and South America and Asia.

Conference homepage: http://www.hyceltec2009.utad.pt/

“FLOW ANALYSIS” on facebook

It has recently been created a group on facebook devoted to gathering all that are somehow interested in flow analysis .

You are welcome to join this group. Please follow the link below:

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=60192144803&success=#/group.php?gid=60192144803

a list of conference databases

Looking for a conference in your area? Here is a small list of sites that may turn to be a useful tool in that search.

I will be updating this list in the future.

Chemistry

http://www.chemistry-conferences.com/

http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/

all areas

http://www.conference-service.com/conferences/index.html

http://www.conferencealerts.com/index.htm

http://www.allconferences.com/

RICI 3

A III Reunião Ibérica de Colóides e Interfaces irá ser realizada em Granada, Espanha, de 13 a 15 de Julho de 2009.

As comunicações abordarão os seguintes temas

• Polymers and polyelectrolytes
• Biological and biomimetic systems
• Surfaces and Interfaces
• Nanoparticles
• Colloids
• Theory and simulation methods
• Industrial applications of colloids and interfaces
• Exotic interfaces and colloids

Para mais informações visite o site: http://rici3.ugr.es/

Lord Rutherford about statistics

“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”

Lord Rutherford 

ECIS 2008 Conference

22^nd Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society

31 August – 5 September 2008 Cracow, Poland

http://www.ecis2008.pl

Scope and Topics of ECIS 2008

The Conference traditionally covers a broad spectrum of colloid and interface science, ranging from fundamentals such as: interactions, stability, aggregation, phase transitions, electrokinetics, rheology, to applications, e.g., drug delivery systems, biosensors, biocompatible coatings, membranes, colloid and nanoparticle based catalysis, photocatalysis, optical filters, etc.

An essential issues of the Conference will be a proper description of the surface-mediated organisation of nanoparticle systems polyelectrolytes, colloids, mineral particles, proteins into hierarchical structures of targeted architecture and functionality, using, e.g. the layer by layer technique.

1. Dispersed and colloidal systems – bulk properties, agregation.
2. Surfactants, polyelectrolytes and biocolloids.
3. Concentrated dispersed systems – rheology, phase transitions.
4. Interactions of particles with surfaces, adsorption – theory and experiment.
5. Modelling of colloid dynamics and structure.
6. Active and Functional Interfaces.
7. Novel bulk and surface colloid systems – applications.

Note: text copied from the conference homepage

sometimes it’s not easy naming molecules…

Someone had the idea of searching up molecules which have “unusual” names that somewhat resemble other things. For instance, did you know that there is a molecule called “arsole”? Or that there is another one called “megaphone”? or even a “pterodactyladiene”?
The list is quite extensive. Here is the site Enjoy and learn .

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm

just one example:
“Mirasorvone: This molecule is part of the defensive chemistry of Thermonectus marmoratus, a beetle

recently named the “sunburst diving beetle”. The discoverers’ at Cornell University named it in honour of the actress Mira Sorvino (right), who, as Dr Susan Tyler in the motion picture Mimic, successfully confronted the

ultimate insect challenge.”

Discover8 : a new scientific communications database

Discover8 is a new scientific communications database where registered users can suggest, comment and rate scientific communications. Its also possible to recommend any article with a valid web link (for instance your own articles ).

A large number of topics related to life sciences are present.

Take a look at it at http://www.discover8.com/

Polyelectrolytes 2008

The 7th International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes, Polyelectrolytes 2008, will be held in Coimbra, Portugal in June 2008.

You can already bookmark the conference homepage.

First SMARTER (Structure elucidation by coMbining mAgnetic Resonance, compuTation modEling and diffRactions

University of Aveiro, Portugal

6 and 7 September 2007

“The aim of the SMARTER meeting is to bring together specialists from the different areas of materials science, such as materials chemists and processing engineers, diffraction and spectroscopy scientists, and computational structuralists, that may contribute to the development of a common language for a SMARTER approach to structure solving, using Geometrical, Diffraction Modeling and NMR Crystallographies.”

workshop homepage: http://www.primarius.pt/smarter/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=1