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Sunday 15 March 2009

12:00

Registration

14:00

Welcome from Conference Chairs

14:15

Plenary Lecture 1 – Porous hybrid solids: A new world
G. Férey, Université de Versailles, France

Symposium A: Biohybrids and Biomaterials

Symposium B: Functional Nanomaterials
and Nanocomposites  

Symposium C: Functional Porous Materials 

15:00

Symposium A Oral Presentations

15:00

Featured Lecture BF1 - Functional coatings : The sol-gel approach
P. Belleville, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, France

15:00

Symposium C Oral Presentations

15:30

Symposium B Oral Presentations

15:40

Invited Lecture CI1 - Large-scale synthesis of ordered mesoporous molecular sieves
D.Y. Zhao, Fudan University, China

16:00

Coffee Break

16:10

Coffee Break

16:10

Coffee Break

16:30

Invited Lecture AI1 – Bioactivity of metal-based materials
D. Avnir, The Hebrew University, Israel

16:30

Symposium B Oral Presentations

16:30

Symposium C Oral Presentations

17:00

Symposium A Oral Presentations

17:10

Featured Lecture CF1 - Application of pore-expanded mesoporous silica in catalysis and separation
A. Sayari, University of Ottawa, Canada

17:40

Invited Lecture AI2 – How to introduce genetic information into living cells by a combination of calcium phosphate and nucleic acids
M. Epple, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

17:40

Symposium C Oral Presentations

18:15

Tutorial 1 – Synthesis and preparation of Hybrid Materials
C. Sanchez, Université de Paris VI, France

19.00

Poster Session 1 & Welcome Reception

20.45

End of day 1

Monday 16 March 2009

08:45

Plenary Lecture 2 - Nanostructured hybrid materials by ATRP
K. Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Symposium A: Biohybrids and Biomaterials

Symposium B: Functional Nanomaterials
and Nanocomposites  

Symposium C: Functional Porous Materials 

09:30

Featured Lecture AF1 – Bio-inorganic nanohybrid materials as drug and gene delivery system J.H. Choy, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

09:30

Symposium B Oral Presentations

09:30

Symposium C Oral Presentations

10:00

Symposium A Oral Presentations

10:10

Featured Lecture BF2 - Functional clusters as nano-sised building blocks for inorganic-organic hybrid materials
U. Schubert, Technische Universität Wien, Austria  

10:40

Coffee Break

10:40

Coffee Break

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Symposium A Oral Presentations

11:00

Symposium B Oral Presentations

11:00

Featured Lecture CF2 - Hierarchically porous monoliths applied to separation science
K. Nakanishi, Kyoto University, Japan

11:40

Featured Lecture AF2 - Sol-gel bio-hybrid materials: Specificities, properties and challenges
T. Coradin, Université de Paris VI, France

11:30

Symposium C Oral Presentations

12:10

Symposium A Oral Presentation

12:10

Featured Lecture CF3 – Hierarchically functional porous materials: Synthesis strategy and applications for nanotechnology and energy conversion
B.L. Su, University of Namur, Belgium

12:30

Lunch

12:40

Lunch

12:40

Lunch

14:10

Featured Lecture AF3 - Evolution of ceramics in the biomaterials field
M. Vallet-Regí, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

14:10

Symposium B Oral Presentations

14:10

Symposium C Oral Presentations

14:10

Symposium A Oral Presentations

14:50

Invited Lecture BI1 - Controlled synthesis of metal oxide nanostructures in organic solvents: Extension to microwave chemistry M. Niederberger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

15:20

Invited Lecture BI2 - Nanocomposites and nanofluids,
E. Giannelis, Cornell University, USA

15:50

Symposium B Oral Presentations

16:10

Featured Lecture CF4 - Independant textural and morphological control in the synthesis of meso and macroporous silicas by pseudomorphic transformation
A. Galarneau, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France

16:40

Coffee Break

16:50

Coffee Break

16:30

Coffee Break

17:15

Tutorial 2 – Mimicking and integrating biology in hybrid materials
C. Jeffrey Brinker, University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories, USA

18.00

Poster Session 2

19.30

End of day 2

Tuesday 17 March 2009

08:45

Plenary Lecture 3 - Biohybrid conjugates of “smart” polymers with proteins and nucleic acids
A.S. Hoffman, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Symposium A: Biohybrids and Biomaterials

Symposium B: Functional Nanomaterials
and Nanocomposites  

Symposium C: Functional Porous Materials 

09:30

Symposium A Oral Presentations

09:30

Invited Lecture BI3 - Polymer-inorganic analogues of triblock copolymers: From self-assembly to control of optical properties
E. Kumacheva, University of Toronto, Canada

09:30

Symposium C Oral Presentations

10:00

Featured Lecture BI3 – Controlling nanomaterials properties with ligands, polymers and interfaces
T. Emrick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

10:30

Coffee Break

10:30

Coffee Break

10:30

Coffee Break

10:50

Symposium A Oral Presentations

10:50

Symposium B Oral Presentations

10:50

Invited Lecture CI2 - Self-Assembly Synthesis and Functionalization of Mesoporous Carbon Materials for Energy-Related Applications Sheng Dai, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6201

11:30

Featured Lecture AF4 – Nanostructural  control of sol gels for controlled release of drugs and proteins
P. Ducheyne, University of Pennsylvania, USA

11:20

Symposium C Oral Presentations

12:00

Poster Session 3

13:30

Free Afternoon & Evening

Wednesday 18 March 2009

08:45

Plenary Lecture 4 - Functional polymeric materials: From fluid handling to enzyme mimics and vaccine carriers
J.M.J Fréchet, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Symposium A: Biohybrids and Biomaterials

Symposium B: Functional Nanomaterials
and Nanocomposites  

Symposium C: Functional Porous Materials 

09:30

Symposium A Oral Presentations

09:30

Symposium B Oral Presentations

09:30

Invited Lecture CI3 - Design of porous materials on the nano and meso scale
K. Kuroda, Waseda University, Japan

10:00

Invited Lecture CI4 - Unconventional forms of nanofabrication
C. Mirkin, Northwestern University, USA

10:30

Coffee Break

10:30

Coffee Break

10:30

Coffee Break

10:50

Featured Lecture AF5 - Self-assembly and applications of polypeptide material,
T. Deming, University of California at Los Angeles, USA

10:50

Symposium B Oral Presentations

10:50

Symposium C Oral Presentations

11:20

Symposium A Oral Presentations

11:30

Invited Lecture BI4 - Structure and properties of nanocomposites from organoclays
D.R. Paul, University of Texas at Austin, USA

12:00

Featured Lecture AF6 - Current and prospective applications of hybrid nanoparticles in medicine
E. Duguet, Université de Bordeaux I, France

12:00

Symposium B Oral Presentations

12:30

Lunch

12:40

Lunch

12:30

Lunch

14:10

Invited Lecture AI3 - Novel inorganic-hybrid nanostructures for biomedical applications,
T. Pellegrino, CNR-INFM, Italy

14:10

Symposium B Oral Presentations

14:10

Symposium C Oral Presentations

14:40

Symposium A Oral Presentations

14:50

Featured Lecture BF4 - Synergistic properties in multiphase (hybrid) epoxy nanocomposites by incorporation of inorganic nanoparticles
K. Schulte, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

15:20

Invited Lecture BI5 - Combining polymer and sol-gel chemistries for designing nanostructured polymers: Different routes
J.F. Gérard, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France

15:50

Symposium B Oral Presentations

16:10

Featured Lecture CF5 - Block copolymer-based approaches to functional nanomaterials and nanocomposites
U. Wiesner, Cornell University, USA

16:40

Coffee Break

16:50

Coffee Break

16:40

Coffee Break

17.15

Tutorial 3 – Applications of hybrids
M. Popall, Fraunhofer-Institut für Silicatforschung, Germany

18.00

End of day 4

19:30

Optional Conference Dinner

Thursday 19 March 2009

08:45

Plenary Lecture 5 - Synthesis and emergence of complex hybrid nanomaterials
S. Mann, University of Bristol, UK

Symposium A: Biohybrids and Biomaterials

Symposium B: Functional Nanomaterials
and Nanocomposites  

Symposium C: Functional Porous Materials 

09:30

Invited Lecture AI4 - Biohybrid nanomedicines and self-assembling biomaterials
H.A. Klok, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland

09:30

Symposium B Oral Presentations

09:30

Symposium C Oral Presentations

10:00

Invited Lecture AI5 - Bioresorbable sol-gel derived SiO2 matrices for the controlled release of biologics and small molecular drugs
H. Jalonen, DelSiTech Oy, Finland

10:30

Coffee Break

10:30

Coffee Break

10:30

Coffee Break

10:50

Symposium A Oral Presentations

10:50

Invited Lecture BI6 - Title to be announced
R. Mülhaupt, Albert Ludwigs - Universität Freiburg, Germany

10:50

Symposium C Oral Presentations

11:20

Invited Lecture BI7 - Functional nanomaterials through organometallic chemistry
B. Chaudret, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France

11:50

Symposium B Oral Presentations

11:50

Invited Lecture CI5 - New functions of porous coordination polymers
S. Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan

12:20

Invited Lecture CI6 - Mimicking the antenna system of green plants
G. Calzaferri, University of Berne, Switzerland

12:50

Lunch

12:50

Lunch

12:50

Lunch

14:00

Symposium A Oral Presentations

14:00

Symposium B Oral Presentations

14:00

Symposium C Oral Presentations

15:40

Closing Remarks

 

End of Conference