The review article “Chimie douce”: A land of opportunities for the designed construction of functional inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials, by Clément Sanchez et al., is available for free download in the Special Issue in Honour of Jacques Livage just published in our journal Comptes Rendus Chimie – see www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/16310748 for details

The complete list of Conference and Symposium Chairs, Plenary and Tutorial Speakers for the Second International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials, 6-10 March 2011, Strasbourg, France is now available on the conference website. Please visit www.hybridmaterialsconference.com for details.

The Second International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials registration fees are now available via the registratio information section on the website. Visit http://www.hybridmaterialsconference.com/registrationInfo.asp for more information.

Following the successful inaugural Hybrid Materials conference held in Tours, France, in March, 2009, which attracted 922 participants from 54 countries, it has been announced that the Second International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials – Hybrid Materials 2011 – will be held in Strasbourg in 2011. Organised by Elsevier, the event will take place at the Palais des congrès, Strasbourg, 6 – 10 March, 2011.