NIMS International Symposium on Photocatalysis & Environmental Remediation Materials 2011

NIMS International Symposium on Photocatalysis & Environmental Remediation Materials 2011 will be held between the 17th and the 19th January 2011.

Objective & Scope

Research and development of photocatalytic materials have extensively been performed worldwide to find solutions to energy and environmental problems. However, developing a stable material which can efficiently harvest solar energy is still a great challenge.

Up to now, with the aim of promoting interactions among experts in the related field, and providing a forum for the presentation, discussion and review of the latest advances in the research and development of photocatalytic materials, NIMS has successfully held the "2nd NIMS Conference on Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications" on 2004 by the participants of the famous scientists in the worldwide scale. In 2007, NIMS Photocatalytic Materials Center hosted the "NIMS International Workshop on Photocatalysis" by the collaboration of many Chinese scientists. Thereafter, we have organized the Joint Conference of NIMS International Workshop and Japan-China Symposium on Advanced Photocatalytic Materials in the past few years, with the supports from the Strategic Japanese-Chinese Cooperative Programme of JST-MOST. In year 2010, the conference was further extended to include "Workshop on Environmental Remediation Materials", because of the demand in challenging materials development towards the solution of increasingly serious environmental pollution problems.

In the coming Conference, in order to promote interactions and discussions among attendees, we will have the international symposium at NIMS and a satellite meeting for the researchers from NIMS and China at Fukushima. The symposium at NIMS will include five non-parallel symposia as follows; (I) Advanced Photocatalytic Materials, (II) Intermetallic Catalysts for Environmental/energy Applications, (III) Functional Nanoporous Materials,(IV) Functional Geomaterials for Sustainable Development, and (V) Theoretical Study of Environmental Remediation Materials, to intense discussion on relevant materials research with several invited speakers from all over the world. In the satellite meeting we will focus on the research collaboration on advanced photocatalytic materials between Japan and China.

Venue: National Institute for Materials Science, Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan

Organizer: Photo-Catalytic Materials Center, NIMS(Japan) & ERERC, Nanjing University, Nanjing (China)

Co-hosts: JST-MOST Strategic International Cooperative Program; MEXT Program for Development of Environmental Technology using Nanotechnology; Global COE Program of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; 973 National Basic Research Program 2007CB613305

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The symposium at NIMS in Tsukuba mainly consists of five symposia as follows;
(Ⅰ) Advanced Photocatalytic Materials,
(Ⅱ) Intermetallic Catalysts for Environmental/energy Applications,
(Ⅲ) Functional Nanoporous Materials,
(Ⅳ) Functional Geomaterials for Sustainable Development,
(Ⅴ) Theoretical Study of Environmental Remediation Materials
In the satellite meeting, the following items will be cited as the topics, but not limited:
1) Fundamental Researches on Photocatalytic Reaction
2) Development of New Photocatalytic Materials
3) Nano-structured Photocatalytic Materials
3) Photocatalytic Materials for Environmental Purification
4) Photocatalytic Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
5) Evaluation and Application of Photocatalytic Materials
6) Electronic Structures of Oxide Photocatalysts
8) Photo-electrochemistry
9) Dye-sensitization
10) Porous Photocatalytic Materials
11) Photo-functional Materials
12) Photo Synthesis
13) Photonic Materials

Contacts:

Symposium Organizers and corresponding symposium

Jinhua YE e-mail: [email protected]
(Ⅰ)Symposium on Advanced Photocatalytic Materials

Hideki ABE e-mail: [email protected]
(Ⅱ)Symposium on Intermetallic Catalysts for Environmental/energy Applications

Yusuke YAMAUCHI e-mail: [email protected]
(Ⅲ)Symposium on Functional Nanoporous Materials

Hirohisa Yamada e-mail: [email protected]
(Ⅳ)Symposium on Functional Geomaterials for Sustainable Development

Naoto UMEZAWA e-mail: [email protected]
(Ⅴ)Symposium on Theoretical Study of Environmental Remediation Materials

Please contact them for detailed information on each symposium.

Secretariat
Takehiko MATSUMOTO
Junko ITO
E-mail: [email protected]
FAX: +81-29-859-2301

Ruiqiong WANG
E-mail: [email protected]

Contact person of Chinese side
Prof. Zhigang Zou
Nanjing University
22 Hakou Road, Nanjing, 210093,China
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +86-25-8368-6630/Fax: +86-25-8368-6632

From 17 Jan 2011
Until 19 Jan 2011
National Institute for Materials Science, Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
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