The evemt will gather experts from around the world in the fields of inorganic and organic chemistry. It will cover all aspects of materials prepared by sol-gel from the fundamentals of design to applications in academia and industry.
Topics
- Chemistry and fundamentals of the sol-gel process
- Organic-inorganic hybrid materials
- Nano- and micro-structured materials
- Porous materials and hierarchical structured materials
- Bio and bioinspired materials
- Protective functional coatings and thin films
- Characterization and modelling techniques for sol-gel materials
- Sol-Gel materials for (photo-)catalysis and membranes
- Sol-Gel materials for energy and environmental applications
- Sol-Gel materials for health and medical applications
- Sol-Gel materials for electronic, magnetic, and ferroelectric applications
- Sol-Gel materials for sensors, optic, photonic, and optoelectronic applications
- Industrialization of sol-gel science and technology
- AI and Chemistry of Materials
- New biosourced Materials
- Sol-gel in the context of climate change
- 4D printing
Selected Speakers
- Zaiping Guo, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Svetlana Mintova, Normandy University, Caen, France
- Berend Smit, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Marc Willinger, Technical University of Munich , Garching, Germany
- Dongyuan Zhao, Fudan University, China
