Yesterday, the Principal Esteban Morcillo opened the 40th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC40). This event is organized by the Molecular Science Institute (ICMol) and will have more than a thousand chemists who work on coordination chemistry, which is one of the fields in the chemistry having effect on several areas such as medicine, energy or environment.
From nuclear medicie to the future electronics, many fields are affected by the progress of coordination chemistry, the branch of the chemistry which will be discussed at ICCC40 at the Palacio de Congresos in Valencia.
The UV’s Principal, Esteban Morcillo, opened the congress yesterday along with the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry)’s president Luis Oro, the ICCC’s secretary Jan Reedijk, the general director of universities at the Valencian Government José Miguel Saval, and ICMol’s director Eugenio Coronado.
Coronado, who is ICCC40’s director, presented statistical data of the congress and has underlined the attendance of Asian lecturers and researchers. A 20% of the congress attendants are from Japan. A thousand people is coming to the congress among them young researchres and outstanding scientists. ‘It someday one of the Nobel prizes goes to a coordination chemist, the awarded would be in this congress’, explained Coronado.
The ICCC’s secretary, Reedijk, addressed the youngest researchers: ‘I encourage you to take advantage of every occasion to make contacts and meet colleagues from other countries.’
Saval, the Valencian Government’s representative, acknowledged the international authority of the Valencian chemistry: ‘The Valencian Government is aware that the Valencian Community is leader in this field of knowledge. We thanks the Molecular Science Institute for highlighting the name of the Valencian Community regarding chemistry at an international level.’
The congress will disclose, for instance, the last findings in the study of the molecules for the improvement of the catalyst processes. The design of cheaper and more efficient solar cells, molecular switches or large memories nano-devices which brings us in close proximity to the future will be discussed. We will also find out the progress of cisplatin, a chemical agent used in the chemotherapy treatments. These topics will be exposed through 80 lectures.
It is important to mention the attendance of Paul D. Been (University of Oxford, UK), expert in the design of the molecular sensors and devices. Other important researchers are attending: Jean Pierre Sauvage (Université de Strasbourg, France), Shunichi Fukuzumi (Osaka University, Japan), Craig L. Hill (Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Guochen Jia (Hon Kong University of Science and Technology , China), Roberta Sessoli (Università degli Studi di Firenze, UNIFI, Italy), Edward I. Solomon (Stanford University, California, USA), and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, USA).
The organizing commission is head by Eugenio Coronado, full professor in inorganic chemistry and director of the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular at Universitat de València and by Santiago Álvarez, full professor in inorganic chemistry at Universitat de Barcelona.
More information: http://www.icmol.es/index.php and http://iccc40.com/
Last update: 11 de september de 2012 08:51.
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