STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced Hybrid Materials 2009: The First International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials, which will take place in Tours, France, from March 15-19, 2009.
Research in hybrid materials has experienced a 14 percent annual growth in published papers in recent years with increasing interest from a wide range of industries. The inaugural meeting aims to bring together experts from the various sub-disciplines to share current research and create an interdisciplinary forum for discussion.
Clément Sanchez, CNRS Research Director at the University of Paris VI and author of some the world's most cited papers on hybrid materials, is one of the four conference chairs. According to Rumen Duhlev, Publisher at Elsevier and initiator of this project, the launch of the conference is extremely timely. It is seen to fulfill a real need for providing researchers in both academia and industry with a forum for discussing advances in this interdisciplinary field.
The conference is currently calling for contributions for presentation at the meeting under one of the three following symposia: Biohybrids and biomaterials; Bottom-up approaches to functional nanomaterials and nanocomposites; and Functional porous materials. Abstracts should be submitted online at www.hybridmaterialsconference.com by September 15, 2008.
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