Characterization Of Porous Materials Workshop Announced

The workshop's goal is to review and discuss the state-of-the-art theoretical and experimental approaches to the characterization of porous materials in the wide range of scales. The range of practical applications includes regular, disordered and fractal structures of nanomaterials, adsorbents, catalysts, membranes, filters, fibrous materials, textiles, paper, soil, geomaterials, and other porous systems of different origin. The Workshop program will include invited keynote lectures, oral presentations and posters. The volume of proceedings will be published by Elsevier as a special issue of Colloids and Surfaces A, an international journal with the worldwide circulation. The workshop is intended for scientists and engineers involved in research and development of processes where porous materials play a key role.

Workshop Scope
The Workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss state-of-the-art approaches to characterize porous materials of different origin in the size and range from angstroms to millimeters. Lectures by recognized leaders of science and technology will cover both theoretical principles and methodology of modern experimental techniques. Oral presentations and poster sessions will complement the keynote lectures. During the Workshop, the participants will review the capabilities of advanced adsorption, mercury, and liquid porosimeters and related analytical instrumentation, including software programs for calculating pore structure parameters and predicting engineering properties of porous materials.

Topics

• Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluids in Pores
  
• Adsorption and Capillary Phenomena
  
• Intermolecular Interactions in Porous Confinements
  
• Computer Simulations and Density Functional Theory
  
• Energetic Heterogeneity of Surfaces
  
• Fractal Characterization of Disordered Structures
  
• Adsorption Porosimetry of Micro- and Mesoporous Solids
  
• Liquid, Mercury, and Contact Porosimetry
  
• Thermoporometry and Calorimetry
  
• Chromographic Characterization of Porous Materials
  
• High Resolution Microscopy and Image Analysis
  
• Scattering Techniques for Pore Structure Analysis
  
• Relations Between Structural and Transport Properties