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SCOPE OF THE MEETING
The purpose and scope of this symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion of the current state of the art of rapidly evolving crystal & graphene science, highly interdisciplinary fields.
Crystal & Graphene Science Symposium-2012 will have two parallel theme meetings:
Graphene Science Symposium:
Graphene is the basic structural element of some carbon allotropes including graphite, charcoal, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. Buckyball is a spherical fullerene molecule (C60) with a cage-like fused-ring structure which resembles a soccer ball (this discovery brought 1996 Nobel prize in chemistry to Kroto, Curl and Smalley). Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure. These cylindrical carbon molecules have unusual properties, which are valuable for nanotechnology, electronics, optics, and material science. The promising properties of the graphene have been extensively demonstrated by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (2010 Physics Nobel Prize recipients). The graphene (in general nanotechnology) has attracted a much attention these last years from both academic and industry laboratories, so we combined these three (carbon nanotubes, fullerenes and graphenes) areas, grouped in to ‘Graphene Science Symposium.’
In this international meeting, prominent researchers (physicists, chemists, materials scientists, biologists, electrical, electronic and computer engineers) from both academia and industry will gather and discuss the applications in form of keynote lectures, invited talks, short oral, and poster presentations.
Crystal Science Symposium:
Study of design/synthesis of functional solid-state structures including organic molecular crystals and metallo-organic-polymers described as ‘crystal engineering’. Quasicrystals are unique form of solid; they exist universally in many metallic alloys and some polymers. Discovery of these quasicrystals revealed a new principle for packing of atoms and molecules that led to a paradigm shift within chemistry (Dan Shechtman, discoverer of these new materials won the Chemistry Nobel prize in 2011). Liquid crystals are a state of matter that has properties between those of a conventional liquid and those of a solid crystal; and have analogies between superconductors and magnetic materials. On the other hand, nanocrystals are aggregates of any where from a few hundred to tens of thousands of atoms that combine into a crystalline form of matter known as a ‘cluster.’ In recent years researchers have grown nanocrystals out of semiconductor powders; those are in sub-10nm size range (called as, quantum dots). Supramolecular chemistry refers to the area of chemistry beyond the molecules and focuses on the chemical systems made up of a discrete number of assembled molecular subunits or components. This field has established links between fabrication and structure on the one hand, and properties of the produced superstructures on the other hand, with an emphasis on energy, life science, and electronics applications. Both crystal and supra molecular chemistry has attracted attention during last few years from both academic and industry laboratories, so we combined these areas, grouped in to ‘Crystal Science Symposium.’
In this international meeting, prominent researchers (physicists, theoretical, organic, inorganic, organo-metallic chemists, materials scientists, biologists and bio-crystallographers from both academia and industry will gather and discuss the applications in form of keynote lectures, invited talks, short oral, and poster presentations. The two meetings will cover two distinct, though strictly related, fundamental aspects of modern Crystal & Graphene Science.
All the members who participate in this symposium have to register for the meeting.
Venue: Hilton Garden Inn (420 Totten Pond Rd, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA), is recently renovated star hotel (with all amenities) near the Rt. 95/128 high-tech corridor. The hotel is well connected to Boston and Cambridge by bus transportation. Waltham is a western suburban city ten miles away from Boston, named after town in England. Waltham is the hub for several information technology, and biotech companies. Waltham also known as a watch-manufacturing city, and home for Brandeis and Bentley Universities.
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