Engineering Foundation Conference on "Processing and Catalytic/Chemical Properties of Nanostructured Materials" to be held in Maui, Hawaii from January 16 - 21, 2000

该奖项是对工程基金会会议的部分支持，该会议题为“纳米结构材料的加工和催化/化学性质”，将于2000年1月16日至21日在夏威夷的毛伊岛举行。 该补助金将为受邀演讲者，年轻研究人员和学生参加会议提供部分旅行支持，注册和住宿费用。 纳米结构材料在化学加工领域具有巨大的技术潜力，特别是在催化应用方面。由于新的化学合成方法和改进的表征技术的最新发展，现在有可能在纳米尺度上设计反应性材料的功能。 过去几年的研究进展清楚地表明，纳米结构设计可以大大改善材料的表面特性，并为化学反应的结构敏感性提供新的见解。 鉴于对纳米结构材料的极大兴趣和催化材料对工业过程的重要性，现在召开一次会议是及时的，该会议将汇集来自学术界和工业界的国际研究人员，介绍纳米结构材料的化学加工和催化性能领域的进展，并讨论未来的研究方向。

This award is for partial support for the cost of an Engineering Foundation Conference entitled "Processing and Catalytic/Chemical Properties of Nanostructured Materials" to be held in Maui, Hawaii from January 16 to 21, 2000. The grant will provide partial travel support, registration, and accommodation expenses for invited speakers, young researchers, and students to attend the conference. There is significant technological potential for the emerging of area of nanostructured materials in chemical processing, especially in relation to catalytic applications. Because of recent developments in new chemical synthesis methods and improved characterization techniques, there are now possibilities for designing features for reactive materials on the nanometer scale. Research advances in the past few years have clearly shown that nanostructure design can substantially improve the surface characteristics of materials as well as offering new insights into the structure sensitivity of chemical reactions. In view of the great interest in nanostructured materials and the importance of catalytic materials to industrial processes, it is timely to have a conference that will bring together international researchers from academia and industry to present advances in the fields of chemical processing and catalytic properties of nanostructured materials and to discuss future research directions.