Pacifichem 2010 Symposium: New Materials and Concepts for Next Generation Membranes, December 15-20, 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii

这项由化学和生物分离计划颁发的NSF奖项可用于协助举办名为下一代膜的新材料和概念的研讨会。研讨会将于2010年12月15日至20日在HI火奴鲁鲁举行的2010年太平洋盆地学会国际化学大会(即2010年太平洋会议)上举行。膜用新材料在这一领域发挥着重要作用，因为高效的流体分离对于生物燃料提纯、水修复、燃料电池运行等非常重要。下一代膜的新材料和概念研讨会的组织者包括来自美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的PI、日本明治大学的Kazu Nagai教授和加拿大拉瓦尔大学的Normand Voyer教授。本次研讨会将聚焦于新材料、设计方法和化学概念，这些新材料、设计方法和化学概念可能被用来开发具有新的或增强的分离能力的前所未有的膜。本次研讨会的总体目标是将制造新的功能多孔和致密材料但缺乏膜经验的研究人员与新膜开发和应用的前沿膜专家聚集在一起。我们的目标是让这个国际论坛分享新材料的想法，膜的需求/可能性将促进新的合作，并使下一代膜的开发成为可能。申请的NSF资金将用于支付特邀演讲者、年轻教授和研究生的注册费。更广泛的影响专题讨论会的摘要将通过互联网向公众提供，作为研究和教育工具。研讨会还将成为一个重要的国际平台，让年轻的美国科学家(即初级教授、研究生和博士后研究员)参与和了解材料化学(各种形式)和膜科学与工程交叉学科的令人兴奋的机会。希望本次太平洋2010研讨会将鼓励更多美国和其他国家的年轻(即下一代)材料化学家将他们的技能应用于这一方向。PI计划让年轻科学家广泛参与讲座，选择年轻的化学家和膜工程师来做很大一部分贡献的演讲。在这样做的过程中，膜材料和设计方面的新的、往往是革命性的想法和概念将被突出。

This NSF award by the Chemical and Biological Separations program makes funds available to assist with a symposium entitled New Materials and Concepts for Next Generation Membrane. The symposium will be held at the 2010 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (i.e., Pacifichem 2010) in Honolulu, HI from Dec. 15-20, 2010. New materials for membranes play an important role in this area because efficient separations of fluids are important for biofuels purification, water remediation, fuel cell operation, etc. The organizers of the New Materials and Concepts for Next Generation Membranes symposium are the PI from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA; Prof. Kazu Nagai from Meiji University, Japan; and Prof. Normand Voyer from Laval University, Canada. This symposium will focus on new materials design approaches and chemical concepts that potentially could be used to develop unprecedented membranes with new or enhanced separation capabilities. The overall goal of this symposium is to bring together rsearchers who make new functional porous and dense materials but have little membranes experience, with membrane experts at the cutting edge of new membranes development and application. The goal is to have this international forum for sharing new materials ideas and membrane needs/possibilities will catalyze new collaborations and enable development of next generation membranes. The requested NSF funds will be used to cover registration fees for invited speakers, young professors and graduate students. Broader Impacts The abstracts from the symposium will be made accessible via the Internet to the general public as a research and educational tool. The symposium will also serve as an important international platform for allowing young U.S. scientists (i.e., starting professors, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows) to participate in and learn about the exciting opportunities at the intersection of materials chemistry (of all forms) and membrane science and engineering. It is hoped that this Pacifichem 2010 symposium will encourage more young (i.e., the next-generation of) materials chemists in the U.S. and other countries to apply their skills in that direction. The PI plans to have extensive young scientist participation in the talk sessions by choosing young chemists and membrane engineers to give a large portion of the contributed talks. In doing so, new and often revolutionary ideas and concepts in membrane materials and design will be highlighted.