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项目颁发的国家科学基金会奖提供资金，以协助举办题为“下一代膜的新材料和概念”的研讨会。该研讨会将于2010年12月15日至20日在夏威夷檀香山举行的2010年太平洋盆地学会国际化学大会（即Pacifichem 2010）上举行。新型膜材料在这一领域发挥着重要作用，因为流体的高效分离对生物燃料净化、水修复、燃料电池运行等都很重要。新材料和新概念下一代膜研讨会的组织者是来自美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的PI；日本明治大学永井和教授；加拿大拉瓦尔大学的Normand Voyer教授。本次研讨会将重点讨论新的材料设计方法和化学概念，这些概念可能用于开发具有新的或增强分离能力的前所未有的膜。本次研讨会的总体目标是将研究人员聚集在一起，他们制造了新的功能多孔和致密材料，但没有什么膜经验，与膜专家在新膜的开发和应用的前沿。目标是通过这个国际论坛来分享新材料的想法和膜的需求/可能性，这将促进新的合作，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、青年教授和研究生的注册费。更广泛的影响研讨会的摘要将通过互联网提供给公众，作为研究和教育工具。该研讨会也将作为一个重要的国际平台，让年轻的美国科学家（即教授，研究生和博士后）参与并了解材料化学（各种形式）和膜科学与工程交叉的令人兴奋的机会。希望这次Pacifichem 2010研讨会能够鼓励美国和其他国家更多的年轻（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，通过选择年轻的化学家和膜工程师来进行大部分的讲座，让年轻科学家广泛参与到讲座中来。在这样做的过程中，新的和往往是革命性的想法和概念在膜材料和设计将突出。

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.