1st International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials

15-19th March 2009, Tours, France

Energy, the environment and human health have emerged as strategic priorities not only in research but in all aspects of our lives. Hybrid materials have already demonstrated good promise in addressing and offering solutions in each of these priority areas.

The main objective of this new interdisciplinary conference is to bring together, for the first time at a truly international level, people with shared interests in hybrid materials, including:

• Polymer chemists, physicists and engineers
• Biomaterials chemists, physicists and engineers
• Organic chemists
• Inorganic chemists
• Solid state chemists
• Sol-gel chemists
• Composites scientists
• Colloid chemists and physicists
• Zeolite, meso- and microporous materials scientists
• Broad nano- and materials scientists

By creating this unique forum for exchange of knowledge between all these distinct research communities and the related industries, the conference hopes to offer possibilities for new collaborations and potential synergies. Contributions from all over the world will cover a wide range of topics ranging from design, synthesis, processing to applications in separation, energy generation and storage, catalysis, sensors, optics, microelectronics, smart materials and coatings, biotechnology and medicine.

Further information can be found on the Hybrid Materials 2009 conference website.