The Solid State and Materials Chemistry program supports the travel costs of speakers and graduates students to participate in the symposium titled "Design and Applications of Organic and Metal-Organic Porous Materials" that will be held at the 244th ACS meeting in Philadelphia, PA from Aug. 19-23, 2012. The ACS meeting is held twice every year, and serves as an interdisciplinary venue for members of the American Chemical Society to share information and research progress in areas of common interest. This symposium is scheduled for 2 full-day oral presentation sessions, which have been tentatively assigned the following topics, based on the organizer?s survey of the newest advances in porous materials: Session 1: Design and Concepts for Porous Polymers Session 2: Design and Concepts for Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Session 3: Design and Concepts for Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) Session 4: Design and Concepts for Covalent Organic Polyhedrons (COPs)
NON TECHNICAL SUMMARY This symposium will act as a leading vehicle for educating U.S. researchers with interests in designing/making new porous materials, but also the general scientific public about materials. The abstracts of this symposium will be made accessible via the Internet to the general public as a research and educational tool for this purpose. This symposium will also serve as an important international platform for allowing young U.S. scientists (i.e., starting professors, graduate students, and postdoctoral materials chemistry (of all forms) and engineering process.
This Porous Materials symposium served as a unique international and interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of how new materials and design concepts can potentially be used to make new and better porous materials for current and future global environmental and energy needs. Given the importance of porous materials over many fields, this symposium served to encourage continuing advances in this important area to be realized via a higher degree of cross-disciplinary participation. This symposium also helped members of the U.S. solid state and materials chemistry communities to remain at the forefront of this globally important research area. This symposium also served as a vehicle for educating U.S. researchers with interests in designing/making new porous materials, but also the general scientific public on the importance of investigating new molecular structures for designing better functional materials. This symposium also served 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 and engineering process. Overall, the "Design and Applications of Organic and Metal-Organic Porous Materials" symposium was a popular and well-attended symposia in the PMSE and ORGN Divisions at the 2012 Fall ACS meeting. Funding from the NSF DMR Division (SSMC program) is gratefully acknowledged because it allowed us to invite a number of high-profile speakers to headline the sessions and generate a great deal of attendee and general scientific interest.
