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The IUPAC Conference on New Directions in Chemistry, Workshop on Nanostructured Advanced Materials (IUPAC-WAM II)
Jakkur, Bangalore, India, from February 13–16, 2002

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Advanced Materials

The IUPAC Conference on New Directions in Chemistry, Workshop on Nanostructured Advanced Materials (IUPAC-WAM II), which was held in Jakkur, Bangalore, India, from February 13–16, 2002, constituted a remarkable scientific accomplishment. The conference’s high-quality lectures—on recent developments in the broad, interdisciplinary research field of nanostructured materials—merged the latest scientific results and potential technological applications.

WAM II fulfilled one of the core objectives of IUPAC: to identify significant, emerging research fields involving cutting-edge technologies. The conference focused on quantum structures (i.e., nanoparticles and nanocrystals of metals and of semiconductors, nanostructures, nanowires, and nanobiological systems), assemblies of nanostructures (e.g., nanoparticles and nanowires), and the use of biological systems (e.g., DNA) as templates for metallic or semiconducting nanostructures. The conceptual framework for dynamics, response, and transport in nanostructures was provided by the theoretical and computational studies that were presented.

Attendees of the IUPAC-WAM II Conference. First Row (from left): Uzi Landman, M. A. El-Sayed. J. Jortner, C. N. R. Rao, M. P. Pileni, S. T. Lee, I. Willner. Second Row (from left): P. Gai, A. K. Raychaudhuri, S. Komerneni, A. K. Sood, M. Sanya, G. U. Kulkarni (Convener).

 

Joshua Jortner
IUPAC past president and professor at
Tel Aviv University.

> Published in Chem. Int. 24(3), 2002

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