Workshop Scope

The Workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss state-of-the-art approaches to characterize porous materials of different origin in the size and range from angstroms to millimeters. Lectures by recognized leaders of science and technology will cover both theoretical principles and methodology of modern experimental techniques. Oral presentations and poster sessions will complement the keynote lectures. During the Workshop, the participants will review the capabilities of advanced adsorption, mercury, and liquid porosimeters and related analytical instrumentation, including software programs for calculating pore structure parameters and predicting engineering properties of porous materials.

• Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluids in Pores
• Adsorption and Capillary Phenomena
• Intermolecular Interactions in Porous Confinements
• Computer Simulations and Density Functional Theory
• Energetic Heterogeneity of Surfaces
• Fractal Characterization of Disordered Structures
• Adsorption Porosimetry of Micro- and Mesoporous Solids
• Liquid, Mercury, and Contact Porosimetry
• Thermoporometry and Calorimetry
• Chromographic Characterization of Porous Materials
• High Resolution Microscopy and Image Analysis
• Scattering Techniques for Pore Structure Analysis
• Relations Between Structural and Transport Properties

Alex Neimark, TRI/Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

• Keith Gubbins, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
• Nikos Kanellopoulos, National Center for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece
• Katsumi Kaneko, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
• Kenneth Sing, Exeter University, Exeter, UK
• Francisco Rodriguez-Reinoso, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
• Matthias Thommes, Quantachrome Instruments, Boynton Beach, Florida, USA

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