International meeting of experts in metal complexes

The opening session will take place on Wednesday 8 June at 9:30 a.m. at the UAB-Casa Convalescència (Carrer Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 171, Barcelona). It will include the inaugural speech on "Novel Nanocomposite for High Efficiency Solid Oxide Fuel Cell", by professor Mamoun Muhammed from the Functional Materials Division of the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), on the application of new materials to improve the efficiency of fuel cells.

Thursday the symposium will be held at the ALBA Synchrotron Light facility. There, at 09:50 a.m., professor John Bargar from the Chemical and Catalysis Division of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Stanford (USA), will offer a conference entitled "Redox and Coordination Environment: Controls Over Uranium Behaviour in Complex Natural Sediments".

The closing session, once again at the UAB-Casa Convalescència, will take place on Friday 10 June at 9 a.m. with a lecture by Scientific Director of CNRS Dirk Schaumlöffel entitled "Metal Imaging at Nanometer Level in Biological Cells by Nano Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (NANOSIMS)", with a presentation of methods of obtaining images of nanometric structures inside cells.

Attendants will put on display the most recent advances in this field, fostering new collaborations between researchers from different sectors. The symposium is focused on different aspects of the study and application of thermodynamics of complexes in the fields of analytical chemistry, biomedicine, the environment, inorganics and physics. It particularly focuses on chemistry thermodynamics, the chemistry of coordination, the interactions between metal complexes and biomolecules, metals in diseases, metal-based drugs, analytical methods and sensors based on metal complexes, nanostructured metal complexes, proteomics and matabolomics, metals in supramolecular chemistry and computational methods for balance analysis.

Something new in this year's symposium is the "brokerage" session on Wednesday afternoon, in which participants will have the chance to personalise a meeting with other participants with the aim of exchanging experiences and reaching agreements for future collaborations and joint projects.

The scientific committee is made up of UAB professors Manuel Valiente, Montserrat López Mesas and Cristina Palet and researchers at the ALBA synchrotron light facility Laura Simonelli and Carlo Marini, organisers of the symposium; Enrique García-Espanya from the University of Valencia; Guido Crisponi from the University of Cagliari, Italy; Henryk Kozlowski from the University of Wrocław, Poland; Raffaela Biesuz from the University of Pavia, Italy; Tarita Biver from the University of Pisa, Italy; Antonio Bianchi from the University of Florence, Italy; Etelka Farkas from the University of Debrecen, Hungary; Joan Niclós Gutierrez from the University of Granada; Maria Àngels Olazabal from the University of the Basque Country; Maurizio Remelli from the University of Ferrara, Italy; Maria Amelia Santos from the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal; Peter Gans from the company Protonic Software in Leeds, England; and Michel Meyer from the University of Burgundy, France.

Symposium website:
http://ismec2016.com/