Thursday, May 7th, Discussion Forum, “Bridging from Fundamentals to Practice”
8:00 – 8:10
Opening (Matthias Thommes, Alex Neimark, Roger van Zee)
Morning Session I (Chair: Peter Behrens, Leibnitz University, Germany) Michael Froeba (University of Hamburg, Germany)
8:10 – 8:30
Energy Materials: What Porosity and Surface Chemistry is Needed?
Akira Endo (AIST, Japan)
8:30 – 8:50
Nanoporous Adsorbents for Energy Efficient Adsorption Systems
Mohamed Eddaoudi (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
8:50 – 9:10
Modular Organic Frameworks for Gas Separation and Storage
Anne Dailly (GM, USA)
9:10 – 9:40
9:40 - 10:00
Perspectives on Gas Storage Adsorbents for On Board Vehicle Applications
Coffee Break
Morning Session II (Chair: Peter Monson, University of Massachusetts‐Amherst)
Wieslaw Roth (Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland)
10:00 – 10:30
Progressing Surfactant Templated Mesoporous Materials from Lab to Discovery
to Commercial Applications
Gerhard Findenegg (TU Berlin, Germany)
10:30 – 10:50
Secondary Confinement Due to Salt Precipitation in Mesoporous Silica
Valentin Valtchev (University of Caen, CNRS, France) 10:50 – 11:10
3D Topology and Dynamics of Zeolite Nucleation
Ulrich Tallarek (Phillipps University Marburg, Germany) 11:10 – 11:30
11:30 – 11:50
Morphology-Transport Relationships for Disordered Porous Media: From
Materials Science to Heterogeneous Catalysis
Reiner Staudt (University of Applied Science Offenburg, Germany)
Determination of Thermophysical Data for Design of Technical Adsorption Processes Steve Hillenius (Semiconductor Research Corp., USA)
11:50 – 12:20
30 Years of Consortial Industry/Government University Funding of Basic
Research
12:20 – 1:30
Networking Lunch at the Delray Beach Marriott
Afternoon Session I (Chair: Gino Baron, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Dan Georgi (Aramco Services, USA)
1:30 – 2:00
2:00 – 2:30
Research Needs for Unconventional Shale Hydrocarbon Exploration and
Production
Alan Allgeier (Dupont, USA)
Low‐Field Time Domain NMR for Surface and Particle Science Rob Hart (Shepherd Chemical, USA)
2:30 – 3:00
Chemicals From Methane: How it Might Be Done and What We Need Now?
3:00 – 3:20
Coffee Break
Afternoon Session II (Chair: Freddy Kleitz, Université Laval, Québec Canada ) 3:20 – 3:40
Patrick Looney (Brookhaven National Lab, USA)
Experiences in Tech Transfer at Brookhaven National Lab
Roger van Zee (NIST, USA)
3:40 – 4:00
FACT Lab and NIST/FACT Database
Discussion Session (Chairs: Gino Baron and Roger van Zee) 4:00 – 5:15
Round Table Discussion
5:15 – 5:30
Closing (Matthias Thommes, Alex Neimark, Roger van Zee)