Symposium 3: Chemical Reaction/Synthetic Methods, Welding and Joining/Brazing
13:30-17:10, June. 6th, 2012 (Wednesday); Place: Room 305B, 3^rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Wolfgang Kern, Professor, University of Leoben, Austria

Co-Chair:

Dr. Emile Van Der Heide, Professor, University of Twente; Senior Scientist, Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, The Netherlands

13:30-13:35

Chair’s Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Addressing Current Challenges in Solution Based Synthesis of Nanostructured Metal Oxides
Dr. Marlies Van Bael, Full Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Hasselt University, Belgium

14:00-14:25

Title: Recent Progress in Liquid Chromatography of Synthetic Polymers
Dr. Dusan Berek, Professor, Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia

14:25-14:50

Title: Tribological Study on 3D Porous Scaffold for Functional Tissue Regeneration
Dr. Xiangqiong Zeng, Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands

14:50-15:15

Title: Materials for Skin Tribology
Dr. Emile Van Der Heide, Professor, University of Twente; Senior Scientist, Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, The Netherlands

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Creating Reactivity at Surfaces and Interfaces by Photochemical Methods
Dr. Wolfgang Kern, Professor, University of Leoben, Austria

15:55-16:20

Title: Site-specific Bond Dissociation of Self-assembled Monolayer Induced by Core Excitation
Dr. Tetsuji Sekitani, Associate Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan

16:20-16:45

Title: Oxide Nanotubes Obtained by Sol-gel and Hydrothermal Methods
Dr. Maria Zaharescu, Head, Ilie Murgulescu Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Romanian Academy, Romania

16:45-17:10

Title: Sol-gel Reactions of Silicon Alkoxides as a Tool for Design Nanocomposites Based on a Biopolymer (PLA)
Dr. Jean-Francois Gerard, Vice President, INSA, France