MC9

The RSC Materials Chemistry Forum's 'MC' series has provided a showcase for developments in Materials Chemistry every two years for almost two decades.

MC9, embedded in the 42nd IUPAC Congress, held symposia across the traditional core areas of Materials Chemistry, namely, Soft Matter, Solid State Materials, Nanomaterials and Biomaterials.

Solid State (MC9)

Convener: Edmund Cussen (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speakers: Matt Rosseinsky (Liverpool, UK), Tony Cheetham (Cambridge, UK), Mercouri Kanatzidis (Northwestern, USA)

Adaptive Nanomaterials (MC9)

Convener: Mathias Brust (Liverpool, UK); Keynote Speaker: Vincent Rotello (Massachusetts, USA), Andrew Cooper (Liverpool, UK)

Computational Nanoscience (MC9)

Convener: Nick Besley (Nottingham, UK); Keynote Speakers: George Schatz (Northwestern, USA), Jeff Grossman (UC Berkeley, USA), Jim Chelikowsky (Texas, USA).

Crystal Engineering (MC9)

Convener: Stuart James (Belfast, UK), Jamie Humphrey (CrystEngComm); Keynote Speakers: Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto, Japan), Joel Bernstein (Ben-Gurion, Israel)

Green Materials Synthesis (MC9)

Convener: Adam Lee (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speaker: Andrew Abbott (Leicester, UK)

Biomaterials (MC9)

Convener: Cameron Alexander (Nottingham, UK); Keynote Speakers: Kevin Healy (UC Berkeley, USA), Claus-Michael Lehr (Saarland, Germany)

Developing Polymer Materials (MC9)

Conveners: Chris Ober (Cornell, USA), Wilhelm Huck (Cambridge, UK); Keynote Speaker: Uli Wiesner (Cornell, USA)

Polymer Molecular Characterisation (MC9)

Conveners: Harald Pasch (Darmstadt, Germany); Taihyun Chang (Pohang, Korea); Keynote Speakers: Peter Rinaldi (Akron, USA), Robert Gilbert (Queensland, Australia)

Polymerisation Kinetics - Fundamentals for the Design of Novel Processes (MC9)

Convener: Michael Buback (Göttingen, Germany); Keynote Speakers: David Haddleton (Warwick, UK), Robin Hutchinson (Kingston, Canada), Igor Lacik (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Philipp Vana (Göttingen, Germany).

Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion (MC9)

Convener: Mathias Brust (Liverpool, UK); Keynote Speakers: Frédéric Chandezon (Grenoble, France), Thomas Nann (Norwich, UK)

Energy Materials: Batteries and Fuel Cells (MC9)

Convener: Saiful Islam (Bath, UK); Keynote Speakers: Sossina Haile (Caltech, USA), John Irvine (St Andrews, UK), Christian Masquelier (Picardie, France), Linda Nazar (Waterloo, Canada)

Catalysis for Energy (MC9)

Convener: Graham Hutchings (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speakers: Michel Che (Paris, France), Enrique Iglesia (UC Berkeley, USA)

Hydrogen Storage (MC9)

Convener: Duncan Gregory (Glasgow, UK); Keynote Speakers: Peter Edwards (Oxford, UK), Andreas Züttel (EMPA, Switzerland)

Organic Electronics (MC9)

Convener: Pete Skabara (Strathclyde, UK), Keynote Speakers: John Reynolds (Florida, USA), Iain McCulloch (London, UK), Nazario Martin (Madrid, Spain), Stephen Yeates (Manchester, UK)

Molecular Electronics and Magnetics (MC9)

Convener: Euan Brechin (Edinburgh, UK); Keynote Speakers: Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (Grenoble, France), Eugenio Coronado Miralles (Valencia, Spain)

Molecular Machines and Devices (MC9)

Convener: Graeme Cooke (Glasgow, UK); Keynote Speakers: David Leigh (Edinburgh, UK), Itamar Willner (Jerusalem, Israel)