Layered Materials

	Symposium Organizer Willem Leenstra Department of Chemistry University of Vermont Contact

Layered materials are a class of inorganic solids that can be designed with specific structures and properties. Their utility spans applications in catalysis, ion exchange, encapsulation, charge transfer, and sensors. As well, layered materials can be used as precursors to the synthesis of porous compounds.

Your contributions are invited in the following, by no means limiting, areas:

• Synthesis, characterization, and of layered materials
• Structural determination, and morphology of layered materials, and their connection to the material performance
• Chemical and other applications of layered materials
• Porous materials with connections to layered structures

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All abstracts accepted for NERM 2008 will be automatically included into CAS, the ACS Chemical Abstracts Service database after the meeting.

Overview presentation

	An Overview of Layered Materials Willem Leenstra Department of Chemistry University of Vermont

Invited Speakers

	Abraham Clearfield Department of Chemistry Texas A&M University Layered Materials: From Phosphates to Porous Phosphonates.		Steven Suib Department of Chemistry University of Connecticut Layered Metal Oxides Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalysis
	C. Vijaya Kumar Department of Chemistry University of Connecticut		Jorge L. Colón University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Layered Zirconium Phosphates for Artificial Photosynthesis, Amperometric Biosensors, Vapochromic Materials, and Drug Delivery Systems.