Introduction

The 6^th International Symposium on Monolayer Protected Clusters (ISMPC19) will be held at Xiamen University on September 23-26, 2019. The registration date will be on September 23. This symposium series were organized first twice in Finland (2008 & 2011) and then in the USA (2013), Japan (2015), and Switzerland (2017). We hope to bring together an outstanding group of researchers to discuss the latest developments in the field of monolayer protected metal clusters and nanoparticles. As of now, over twenty well-known scientists have confirmed their participations to ISMPC19.

ISMPC19 will cover a wide range of research topics, including but not limited to synthesis and growth mechanism, structure characterizations, surface chemistry, assembly of metal clusters, computation chemistry, properties and applications of metal nanoclusters and small nanoparticles.

On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to invite you to join this event to have extensive interactions with the participants. As a tradition of this series of symposiums, although most speakers of this symposium are invited, we still keep quite many oral presentation slots for young researchers. You can present your research work in the form of posters as well. We hope that the talks and posters presented will stimulate the exchange of ideas and experiences between all participants leading to new friendships and collaborations. I believe the symposium will be successful due to the significant contribution from colleague like you.

You can find more information about this symposium at the following site: http://ismpc19.xmu.edu.cn .

Organizers

·  Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials

·  College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University

·  The State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces

Speakers

·         Boon K. Teo (Xiamen University)

·         Rongchao Jin(Carnegie Mellon University, US)

·         Christine Aikens(Kansas State University, US)

·         De-en Jiang(University of California, Riverside, US)

·         Ken Knappenberger(The Pennsylvania State University, US)

·         Stefan Knoppe(Universität Stuttgart, DE)

·         Tatsuya Tsukuda（University of Tokyo, JP）

·         Yuichi Negishi(Tokyo University of Science, JP)

·         Katsuaki Konishi(Hokkaido University, JP)

·         Jianping Xie (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

·         Hannu Hakkinen(University of Jyvaskyla, FI)

·         Christopher Ackerson(Colorado State University, US)

·         Maia Azubel (Stanford University, US)

·         Terry Bigioni(University of Toledo, US)

·         Peng Zhang(Dalhousie University, CA)

·         Osman M. Bakr(KAUST, SA)

·         Thomas Bürgi(University of Geneva, CH)

·         Quan-ming Wang（Tsinghua University, CHN）

·         Manzhou Zhu（Anhui University, CHN）

·         Zhikun Wu（Institute of Solid Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHN）

·         Di Sun（Shandong University, CHN）

·         Shuangquan Zang（Zhengzhou University, CHN）

·         Chen-Wei Liu (National Dong Hwa University)

·         Jie Zheng (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Important Dates

·         Deadline for short talk abstract：

·         July. 01，2019

·         Deadline for poster abstract：

·         Sept. 01,2019

·         Deadline for Abstract Submission:

·         Sept. 01, 2019

·         Accepted Abstract Notification to Author:

·         Sept. 03, 2019

·         End of Early Registration:

·         Aug. 01, 2019

·         Registration deadline:

·         Sept. 10, 2019

·         Conference Begins:

·         Sept. 23, 2019

Contact

·         Jie Chen: chen_jie@xmu.edu.cn

·         Xiting Yuan: 249526269@qq.com