9th SYMPOSIUM INTERNATIONAL ON SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS

The symposium will take place in Arcachon (France) from the 18th-20th May 2009.

The slogan is "New trends in Supercritical Fluids: Energy, Materials, Processing"

The goal of this edition is to bring together scientists and engineers interested in Supercritical Fluids from traditional and emergent areas. The symposium will focus on new perspectives to identify new challenges and breakthroughs in the field.

Early registration is to be done before 31/01/2009.

For more information visit the symposium web page.

LLLIC-SCF-GSCE

No, I'm not mad...

These are the initials of the "Life Long Learning Intensive Course Supercritical Fluids-Green Solvents in Chemical Engineering" that will be held in KOC University (Istanbul, Turkey) from 25th June to 9th July 2009.

This Life Long Learning Intensive Course was promoted by the members of the Working Party “High Pressure Technology” of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) and all members, recognised European experts both in the theoretical aspects and in the industrial applications of supercritical fluids, will present the topics.

You can find this information and more information in the Circular or in the web page.

On the web page you can also find the registration form.
Deadline for Registration is 24th April 2009.

3rd meeting of experts in compressed fluids technologies

The meeting will be held from 5 to 6 of February in Madrid.

The purpose of the meeting is to update the list of research groups in Supercritical Fluids applications and to present the “Spanish association of compressed Fluids”.
You can find more information in their web (in Spanish).

20th anniversary of Advanced Materials

The journal "Advanced Materials" is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Having an Impact Factor of 8.191 Advanced Materials is one of the most influential journals in the field.
Therefore a quick review of articles published in this journal related with "supercritical fluids" may give us an idea of the its use in materials design. From 1993 to 2008, 43 articles talk about something related to supercritical fluids.

Last trend is the use of SCF in the synthesis of Nano-tubes, which is at the same time one of the more promising lines of research in materials. For example in the next number of the journal an article entitled "Synthesis of Carbon-Nanotube Composites Using Supercritical Fluids and Their Potential Applications" will be published.

You can also download the "anniversary review" on their web, or with this link.