The XXIV International Conference of photochemical brings together 500 scientists from 40 countries
July 17, 2009
Toledo is the seat of the XXIV International Conference of photochemistry, considered the most important in the fields of chemistry, physics and biology. The meeting, attended by 500 scientists from 40 countries, opens with the paper in charge of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1999, Ahmed H. Zewail. This Egyptian Professor is a pioneer in the use of for observing ultrafast lasers, atom to Atom, reactions chemical. Since 1980, Zewail is working at the Institute of California in Pasadena (United States), where it has discovered that you between reactants and products often appear very unstable molecules and with particularly short life cycles. This technique, which earned him the award of the Royal Academy of Sweden science, is present in the origin of the femtoquímica, a branch the chemistry to understand the reactions of the metabolism of living beings.
This International Conference, which takes place in Spain for the first time, includes 10 plenary sessions, 38 various guests and more than 100 communications conferences. The papers and presentations from this event correspond to 'the scientific avant-garde' of our day with impact on society, in the opinion of the organizers. Thus, the programme will include topics such as photovoltaic materials, fotomedicina, femtobioquímica, photocatalysis, photochemistry environmental, photochemistry of polymers, Nanophotonics, and quantum dots, among others. All these matters have direct applications in daily life through medicine, information technology, optical computers, molecular memories, solar energy, the environment and nanoscience, for example.
