Advanced Materials Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories
1001 University Blvd., S.E.
Albuquerque, NM 87016
(505) 272-7627, FAX 272-7304
 jbrinker@carina.unm.edu

Rationally designed and synthesized inorganic/organic hybrid materials can offer multifunctionality and permit property tailoring from subnanometer (atomic) to submillimeter (mesoscopic) length scales. The ability to tailor materials properties over broad length scales suggests that research on hybrids can significantly impact diverse fields including electronic (conductors, semiconductors, piezoelectrics, dielectrics, etc.), optical (lasing materials, NLO waveguides, quantum dot devices, photonic band gaps, holographic materials) biomedical (e.g. dental composites, prosthetics, drug delivery, membranes, microfluid channels), sensors and ceramic and polymer composite (structural, piezoelectric, optical etc.) applications. The call for papers for the proposed symposium will request papers that focus on property-driven design, preparation and characterization of micro (nano) hybrid structures including dense and porous inorganic/organic interpenetrating networks, and submicron particle/polymer composites. Biomimetic or Bioinspired approaches of materials and templated growth of inorganic or hybrid networks using self assembled hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces will also be featured.

Contributed papers and posters are solicited in the following areas:

. Synthesis methods: precursors; sol-gel; templated growth; micro, meso and macroporous approaches; engineered organization of solids at organic/inorganic interfaces.

J. Moreau (Univ. Montpellier, France), H. Mutin (Univ. Montpellier, France), D. Loy (Sandia), T. Haddad (USA), A. Stein (U. Minnesota), U. Schubert (Univ Wien, Austria), E. Giannelis (Cornell Univ.)

. Characterization methods: ex-situ, in-situ, interface, dynamics, structure.

. Functional Hybrids: Optical, Electronic, Magnetic.

. Physical Properties and their applications: structural, electronic, optical, temperature resistant, insulating materials.

J.F. Gerard (INSA, Lyon, France), E. Kramer (UCSB), U. Wiesner (Cornell Univ.)

. Biomimetic and bio-inspired materials:

J. Zink (UCLA), C.C Perry (Univ. Nottingham UK), D. Morse (UCSB), K.J. Balkus (Univ Texas, Dallas)

. Porous Materials: catalysts, membranes, sensors, dielectrics, photonics.

F. Schueth (MaxPlanck, Mulheim, Germany), F. Di Renzo (Univ. Montpellier, France), R. Ryoo (Taejon, Korea), S. Inagaki (Toyota, Sendai, Japan)

. Multiscale Organized Hybrids: G. Stucky (UCSB),