Objective
Self-assembly of molecular species can produce large fibrillar networks (SAFINs). Examples of such networks involving supramolecular strands are found both in aqueous and organic media with synthetic molecular gels, cytoskeleton components, denaturated proteins, bile salts, to name but a few. The singular structural and thermodynamical features of these systems contribute to many fascinating properties of the materials with regard to their viscoelastic, optical and therrnal behaviour. This subject, which is relevant to physicists, chemists and biologists, has grown very rapidly in recent years. The potential applications of gel-like materials are promising and challenging. This is in contrast to the few opportunities that we have to exchange and advertise scientific information specifically related to these matters.
A first Conference on Oranogels was organised in Groningen (Nov., 1999) through the initiative of the European physico-chemist community. There is a growing feeling among this community that we should take advantage of our lead to establish a meeting in Europe on a regular basis. Networks made up of macromolecular units, such as crosslinked polymer gels, are not directly within the scope of the conference, as they are generally well covered elsewhere.
Our project to organise a second conference has four goals: 1) to pursue and enlarge this effort of gathering together the vast community of people working on this subject; 2) to attract a wider audience, in particular, young scientists, biologists and theoreticians; 3) to provide a multidisciplinary training from the best world experts; 4) to advertise the state-of-the-art to the SAFIN community.
ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/improving/docs/HPCF-2000-00352-1.pdf(opens in new window)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
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