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History – Elsevier Colloids Conferences

The first Elsevier Colloids Conference (Colloids and Materials 2011) took place in May 2011, also in Amsterdam. More than 300 delegates attended.

Invited Speakers and the titles of their presentations are below.

Also, if you are interested in viewing the full Oral and Poster programmes of this conference we include them here:

Download the 2011 Colloids and materials oral programme
Download the 2011 Colloids and materials poster programme

Invited Speakers	Presentation Titles
Piero Baglioni, University of Florence, Italy	Hybrid Lipid-DNA Self-Assemblies
Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley, USA	Block Copolymers Membranes for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA	Design of Surfactants for use in Carbon Dioxide: Old Challenges & New Ones
Brad Chmelka, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA	Order and Disorder in Nanoscale Materials
Kenneth Dawson, University College Dublin, Ireland	Nanobiointeractions-the science of nanoparticle interactions between nanoparticles and living organisms-applications in Nanosafety and Nanomedicine
Steve Granick, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA	Janus Colloids
Masatake Haruta, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan	Preparation of Supported Gold Clusters for Green Chemistry
Eric Kaler, Stony Brook University, NY, USA	Structure, rheology, and network formation in wormlike micelle-nanoparticle mixtures
Luis Liz-Marzán, University of Vigo, Spain	Growth and Directional Assembly of Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles
Matt Lynch, Procter & Gamble, Ross, OH, USA	Delayed Failure of Polymer Gels
Gabor Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley, USA	Colloid Chemistry Foundation of Nanocatalysis.  The Molecular View
Matt Trau, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia	Biomarkers & Nanotechnology: New Approaches to Preventative, Personalised and “At Home” Medicine
Theo van de Ven, McGill University, Montreal, Canada	Multilayer polymer nanotubes
Xi Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Superamphiphiles for Controlled Self-assembly and Disassembly