The International
School on Adsorption, Absorption and Crystal
Growth
will be held April 18-23, 2010 at the Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano,
Italy.
Located on the Garda lake and close to the Alps,
Palazzo Feltrinelli offers a magnificent and quiet location for
meetings and
schools. In fact, since many years Palazzo Feltrinelli (Università
degli Studi
di Milano) constantly hosts schools, workshops, and conferences
spanning many
different fields.
The School Adsorption,
Absorption and Crystal
Growth is aimed at introducing the interested people to the adsorption phenomena occurring at the
interface between crystals and their surrounding mother phase (vapour,
solution
or melt). An important place will be given to the equilibria
between an adsorbed phase on both “foreign” and
“reactive” substrates. The modification of the growth modes of crystal
faces
will be related to the foreign adsorption (solvent and impurities
effects). The
crystal-chemical specificity of the 2D-epitaxy will be considered for
the
understanding of the habit change
of
crystals.
The kinetics
of crystal nucleation and growth will be detailed according
to whether the
foreign adsorption remains at the crystal surface or is followed by the
absorption into the crystal lattice
where either usual or anomalous mixed crystals originate.
Owing to its methodological character, the
School is open to the topics of the crystal growth research which
concern the
Materials Science, the Bio-crystallization and mineralization, the
Earth
Sciences and all other fields where crystallization is a key step
(pharmaceuticals, scaling and water treatment, etc).
The School is of interest to graduate and
post-graduate students, PhD students, post-doctorate fellows, and
senior
researchers (see definitions and criteria in the Registration
Fees page) as well as
researchers from industry.
The lectures presented at
the School
will be published in a textbook which will be given to each attendee at
the
School registration desk.
The language of the School is English
and all presentations will be in English.
The
Organizers of the International School on Adsorption,
Absorption and Crystal Growth shall observe the basic policy of
non-discrimination and affirm the right and freedom of scientists to
associate in international scientific activity without regard to such
factors as citizenship, religion, creed, political stance, ethnic
origin, race, colour, language, age or sex, in accordance with the
Statutes of the International Council for Science. At this School no
barriers will exist which would prevent the participation of
bona
fide scientists.
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