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 i   Quantachrome's Director of Applied Science, Dr Matthias Thommes, will co-chair the session Characterization of Adsorbent Materials : together with chair, Peter A. Monson. This session presents the most recent advances in the theory and techniques for the characterization of adsorbents and adsorption phenomena. It will be held on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 8:30 AM in Room 203A (Minneapolis Convention Center).

He will also present a lecture in the session "Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge" (#556). The lecture will be entitled "Progress and Challenges in the Physical Adsorption Characterization of Nanoporous Materials", to be given on Wednesday, October 19, 2011: at 2:15 pm in Conrad B (Hilton Minneapolis).

Dr. Thommes is also co-author of the following three oral papers, of which he will present (488c) entitled "Surface and Pore Structure Assessment of Hierarchical Zeolites by Advanced Water and Argon Sorption Studies" ( see below for details):

(242b) entitled "Understanding Adsorption Hysteresis In Porous Silicon" by John Edison, Philipp Zeigermann, R. Valiullin, J. Karger, Matthias Thommes, and Peter A. Monson, on Tuesday, October 18, 201:1 8:50 AM in the session Molecular Simulation of Adsorption I.

(444a) entitled "QSDFT Method for Characterization of Mesoporous Carbons " by
Gennady Gor, Matthias Thommes, and Alexander V. Neimark, on Wednesday, October 19, 2011: 8:30 AM in the session Characterization of Adsorbent Materials.

(488c) entitled "Surface and Pore Structure Assessment of Hierarchical Zeolites by Advanced Water and Argon Sorption Studies" by Matthias Thommes, Sharon Mitchell and Javier Perez-Ramirez, on Wednesday, October 19, 2011: 1:10 PM in the session Characterization of Adsorbent Materials.

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Starting on: October 16, 2011
And Running Until: October 21, 2011
Located at: Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN

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