The Aim and The Scope

CESEP’09 is the third international conference on Carbons for Energy Storage and Environment Protection, following the initiative of the French and Polish Carbon Groups, the organizers of the past meetings in Orléans and Krakow in 2005 and 2007, respectively. The conference will be organized by the Spanish Carbon Group (GEC) and will be held in Torremolinos (Málaga), Spain, October 25-29th, 2009.

To date, carbon materials play a major role in a large number of highly specialized applications -as structural and functional materials- related with current industrial challenges. The underlying reasons for this are their flexible coordination chemistry that allows almost infinite possibilities of 3D structures, and their ability to react with other heteroatoms to incorporate functional groups that determine the self-organization, chemical stability and reactivity.

Like in preceding meetings, the conference aims in bringing together the scientists, engineers and technologists and intends to provide a forum for discussion on fundamental and technological scientific aspects of carbon applications related to energy storage and environment protection. This conference is expected to stimulate fruitful discussion, new ideas and collaborations between specialists from various domains.

In keeping the style of the first CESEP, the Conference will consist of one single session (no parallel sessions!) and will comprise invited plenary lectures and keynotes by recognized invited speakers and selected contributions as oral and poster communications. We are expecting a limited number of participants (250 maximum). The official language will be English.

It is intended to publish selected papers of the Conference in an international journal following the referee procedure of the journal.