Chemical control with electrons and photons

Grants: are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and travel costs

Scope: This conference will bring together leading experts from the fields of electron-, laser-, and plasma-driven chemical processing. Despite their common goals and synergies between the different approaches (e.g in understanding molecular dissociation dynamics and fragmentation patterns) this is the first time in any international research forum that the different communities exploring routes to chemical control will be brought together at a single dedicated research conference. The aim of this meeting is therefore to (i) promote the awareness of a common research basis and (ii) to discuss new opportunities and directions such as facile processes for surface functionalization and nanostructuring that may be developed through collaboration between the different communities. This will include not only research on fundamental aspects of molecular fragmentation and chemical control but also highlight the applications in the areas of surface, material science and the ability to extend such knowledge to the study of biomolecular systems (e.g. in development of DNA as a functional engineering material).
Sessions will focus on:
·Chemical Control using ultrashort light pulses
·Chemical Control using low-energy electrons
·Chemical Control at the nanoscale with STM
·Plasma processing and nanofabrication
·Chemical control of biomolecules