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Foreword Marco Mazzotti
Published online: 16 November 2007 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007
FOA9, the Ninth International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, was held May 20–25, 2007 at Giardini Naxos in Sicily, Italy under the auspices of the International Adsorption Society (IAS). It continued a tradition of scientific excellence, international attendance and personal exchange that started with FOA1 chaired by Alan L. Myers in 1983 in Schloss Elmau, Germany and continued in 1986 in Santa Barbara, USA (chair: Athanasios I. Liapis), in 1989 in Sonthofen, Germany (Alfons Mersmann), in 1992 in Kyoto, Japan (Motoyuki Suzuki), in 1995 in Pacific Grove, USA (M. Douglas LeVan), in 1998 in Presqu’ile de Giens, France (Francis Meunier), in 2001 in Nagasaki, Japan (Katsumi Kaneko), and in 2004 in Sedona, USA (Orhan Talu). FOA9 was attended by 430 delegates, of which 120 were Ph.D. students. In addition, there were 70 accompanying persons. These attendees came from more than 40 different countries of all continents. An up-to-date overview of the field of adsorption and its applications was provided through 142 oral presentations and more than 300 posters. Posters were discussed in two afternoon sessions, whereas oral presentations were delivered during five days, and distributed in five plenary sessions and twenty-four parallel sessions, plus an industrial plenary session honoring our late colleague and friend John Sherman. The following five distinguished keynote speakers provided their perspectives of five important areas of adsorption science and technology:
M. Mazzotti, FOA9 Chair and Guest Editor of the FOA9 Special Issues of Adsorption. M. Mazzotti () ETH Zurich, Institute of Process Engineering, Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected]
• Orhan Talu, Cleveland State University, USA—“Adsorptive storage”. • Ryong Ryoo, KAIST, Korea—“Generation of mesoporous materials with various structures and compositions”. • Massimo Morbidelli, ETH Zurich, Switzerland—“Chromatography for protein purification”. • Randall Q. Snurr, Northwestern University, USA— “Molecular modeling of adsorption in metal-organic frameworks”. • Kunimitsu Morishige, Univ. of Science Okayama, Japan —“Adsorption hysteresis in ordered mesoporous silicas”. A number of exhibitors were present at FOA9 with their state-of-the-art instrumentation and equipment. Some industrial and institutional sponsors (see www.foa9.ethz.ch) have helped to make FOA9 possible, by providing funds that have been used to help junior and senior participants in need of financial support to attend FOA9. I am very thankful to the two co-chairs, Giorgio Carta and Minoru Miyahara, to IAS, particularly Kent Knaebel, and to the International Scientific Committee for their help and support in organizing and running the conference. I would also like to thank Sauro Pierucci and Raffaella Damerio of the AIDIC (Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Chimica) for the excellent local organization, as well as my research associates at ETH Zu
