16 May 2025 | Chemistry for a Better Society

This event took place at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Program

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08:30 | Welcome coffee, registration and poster display

09:15 | Opening remarks

09:30 | Keynote #1 | Dr. Antoine AERTS (ULB) - From Data to Dynamics: Enhancing Potential Energy Surfaces with Experimental Insights

10:15 | Talk #1 | Alessia Tonelli (UCLouvain/UNamur) - Carbon-based bifunctional Lewis/Bronsted acid catalysts for 5-HMF production from cellobiose

10:30 | Flash talk session 1

10:45 | Coffee break

11:05 | Keynote #2 | Dr. Mahdi MEJRI (Feronyl Belgium) - Powder Metallurgy and Additive Manufacturing: Insights from Research and Industry

11:50 | Talk #2 | Martin Blavier (ULiège) - Pulling on a trefoil knot gated by a Diels-Alder mecanophore, one molecule at a time

12:05 | Talk #3 | Guillaume Wery (UCLouvain) - Transposition of Viedma-Ripening in a Solvent-Free Media: Application with Three Isoindolinones

12:20 | Flash talk session 2

12:30 | European Young Chemists' Network (EYCN) Presentation

12:40 | Lunch and poster session

14:00 | Keynote #3 | Prof. Sophie HERMANS (UCLouvain) - Small and Bright: Synthesis of Nanoparticles for Photocatalysis and Biomass Valorization Applications

14:45 | Talk #4 | Louis Groignet (UMons) - On the Impact of Post-Translational Succination on SUMO1 Structure: A Dual Approach combining Gas-Phase and Solution Studies

15:00 | Talk #5 | Sarajit Naskar (UMons/QUT Australia) - Three-dimensional Structural Investigation of Polystyrene-based Gold Containing Single Chain Nanoparticles using a Multidisciplinary IMS-MS/MD Approach

15:15 | Coffee break

15:45 | Talk #6 | Suzanne Delfosse (ULB) - A Correlative Approach to the Electrodissolution of Gold Nanoparticles

16:00 | Talk #7 | Lobnan Mazloum (UCLouvain) - Synthesis and Characterization of Foldamer-Based Networks

16:15 | Talk #8 | Vittorio Marsala (UNamur) - Toluene-induced Pluronic F127 Micelles as Templating Agent for Hollow Silica Nanostructures: a NMR Study

16:30 | Braekman Prize Session

16:50 | Closing remarks and awards

17:00 | Drink and networking session

 

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