Joint First meeting of Working Group 1 and Seminar

NEW NANOARCHITECTURES FOR BETTER PHOTOCATALYSIS IN EUROPE

ECRIN Paris, France, 15-16 June 2006


FINAL PROGRAMME


Thursday, June 15 - ACADEMIC PROGRAMME


9h00 - 9h30 Opening addresses by ECRIN (Christian NGÔ), COST540 (Frantisek PETERKA), WG1 (Lubomir SPANHEL)

9h30 - 10h00 Photocatalytic tesings: An overview of methods and model substances
Chantal GUILARD, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

10h00 - 10h30 New vis-light active photocatalysts
Horst KISCH, University of Erlangen, Germany

10h30 - 11h00 Photocatalytic nanomaterials in Switzerland
John KIWI, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

11h00 - 11h30 Coffee break

11h30 - 12h00 Recent research on photocatalytic nanomaterials in Finland
Tapio MÄNTYLÄ, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

12h00 - 12h30 New photocatalytic materials research in Italy
Claudio MINERO, University of Torino, Italy

12h30 - 13h00 Development of new photocatalytic preparations in Spain: visible light-active materials and polymer-oxide composites
M. Fernandez GARCIA, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

13h00 - 14h30 Lunch

14h30 - 15h00 Current photocatalysts in the UK
Andrew MILLS, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

15h00 - 15h30 Production of TiO2 nanoparticles by Police factory in Poland (Tytanpol A11) and its perspective application in photocatalysis
Beata TRYBA, Szczecin University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

15h30 - 16h00 German activities on the synthesis of new photocatalysts
Ralf DILLERT, University of Hannover, Germany

16h00 - 16h30 Coffee break

16h30 - 17h00 Nano OxTi for solar energy conversion : what's the news ?
Luc BROHAN, IMN Nantes, France

17h00 - 17h30 Photocatalytic nanomaterials in Czech Republic
Jaromir JIRKOVSKY, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic

17h30 - 18h00 Research on doped photocatalytic nanostructures in Romania
C.M. TEODORESCU, NIMP-Magurele, Romania

18h00 - 18h30 Nanomaterials based photocatalysis research in Ireland
Suresh C. PILLAI, CREST-DIT Centre, Dublin , Ireland


Friday, June 16 - INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMME


9h15 - 9h30 Opening addresses by WG3 coordinators
Tapio MÄNTYLÄ, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
John KIWI, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

9h30 - 10h00 Development of self-cleaning glass Bioclean
Ronan GARREC, Saint-Gobain Glass, France

10h00 - 10h30 Development of self-cleaning glasses
Kevin SANDERSON, Simon-Hurst, Pilkington Glass, Lathom, UK

10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break

11h00 - 11h30 Air purification using photocatalytic media Quartzel
Catherine JACQUIOD, Laurent MOLINS, Christian DESEEZ, Saint-Gobain Quartz, France

11h30 - 12h00 Environmental and health aspects of the development of photoactive TiO2 based nanomaterials
Antonin MLCOCH, Precheza, Prerov, Czech Republic

12h00 - 12h30 Photocatalysis activities of Arcelor
Catherine ARCHAMBEAU, Arcelor Flat Steel Europe, France

12h30 - 14h00 Lunch

14h00 - 14h30 Air and water purification by photocatalysis
Joseph DUSSAUD, Ahlstrom, France

14h30 - 15h00 Indoor air disinfection by photocatalysis
Cedric VALLET, Groupe Buxair, Geneve, Switzerland

15h00 - 15h30 Photocatalysis based fruit conservation
Benoit KARTHEUSER, Certech, Belgium

15h30 - 16h30 General disscusion and conclusions