Unfortunately, the Carbon Conference was postponed twice due to the pandemic, both in 2020 and 2021.
However, it was possible to connect with other researchers working in the carbon material field through online meetings.
This allowed to participate in a series of meetings related to chemical issues.
Here you will find a summary about the activities that were attended to:
(A) Carbon 2020 was replaced by a short meeting organized by the American Carbon Society: Carbon Science & Technology In The Fight Against COVID-19, Thursday, July 16, 2020. Here professor Mauricio Terrones and other researchers had interesting discussions about the role of carbon materials in the fight against the pandemic.
(B) In 2020 and 2021 it was possible to attend to four Faraday Discussions meetings regarding important aspects of the chemistry field, which allowed to discuss topics with the researchers and to get a general overview of the current work done by the research community. The experience gained through these online meetings greatly impacted the work, perspectives and proposals planned through 2021.
a. Faraday Discussion Air Quality in Megacities. 17-20 November 2020. This meeting was interesting for this project as there were discussions about atmospheric problems including the formation of particles in the air, measurement techniques, interactions between chemicals in the air among many others.
b. Chemistry of 2-dimensional materials: beyond graphene Faraday Discussion. 23-25 November 2020. This online meeting allowed to meet worldwide leaders in the field like Andrea Ferrari and Prof. Klaus Müllen. It was posible to ask questions that are relevant for this project, regarding the interactions between graphene clusters.
c. Time-resolved imaging of photo-induced dynamics Faraday Discussion. 1 - 4 February 2021. This meeting allowed to have an overview of the advances in experimental imaging. The overall conference presented relevant information that has the potential to greatly improve the computational methods in the future.
d. Faraday Discussion: Reaction Mechanisms in Catalysis. 17-19 February 2021. This meeting had interesting Works using computational chemistry tools including kinetic Monte Carlo methods for studying reactions.
(C) 15th International Conference in Materials Chemistry (MC15). 12-15 July 2021. This meeting allowed to learn more about the work that in being done by the materials chemistry community.
(D) Series of Carbon Webinar. Organized by the technical comitte: A/Prof. Nigel Marks, Dr Irene Suarez-Martinez, Dr Jacob W. Martin, Dr Natalya Garcia, Keelan Powell. This series of webinar has replaced the lost Carbon meeting in 2021 and has offered a selection of talks on different topics related to carbon materials. A big thank you to Jacob W. Martin for participating actively in this activity and sharing with the carbon community.