The International Conference on Self-Assembly in Confined Spaces (SACS 2016), to be held from 25 to 27 October in the Palacio de Miramar in Donostia-San Sebastián, will bring together some of the most active and renowned chemists, physicists, theoreticians, engineers and biomedical researchers worldwide to discuss the use of self-assembly as a tool to design, organize and endow nanomaterials with new properties.
The five main areas to be addressed are molecular self-assembly, nanoparticle self-assembly, interfacial properties, biomedical applications of self-assembled systems and advanced characterisation techniques. As Luis Liz-Marzán, Ikerbasque researcher and Scientific Director of CIC biomaGUNE, the host organisation of the conference expected to bring together some 170 researchers, explains: “Over the three days of the conference, the idea is to cover both the basics and the latest developments in the field of self-assembly”.