Division/Committee: [ENVR: Division of Environmental Chemistry]

Due to environmental pollution around the world, different monitoring and treatment technologies are extensively developing. As known, advanced materials play a significant role to develop innovative and reliable technologies such as sensing tools, adsorption processes, and decontamination processes. For improving the efficacy of the technologies, decent materials with innovative physicochemical, electrical, and optical properties, are produced. On the other hand, the materials have emerged as the new future generation materials for fuel production. Several other materials based conductive polymers exhibit semi-conductivity in the neutral state and metallic conductivity in the doped state, and have been found to be applied in different environmental application such as solar cells, thermoelectric, antistatic films, and biosensors etc. So, this topic of ACS Fall symposium in 2025 has the potential for solving the worldwide pollution issue whether it is in water, air or soil. Thus, it is of great importance to discuss advanced materials to develop more reliable and sustainable technologies for saving our world together. The symposium solicits recent developments in the synthesis, applications, implications, and toxic effects of advanced materials in the environment. Presentations may address one or more of the many aspects of advanced materials, including the following: 1) Synthesis and characterizations of advanced materials 2) Use of advanced materials for environmental remediation, including treatment of emerging contaminants such as per & polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), pharmaceuticals, and viruses 3) Use of advanced materials for monitoring emerging contaminants in the environment 4) Fate and transport of advanced materials in the environment 5) Recycling and reuse of advanced materials Presentations on the analysis, characterization and application of advanced materials using microscopy, spectroscopy, synchrotron-based X-ray techniques, and mathematical modeling will be invited. The overall goal is to connect and engage individual investigators working on related aspects of the environmental chemistry, materials science, polymers combination with advanced materials, etc.. Advanced techniques for synthesizing and studying the properties of advanced materials, the stability and life cycle of advanced materials, their beneficial use in environmental remediation and, new and emerging applications will be covered in this symposium.

Changseok Han

Inha University

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