The 7th International Symposium continues this tradition to survey the advances made in the development of New Materials and Nano Materials for Electrochemicals systems. It will be held June 24-27, 2008 in Montréal, Hotel Delta, Centre-Ville, Canada. Papers dealing with the following topics will be considered:

• Fuel Cells
• Advanced Primary and Secondary Batteries
• Electrochemical super-capacitors
• Bio-electrochemical devices
• Sensor Systems
• Solar Cells
• Photo-electrochemical Cells
• Elaboration and Characterization

Some of the invited speakers and the tentative title of their presentation are:

"High performance platinum and non-precious metal catalysts for PEM fuel
cell application"
Dr R. Atanasoski, 3M Corporation, USA

"Soft Chemistry Routes to High Capacity Positive Electrode Materials
for Li Batteries"
Dr . M. Armand, N. Recham and Dr. J-M. Tarascon, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, FRANCE

"Biomimetic catalytic materials: Insights from ab initio studies"
Prof. P. Balbuena, Texas A&M University, USA

"Challenges and new trends in high temperature fuel cells"
Prof. M. Cassir, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie Physique, FRANCE

‘’Aging processes in PEMFCs’’
Prof. J. Garche, Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg,
GERMANY

‘’Composite electrodes for rechargeable Li batteries’’
Dr D. Guyomard, Université de Nantes, FRANCE

‘’New Electrochemical sensors development’’
Dr J. Inukai, University of Yamanashi, JAPAN

"Development of Non-Platinum Cathode for PEFC"
Dr .A. Ishihara, Yokohama National University, JAPAN

``Energy storage system integration for fuel cell electric vehicle ’’
Prof. Zi-Feng MA, Shanghai Jiaotong University, CHINA

‘’ Development of supercapacitors based on carbon and/or Ru oxide materials’’
Prof. Peter Pickup, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CANADA

"Hydrogen Storage via Physisorption"
Dr. L. Scanlon, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, USA

"Concepts of catalyst development"
Prof. U. Stimming, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, GERMANY

"The Role of Surface Morphology in Nano-catalyst Engineering"
Dr. Vojislav Stamenkovic, Argone National Laboratory, USA

‘’Spectroscopy in Fuel Cell Catalysis Research’’
Prof. A. Wieckowski University of Illinois, USA

"Evaluation of Degradation of PEFC"
Dr.Takao Watanabe, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, JAPAN

“Advances in PEM Fuel Cells with Liquid Fuels”
Prof. D. P. Wilkinson, University of British Columbia

"The Effect of Microstructure & Components of Pt-based Electro-catalysts on the Performance of DAFC"
Prof. Q. Xin, Dalian Institute of Physical Chemistry, P. R. China

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS'

Participants wishing to contribute to the conference are kindly requested to send an electronic version of an extended abstract in DOC or PDF format of no more than two (2) pages at the submission address below.

Authors are asked to carefully follow the instructions in preparing their extended abstracts and manuscript.

• Template for extended abstract is available here (DOC, 307k).

• Online instructions for manuscripts are available online here.
• Downloadable instructions for manuscripts are available here (PDF, 91k).

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please refer to the Guideline for Authors section of this call for papers for details regarding the formatting of your extended abstract and manuscript.

When sending the extended abstract, those interested in presenting a paper should specify if they want
presentation as a poster or at the podium. A full paper must be submitted by June 6, 2008.

SUBMISSION ADDRESSS

Submissions should be sent via email to newmat@congresbcu.com with the following information in the body of the email:

• Title of proposed paper, authors’ names and affiliations
• Postal address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the contact person
• Choice of presentation (lecture or poster)
• Name of the lecturer

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND FULL PAPER PUBLICATION:
The extended abstracts will be published in the Symposium Proceedings and will be available at the conference. Check the Symposium home page for further program details and “Instructions for authors” for the preparation of the extended abstracts and full papers. Full papers will be peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems within four months of acceptance.