This conference brings together researchers from the diverse field of porous materials, fostering collaboration across the many scales of their study and application. We aim to encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas, methodologies, and potential applications while showcasing advances in fields including renewable energy, gas separation, catalysis, water treatment, electronics, and healthcare.

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Registration closes Wednesday 9 September at 5pm.

Call for abstracts

We invite abstracts covering a broad range of topics that reflect the different scales of study, use, and porosity in porous materials research. The themes include:

1. Scales and porosity: encompassing microporosity, mesoporosity, macroporosity, and hierarchically porous structures
2. Scales of study: ranging from molecular-level investigations to nanoscale phenomena, all the way to bulk material behaviour
3. Scales of application: covering materials applied on the scale of milligrams through to industrial-scale processes, including scale-up case studies
4. Temporal scales: addressing both short-term, high-frequency characterisation to long-term performance assessments of porous materials and associated technologies

We especially welcome oral and poster presentations from underrepresented groups.

Please send us your abstract using our template and return to epomm@bath.ac.uk by Monday 22 June.

Download an abstract template (word doc)

Keynote speakers

• Professor Julia Glaum (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), porous bioactive materials)
• Professor Sir Richard Catlow (University College London and Cardiff University, atomistic modelling of nanoporous materials)
• Dr Jan Manuel Hinterstein (Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, porous electroceramics)
• Professor Petra Agota Szilagyi (University of Oslo, novel porous materials for energy and environmental applications)
• Stewart Warrender (Porex Filtration Group, porous polymer membranes)

Exhibition stands

If you would like to have an exhibition stand at the conference, please email epomm@bath.ac.uk. The cost is £1000 +VAT.