Descriptions
Below, you can find a description for each of these sessions.
Symposium Descriptions
Strengthening Europe–Taiwan Collaboration in Chemical Sciences: Exploring new opportunities for Europe–Taiwan collaboration in chemical sciences, highlighting advances in catalysis, molecular materials, chemical biology, energy chemistry, and structural biology
Exploring new opportunities for Europe–Taiwan collaboration in chemical sciences, highlighting advances in catalysis, molecular materials, chemical biology, energy chemistry, and structural biology.
Scientific collaboration between Europe and Taiwan in chemical sciences has expanded significantly in recent years through complementary expertise and strong institutional support. This symposium highlights research strengths of the Taiwanese chemical community and introduces international collaboration platforms supported by Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) that facilitate partnerships with European researchers.
The Taiwanese delegation brings expertise spanning multiple frontier areas of chemistry, including functional molecular materials and photophysics, supramolecular chemistry, chemical biology and glycochemistry, natural product biosynthesis, organometallic chemistry and catalysis, CO₂ conversion and energy chemistry, analytical chemistry and drug discovery, and structural biology with time-resolved crystallography.
By bringing together scientists from Taiwan and Europe, the symposium aims to promote scientific exchange, stimulate new collaborative opportunities, and strengthen long-term partnerships addressing key challenges in energy, health, and advanced materials.
Chemically programmable nanomaterials for biomedical applications
Molecular self-assembly is ubiquitous in nature, being essential not only for the formation of structurally and functionally complex biological supramolecular landscapes, but also for the regulation of biological processes. Taking biological systems as a source of inspiration, including the native cellular microenvironment, the DNA double-helical structure, the cell membrane or the molecular motor proteins, scientists have been motivated to create chemically programmable and dynamic materials designed to recreate the structural complexity and functional dynamics of living systems and pursue advanced regenerative therapies.
This symposium will count on three invited speakers who will focus their lectures on the molecular self-assembly of bioinspired, chemically programmable, and dynamic molecular nanomaterials and nanoparticle-based systems designed to interface with living systems in a highly controllable fashion. Emphasis will be given to the latest developments and future trends in (i) synthetic gene circuits regulated by modular DNA-based responsive units to interface with cellular machinery, (ii) DNA origami nanostructures for biointerfacing with cells and controlling cellular motility, and (ii) DNA-inspired multicomponent hydrogels and nanofibrillar systems as dynamic and responsive biomaterials to interface with living systems. These systems open new avenues as advanced therapies for engineering cellular behavior and designing functional biomaterials for synthetic biology and biomedical applications, including controlled drug, therapeutics, and cell delivery, (bio)sensing, diagnostics, theranostics, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Mechanochemistry for sustainable synthesis: from hard materials to soft matter
The mini-symposium is expression of the EuChemS Professional Network (PN) on Mechanochemistry, created in 2023. The symposium seeks to raise awareness of mechanochemistry as a versatile strategy for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) synthesis, complementing the subject matters transversally covered across the eight ECC-10 congress themes.
It will highlight the multidisciplinary character of mechanochemistry and its largely untapped potential for innovation in sustainable synthesis and its potential of application in different areas of chemical sciences. Invited speakers were defined upon consultations with the members of the EuChemS PN on Mechanochemistry, considering criteria of inclusion, diversity, gender balance, geographic and scientific background distribution. Subject matters of the symposium will cover material synthesis, organic mechanochemistry, crystal engineering, life cycle assessement (LCA) and techno-economic analyses (TEA) approaches for mechanochemistry, transversally complementing the eight ECC-10 main congress themes.
Overall, the mini-symposium aims to promote sustainable scientific and technological solutions by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange, supporting the development of mechanochemistry, and encouraging interaction between early-career researchers, newcomers to the field, and established experts within a growing international community.
Porous Materials at the Frontier of Sustainable Catalysis, hosted by ACS Central Science
Porous materials act as highly efficient catalysts by providing immense internal surface areas, high selectivity, and structural stability. As global industries seek cleaner processes and more efficient resource use, these materials stand at a pivotal intersection of fundamental science and practical impact. This symposium, hosted by ACS Central Science, will feature talks from outstanding researchers at various career stages and will highlight the catalytic concepts facilitated by porous materials from both experimental and theoretical perspectives and how they address challenges that remain in scaling, integration, and long‑term sustainability
Responsible Research and Innovation in Chemistry Starts with Embedding Risk-Based Safety into Education
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Natural Polymers as the 21st Century Materials – From Discovery to Deployment
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Mini-Symposium Descriptions
Modernizing chemistry education for new challenges and responsibilities: RDM & data science in the curriculum
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The New Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution
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Rare Earths from E-Waste: A Sustainable Path for Energy and Emerging Technologies
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New strategies for analytical chemistry in environmental assessments
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Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Priority pollutants and analytical challenges
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Advanced non-target screening of environmental contaminants by high-resolution mass spectrometry
Considerable progress in analytical instrumentation, informatics, and related fields has delivered powerful tools and techniques in environmental analysis for assessing chemical
contamination. Among them, mass spectrometry (MS) has gained tremendous popularity thanks to its advantages, including unparalleled sensitivity and specificity, high resolution and wide dynamic range.
High-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) enables rapid detection and reliable identification of a range of contaminants, even in complex environmental matrices, thanks to full scan acquisition mode with high mass resolving power and high mass accuracy combined with advanced workflows for data prioritization and analysis. Screening techniques can either target the detection of several classes of known (suspect) compounds or employ a non-targeted approach using HRMS, which allows for the identification of otherwise unknown compounds through retrospective data analysis. In this regard, the use of HRMS-based approaches is changing the way we approach emerging contaminant research.
This mini-symposium disseminates the latest developments, challenges and opportunities in HRMS screening and data evaluation approaches with a focus on research involving
environmental matrices (water, soil, indoor dust) and emerging contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and plasticizers.
Chairs: Ester Heath and Adrian Covaci
EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry: Award Lectures
In this mini-symposium, Prof. Helma Wennemers (ETH Zürich) will receive the EuChemS Female Investigator Award, Dr. Johannes Wahl (Uni Mainz) the Young Investigator Award and Prof. Pat Guiry (University College Dublin) the Award for Service. Both Prof. Wennemers and Dr Wahl will present their research.
On the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry and Beyond
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Chemistry Europe (Sponsored)
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Anwandte Chemie Novit (Sponsored)
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AI, reshaping chemistry education: curriculum design, student skills, and departmental decision‑making – Pearson (Sponsored)
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Workshop Descriptions
Next European Research Programme: where to find chemistry?
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Shaping responsible chemistry: the strategic role of women
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Change and challenge in the chemical sciences – universities, higher education and research across Europe
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Panel discussion on history of chemistry
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