Welcome to the World Conference on Gold 2025!
Following the success of the previous tri-annual Gold conferences on the applications of gold in high-technology (Québec 2022; Paris 2018; Cardiff 2015), the Gold 2025 conference (10th ) will be held on May 11-14, 2025, in San Sebastian, Spain. The event will take place at the Kursaal Convention Center, a splendid venue by the seaside.
Gold has generated commercial, technological, and scientific interest for centuries and this interest is far from declining. On the contrary, gold is an essential component of high-technology materials and the subject of intensive research in various fields. We aim at attract experts in different fields, from catalysis, biomedicine, organometallics, nanoparticle synthesis and characterization, plasmonics, optics and photonics, electronics, as well as precious metals purification and recycling. Particular emphasis will be placed in the chemistry and physics around much of the current technological interest, including catalysis, nanophotonics, and biomedical applications.
At Gold 2025, prominent specialists from these different topics will gather and lead the discussion of the most recent highlights and achievements within their fields. The conference will provide a comprehensive overview of the different areas of gold science and technology in a lively atmosphere and a unique environment.
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Gold 2025: May 11-14, 2025, in San Sebastian, Spain.
TOPICS
1- Synthesis of nanoparticles and nanostructures
Including : nanocages, nanostars, nanorods, nanoshells, nanourchins, nanotubes, nanodiscs, mesoporous materials
2- Gold-containing molecular and supramolecular complexes
Including: organometallics, metal-organic frameworks (MOF), nanoclusters
3- High-purity gold synthesis and recycling
Including: recycling, urban mining, analytical chemistry (for high-purity gold)
4- Catalysis
Including: heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, self-cleaning surfaces
5- Electrochemistry
Including: electrochemical sensors, electrochemical biosensors, enzymatic fuel cells
6- Plasmonics (fundamentals, engineering and systems)
Including: plasmons; photoacoustic, photothermal, photodynamic, optoacoustic research
7- Electronics, optics, photonics
Including: electronics, optics, optoelectronics, photonics, wearable electronic, wearable sensors
8- Biomedical applications of gold: in vivo applications and technologies, injectable nanoparticles, pharmacology
Including: diagnosis, therapy, cancer,cardiovascular, infectious, immunology, imaging (not gold standard), antimicrobial, virus, bacteria neurology, photoacoustic (biomedical applications), photothermal (biomedical applications), photodynamic (biomedical applications), optoacoustic (biomedical applications)
9- Biomedical applications of gold: sensors and devices
Including: biosensors, biological sensors, electrochemical sensors for biomedical applications
10- Energy
Including: fuel cells, photovoltaic, solar cells, batteries, energy devices, solar energy, energy conversion, energy production
11- Environment
Including: Recovery, gold, effluents, environmental technologies, bacteria, other living organisms and bioreactors in minerals processing and extractive metallurgy, green synthesis, gold nanoparticles, green synthesis, gold, synthesis of gold nanoparticles from plant extracts
12- Computational approaches, machine learning, AI
Including: computational approaches, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Registration deadline: March 21st, 2025
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CHAIRS
Prof. Luis Liz-Marzán
CIC biomaGUNE (BRTA), Spain
Prof. Javier Aizpurua
Donostia International Physics Center & University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Prof. Sara Bals
EMAT, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Prof. Marc-Andre Fortin
CR-CHUQ-Université Laval, Canada
Prof. Teri W. Odom
Northwestern University, USA
Prof. Vivian Wing Wah Yam
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Souhir Boujday
Sorbonne Université, France
Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Prof. Angela Casini
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Prof. Qian Chen
University of Illinois, USA
Prof. Xiaodong Chen
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Emiliano Cortés
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Prof. Christy Landes
University of Illinois, USA
Prof. Xing Yi Ling
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Sijin Liu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Laura Na Liu
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Jwa-Min Nam
Seoul National University, South Korea
Prof. Ki Tae Nam
Seoul National University, South Korea
Prof. Junsuk Rho
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea
Prof. Liane Rossi
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Vincent Rotello
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Prof. George C. Schatz
Northwestern University, USA
Prof. F. Dean Toste
University of California Berkeley, USA
Prof. Jianfang Wang
Department of Physics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
INVITED SPEAKERS
Dr. Neus Bastús
Institut Català de Nanotecnologia (ICN2), Spain
Dr. Lucas V. Besteiro
University of Vigo, Spain
Prof. Elodie Boisselier
Université Laval, Canada
Dr. Robert Black
National Research Council of Canada, Canada
Dr. Jiaqi Chen
Chengdu University, China
Prof. Laura Fabris
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Dr. Vladimir Golovko
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dr. Guillermo González-Rubio
University of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Jie He
University of Connecticut, USA
Prof. Johan Hofkens
KULeuven, Department of Chemistry & MPI Mainz, Belgium
Dr. Shuzhou Li
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Stephan Link
University of Illinois, USA
Dr. Alejandro Manjavacas
CSIC, Spain
Dr. Kyoung-Duck Park
POSTECH, South Korea
Prof. Stephane Parola
ENS Lyon, France
Prof. Sara Skrabalak
Indiana University, USA
Dr. Gail Vinnacombe-Willson
CIC biomaGUNE, Spain
Prof. Qiangbin Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Yuling Wang
Macquarie University, Australia
Prof. Nerea Zabala
University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Spain
Prof. Catherine Murphy
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
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