AIM

Reaction Kinetics in Condensed Matter  2010 (RKCM’10) is the first of the new series of international conference in the field of kinetics of chemical reactions in condensed matter. RKCM’10 will particularly fill the void left by the disappearance of Fast Reactions in Solution (FRIS, a discussion meeting of the Royal Society)  in conferences on general chemical kinetics and to adapt and broaden the subjects related to kinetics of chemical reactions. The main concern of the conference will be investigating chemical reactions from the physical point of view, revealing new physical mechanisms of chemical processes and elucidating physics behind the chemical event.

Special attention will be given to bridge the enormous gap between the most advanced statistical mechanical theories and the latest experimental techniques in a wide variety of fields from reactions in amorphous solids (polymers for example, with an increasing potential for new technologies in energy conversion, light emitting devices, organic electronics etc.) chemical reactions in crowded biological media. It is interesting to note that most of these topics present indeed a common problematic, i.e. the current description of the rate of the chemical events when coupled to the reactants mobility or diffusion. Unfortunately, the lack of a common arena to gather theoreticians and experimentalists make the firsts unaware of the range of problems of the latter, and artificially hides to the latter the descriptive tools already developed by the firsts.

So RKCM’10 will devote to all aspects of experiments and theory of chemical kinetics in condensed matter: past and future, untested predictions, experiments required, unexplained experimental results etc. In order to find common scientific interests and speak common language the participants are strongly encouraged not only to present their own results but also to give an introduction into their subfield of RKCM. The conference shall foster and encourage world wide cooperation and communication in those fields. Moreover, RKCM’10 will also place emphasis on getting students and young researchers involved in investigations of the problems within the scope of this conference.