The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite you to attend the XV^th International Sol-Gel Conference that will be held from August 23 to 27, 2009 in PORTO DE GALINHAS, Pernambuco State, Brazil.

This biennial international conference focuses on both fundamentals and applications of sol-gel science. Previous conferences have taken place in Padova (Italy, 1981), Wuzburg (Germany, 1983), Montpellier (France, 1985), Kyoto (Japan, 1987), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 1989), Sevilla (Spain, 1991), Paris (France, 1993), Faro (Portugal, 1995), Sheffield (UK, 1997), Yokohama (Japan, 1999), Padova (Italy, 2001), Sydney (Austalia, 2003), Los Angeles (USA, 2005), Montpellier (France, 2007). The highly successful Sol-Gel Workshop series over 27 years ago attests that sol-gel science and technology is an extraordinarily and exciting multidisciplinary area of research.

You will find attached the first circular of the conference and you are invited to visit the conference website http://www2.fis.ua.pt/solgel2009/solgel2009.html for more related information. Abstracts are invited by 30 March 2009 for oral and poster presentations.

We look forward to welcoming you to PORTO DE GALINHAS in August 2009.

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