The 20th "Hydrogen-Metal Systems" Gordon Research Conference was held in Les Diablerets in Switzerland from June 25 to 30. Professor CHEN Ping from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Prof. Tom Autrey from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory co-chaired the meeting.
The Gordon Conference on Hydrogen-Metal Systems has been held every two years since 1981, which focuses on fundamental scientific issues and cutting-edge developments in this field. It is one of the most influential international academic conferences in the field.
The main topics of this series of conferences are: the fundamental understanding of hydrogen interactions with metals and materials under normal or extreme conditions; the application of hydrides in hydrogen storage, thermal storage, chemical conversion, etc.
With growing availability of green hydrogen, it will be critical for the research community to develop a greater understanding of hydrogen interactions with metals and materials to enable creative solutions to the most pressing challenges. With the theme of "Dynamics of Hydrogen in Materials and Molecules", the conference conducted in-depth communications and discussions on hydrogen storage/energy, catalysis , H+/H0/H? conduction, hydride superconductivity, etc.
More than 120 researchers and students from over 20 countries shared a scientific feast in the beautiful Les Diablerets.
The Gordon Conference was initiated by Neil E. Gordon, a professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in the United States in 1931. The conference has a high reputation and influence in the international academic community, whose themes cover the frontier directions in the field of natural science.
CHEN has been invited to give talks at Hydrogen-Metal Systems GRC for three times, and she is the first Chinese scholar to serve as the chairman of the Hydrogen-Metal Systems GRC conference since 1981.