Chemistry conferences

This research conference examines how to model physical interactions at flat interfaces in two-dimensional materials, thin films and metal surfaces. It addresses lattice mismatch and moiré systems, machine-learning interatomic potentials, and prediction of vibrational and electronic properties. Invited talks, short presentations and a panel connect scalable atomistic methods to materials discovery and composition optimization, including applications in carbon capture, alternatives to persistent chemicals and solar-energy materials. Researchers from academia and industry will discuss common accuracy and computational challenges. Friday 13 November 2026, 09:00–17:00 GMT (Europe/London); welcome at 09:40 and invited talks from 10:00. Attendance is free, with limited places and advance registration.

The Southwest Regional Meeting brings researchers to Fort Worth to discuss chemistry across energy, sustainability and biology. The programme spans molecular energy systems, batteries and catalysis, sustainable materials and chemical biology, with general and specialist symposia and a plenary lecture by H. N. Cheng. The meeting takes place at the Hilton Fort Worth from 16 to 19 November 2026. On-site registration is available. Abstract submissions closed on 26 August 2026; this listing supports attendance and does not advertise the expired abstract call.

IKCOC-16 brings academic and industrial chemists and engineers together to examine advances in organic chemistry and related disciplines. The scientific programme connects improved efficiency in organic synthesis with the synthesis of materials and applications in the life sciences. Plenary, invited and contributed lectures, poster discussions and the IKCOC Prize lecture provide forums for comparing research approaches and exchanging findings. Confirmed participants include prize recipient Eric N. Jacobsen, Erick M. Carreira and Hiroaki Suga. The conference takes place in person at Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto on 16–19 November 2026. Times are Japan Standard Time (Asia/Tokyo, UTC+9). Registration is 14:00–16:00 on 16 November, followed by the opening ceremony at 16:00 and opening lecture at 16:45. Scientific sessions run 09:00–16:40 on 17 and 18 November, with posters 16:40–18:40. On 19 November, sessions run 09:00–16:00 and closing remarks finish at 16:15. Lectures and formal discussions are in English. Online registration closes at 23:59 JST on 31 October. Standard fees are JPY 60,000 for active participants and JPY 25,000 for students, who must provide valid student identification. The banquet is extra. Registrations are currently non-refundable.

Fourteen linked symposia connect materials synthesis, characterisation, modelling and properties with applications in energy, health, transport, housing, electronics and environmental protection. The programme spans polymers and organic composites, glasses and ceramics, porous and nanoscale materials, microstructure design, processing, and surface durability. Scientific contributions examine how modern atomistic simulations can bridge the cooling-rate gap between models and experiments in disordered solids, including the challenges of thermal transport and quantum effects. Surface studies combine electron and ion spectroscopy, scanning tunnelling microscopy, electrochemistry and density-functional calculations to connect atomic-scale corrosion mechanisms to macroscopic degradation and protective strategies. Other sessions investigate photocatalysis, recycling and sustainable energy materials. Times are Europe/Paris (CET, UTC+1). The opening ceremony starts at 08:30 on 16 November, followed by a plenary at 09:30. Plenaries on 17–20 November start at 08:30. Parallel sessions run across the week, with Friday's final scientific block at 10:00–12:00. The programme is provisional. Full-congress fees including VAT are EUR 385 for students/doctoral researchers, EUR 671 for academics and EUR 891 for industry through 9 October; from 10 October academic and industry rates rise to EUR 770 and EUR 1,001. Day tickets cost EUR 385 or EUR 495 and cannot be used by oral or poster presenters, who must register for the full congress. The gala dinner is extra. Purchase-order payments are not accepted after 15 October.

This biennial symposium examines how homogeneous, heterogeneous and enzymatic catalysis can meet pharmaceutical and fine-chemical manufacturing needs. Academic and industrial talks compare stereoselective bond formation, lowering catalyst costs, data science combined with high-throughput experimentation for scalable reactions, perfumery synthesis, earth-abundant metal catalysis and greener biocatalysis. Discussion connects new catalytic methods with process development, industrial constraints and sustainability. Programme participants include Sarah Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)); Beatriz Dominguez (Johnson Matthey); Steven Fussell (Asymchem); Lionel Saudan (DSM); Scott Rice (AstraZeneca); Francesca Paradisi (University of Bern). SCI’s Fine Chemicals Group and RSC’s Applied Catalysis Group organize the in-person meeting at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BA. On 17 November 2026, registration begins at 10:00, welcome remarks at 10:30 and talks at 10:35. Closing remarks are at 17:40 and the reception at 17:45. Times are Europe/London, GMT (UTC+00:00). Early registration through 13 October costs £125 for SCI/RSC members, £145 for non-members, £40 for student members and £75 for unemployed SCI members; later rates are £175, £195, £55 and £105 respectively. Member discounts require eligibility verification. Register Now on the official page offers sign-in or general event registration. One speaker presents remotely; attendee access is in person.

A one-day scientific exchange for students, early-career researchers, academics and professionals working in computational biophysics, structural biology, bioinformatics, computational chemistry and drug discovery. Presentations and interactive sessions examine computational approaches to drug design, with discussion, research-development conversations, mentorship and collaboration opportunities. The event emphasizes strengthening research connections in Ghana and the wider African scientific community. The programme runs from 08:00 to 17:00 GMT, including afternoon computational-biophysics and drug-discovery sessions.

This symposium connects academic and industrial work on automated chemistry, from robotic solid/liquid handling and flow chemistry to reaction monitoring, purification, algorithms and experiment design. Scientific sessions examine automated chemistry data workflows, agentic high-throughput synthesis, kinetic measurements and mechanistic models, data-driven purification and AI-assisted R&D. It serves researchers, students and industrial chemists using automation in organic, medicinal and process chemistry. The 24 November programme has registration at 10:00, opening remarks at 10:30, scientific presentations from 10:35 to 16:10 and a networking reception at 16:15 (London local time, GMT). Early-bird registration ends 27 October: SCI members GBP 105, nonmembers GBP 135 and student members GBP 55. Later rates are GBP 150, GBP 185 and GBP 95 respectively. Event-account registration is available to nonmembers.

The Fall Meeting connects materials synthesis, structure and properties with applications in energy, electronics, quantum technologies and medicine. Its symposia combine in situ electron microscopy, ultrafast measurements, diffraction, spectroscopy and computational modelling to study dynamic processes, defects and interfaces. Research tracks examine batteries and sustainable chemical conversion, semiconductor and photonic devices, quantum matter, nanoscale assembly, soft bioelectronics, regenerative biomaterials, and structural materials for extreme environments. AI-assisted design and autonomous experiments are addressed alongside experimental characterization and manufacturing. The plenary examines recovery of critical elements from urban waste streams and decarbonization of metal production. The meeting takes place on 29 November–4 December 2026 in Eastern Time (America/New_York, UTC−05:00). Sunday tutorials run 08:30–17:00; Monday's plenary is 08:15–09:30. Symposia run through the week, ending Friday at 13:00. All sessions and presentations are in person. Registration requires an MRS account. Until 29 October at 23:59 ET, general registration is US$1,240, or US$1,085 with the member discount; student rates are US$380 or US$335. Higher rates begin on 30 October. Breaking News abstract submissions closed on 16 September.

The third Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry brings together chemical societies and researchers from the Americas, Europe and Africa. Its 2026 theme is Chemistry for Global Impact: Strategic Partnerships for Sustainable Innovation. The meeting runs from 6–9 December at the Windsor Barra Hotel and Windsor Expo Center in Rio de Janeiro, with scientific communication in English. The programme includes technical, plenary and poster sessions. Early registration and presenter registration close on 25 September, with later attendee registration available. ACS administers registration on behalf of the organizing societies.

NWO CHAINS is the annual national chemistry conference of the Netherlands, bringing together more than a thousand chemists from all disciplines, universities, research institutes and industry. The programme is organised in four tracks that mirror the Dutch chemistry research communities: Chemical Conversion, Chemistry of Life, Chemistry of Materials, and Fundamentals and Methods of Chemistry. It features plenary and keynote lectures, focus sessions, presentations by PhD candidates and postdocs, demonstrations and more than 400 posters. The 2026 programme includes a plenary lecture by Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson on decoding glycan molecular recognition and the KNCV Gold Medal lecture by Evan Spruijt, with keynotes by Ina Vollmer, Guido Mul, Kim Bonger and Shirin Faraji. The NWO Domain Science organises the meeting with a programme committee of group leaders, in collaboration with ChemistryNL, KNCV and NextGenChem.

Investigate how carotenoids and their metabolites support photosynthesis, photoprotection, signalling and organismal health. Research presentations connect pigment biosynthesis and molecular function with retinoids, plant stress responses, animal coloration and human nutrition. The programme examines new metabolic pathways, crop biofortification, disease prevention and practical applications, with extensive discussion and poster sessions. 10–15 January: check-in begins Sunday at 14:00 and scientific introductions at 19:30; departure is Friday at 09:00. Times: America/Los_Angeles (PST, UTC−08:00). Apply by 13 December through a myGRC account; acceptance is selective and capacity limited. Undergraduates and applicants without a science/engineering bachelor’s degree or accepted equivalent are ineligible. Fees: US$1,890 single room, US$1,525 shared room or US$1,015 off-site. The earlier oral-presentation/fee-waiver deadline has passed. The associated GRS requires a separate application.

This meeting connects cellulose chemistry, physics, biology and engineering with sustainable biomass-derived materials. Research themes include nanocellulose applications, cellulose–biopolymer interactions, structural characterization, self-assembly and sustainable product development. The programme examines biosynthesis, molecular structure, circular design and routes from laboratory understanding to a circular bioeconomy. Talks, poster sessions and discussion focus on emerging and unpublished research. Applicants need a science or engineering bachelor’s degree or equivalent; undergraduates are not eligible. Places may fill before the application deadline.

The 2027 Chemical Reactions and Dynamics at Surfaces Gordon Research Conference, "Interfacial Reactivity Across Timescales: Reaction Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Emergent Catalytic Function", examines how reactions proceed at solid surfaces and interfaces and how catalytic function emerges. The programme opens with a keynote session on reactivity at solid-liquid interfaces, including talks on combining thermal and electrochemical catalysis for ammonia synthesis and on water dissociation at oxide-aqueous solution interfaces. Further sessions cover advanced characterization of evolving interfaces, advanced theoretical approaches in catalysis, dynamics at surfaces, reactive interfaces in atmospheric and extraterrestrial environments, reaction mechanisms in electrocatalysis, probing surface-liquid interfaces, oxide catalyst design and activity, and single-atom catalysts in action. The five-day meeting combines invited talks with extended discussion, poster sessions open to attendees at all career stages, and communal meals and free afternoons for informal exchange; attendance is by application.

The 16th Australasian Organometallic Chemistry Meeting covers main-group and transition-metal chemistry, lanthanoids and actinoids, bioinorganic and theoretical chemistry, catalysis, synthesis and applications of organometallic compounds. Plenary lectures, contributed talks and posters maintain the meeting’s emphasis on students and early-career researchers. Scientific sessions take place in the Dechaineux Lecture Theatre at the University of Tasmania’s Centre for the Arts, with posters and breaks nearby. The event starts at 10:00 Hobart time on 9 February and finishes at 15:00 on 12 February. Registration is paid and includes the conference dinner. Abstracts close on 30 November 2026, early-bird rates end on 15 November, and registration closes on 11 January 2027.

The multidisciplinary AAAS Annual Meeting convenes scientists, engineers, policymakers, educators, and journalists to examine how research, policy, media, and public trust shape scientific progress and evidence-informed action.

The 2027 Gordon Research Conference "Interfacial and Droplet Reactivity: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Applications" starts from the rapidly growing evidence for reaction acceleration in droplets and asks which droplet features (size, preparation, charge) matter, how experimental conditions should be reported, and how droplet synthesis and catalysis can scale. Mechanistic sessions examine the role of the interface and of excess charge, new interfacial spectroscopies and the theory needed to interpret them, pH and strong electric fields that can make or break bonds or drive redox reactions, and reactivity at oil-water emulsions and other hydrophobic-water interfaces, including links to emulsion stability and biomolecular condensates. Applications span synthesis, energy and environmental chemistry, in a dialogue between physical, organic and synthetic chemists, atmospheric scientists and theorists aimed at a molecular understanding of interfacial reactivity. The five-day meeting combines talks on unpublished work with extended discussion, poster sessions open to all career stages, and communal meals and free afternoons for informal exchange; attendance is by application.

The 2027 Gas Sensing and Artificial Olfaction Gordon Research Conference, "Chemoresponsive Materials and Algorithms for Gas Sensing in Healthcare and Robotics", covers a field at the intersection of materials science, chemical engineering, data science and biology. Central themes are advanced nanomaterials and microporous frameworks for selectivity and sensitivity, atomically dispersed elements for tunable surface reactivity, carbon-based sensing platforms, and bioinspired and biomimetic approaches that emulate biological odour discrimination. Machine learning applied to gas-sensor datasets for real-time, high-dimensional pattern recognition is a parallel focus, with applications in wearable and portable devices, medical diagnostics from non-invasive breath analysis to early disease detection, and robotic olfaction systems that navigate and map volatile environments. Researchers from academia, industry, start-ups and clinical practice take part. The five-day meeting combines talks on unpublished work with extended discussion, poster sessions open to all career stages, and communal meals and free afternoons for informal exchange; attendance is by application.

The inaugural RACI conference on robotics, automation and machine learning in chemistry examines robotic synthesis, automated analysis, experimental planning, self-driving laboratories and chemical data science. Academic and industry researchers will exchange methods through plenary and contributed talks, posters and demonstrations. The meeting connects chemistry with robotics and AI, including cheminformatics and data-driven discovery. Paid registration includes the two-day programme, welcome reception and daytime catering; the conference dinner costs extra. Abstract submissions close on 31 October 2026, with acceptance notices on 15 November and early-bird rates through 30 November. The RACI registration table gives 18 February 2027 as the final registration date.

The 2027 Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Gordon Research Conference, "Unifying the Periodic Table with Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms", examines how reactions proceed across the periodic table. Sessions cover catalysis and mechanism across the periodic table, bioinorganic mechanisms, spectroscopic insights into reactive intermediates, main-group mechanisms, f-block reactivity, small-molecule activation, mechanisms of materials, redox processes and electron-transfer pathways, and photochemical and excited-state mechanisms. The five-day meeting combines talks on unpublished work with extended discussion, poster sessions open to all career stages, and communal meals and free afternoons for informal exchange; attendance is by application.

A symposium on conformational design in small-molecule drug discovery, connecting computational prediction with NMR solution conformations and protein–ligand structures from crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy. Topics include generative models, free-energy calculations, ligand rigidification and physicochemical optimisation for protein-interaction inhibitors, PROTACs, molecular glues and antibody–drug-conjugate payloads. Intended for medicinal and computational chemists, structural biologists, biophysicists and NMR specialists; prior conformational-design experience is unnecessary. Oral and poster abstracts are due 11 December 2026. Registration has not yet opened.