Invitation Remarks from the Coordinator-in-chief
Professor Chien-Tien Chen

Dear friends, expertises from the ITRI, industry, professors, distinguished quests from the US, East Asia, Canada, and Europe, ladies, and gentlemen.

On behalf of the National Tsing Hua University, Academia Sinica, and National Taiwan Normal University, and the organizing committee, I would like to express my warmest welcome to all of you for participating in “The International Chemical Conference in Taipei 2007”.  This conference is in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Chinese Chemical Society in Taipei. ICCT has laid a solid tradition of having world-class international scientists as speakers. In the last materials-oriented ICCT in 2002, the speakers included Prof. Klaus Mullen, A. Paul Alivisatos, Iijma Sumio, J. Fraser Stoddart, Ching W. Tang, Takuzo Aida, Peter Bauerle, Richard McCullough, Paul Mulvaney, Ralph Nuzzo and more. This time the themes for the ICCT-2007 feature frontiers in functional materials and catalysis.  Topics of integrated disciplines like Optoelectronic Materials, OLED Materials, OFET Materials, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Nano-materials, Optical Switching Materials, Bioinorganic Catalysis, and Asymmetric Catalysis will be covered. I would like to thank you all not only for joining us in this great event but also for witnessing the academic and industrial progresses of these researches and applications.

Organic optoelctronic materials aiming at Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED), Organic Field Effect Transistors (OFET), photovoltaic devices, and LC-based optical switches have been an area of intensive research in the past 10-15 years. Their solid applications towards flat panel display, energy saving, flexible optoelectronic devices have been well recognized as one of the major themes in optoelectronic nano technology. Among them, small molecular and oligomeric materials, dendritic, and polymeric materials have independently dominated differential and specific niche. The top-ten academic institutes in Taiwan that are actively involved in these burgeoning researches include Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University, National Tsing-Hua University, National Chiao-Tung University, National Cheng-Kung University, National Taiwan Normal University, and National Central University. In additions, the industrial companies includes RitDiaplay, Chi-Mei, AUO, OPTO Tech, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, HannStar Tech, and Motech Industries are some of the main key players with full devotion of R&D and mass-production.

New dimensions of chiral green catalysts and chiral optoelectronic materials at the nano domains constitute the highest R&D priority for advanced drug delivery and innovation particularly in countries in East Asia. These emerging endeavors both in academics and industry will exert tremendous influence to future advanced technological industry and establishment of intellectual property in Taiwan. To ensure international competitiveness and reach international level of excellence towards these materials and catalysis researches, the National Science Council of Taiwan have launched several national research project programs aiming at these areas of interests and paved specific channels to encourage international communication and collaboration. To build up a solid platform of this type for efficient R&D result sharing and information exchange, we would like to hold the International Chemical Conference in Taipei in the mid of December in 2007 with integration of a series of plenary and invited speeches devoted from internationally and domestically renowned scientists in the disciplines of materials and catalysis.
The purposes of this conference are as follows:

1. Promote direct and intensive communication and discussions between academic and industrial specialists both from Taiwan and abroad.
2. Research presentation and results sharing.
3. Initiate advanced research targets and promote higher level of research.
4. Initiate international collaboration and consolidation of industrial applications.
5. Incubation of capable young scientists in these two areas.

It is our high expectation that we can:

1. Promote international recognition of our domestic renowned scientists and interaction with foreign renowned scientists in these two areas.
2. Initiate new research directions related to nanohybrid LED, OLED, PLED, OFET, and LCD.
3. Initiate new research directions related to asymmetric green catalysis and biomimetic catalysis.
4. Multi-disciplinary team consolidation based on optoelectronic, LC, and nano-materials.
5. Multi-disciplinary team consolidation based on ogreen chiral catalysis and chirochromic materials.
6. Initiate leading areas of researches in advanced materials and catalysis for green and sustainable science.

Finally, I thank you all again for being with us. Enjoy the scientific and cultural entertainments consolidated by this conference and the best food delicacies that you have ever experienced in Taipei.

Chien-Tien Chen
Coordinator-in-chief for the ICCT-2007

Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University
101, Sec. 2, Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300
Tel: 886-3-5713887 Fax: 886-3-5711082
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