Press Release

ITB Catalysis Symposium A post meeting of First Indonesian-American KAVLI Frontiers of Science Symposium (KFoS) The first ITB Catalysis Symposium was held on July 12, 2011 at ITB Campus in Bandung, Indonesia. This event is part of promoting the International Year of Chemistry 2011. The theme of the meeting was Catalysis Development Towards Sustainable Chemical Processes. This one day symposium presented 7 keynote lectures and 22 poster presentations. The symposium was organized by Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Research Division and successfully participated by more than 100 attendees over 4 countries (Japan, USA, Malaysia and Indonesia) discussing all aspects of catalysis such as novel catalyst preparation, catalysis on energy-related process and catalysis on specialty-fine chemicals.

Catalysts are known to be the chemical transformer in the industry. Approximately 80-90% of products of chemical industry are made in catalytic process. Prof. Tatsuya Okubo of The University of Tokyo opened the talk on how to prepare industrial zeolite catalysts via an economical process. Nowadays, zeolites have been the world most used catalyst in the industry contributing to 35% out of global catalyst market. The method excludes the use of organic compounds that are known to bring the cost high and give burden to the environment from its removal within the final process. This novel pathway certainly provides advantages for the commercialization of zeolites. Prof. Stephen A. Miller of University of Florida presented next generation of commodity plastics from plants instead of petroleum as biodegradable plastic for future eco-materials. An established olefin metathesis polymerization route has been

extended to apply biorenewable feedstocks into polymers. Millers group called now the route as Carbon-Oxygen Metathesis (COMET) polymerization. From Malaysia, two speakers of Ibnu Sina Institute at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia presented interesting and challenging topics in heterogeneous catalysis. Indonesian born Prof. Hadi Nur and Dr. Leny Yuliati gave talk on novel concept in catalysis (Phase Boundary Catlaysis) and water splitting photocatalysis for the production of hydrogen as fuel from water, respectively. Two other speakers from USA, also participant of KFoS gave contribution in this event. They are Dr. Wendy Shaw of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Dr. Libai Huang of University of Notre Dame. From the local speaker, Dr. Rino R. Mukti presented development of hierarchically porous zeolites. Finally, we have chosen two best poster presenters and it was awarded to Dr. Hendrik O. Lintang of Ibnu Sina Institute, Malaysia and Dr. Yuni Krisnandi of Universitas Indonesia. ITB Catalysis Symposium is now proposed to be held annually and inviting more prominent speakers in the future. We acknowledge PT. Arfindo Bersinar and Pesona Scientific for the sponsorship. We look forward to meeting you again next year in the same event.

Topics
1. Catalysis for energy applications

Petroleum refining Hydrogen production/storage Conversion of carbon rich unconventional fossil resources and biomass Energy storage and conversion Photo/electro and fuel cell catalysis Syngas generation

2. Catalysis for chemical synthesis

Green synthesis Advanced routes in petrochemistry Platform chemicals from renewables Fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals Enantioselective catalysis Biochemical routes to fine chemicals Polymerization

3. Catalysis for environmental applications

Cleaning exhaust streams catalytic upgrading of waste materials

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Dr. Gopinathan Sankar Royal Society Industry Fellow University College London, United Kingdom "title to be announced"

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sugeng Triwahyono Editor-in-Chief Journal of Fundamental Sciences Ibnu Sina Institute for Fundamental Science Studies-UTM, Malaysia "title to be announced"

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Masaru Ogura Institute of Industrial Science The University of Tokyo, Japan "title to be announced"

Dr. Ikuko Takamiya Catalysis Science Laboratory Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. Japan "title to be announced"

Dr. Subagjo Chemical Engineering Process Design and Development Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia "title to be announced"

Auditorium, Eastern CC (campus center) Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) Bandung 40132 Indonesia

Organization

Organizing Committee
Chairman Dr. Rino R. Mukti Co-Chairman Dr. Ferry Iskandar Secretary Dr. Yessi Permana Treasurer Dr. Irma Mulyani Program Coordinator Dr. Aep Patah Dr. Antonius Indarto

International Advisory Board

INDONESIA

Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) o Prof. Dr. Ismunandar o Prof. Dr. Mikrajuddin Abdullah o Prof. Dr. Khairurrijal o Dr. Subagjo o Dr. I Nyoman Marsih Universitas Diponegoro o Dr. Istadi o Dr. Didi Dwi Anggoro Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) o Dr. Hamzah Fansuri o Dr. Didik Prasetyoko

MALAYSIA

Ibnu Sina Institute for Fundamental Science Studies-UTM o Prof. Dr. Hadi Nur o Prof. Dr. Salasiah Endud o Dr. Sugeng Triwahyono o Dr. Zainab Ramli o Dr. Leny Yuliati o Dr. Hendrik O. Lintang

JAPAN

The University of Tokyo o Prof. Dr. Tatsuya Okubo o Dr. Atsushi Shimojima o Dr. Masaru Ogura Chiba University o Prof. Dr. Shogo Shimazu Nippon Chemical Industrial Inc. Ltd. o Dr. S. P. Elangovan

USA

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute o Prof. Dr. Marc-Olivier Coppens University of Florida o Prof. Dr. Stephen A. Miller University of Massachusetts Amherst o Dr. Wei Fan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory o Dr. Wendy Shaw

Germany

Technische Universitt Mnchen o Prof. Dr. Johannes A. Lercher o Dr. Andreas Jentys Westflische Wilhelms-Universitt Mnster o Dr. Eko Adi Prasetyanto

India

VIT University o Dr. K. K. Cheralathan

Correspondences
Rino R. Mukti and Yessi Permana Gd. Kimia Baru Lt 1, Kimia FMIPA ITB

Jl. Ganesha 10 Bandung, 40132 Email: rino@chem.itb.ac.id or yessi@chem.itb.ac.id

http://www.itbcatalysis.or.id