Dear InterPore colleagues,

Every edition of our Newsletter brings important announcements and updates on conferences, webinars, KC lecturers, jobs, scientific publications from InterPore members, the ISC, etc. This week, we bring that too, but today also marks a major milestone for us, the InterPore Society. Today, the first edition of the InterPore Journal is launched! The society’s international scientific journal!

Congratulations to all who have been involved in this great achievement!

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

Poster presenters who have not yet registered must do so prior to this Monday, 29 April. Any presenters who register after this date will not be included in the printed program.

Register here!

Check out the Technical Program

The technical program is now available! Use the features in Whova to find sessions which interest you and build your own agenda.

Conference Courses

There is still time to register for one of our Conference Courses at InterPore2024! See the full list of 2024 Conference Courses here.

If you are interested in registering these courses, you may do so in conjunction with your conference registration.

If you have already registered and wish to update your registration, please contact Margaret Dieter to request a registration link.

Don’t miss the Gala Dinner at the luxurious Shangri-La Hotel!

Monday, 13 May from 19:00

InterPore and the Local Organizing Committee welcome all in-person participants to the Gala Dinner. What better way to experience Qingdao’s cuisine and enjoy the company of your fellow conference participants?

The seated dinner will be held in China Hall at the Shangri-La Hotel, and beverages are also included.

This event is included in the in-person conference registration fees.

Do you have a guest with you? If you haven’t purchased a separate ticket for your accompanying guest at the time of your registration, you can do so at the conference check-in.

And now…Qingdao!

InterPore2024 will be in Qingdao. Described as a city of “red tiles, green trees, blue sky, and blue sea.” Qingdao has a lot of things to offer with respect to science, science history and porous media. This week: Laoshan Oldenlandia water

Laoshan Oldenlandia water was meticulously developed by Qingdao Laoshan Mineral Water Co., Ltd. in the early 1960s to meet the health needs of domestic consumers. It is an alkaline beverage with a taste that effectively relieves alcoholism, protects the liver, nourishes the stomach, detoxifies, and clears heat, making it a precious gem among health drinks. From the LOC: “I strongly recommend that you give it a try when you come to Qingdao. People have varying opinions on its unique taste, but it is indeed beneficial for health.”

Sponsor Highlight: ThermoFisher

Quickly obtain porosity insights from your imaging data

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we strive to provide innovative analytical solutions. For over 20 years, the Thermo Scientific™ Avizo™ Software and Thermo Scientific™ PerGeos™ Software have evolved closely with the scientific community. They provide a reliable, fully automatable, customizable, and easy-to-use software solution so you can innovate faster.

Our software are all-in-one digital labs that allow for the visualization, processing, and quantification of porous materials. Our analytical software enables the detection and classification of various types of porosity, even on images with complex artifacts. Many porosity properties and statistics can be calculated, such as volume fraction, largest ball fitting through a given pore, pore size distribution, pore throat size distribution, pore orientation, shape factor, and other porosity properties. Porosity can be turned into a model, allowing for rapid understanding and exploration of the pore space that features spheres or ellipsoids-and-sticks type visualization with property mapping. Our software also allows the direct calculation of the absolute permeability of the material from the segmented pore space.

Exhibitor Spotlight: Brucker

Bruker AXS is a worldwide market leader in providing advanced X-ray systems and complete solutions for structure and elemental analysis using X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction (SCD) and 3D X-ray Microscopy (XRM). Our products fit the analytical requirements of customers in materials research, life science and process analysis. They provide essential information about molecular structure, material and structural parameters of thin film and bulk material as well as elemental composition of solids and liquids.

Exhibitor Spotlight: Surface Measurement Systems

Surface Measurement Systems are pioneering advanced technology for evaluating porous materials and their use in carbon capture. With the groundbreaking DVS Carbon instrument, we enable researchers to precisely measure uptake of carbon dioxide in the presence of moisture in porous materials under a range of real-world conditions, paving the way for the creation of advanced material solutions for carbon capture.

Hear about our advanced sorption solutions in action at our talk:

Realistic evaluation of prototypical porous materials for carbon capture
Session: 2.2.MS01 | 14 May 2024 @ 12:00 pm

Be sure to visit our stand to speak with Meishan about this and many other applications made possible by our advanced line of gravimetric sorption instruments and Surface Energy Analyzers.

Top Sponsors for InterPore2024

Alberto Guadagnini awarded Darcy Medal

A long-standing supporter of InterPore, Alberto Guadagnini, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Vice Rector for Research at the Politecnico di Milano, has received the Henry Darcy Medal from the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

Alberto has been awarded for his research works aimed at expanding the frontiers of our knowledge on flow and contaminant transport in groundwater systems and porous media. Congratulations, Alberto!!!

Kimberly-Clark Lectureships 2024 & 2025

Prof. Rainer Helmig, from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, is the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer of 2025.

As the winner of this year’s distinguished award, Prof. Rainer Helmig will be giving one of his two lectures at selected institutions: for more information about the lectures, please visit Prof. Helmig’s page on the InterPore website.

If your university/institution is interested in hosting Prof. Helmig, please download and fill out the application form and send it to Sandra Bartsch by 31 December 2024.

Prof. Ruben Juanes, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, continues to present his lectures in universities and organisations all over the world.

His most recent lectures took place at the California Institute of Technology (USA), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), University of Minnesota (USA) and Kimberly-Clark Corporation (USA).

Some of his upcoming lectures include:

• Princeton University, USA (2 June)
• University of Rennes, France (18 June)
• Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France (20 June)

Chapter News

First Iran Conference on Porous Media

The Iran InterPore Chapter will host the first Iran Conference on Porous Media from 24-25 September 2024 at the School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran. The topics will include diverse applications of porous media in: geosciences, energy, medicine, biology and environmental engineering, and industry. Benefit from inspiring lectures, connect with researchers from Iran and across the globe, and discover edge-of-science studies on porous media.

Submission deadline is 20 May 2024.

Visit the conference page for more information and to submit your abstract.

Recap: Webinar with Catherine Noiriel

Many thanks to all those who tuned in for this week’s webinar with Catherine Noiriel (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) on “Challenging reactive transport modeling from pore scale observations.”

It was a valuable talk and we enjoyed the lively discussion that followed. For those who missed out, you can view a recording of the session here.

Please visit our InterPore Academy page for more details on upcoming events!

Preparing National Research Ecosystems for AI

The ISC Centre for Science Futures’ landmark report “Preparing National Research Ecosystems for AI“ offers a comprehensive analysis of the integration of artificial intelligence in science and research across various countries. The report, which features a number of ISC Members, serves as a critical source of first-hand information for science leaders, policy-makers and academics and makes an urgent call for continued discussion and collaboration between countries as they introduce AI in their research priorities.

Please feel free to share the report with your members, colleagues and networks. Readers are invited to comment and suggest additional countries for case studies to include in the follow-up edition of the paper coming out in late 2024.

Global Call for Science Missions for Sustainability

The International Science Council and its Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability proudly announce the launch of the Science Missions for Sustainability Global Call. Consortia are invited to submit pilot proposals to become part of the transformative collective action to shape the future of science and humanity.

More information
Deadline: 31 May*

Call for case studies of science in action to achieve the SDGs

Submit your inputs to the UN Scientific and Technological Major Group position paper for the 2024 High-level Political Forum (HLPF) by 10 May.

The paper is aimed to deliver concise, impactful and science-based key messages on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) implementation and will serve as an important resource reflecting the collective voice of the S&T community to inform discussions at the upcoming 2024 High-level Political Forum. Additionally, we seek your contributions in the form of case studies showcasing successful applications of science in decision-making and action to support SDG implementation within specific contexts.

More info

InterPore has been a member of the International Science Counsel since 2020. The ISC is an international organization comprised of more than 245 member societies, organizations, academies, and associations from all fields of science, with the mission “to act as the global voice for science.”

Fingering Instability During Mixing-Driven Precipitation Flow

Negar Shahsavar, Xiaojing Fu, Benzhong Zhao

We investigate fluid–fluid displacement in a Hele–Shaw cell where two fluids react to form of a precipitate suspension. We observe interesting fingering patterns whose birth, growth and decay are strongly influenced by the injection rate. Additionally, the fingering instability has strong feedback on the mixing and the subsequent precipitation rate. Lastly, we find that, counter to intuition, a higher injection rate results in a larger amount of precipitates that are securely deposited.

Transport in Porous Media 151, 323–338 (2024)
Corresponding Author: Benzhong Zhao

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Post-doc

• Post-doc position on CO2 storage: reducing uncertainty on CO2 plume propagation distances and predicting their spatial footprint through Ensemble Methods. TotalEnergies CSTJF, Pau, France

If you have a job opening in your institute and would like to promote it internationally, please send the description and weblink or PDF to newsletter@interpore.org, and we’ll be happy to add it to the list. It is also possible to post the position on the InterPore website. Log in through MyInterPore and click “Submit A Job Opening.”