Sol?gel chemistry offers a flexible approach to obtaining a diverse range of materials. It is a low temperature chemistry that offers the possibility to control the material structure at the molecular level, giving rise to the design of a wide range of nano and micro-structures with diverse applications, such as solar cells, drug delivery, photonics, catalysis, biosensors, biomaterials, among others. Nowadays sol-gel processing is used at industrial scale for producing ceramics, coatings, abrasive layers, aerogels, membranes, and optical fibres. In this symposium, we propose to update with well-known scientists in the field the state-of-the art in the fundamentals of sol-gel chemistry, as well as recent advanced materials synthesized by this route. We expect fruitful scientific discussions with participation of students, scientists, and industrial developers.

• Masahide Takahashi-
  (Osaka Prefecture Univ) [To be confirmed]
• Galo Soler Illia
  (Instituto de nanosistemas- UNSAM) [To be confirmed]
• Roberto Candal
  (3iA-UNSAM) [To be confirmed]
• - João Henrique Zimnoch dos Santos
  (Instituto de Quimica UFRGS) [To be confirmed]
• Luis Dias Carlos
  (Universidad de Aveiro, portugal) [To be confirmed]
• Michel Wong Chi Man-
  (CNRS- Montpellier) [To be confirmed]
• Alain Ibanez
  (Institut Neel) [To be confirmed]
• Jean Marcel Ribeiro Gallo
  (Universidad de Santa Catarina- Instituto de Quimica) [To be confirmed]
• Marivalda de M Pereira -
  (Enga Materiais -UFMG -) [To be confirmed]
• Thierry Gacoin
  (Ecole Polytechnique, ) [To be confirmed]

• Andréa Simone Stucchi de Camargo Alvarez Bernardez (IFSC-USP)
• Ubirajara Pereira Rodrigues Filho (IQSC-USP)
• Sara Aldabe Bilmes (Inquimae- DQIAQF-FCEN-UBA)