13th IUPAC International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-XIII)

15th-20th October, 2017 , China

Second Circular

ORGANIZED BY:

Institute of Advanced Materials School of Energy Science and Engineering (www.njtech.edu.cn)

SPONSORED BY: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Ministry of Science and Technology, China Natural Science Foundation of China Society of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

www.nms-iupac.org

INVITATION

On behalf of the Organization Committee, it is our great pleasure to invite you to attend IUPAC 13th International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-XIII), which is to be held during 15th – 20th October, 2017 at Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China.

Nanjing Tech University (http://en.njtech.edu.cn/) is located at Capital City of Jiangsu Province, China. It is known for its world-renowned achievements in the development of chemical engineering, material science and engineering, machinery, energy engineering, and etc. Its history can be dated back to 1902. Its motto is “Honor the Moral Integrity, Strive for Excellence, Persist in Fortitude and Combine Learning & Practice".

In Nanjing there are a lot of famous sites for sightseeing including Fuzi Temple (夫子 庙 ), Qinhuai River ( 秦淮河), Mausoleum from Emperors of : 1381-1405 (明孝陵), and …They are waiting for your coming.

If you have other questions or problems, please contact us without any hesitation.

As our traditional habit of this Conference, we will provide free dining, and social programs for the participants during the Conference.

Sincerely yours, Yuping Wu

On behalf of the cochairs of IUPAC NMS-XIII Profs. Xiaochen Dong, Fengwei Huo, Jiangpu Wang, & Yuping Wu

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

HONORABLE CHAIR Wei Huang, Nanjing

COCHAIRS Xiaochen Dong, Nanjing Fengwei Huo, Nanjing Jiangpu Wang, Nanjing Yuping Wu, Nanjing

GENERAL SECRETARY Lijun Fu, Yusong Zhu & Xiongwei Wu

MEMBERS Ruke Bai, Hefei Shaokui Cao, Zhengzhou Fen’er Chen, Shanghai Liban Chen, Guangzhou Jianhua Dong, Beijing Xiaochen Dong, Nanjing Shibi Fang, Beijing Xiaosheng Fang, Shanghai Lijun Fu, Nanjing Shoukuan Fu, Shanghai Faming Gao, Qinhuangdao Zhewen Han, Shanghai Zhiyi Ge, Ningbo Wenping Hu, Tianjin Cheng Huang, Nanjing Ling Huang, Nanjing Meiyu Huang, Beijing Xiao Huang, Nanjing Fengwei Huo, Nanjing Ming Jiang, Shanghai Guoxin Jin, Shanghai Xiangzheng Kong, Jinan Linfei Lai, Nanjing Juqing Liu, Nanjing Xiang Liu, Nanjing Yinfeng Liu, Shanghai W. Okubo, Nanjing Gengzhi Sun, Nanjing Wenhua Sun, Beijing Liming Tang, Beijing Jiangpu Wang, Nanjing Yunpu Wang, Lanzhou Peiyi Wu, Shanghai Xiongwei Wu, Nanjing Mujie Yang, Hangzhou Shiyong Yang, Beijing Rongben Zhang, Beijing Youliang Zhao, Suzhou Jixin Zhu, Nanjing Yusong Zhu, Nanjing

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD S. Asaoka, Japan A.J. Attias, France A. Baba, Japan H. Berke, Switerzerland D.Y. Chao, China J. Cho, South Korea Y. Cohen, Israel J. Collin, France W. Dai, China A.S. Demir, Turkey M. Eisen, Israel X.L. Feng, Germany G. Frater, Switzerland K.E. Geckeler, South Korea Yury Gogotsi, USA A. Hirao, Japan J. Inanaga, Japan Y. Kawakami, Japan Y. Kimura, Japan N. Koide, Japan N. Kuramoto, Japan R.S. Liu, Taiwan, China P.H.L. Notten, Netherland S. Penczek, Poland R.T. Rahman, USA R. Robison, Australia H. Sakurai, Japan H. Schumann, Germany Y. Shchipunov, Russia M. Shimizu, Japan J.L. Taverdet, France K. Undheim, Norway G. Unger, UK G.X. Wang, Australia Judy Wu, USA T. Yoshida, Japan D.H. Yu, Australia M. Yus, Spain J.J. Zhang, Canada P. Zugenmaier, Germany

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SITE AND PERIOD

The Conference will be held at Dingye New Century Hotel Nanjing (★★★★★) Address: No. 35, Wende East Road , Nanjing, China Tel: +86-25-5828 8888 Fax: +86-25-5828 2166

Date: 15th-20th October, 2017

Participants will accommodate in the above hotel during the Conference:

鼎業開元大酒店 Conference site ( )

VENUE Dingye New Century Hotel Nanjing (鼎業開元大酒店) is located at the north part of Yangtze River in Nanjing City. It is near to Yangtze River and the new Campus of Nanjing Tech University. The distances from the following places to the hotel and prices by taxi are as the following: (A) Nanjing International Airport: 54 km, about 180 CNY by taxi for about 1 hr. There are staffs holding a board “IUPAC NMS” at the exits of the airport to pick up you free if you tell us your arrival time before the end of September, 2017. (B) Nanjing South Station: 26.5 km, about 75 CNY by taxi for about 40 mins. You can also take Metro line 1 to “Andemeng (安德門)” station, and transfer Metro Line 10 to Longhua Road (龍華路). After getting off from Exit No. 2, a walking distance of about 700 meters to the east direction will take you to the Hotel. If you need a free pick-up, please tell us your arrival time before the end of September, 2017. Or else, we can only provide you some assistance. (C) : 28.7 km, about 60 CNY by taxi. It is very difficult to arrange a pick-up, please go the Hotel by yourself. You can take Metro line 1 to “Andemeng (安德門)” station, and transfer Metro Line 10 to Longhua Road (龍華路). After getting off from Exit No. 2, a walking distance of about 700 meters to the east direction will take you to the Hotel.

SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION  SCOPE The Conference is intended to provide for the exposition and discussion of research on novel materials including their preparation, characterization, properties and applications. Topics presented will be as the follows: Symposium A: Novel biomass, biobased, medical materials and composites, their preparation, properties and applications. Symposium B: Novel preparation methods for organic compounds, their properties and applications. Symposium C: Novel polymers such as conducting, semiconducting ones, supramolecular (supermolecular, dynamers), fibers, and their preparation, properties and applications. Symposium D: Novel energy systems including fuel cells, solar cells, lithium batteries and supercapacitors, and their key materials, performance and applications. Symposium E: Novel nanomaterials such as one-, two-, and three- dimensional (1D-, 2D- and 3D-) nanomaterials, their characterization and application. Symposium F: Novel ceramic/organic materials such as perovskite, super-conductors, electronic, diaelectronic, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, optoelectric and magnetic materials, their preparation and applications. Symposium G: Novel materials related to coal, carbon, fullerene, grapheme, graphite, and their applications.

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Symposium H: Novel eco-friendly materials, environmental engineering and contamination control, their preparation, characterizations, properties and applications. Symposium I: Novel materials for fuel production, conversion or storage. Symposium J: Other novel materials including perfumes, agricultural chemicals, photosensitive materials, displaying materials, fine ceramics and alloys, their preparation, properties and applications. Symposium K: Novel characterization methods and application in fundamental and applied researches on materials.

METHOD OF PRESENTATION Plenary lectures (45 min each), keynoted lectures (30 min each), invited lectures (20 min each), oral presentation (10 min each) and poster sessions will be arranged. Multimedia projection facilities and 120  90 cm poster board will be available in lecture hall. As to speakers of plenary lectures, invited lectures and oral presentations, it is strongly recommended to use multimedia projector in the form of “ppt” or “pptx” since overhead projector is not available.

ABSTRACT PREPARATION All participants except accompanying persons are requested to submit an extended abstract of their talk and poster, one page for each speaker. Usually one participant could not submit more than 2 abstracts. The abstract should be submitted in electronic version via the website of the Conference (www.nms-iupac.org) after login. The typing area of each page should be no more than 16 cm wide by 23 cm deep. If there are several authors on the abstract, please underline the speaker. As to details for the preparation of the abstract, please refer to the template form. In emergency, the abstract can be emailed to the General Secretary of the Conference, [email protected], before 31st August, 2017 (Extended to 10th September, 2017) in the form of “doc” or “docx”. Of course, extended full papers can be published in other journals. In order to avoid possible problems of copyrights, in the full paper please cite the page number of your abstract. If your submission via the website is not confirmed within one week, please contact the Organization Committee in time.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION 31st July, 2017 (Extended to 10th September, 2017)

PAPER PUBLICATION On behalf of the guest editorial member of Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (https://ajse.kfupm.edu.sa/) and Chinese Journal of Chemistry (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cjoc), we would like to invite you to contribute a paper to the special issues for this Conference. Please confirm your reply before the end of September, 2017. The submission deadline will be the end of December, 2017. If you have questions or problems, please contact with us or Prof. Dr. Bassam (Email: [email protected], [email protected]) for the special issue “Functional Materials” in Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering or Prof. Guozhen Ji ([email protected]) for the special issue “Novel Materials and Their Synthesis” in Chinese Journal of Chemistry.

LANGUAGE The official language of the Conference is English.

 TRAVELING INFORMATION AND PICK-UP Nanjing City (南京) is the capital of Jiangsu Province, China. It is very convenient to get there by Airline and there are plenty of High Speed Trains from Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, etc. You can go there by the following ways:

(A) Nanjing International Airport: Direct flight from many cities abroad or Transferring flights from every main domestic city like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hongkong, Shenzhen and so on.

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There are staffs holding a board “IUPAC NMS” at the exit of the airport to pick up you free on 15th Oct, 2017. If you come earlier or later, please tell us your flight information so that we can arrange a staff to guide you to the Hotel and Conference Site. (B) Nanjing South Railway Station: You can take trains from Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan or other cities. There are staffs holding a board “IUPAC NMS” at the South Exit of the station to show you how to take the Metro, and there are staffs holding a board “IUPAC NMS” at the exit No. 2 of the Metro station (Longhua Road: 龍華路) to guide you on 15th Oct, 2017. (C) Nanjing Railway Station: You can take trains from Beijing, Shanghai or other cities to this station. Please go to the Hotel by yourself since it is very difficult to arrange a pick-up.

Please inform us timely your flight number, arrival time and the airport to the General Secretary of the Conference by email . If you arrive in Nanjing before or after 15th October, 2017, the secretarial staff will also guide you to the Hotel according to your information if you need. Please also note the board “IUPAC NMS” at the exits of the Airports or Railway station. The staff will help you to the Conference site. If you miss our service in Nanjing, please take a taxi to the hotel by yourself. You may show the above rough map to the taxi driver.

INFORMATION Japanese participants can contact the following travel agency for their travel from Japan to China: Leadman Universe Corporation Sadori Heights 403 1-4-20 Nakameguro, Meguro-ku Tokyo 153-0061, Japan Tel: 03-3793-7545 Fax: 03-3793-7500 E-mail: [email protected]

 SOCIAL PROGRAM Some historic interests and scenic beauty in Nanjing such as Tombs from Emperors of Min Dynasty (明孝陵: 1381-1405) and Nanjing Presidential Palace (南京總統府) will be visited. Ladies programs (only valid for the registered accompanying participants) are also organized.

 SCHEDULE (Primary)

Date AM PM Evening

15 October Registration Registration Registration

Opening Addresses Invited Lectures & 16 October River Cruise Plenary Lectures Oral Presentations 17 October Invited Lectures & Invited Lectures &

Oral Presentations Oral Presentations Plenary, Invited Invited Lectures & 18 October Lectures & Oral Presentations Posters Invited Lectures & Invited Lectures & 19 October Banquet Oral Presentations Oral Presentations Free City tour 20 October Free City tour Post-Conference

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21-22 October Post-conference Post-conference

 POST-CONFERENCE TOUR 21- 22 October 2017 The post-conference is arranged as the follows. You can select it according to your schedule. During the post-conference tour, the accommodation for the two nights of 20th and 21st October, 2017 will be in the same Hotel. That is to say, you do not need to check out during the post-Conference. However, you should reserve the hotel for accommodation.

The primary schedule is as follows:

21 October 2017 7:30 Morning call and breakfast 8:30 Departure for (雞鳴寺) and tour. 11:00 Touring around Zhongshan Mausoleum (中山陵) 12:30 Lunch 13:00 Departure for Nanjing 13:30 Touring Nanjing Museum. 17:00 Returning for the Hotel. 18:30 Dinner

(Jiming Temple: Built in A.D. 300) (Great Baoen Temple: 2nd Temple in China, Started in A.D. 238, Renamed in 1412) (雞鳴寺) (大報恩寺)

22 October 2017 7:30 Morning call and breakfast 8:30 Departure for Great Baoen Temple (大報恩寺) and tour. 12:30 Lunch 13:00 Departure for Six Dynasty Museum (六朝博物館) and tour 17:00 Returning for the Hotel. 18:30 Dinner

Our staff will help you reserve the hotel at the same favorable price (480 CNY) for the nights of 20th and 21st Oct, 2017 in Nanjing or more nights, please tell us at your earliest convenience.

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CORRESPONDENCE All correspondence should be sent directly to the General Secretary: Profs. Lijun Fu, Yusong Zhu & Xiongwei Wu Email: [email protected],

Plenary lecture speakers (Partial list) (In the alphabetic order of surname of the speakers. The titles are omitted). No Names Countries and Areas 1 Yi Cui USA 2 Hans-Joachim Knöker Germany 3 Yongfang Li China 4 David X.W. Lou Singapore 5 Federico Rosei Canada 6 Wanqin Jin China Note: Some change would be made.

 Keynote lecture speakers (Partial list) If your name does not appear, please tell us as soon as possible since we did not receive your confirmation message due to the network problems. (In the alphabetic order of surname of the speakers. The titles are omitted). No. Names Countries or areas 1 Volker Abetz Germany 2 Jin-Ping Ao Japan 3 Toshiki Aoki Japan 4 Heinz Berke Switzerland 5 Tadeusz Biela Poland 6 Zhishan Bo China 7 Christoph Bubeck Germany 8 David Cahen Israel 9 Jin-Ming Chen Taiwan, China 10 Yiwang Chen China 11 Marek Cypryk Poland 12 Xiaochen Dong China 13 Masahiro Fujiwara Japan 14 Chao Gao China 15 Faming Gao China 16 Tawfique Hasan UK 17 Jianhui Hou China 18 Chi-Chang Hu Taiwan, China 19 Fengwei Huo China 20 Kuniharu Ijiro Japan 21 Kajita Itoh Japan 22 Ji-Guang Li Japan 23 Satoshi Kaneco Japan 24 Ulrich F. Keyser Japan 25 Keon Jae Lee South Korea

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26 Kazuya Kobiro Japan 27 Norbert Koch Germany 28 Xiangzheng Kong China 29 Michihisa Koyama Japan 30 Linfei Lai China 31 Alessandro Lavacchi Italy 32 Meicheng Li China 33 Francis Chi-Chung Ling Hongkong, China 34 Gang Liu China 35 Hao Liu China 36 Juqing Liu China 37 Ru-Shi Liu Taiwan, China 38 Renzhi Ma Japan 39 Yves Mely France 40 Takeo Minari Japan 41 Yoshitsugu Kojima Japan 42 Takayoshi Nakamura Japan 43 Hideyuki Nakano Japan 44 Yasuhiro Nakazawa Japan 45 Yuichi Negishi Japan 46 Akiyoshi Osaka Japan 47 Gareth Parkinson Austria 48 Qibing Pei USA 49 Clas Persson Sweden 50 Philip W.T. Pong Hongkong, China 51 Wilfrid Prellier France 52 Stephen Rimmer UK 53 Dominic Rochefort Canada 54 Hidehiro Sakurai Japan 55 Udo Schwingenschlogl Saudi Arabia 56 Zexiang Shen Singapore 57 Fa-Nian Shi China 58 Xiangyang Shi China 59 Takanori Shibata Japan 60 Makoto Shimizu Japan 61 Francesco Stellacci Switzerland 62 Myunghyun Paik Suh South Korea 63 Gengzhi Sun China 64 Shuhui Sun Canada 65 Anthony Szymczyk France 66 Xinyong Tao China 67 Sabu Thomas India 68 Eng Soon Tok Singapore

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69 Ikuyoshi Tomita Japan 70 Goran Ungar UK 71 Hiroshi Uyama Japan 72 Stefan Vajda USA 73 Lionel Vayssieres USA 74 Feng Wang Hongkong, China 75 Fu-Ming Wang Taiwan, China 76 Jiazhao Wang Australia 77 Jianpu Wang China 78 Yong Wang China 79 Judy Wu USA 80 Lijun Fu China 81 Yuhui Chen China 82 Yusong Zhu China 83 Jianbin Xu Hongkong, China 84 Koichi Yamashita Japan 85 Xiangdong Yao Australia 86 Chengzhong Michael Yu Australia 87 Ying Yu China 88 Zhongyong Yuan China 89 Hsiao-Wen Zan Taiwan, China 90 Xiaowei Zhan China 91 Genqiang Zhang China 92 Qiang Zhang China 93 Youliang Zhao China 94 Yong Zhou China 95 Shenmin Zhu China 96 Oliver T. Hofmann Austria 97 Bingsuo Zou China 98 Jixin Zhu China

Note: to be updated

 Invited lecture speakers (Partial list) (In the alphabetic order of surname of the speakers. The titles are omitted). If your name does not appear, please tell us as soon as possible since we did not receive your confirmation message due to the network problems. No. Names Countries or areas 1 Masaru Aniya Japan 2 Eglantina Benavente Chile 3 Chu-Shiang Chen Taiwan, China 4 Gaojian Chen China 5 Jun Chen China 6 Rongzhen Chen Sweden 7 Show-An Chen Taiwan, China 9

8 Kai Yuan China 9 Ying-Hao Eddie Chu Taiwan, China 10 Lay-Lay Chua Singapore 11 Chaohua Cui China 12 Junqiao Ding China 13 Alex Ferreira Brazil 14 Toshinori Fujie Japan 15 Kentaro Kaneko Japan 16 Liqiu Wang China 17 Xike Gao China 18 Guillermo Gonzalez Chile 19 Gufeng He China 20 Peter Ho Singapore 21 Rudolf Holze Germany 22 Takashi Kamiyama Japan 23 Yoshihiko Kanemitsu Japan 24 Kisuk Kang South Korea 25 Vaidotas Kazukauskas Lithuania 26 Anatoly Berezkin Germany 27 Yaroslav V. Kudryavtsev Russia 28 Bin Li China 29 Byung-Nam Kim Japan 30 Xuejiao Wang China 31 Chia-Jyi Liu Taiwan, China 32 Lili Liu Germany 33 Shu-Fen Hu Taiwan, China 34 Xiaoheng Liu China 35 Yongsong Liu China 36 Qun Luo China 37 Malik Maaza South Africa 38 Hiroki Miyaoka Japan 39 Tengfei Zhang Japan 40 Kiyonori Takahashi Japan 41 Takatoshi Ito Japan 42 Kazuhisa Ohtake Japan 43 Yukihiro Okamoto Japan 44 Lijia Pan China 45 Chun-Wei Pao Taiwan, China 46 Clas Persson Norway 47 Christine Rehm Australia 48 Omoruyi G. Idemudia South Africa 49 Kotaro Satoh Japan 50 Kyalo Stephen Kanyiva Japan

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51 Hideaki Shirota Japan 52 Yasushi Takemura Japan 53 Weihua Tang China 54 Tseung-Yuen Tseng Taiwan, China 55 Yutaka Ukaji Japan Valliyappan David 56 Malaysia Natarajan 57 Teunis van Ree South Africa 58 Richard Walton UK 59 Wei-Ren Liu Taiwan, China 60 Chularat Wattanakit Thailand 61 Chung-Chih Wu Taiwan, China 62 Jing Wang China 63 Yi Zhang China 64 David Fengwei Xie Australia 65 Hui (Claire) Xiong USA 66 Chao Xu Sweden 67 He Yan Hongkong, China 68 Hu Yan China 69 Shu Yin Japan 70 Nor Yuliana Yuhana Malaysia 71 Zijian Zheng Hongkong, China 72 Yingping Zou China 73 M. A. Legodi South Africa 74 Aleksey Polubotko Russia

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 REGISTRATION & PAYMENT All participants (including plenary, Keynote and invited lecture speakers) are requested to pay registration fee, and the cost of hotel in advance. Registration fees should be transferred or deposited to the following account (Valid only for this Conference).

Account name: WU (family name) YUPING (given name) (Please do not add any titles or calling before the name such as Prof. or Prof. Dr.). Account Number: 44815 69523 36 Bank Name: Bank of China Shanghai Guo Ding Road Sub-Branch Bank Address: No 290 Guo Ding Road, Shanghai, China, 200433 Bank Swift Code: BKCHCN BJ300 Telephone for the Bank Branch: +86-21-6510 7258 Fax number for the Bank Branch: +86-21-65107262

Please be sure that the registration fee does not contain any transaction costs. The deadline for advance or early-bird registration is 31st August, 2017 (extended to 20th September, 2017). All payments have to be made in CNY (Chinese currency, also called RMB): Registration fee: Normal participant: 4000 CNY Invited speaker: 3000 CNY

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Student: 2000 CNY (Please show the student ID upon registration) Accompanying: 2000 CNY (valid for ladies programs) If Chinese currency CNY could not be paid via the bank, please pay by JPY (100 JPY = 5.90 CNY), USD (1 USD = 6.75 CNY) or Euro (1 Euro = 7.65 CNY).

The expenses for the welcome party, refreshments, excursion, banquet, dinner, and a copy of proceedings will be free for the registered delegates. The favorable price for the hotels during the Conference is as follows: Hotels Favorable price only for registered delegates Type A (Suit) (★★★★★) * 1200 CNY / night Type B ( Single room ) (★★★★★) * 480 CNY / night Type C (Double room) (★★★★★) * 480 CNY / night * Dingye New Century Hotel Nanjing. Note: Due to the limited numbers of each kind room, we feel very sorry if there is some change of your reservation.

If Chinese currency CNY could not be paid via the bank, please pay by JPY (100 JPY = 5.90 CNY), USD (1 USD = 6.75 CNY) or Euro (1 Euro = 7.65 CNY).

Post-Conference tour will be arranged by travel agency. It will cost about 1500 CNY for the expense of transportation, sightseeing, entrance tickets, and meals for 2 days. This is not included in the normal registration fee. However, you can pay it together with the above cost.

In case of not being able to transfer the fees before the deadline, please pay by cash on the registration day. However, the secretary should be notified in advance. Or else, 20% overcharge will be included. On registration, only cash is accepted, personal checks, traveler’s checks and credit cards are not acceptable. We feel very sorry if there is any inconvenience for you. Please download the Registration and Accommodation Forms from website of the Conference (www.nms-iupac.org), and send the completed forms to the Organization Committee ([email protected]) before the end of August, 2017. In emergency, you can send the information together to A/Prof. Yusong Zhu, who is in charge of official document for the entry visa ([email protected]).

 CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION FEE In the event of cancellation of registration before 10th September, 2017, 80% of the registration fee will be refunded due to the refunding cost. After 11th September, 2017, the registration fee will not be refunded.

 ACCOMMODATION & PAYMENT All hotel rooms are reserved and arranged by the Organizing Committee so that a favorable price can be ensured. In order to secure a room, please fill-in clearly your dates of arrival and departure, and send the information to us by email, mail or fax before 31st August, 2017 since October is one of the busiest and most popular season of Nanjing. The payment account is the same as that for the registration. If you want to cancel, please tell the organization committee at least 7 days before the Conference. Or else, the charge at least for one night will be paid.

 PASSPORT AND VISA All foreign participants should possess valid passports and visas. In addition, most visitors from abroad have to apply for entry visas. You may apply for a tourist visa via a travel agency in your country since it is more convenient. If you need the formal invitation letter to apply for an entry visa from our side (this needs about 10 working days), please fill in the required information in the Registration Form, and send the required documents to us in time by email. Or else, we feel very sorry that we could not help you to get the document in time.

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In emergency, please send it to one of the Secretariat of the Conference, A/Prof. Yusong Zhu ([email protected], or [email protected]). He will fax or send the required documents to you as early as possible.

Please apply for an entry visa at the nearest Chinese Embassy or Consulate as early as possible since 1-7 October, 2017 will be official holidays for the Chinese Embassy.

 TAXI AND OTHER SPECIAL SERVICES Since most taxi drivers cannot speak English, please show the map and they will take you to the Hotel. Cable internet or Wifi services are included in the favorable prices for hotel. Photocopy, post office, phone and fax services in the hotel are also available. The cost for such special services will be paid by yourself.

 CLIMATE The weather in Nanjing is at its best season during the conference and the temperature ranges between 15-30 oC. Sometime it rains.

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(One image of Nanjing)

(One image of Nanjing)