Thank you for your participation!

The conference took place at the Convention Centre located in a prime area of Québec City, Canada, surrounded by world‐class hotels and tourist attractions. The historic district of Old Québec designated a world heritage treasure by UNESCO in 1985, is the only fortified city north of Mexico. Québec City is also renowned for its famous joie de vivre, and lively streets with numerous activities.

GOLD 2022 was the 9th edition of the International conference series, following GOLD 2018 in Paris. As a material, gold has experienced renewed interest from the scientific community during these last decades. It started with the field of catalysis by gold nanoparticles, and it is now expanding to booming scientific areas such as homogeneous catalysis, plasmonics, materials sciences, biotechnology, nanotechnology and therapeutic applications. The science of gold has thus become a highly multidisciplinary field.

To keep the scientific community informed and aware of the latest advances in the field of gold for high-technology applications, the Gold 2022 committee organized a series of Webinars on each one of the main scientific topics of the conference (see below). These Webinars have contributed to the organization of the conference and its structuring in the most optimal and dynamic manner.

Again, thank you for your participation at the Gold 2022 conference. Your presence either onsite or virtually was essential to the success of this event.

The Organizing Committee

Plenary Speakers

Olivier Pluchery

Professor at the Department of Physics, Sorbonne University, Institute of NanoSciences in Paris, France

Liming Zhang

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

M. Concepción Gimeno

Research Professor, Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis (ISQCH, CSIC-University of Zaragoza), Spain.

Luis Liz-Marzán

Ikerbasque Professor at CIC biomaGUNE, Spain

Michel Meunier, B.Sc.A. et Ing., M.Sc.A. (Poly), Ph.D. (M.I.T.)

Full Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Laura Fabris

Professor in the Department of Applied Science and Technology at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University (USA)

Jiří Homola

Photonics and Electronics, Prague

Professor Stephan Link

Charles W. Duncan, Jr.-Welch Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, United States

Ken Tanaka

Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Toru Murayama

Project Professor, Dept. of Applied Chemistry for Environment, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. Professor, Yantai Key Laboratory of Gold Catalysis and Engineering, Shandong Applied Research Center of Gold Nanotechnology (Au-SDARC), Yantai University, China.