Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 3rd Texas Pore Engineering Conference (TEXPEC2024) that will take place in Houston on October 19th and 20th, 2024.

After two very successful editions of this conference in College Station (2022) and Denton (2023), TEXPEC is returning in 2024 as a two-day in-person conference to be held in the largest city in Texas: Houston. This third TEXPEC meeting will feature invited and contributed oral and poster presentations on the diverse classes of porous materials, including zeolites, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), porous organic polymers (POPs), and porous molecular crystals (PMCs). Across this range of structures, we will explore the fascinating chemistry happening in their nanoconfined spaces and the applications of these materials in diverse fields including pollutant removal, carbon storage and utilization, catalysis, gas separations, membrane development, and medical applications.

We already have an exciting lineup of confirmed keynote speakers:

• Craig Brown, National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Yu-Sheng Chen, University of Chicago

• Shengqian Ma, University of North Texas

• Ahmad Moini, BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions

• Yuriy Román, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Natalia Shustova, University of South Carolina

• Rafael Verduzco, Rice University

• Mike Zaworotko, University of Limerick (Ireland)

• Hongcai (Joe) Zhou, Texas A&M University

...and invited speakers:

• Omar Abdelrahman, University of Houston

• Brandon Bukowski, Johns Hopkins University

• Haoyuan Chen, Southern Methodist University

• Steven Crossley, University of Oklahoma

• Anindita Das, Southern Methodist University

• Wei Fan, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Lei Fang, Texas A&M University

• Rajamani Gounder, Purdue University

• Stavroula Alina Kampouri, Rice University

• Chenfeng Ke, Washington University in Saint Louis

• Katherine Mirica, Dartmouth College

• Hyunho Noh, University of Oklahoma

• Mark Anthony Olson, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi

• Jihye Park, University of Colorado

• Ilja Popovs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Manish Shetty, Texas A&M University

• Ronald Smaldone, University of Texas at Dallas

• Kyriakos Stylianou, Oregon State University

We look forward to hosting you in Houston in October 2024, discussing the latest science of porous materials, forging new collaborations and friendships, and enjoying the diverse cultural and culinary scene of Houston!

Jeffrey Rimer (UH ChemE) and Ognjen Š. Miljanić (UH Chemistry)