The 2026 Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, themed “Chemistry at the Intersection of Energy, Sustainability, and Biology,” will highlight advances in diverse areas of chemistry at the intersection with scientific and technological domains. The meeting will feature general and specialized symposia, including:
- Advances in Functional Polymers and Materials
- Advancing Sustainable, Safer, and Responsible Chemistry: Innovations in Research & Teaching
- Biochemistry: Enzymes and Macromolecular Complexes
- Bioinorganic Chemistry in Health, Energy, and Environment
- Biotechnology Innovations at the Chemistry-Biology Interface
- Coffer Symposium on Advanced Materials Science (Invited)
- Colloids, Surfactants and Interfaces
- Communication Skills in Preparing, Presenting, and Publishing Papers
- Computational Chemistry in Action
- Emerging Trends in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
- Functional Solid State Materials
- General Inorganic Chemistry
- General Organic Chemistry
- Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance – From Chemistry and Applications
- Immune-Active Materials and Protein Delivery
- Insight and Numbers in Quantum Chemistry
- Lessons and Inspiration from the Past
- Macrocycles
- Make It Make Sense: Innovative Teaching Practices
- Materials Chemistry: Emerging Contaminant Remediation in Impacted Environments
- Metastable, Defect-Rich, and Nanostructured Materials for Sustainable Energy
- New Instrumentation and Methods of Analysis
- Organic and Chemical Biology Young Investigator Symposium (Invited)
- Polymers and Sustainability Challenges (Invited)
- Supramolecular Chemistry and Functional Molecular Materials
- The Sweet Chemistry of Life: The Chemistry and Biology of Carbohydrates
- Transformative Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
- Women in Energy and Sustainability”