The following have graciously agreed to deliver Plenary talks at SAS-2009:

• Professor Frank Bates (Dept. of Chemical Eng. & Materials Science, University of Minnesota, USA)
• Professor Buxing Han (Center for Molecular Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China)
• Professor Peter Fratzl (Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid-und Grendzflächenforschung, Golm, Germany)
• Professor Julia Kornfield (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA)
• Professor Jan Skov Pedersen (Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
• Professor Moonhor Ree (Polymer Research Institute, Pohang University, Korea)
• Professor Mitsuhiro Shibayama (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Professor Robert Thomas (Dept. of Physical &Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK)
• Professor Jill Trewhella (Dept. of Molecular & Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Australia)
• Professor Thomas Zemb (Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule, Bagnols, France)