ISSC-18 is the latest meeting in the series of interdisciplinary surface science conferences covering all experimental and theoretical aspects of surfaces, interfaces and nanoscale physics and chemistry. The meeting will include a full day dedicated to the contributions to this field made by Professor D.P. Woodruff FRS.

Like its predecessors, the 18th meeting in the Interdisciplinary Surface Science Conference series (ISSC-18) will focus on the most recent advances in surface science, interface physics and chemistry, nanoscience and thin film growth.

The UK has a long standing tradition in surface science in both Physics and Chemistry Departments and investigating the physical and electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces is now an underpinning science across a range of different materials areas.

These include addressing issues from organic thin films to semiconductor nanostructures and metallic clusters to biological interfaces, as well as the impact of surface science on technologically important areas such as energy materials. The latest developments in surface characterisation techniques will also be featured with particular emphasis on surface structure determination.