SIPS 2020

SYMPOSIA

This SYMPOSIUM and ROUND TABLE topics will address 3 main concepts at large:

I. Alloys and Magnets:

Magnetism and magnetic materials,
- Fundamentals of magnetism
- Spintronics
- Nd-Fe-B; RE-Co; Sm-Fe-N: processing & properties
- Raw materials, resources, mining, extraction & recycling
- Nanomagnetism and magnets with reduced dimensionality
- Rare earth free permanent magnets
- Modeling & measurements
- Coercivity & physical properties
- Microstructure & properties characterization
- Magnets applications
Complex intermetallics,
- Magnetic compounds
- Spin glass magnets
- Large unit cell compounds
- Composites
- In situ TEM observation of magnetic nanostructures
Amorphous and nanostructured alloys,
- Formation and stability
- Soft magnetism in amorphous alloys
- Additive manufacturing of duplex bulk amorphous alloys
- Applications
Quasicrystals and aperiodic crystals.
- Aperiodic order(s) in Nature
- Aperiodic magnetic order and aperiodic magnetic compounds
- Rare-earth based quasicrystals
- Transport properties of aperiodic crystals and quasicrystals
- Surface nanostructures on quasicrystals and related compounds
- Surface chemistry of quasicrystals and aperiodic crystals.

II. Intelligent Materials:

Computational Simulation of Intelligent Sustainable Advanced Materials (ISAM), including simulation of atomic and molecular structures, and of mechanical, thermoelectric, and magnetic properties
H2-Storage Advanced Materials with emphasis on enhancing the storage kinetics with respect to dissociation, diffusion and trapping of hydrogen
Amorphous Materials aiming at high stability and mechanical formability
SPD Nanomaterials aiming at the principles to increase the ductility at still high strength
Advanced Thermoelectrics optimizing the efficiency by constraints and defects
Magnetic Materials, including advancements of coercivity and magnetostriction by means of exchange coupling mechanisms
Advanced Biomedical Materials achieving case-dependent mechanical & biocorrosion properties
Semicrystalline Polymers, with special emphasis on the role of dislocations for macroscopic strength
Current Intelligent Sustainable Advanced Materials like Graphene, CNTs, High Entropy Alloys
ISAM Industrial Applications, and the trend of increasing commercialization of materials (amorphous & nanocrystalline materials, magnetic materials, and others)
Nano-Analytic Methods comprising diffraction line profile and texture analysis, including Synchrotron and neutron radiation, dilatometry, and positron annihilation spectroscopy

III. Surfaces and Interfaces:

Formation, preparation and stability of surfaces, interfaces, and grain boundaries
Characterization of surfaces, interfaces and grain boundaries of metals, alloys, oxides and semi-conductors
Solid-liquid interfaces, including biological surfaces and interfaces
Surfaces, interfaces and grain boundaries of nano-objects and nano-particles
Architectured and nanostructured materials
Thin films and coatings
Supported nano-objects
Advanced microscopies of surfaces and interfaces (Transmission electron microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy)
Experimentals and instrumentation
Theoretical tools, models, codes

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CHAIRS

Jean-Marie Dubois
JSI - K7 Dept for Nanostructured Materials
Slovenia, [Bio]