9th Intl. Symp. on Science of Intelligent & Sustainable Advanced Ferromagnetic and Superconducting Magnets (SISAM)
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
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)
Jean-Marie Dubois owns a PhD in Physics from Polytechnic National Institute, Nancy, France, a Dr Hon. Causa from Iowa State University,USA and another from Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil. He is a former overseas fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K. and a professor at Dalian University of Technology, China. He was recently elected as Honorary Member of Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of Lorraine Science Academy and correspondent of Stanislas Academy, Nancy, France. Distinguished Director of Research at CNRS, France, he chairs the professional committee of CNRS that is dedicated to materials chemistry, nanomaterials and processing. His research topics have revolved around metal physics and engineering of complex metallic materials. He is the author of more than 250 scientific articles in refereed journals, 14 international patents, and 7 books. After establishing structure models for metallic glasses and quasicrystals, Prof. Dubois became interested in applied properties of these materials: heat insulation, low adhesive properties and infrared light absorption, cold-welding and solid-solid adhesion in vacuum of Al-based complex intermetallics against steel. His general interest is on understanding the surface energy of those materials and their scaling properties in relation to their electronic structure and crystal lattice complexity.
Mariana Calin is currently associate professor and Metallic Biomaterials Group leader at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden), Germany. Prior to joining IFW Dresden in 2006, M. Calin was a faculty member at the Materials Science & Physical Metallurgy Deparment, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Mariana Calin has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship (1996-1998, Dortmund University) provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2010 she received the Institute for Complex Materials Research Prize for her work on titanium-based biomaterials. Her primary interests are in the phase transformations and mechanical behavior of metallic materials, with focus on Ti-based biomaterials, metallic glasses and nanostructured alloys. M. Calin has co-authored over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals including the Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Applied Physics Letters, and has delivered many presentations on her research at international conferences. She has ample experience with large-scale European research projects.
Prof. Dr. Spomenka Kobe, Scientific Advisor at the Department for Nanostructured Materials at Jožef Stefan Institute, was until 2018 for 16 years acting as a Head of this department. She is a full professor at the International Postgraduate School “Jožef Stefan” and a Slovenian Academy of Engineering member.
She initiated rare-earth magnet research activities in Slovenia. She was the coordinator of the European project “Replacement and Original Magnet Engineering Option” - ROMEO (FP7-NMP) and “A novel circular economy for sustainable RE-based magnets« - MaXycle (ERA-MIN).
She was 20 years the Leader of the National Research Programme “Nanostructured Materials,” and until 2017, the Slovene director of The International Associated Laboratory between CNRS, Nancy, France and Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is also a member of the Governing Board of eseia (European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance), the International Postgraduate School “Jožef Stefan,” and the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Leoben.
Job related skills: processing of intermetallic alloys including rare-earth transition-metal, permanent magnets, hydrogen-storage materials, quasicrystals, magnetocaloric materials, complex metallic alloys, influence of magnetic field in crystallization, application of RETM permanent magnets in ecology, effect on processing on microstructure and physical properties. Applied research has included the development and large-scale production of a large variety of magnetic materials, and in strong collaboration with industry; it has involved product development, quality control and troubleshooting at the factory-floor level.
In 2019 Prof. Dr. Spomenka Kobe received the prestigious Fray International Sustainability Award for “Leadership in developing new technologies that contribute to global sustainable development in the environment, economy, and social points of view.” In her honor, one of the Symposia in the frame of SIPS 2019 (Sustainable Processing Summit & Exhibition) was named “Kobe International Symposium on Science of Innovative and Sustainable Alloys and Magnets.”
Ludwig Schultz received the Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Goettingen in 1976. In 1978 he was a postdoctoral fellow at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. From 1980 to 1993 he was a staff scientist and then head of the High Temperature Superconductors and Magnetic Materials Department at the Siemens Research Laboratories, Erlangen. In 1993 he became a Full Professor of Metallic Materials and Metal Physics at TU Dresden and Director of the Institute of Metallic Materials at the Leibniz Institute of Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden. From 2008 to 2013 he was the Scientific Director of IFW Dresden. Since October 1, 2014 he is officially retired, but still active in materials research. During the last 3 years he acted as Scientific Coordinator of DRESDEN-concept e.V., the association coordinating the scientific cooperation of 28 research institutions at Dresden with the aim of supporting the TU Dresden in maintaining its status as one of the 11 German Universities of Excellence. At present he is related to the Institute of Materials Science at TU Dresden. He is also a Fellow Professor of the University of Ulsan (South Korea). He has served on many Executive Boards and committees like German Physical Society (DPG). In 2011/12 he was the President of the “German Association for the Advance¬ment of Science and Medicine (GDNAE)”. In addition to chairing many national and international conferences, he served as co-chair of the 2014 Intermag Conference in Dresden. Presently he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Alloys and Compounds. He has been awarded many honors and prizes, including the European Materials Gold Medal of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Recently he was promoted to be an Honorary Member of the German Association of Materials Science (DGM). His research program included superconducting materials, magnetic materials, amorphous and nanocrystalline materials, and electrochemical and mechanical properties of alloys. In these fields he published more than 1.100 publications receiving more than 32.000 citations (at an h-index of 75). His favorite toy is SupraTrans II, a superconducting levitation system consisting of a levitated vehicle for 2 persons on an 80 m ring track.
