Special Session 3
NON-CONVENTIONAL METHODS OF SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (SS3)
Functional materials can come with various forms and morphologies (powders, ceramics, films, single crystals…) and possess an extended range of physical and chemical properties making them suitable for widespread applications in various technologically important areas such as sensing and imaging, communication and informatics, heterogeneous catalysis, protective coatings, spintronic application as well as nuclear combustible and waste packaging, and glass industry. They display an extremely wide range of properties including electrical and ionic conductivity, superconductivity, piezoelectricity, magnetism, luminescence, multiferroic behaviour, thermoelectricity etc.
This special session aims at presenting and discussing the state of the art on the experimental and theoretical studies of functional materials with a particular emphasis on the novel and non-conventional synthesis and characterization methods, including genuine large-scale facilities studies. Non-conventional approaches include for example, high-energy techniques for production, treatment and characterization, novel and unique preparation methods in solid state and wet chemistry, advanced deposition methods, operando studies, metastable states etc.
Keywords / hot topics
Novel theoretical and experimental approaches to modelling, preparation, and characterization of functional materials.
Strong fields (electric, magnetic…) studies, high-pressure synthesis and characterization.
Operando and ultra-fast processes studies.
Spark plasma and flash sintering, mechanoactivation, high-power sonication, microwave-assisted processes.
ORGANISER(S):
PUBLICATION:
DEFECT AND DIFFUSION FORUM
by Trans Tech. Publications
Cited in SCOPUS and Google Scholar
https://www.scientific.net/DDF/Details
INVITED SPEAKER(S):
Prof. Vladimir Shvartsman
Duisburg-Essen University,
Germany
Prof. Gonzalo Abellán Sáez
University of Valencia,
Spain
Dr. Nicolas Jaouen
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
Dr. Slavomír Gabáni
Institute of experimental Physics,
Slovakia
Prof. Doru Lupascu
Duisburg-Essen University,
Germany
Dr. Philippe Ohresser
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
‘SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION: ORGANIC MATERIALS/SUBSTRATE INTERACTIONS STUDIED BY SOFT X-RAY ABSORPTION AND CORE LEVEL PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPIES’ Dr. Mathieu Silly
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
Dr. James Ablett
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
Dr. Marie-Ingrid Richard
CEA/Grenoble
ESRF, France
The support by SOLEIL Synchrotron is gratefully acknowledged!
https://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/en