[Neutron] Symposium in Cancun -abstract submission deadline extended to April 15, 2016

[Fernandez-Baca, Jaime A.]

The deadline for submission of abstract to the  symposium
Advances and Challenges in Multimodal Characterizations of Functional Materials
XXV International Materials Research Congress,
Cancun Mexico, August 14-19, 2016
has been extended to April 15, 2016.  Information on the symposium can be found in https://www.mrs-mexico.org.mx/imrc2016/abstract-instructions.php. The link for abstract submissions is https://www.mrs-mexico.org.mx/imrc2016/abstract-instructions.php


Invited Speakers: (confirmed)

Ke An (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Albina Borisevich (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), William Chueh (Stanford University, USA), Olivier Delaire (Duke University, USA), Matthew Highland (Argonne National Laboratory), Nouamane Laanait, CNMS (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Xin Li (Harvard Univeristy, USA), Valeri Petkov(Central Michigan University, USA), Charudatta Phatak (Argonne National Laboratory),Efrain Rodriguez (University of Maryland, USA), José Rodriguez-Rivera (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA), Kazu Suenega (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan), Subramanian Sankaranaravanan (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Toney (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Yusuke Wakabayashi (Osaka University, Japan), Xun-Li Wang (City University of Hong Kong, China), Jianguo Wen (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), Wenge Yang (HPSTAR, China),Shuyun Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)
Organizers
Hua Zhou,  Argonne National Laboratory,  E-mail: hzhou at anl.gov<mailto:hzhou at anl.gov>
Yang Ren, Argonne National Laboratory,  E-mail: ren at aps.anl.gov<mailto:ren at aps.anl.gov>
Jaime A. Fernandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, E-mail: fernandezbja at ornl.gov<mailto:fernandezbja at ornl.gov>
Dong Su, Center of Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony brook University, E-mail: dsu at bnl.gov<mailto:dsu at bnl.gov>



Materials Characterization
E.2 Advances and Challenges in Multimodal Characterizations of Functional Materials
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Exploring, understanding, and designing structures and functionalities of materials for energy, information and technological applications has been the main goal of materials discovery. This goal has inspired new efforts to develop integrated approaches to probe the dynamical processes of materials synthesis, as well as the evolution of structures, properties and performance of functional materials. Light-source-based X-ray methods, high flux source enabled neutron techniques and advanced (scanning) transmission electron microscopy have been tremendously developed to meet fast-growing research needs in materials science. Both electron and X-ray imaging methods provide opportunities to study functional materials in three-dimensional views in real time, in addition to providing spectroscopic information. Neutron techniques provide access to a unique range of energy/momentum space that is inaccessible to other probes. These techniques have been employed, for example, to understand physical and (electro-)chemical processes of energy materials in operation, the nucleation and growth of nanoparticles as well as various thin films, emergent phenomena and exotic physics of epitaxial heterostructures and heterointerfaces. In recent years, important developments of the spatial-temporal-energetic resolution and efficiency of these techniques have resulted in a paradigm shift for scientists in understanding the working mechanisms of functional materials at a deeper level. In addition, the big data and deep data acquired multimodal characterizations will undoubtedly stimulate multiscale modeling and simulations via high-performance computation towards the ultimate goal of materials by design.


Jaime A. Fernandez-Baca
Leader, Triple Axis Spectroscopy Group
Quantum Condensed Matter Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P. O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6393
Phone 865-576-8659

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