PACC 10: Ceramics for sustainable agriculture

Sustainability has emerged as an important component of fundamental and applied research. More particularly, biomass has emerged as is an important source of precursor materials for producing engineered materials for green energy, biomedical applications, paint, and food packaging. Cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin are the important constituents of biomass. The symposium will focus on designing novel functional materials from biomass and innovative applications of ceramics in agriculture.

Proposed session topics

• Recycling and agricultural waste as precursors for functional ceramics
• Bioplastics and agricultural fibers, reinforced composites
• Ceramics for soil treatment, controlled release ceramics/glass for macro and micronutrients of plants, ceramics for soil fixation, immobilization of toxic elements, industrial wastes such as fly ash for soil treatment
• Biogeochemical reactions and biomineralization of ceramics and glass
• Modeling and simulation for reaction thermodynamics and kinetics, materials discovery by AI and machine learning
• Ceramics for water treatment/irrigation
• Ceramic membrane for water filtration, oil spill cleaning, wastewater treatment, corrosion inhibition of water supply system
• Sensors and piezoelectric materials to detect trace elements in soil and water

Symposium organizers

• Surojit Gupta, University of North Dakota, USA, gsurojit1@gmail.com
• Caue Ribeiro, Embrapa, Brazil
• Manoj Mahapatra, University of Alabama, USA
• Lan Li, Boise State University, USA
• Andy Nieto, NPS, USA