S9: Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications

Porous materials are essential components in many applications including but not limited to thermal insulation, catalysts, catalyst supports, filters, adsorbers, sensors. This symposium aims to bring together the scientific community to share recent advances in the formation, characterization, properties and modeling of porous ceramic, carbon, glass and glass-ceramic components for multifaceted applications. These materials contain pore sizes from the nanometers to millimeters, and can have textured to random porosity or hierarchical porosity and be based on various pore architectures, such as foams, honeycombs, fiber networks, bio-inspired structures, because of these characteristics, porous materials are extensively studied in environmental, energy and/or biological applications.

This symposium will be the ideal showcase for the research activities of many groups involved in the development and use of porous materials including but not limited to the areas of ceramics, chemistry, mechanics, fluid dynamics, modeling and simulation and application engineering.

Proposed Session Topics

• Innovations in Processing Methods & Synthesis of Porous Ceramics
• Structure and Properties of Porous Ceramics
• Novel Characterization Tools of Porous Structures
• Software tools for characterization
• Computational techniques in porous ceramics
• Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for porous ceramics
• Mechanical Behavior of Porous Ceramics
• Micro-porous and Meso-porous Ceramics
• Gas Separation Ceramic Membranes
• Ceramics with Hierarchical Porosity
• Engineered porous architectures enabled by Additive Manufacturing technologies
• Porous Ceramics for Environmental Applications
• Porous Ceramics for Energy Applications
• Porous Ceramics for Biological Applications
• Porous Ceramics for Functional Applications

Symposium Organizers

• Manabu Fukushima, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
• Tobias Fey, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
• Paolo Colombo, University of Padova, Italy
• Farid Akhtar, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
• Samuel Bernard, Institut de Recherche sur les Céramiques de Limoges, France
• Miki Inada, Kyushu University, Japan
• Oleksandr Kravchenko, Old Dominion University, USA
• D. Madhusoodana, Ceramic Technological Institute Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., India
• Yuki Nakashima, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
• Jian-feng Yang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

 Points of Contact

• Manabu Fukushima: manabu-fukushima@aist.go.jp
• Tobias Fey: tobias.fey@fau.de
• Paolo Colombo: paolo.colombo@unipd.it