The aim of the symposium is to highlight advanced concepts for the synthesis of novel multifunctional ceramics and ceramic composites, specifically from molecular precursors. Industrial demands on future technologies have created a need for new material properties which far exceed those of materials known today and that can only be produced by controlled synthesis-microstructure-property relations. Furthermore, the increasing miniaturization of components calls for new process technologies allowing reliable production of ceramics at and below the micrometer scale. Inorganic-organic hybrid materials as well as amorphous and polycrystalline materials can be produced by means of cross-linking routes in various states of condensation. In accordance with the so-called “bottom-up” approach, specific inorganic molecules are to be assigned to higher molecular networks and solid-state structures in the form of molecular nanotools by means of condensation and polymerization processes. This method enables the production of ceramics and ceramic composites inaccessible by thermodynamically controlled approaches. Therefore, the scope of the symposium concerns the development of solids derived from molecular units via kinetically controlled synthesis processes at the interface between molecular and solid-state chemistry, enabling specific adjustments to the resulting microstructure and solid-state properties. The focal point of the symposium is energy and environmental applications of advanced ceramics and composites derived from condensed molecular phases.
Proposed Session Topics
- Synthesis of condensed molecular phases as precursors for advanced ceramics and composites
- Processing and shaping of condensed molecular phases
- Synthesis – processing – microstructure relation
- Characterization and properties of advanced ceramics derived from condensed molecular phases
- Thermodynamics and kinetic phenomena
- Energy and environmental related applications
Symposium Organizers
- Ralf Riedel, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
- Paolo Colombo, Università di Padova, Italy
- Samuel Bernard, Institute of Research for Ceramics, CNRS, France
- Gurpreet Singh, Kansas State University, USA
- Gunter Motz, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Nicola Pinna, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Toshihiro Ishikawa, Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, Japan
- Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Waseda University, Japan
- Yuji Iwamoto, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
- Peter Kroll, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Rick Laine, University of Michigan, USA
- Gian Domenico Soraru, University of Trento, Italy
- Zhaoju Yu, Xiamen University, China
- Jie Kong, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
- Ravi Kumar NV, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Points of Contact
- Ralf Riedel, riedel@materials.tu-darmstadt.de
- Paolo Colombo, paolo.colombo@unipd.it
- Samuel Bernard, Samuel.bernard@unilim.fr