Porous materials are essential components in numerous applications, including thermal insulation, catalysts, catalyst supports, filters, adsorbers, sensors, and lightweight structures. This symposium aims to unite the scientific community to share recent advances in the formation, characterization, properties, and modeling of porous ceramics for diverse applications. These materials have pore sizes ranging from nanometers to millimeters, with textures varying from random to hierarchical porosity, based on various architectures such as foams, honeycombs, fiber networks, and bio-inspired structures.
They can be produced by a variety of fabrication methods, including direct foaming, porous scaffold replication, sacrificial fillers, and additive manufacturing. Due to these versatile properties, porous materials are widely used in environmental, energy, biological, and other applications. This symposium will serve as an ideal platform to showcase the research activities of numerous groups involved in the development and application of porous materials, encompassing fields such as ceramics, chemistry, mechanics, fluid dynamics, modeling and simulation, and applications engineering.
Proposed sessions and topics of interest:
- Innovations in Processing Methods & Synthesis of Porous Ceramics
- Structure and Properties of Porous Ceramics
- Novel Characterization Tools and Software for Porous Structures
- Computational Techniques, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Porous Ceramics
- Engineered Porous Architectures Enabled by Additive Manufacturing Technologies
- Porous Ceramics for Environmental, Energy, Biological and Functional Applications
Symposium Organizers
- Tobias Fey, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; tobias.fey@fau.de
- Manabu Fukushima, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; manabu-fukushima@aist.go.jp
- Paolo Colombo, University of Padova, Italy; paolo.colombo@unipd.it
- Yuping Zeng, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China; yuping-zeng@mail.sic.ac.cn
- Samuel Bernard, Institute of Research for Ceramics-CNRS, Limoges, France
- Doug Wing, Corning Incorporated, USA
- Jian-feng Yang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
- NV Ravikumar, IIT Madras, India
- Carlos Rambo, University of Santa Catarina Florianopolis, Brazil