The symposium will cover recent developments in structure and composition analysis, as well as testing and in-situ analysis of mechanical, physical and chemical properties of ceramics and composites. Advanced characterization methods include, but are not limited to, (synchrotron) X-ray, neutron and electron diffraction, probe microscopy, electron microscopy and spectroscopy, vibrational spectroscopy (IR/Raman), NMR, optical imaging and spectroscopy, and related tools. New insights from in-situ or in-operando studies are of interest, as well as integration of first-principles calculations and complex data modeling methods. These techniques enable one to study not only static and long-range periodic structures, but also dynamic and short-and/or intermediate-range structures that substantially influence the properties of ceramics. This symposium thus aims to provide a cross-technique forum on the characterization of ceramics with emphases on correlations between structural elements, including defects, domains, dislocations, grain boundaries, surfaces and interfaces, and the resulting materials properties.
Proposed sessions and topics of interest:
- Atomic and local structure analysis by X-ray, neutron, synchrotron and electron diffraction
- Scanning probe microscopy/near-field optical microscopy of nanoscale electric, piezoelectric, magnetic, thermal and optical properties
- In-situ time-resolved analysis and ultrafast electron diffraction/microscopy
- Tomography and ptychography based on Bragg diffraction, transmission and fluorescence contrast
- Structure and composition analysis by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, focused ion beam microscopy, electron probe microscopy
- Spectral analysis including XPS, X-ray (XAFS), NMR, EPR, and vibrational spectroscopy (IR/Raman)
- Data modeling, global optimizations, statistical treatment of data
Organizers
- Scott T. Misture, Alfred University, USA; misture@alfred.edu
- Bryan D. Huey, University of Connecticut; bryan.huey@uconn.edu
- Amanda R. Krause, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Jie Zhang, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Miaofang Chi, Duke University, USA
- Yunseok Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
- Qiang Zheng, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
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