SYMPOSIUM 20 – High-Entropy Materials

High-entropy materials have emerged as a transformative platform for designing functional matter through controlled disorder and extensive elemental mixing. This symposium will explore how configurational complexity, chemical randomness, and competing interactions give rise to novel structural, electronic, magnetic, ionic, and catalytic properties unattainable in conventional compounds. With a primary focus on high-entropy oxides, the program will bring together researchers working across theory, computation, synthesis, advanced characterization, and device-oriented applications. Topics include entropy stabilization, defect engineering, emergent phases, transport phenomena, energy conversion and storage, and disorder-driven functionality. By integrating experimental discoveries with theoretical insight, the symposium aims to establish disorder as a powerful materials design strategy and foster interdisciplinary collaboration toward the development of next-generation multifunctional materials.

Session Topics:

Disorder, Entropy Stabilization, and Emergent Phenomena in High-Entropy Oxides
Synthesis, Characterization, and Functional Applications of High-Entropy Oxides

Symposium Organizer(s):

Alan Farhan, Baylor University, USA

Point(s) of Contact:

Alan Farhan; alan_farhan@baylor.edu

Division Sponsor(s):

Basic Science Division
Electronics Division
Energy Materials and Systems Division