SPECIAL SESSIONS

• DEFECT DYNAMICS AND MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION (SS1)	Organiser(s): Prof. Penghui Cao University of California San Diego, USA Dr. Emmanuel Clouet Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, France Dr. Blas P. Uberuaga Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
  FUNDAMENTAL DIFFUSION PROCESSES, REACTIONS AND PHASE STABILITY IN MATERIALS (SS2)	Organiser(s): Apl.-Prof. Dr. Sergiy Divinski University of Münster, Germany
  NON-CONVENTIONAL METHODS OF SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (SS3)	Organiser(s): Dr. Antoine Barbier Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, SPEC, France Dr. Andrei Salak University of Aveiro, CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, Portugal
  INTERFACES IN CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS: STRUCTURE, HERMODYNAMICS, KINETICS, AND ALLOYING EFFECTS (SS4)	Organiser(s): Prof. Shen Dillon University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Prof. Fadi Abdeljawad Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
  DIFFUSION AND IONIC CONDUCTION IN INORGANIC COMPOUNDS (SS5)	Organiser(s): Prof. Manfred Martin RWTH Aachen University, Germany Prof. Steffen Neitzel-Grieshammer FH Münster University of Applied Science, Germany
  ADVANCES IN BATTERY MATERIALS, IONIC TRANSPORT AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS (SS7)	Organiser(s): Prof. João Delgado University of Porto, Portugal
  FUNDAMENTAL TO APPLICATIONS OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS (SS8)	Organiser(s): Prof. Gregory Kozlowski, D.Sc. Wright State University, USA Dr. John Boeckl Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL, USA Prof. Thierry Angot Université d'Aix-Marseille, France Prof. Francesca Iacopi Purdue University, USA
  COMPUTATIONAL/THEORETICAL MODELING OF DIFFUSION KINETICS IN MATERIALS (SS9)	Organiser(s): Dr. Xi Zhang University of Stuttgart, Germany Prof. Liang Qi University of Michigan, USA Prof. Anton Van Der Ven University of California Santa Barbara, USA
  HYDROGEN AND WATER-RELATED KINETICS IN MATERIALS (SS10)	Organiser(s): Dr. Markus Wilde Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  INNOVATIVE CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR 2D MATERIALS AND BEYOND (SS11)	Organiser(s): Prof. Keesam Shin Changwon National University, S. Korea Prof. Mark H. Rümmeli VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Germany Prof. Alicja Bachmatiuk Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY METHODS (SS12)	Organiser(s): Prof. Shelley Lorimer MacEwan University, Canada A/Prof. Hassan Soleimani Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
  FROM MEMBRANES TO MATERIALS: DIFFUSION AND BIOMATERIALS IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE (SS13)	Organiser(s): Prof. Cimara Fortes Blunt University of Tennessee, USA Prof. Robert J. Mitchell Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea