Special Session 3
NON-CONVENTIONAL METHODS OF SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (SS3)

Functional materials can come with various forms and morphologies (powders, ceramics, films, single crystals) and possess an extended range of physical and chemical properties making them suitable for widespread applications in various technologically important areas such as sensing and imaging, communication and informatics, heterogeneous catalysis, protective coatings, spintronic application as well as nuclear combustible and waste packaging, and glass industry. They display an extremely wide range of properties including electrical and ionic conductivity, superconductivity, piezoelectricity, magnetism, luminescence, multiferroic behaviour, thermoelectricity etc.

This special session aims at presenting and discussing the state of the art on the experimental and theoretical studies of functional materials with a particular emphasis on the novel and non-conventional synthesis and characterization methods, including genuine large-scale facilities studies. Non-conventional approaches include for example, high-energy techniques for production, treatment and characterization, novel and unique preparation methods in solid state and wet chemistry, advanced deposition methods, operando studies, metastable states etc.

KEYWORDS / HOT TOPICS

• Novel theoretical and experimental approaches to modelling, preparation, and characterization of functional materials
• Strong fields (electric, magnetic) studies, high-pressure synthesis and characterization
• Operando and ultra-fast processes studies
• Spark plasma and flash sintering, mechanoactivation, high-power sonication, microwave-assisted processes

ORGANISER(S):

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  Dr. Antoine Barbier Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, SPEC,
  France
  antoine.barbier@cea.fr

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  Dr. Andrei Salak University of Aveiro,
  CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials,
  Portugal
  salak@ua.pt

INVITED SPEAKER(S):

will be announced soon!