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):

Dr. Antoine Barbier Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, SPEC,
France
antoine.barbier@cea.fr
Dr. Andrei Salak University of Aveiro,
CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials,
Portugal
salak@ua.pt

PUBLICATION:

DEFECT AND DIFFUSION FORUM
by Trans Tech. Publications
Cited in SCOPUS and Google Scholar
https://www.scientific.net/DDF/Details

INVITED SPEAKER(S):

Prof. Vladimir Shvartsman
Duisburg-Essen University,
Germany
Prof. Gonzalo Abellán Sáez
University of Valencia,
Spain
Dr. Nicolas Jaouen
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
‘EXOTIC BORIDES UNDER EXTREME CONDITIONS’ Dr. Slavomír Gabáni
Institute of experimental Physics,
Slovakia
Prof. Doru Lupascu
Duisburg-Essen University,
Germany
Dr. Philippe Ohresser
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
‘SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION: ORGANIC MATERIALS/SUBSTRATE INTERACTIONS STUDIED BY SOFT X-RAY ABSORPTION AND CORE LEVEL PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPIES’ Dr. Mathieu Silly
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
Dr. James Ablett
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
Dr. Marie-Ingrid Richard
CEA/Grenoble
ESRF, France
‘A TALE OF CUPRATES: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY’ Prof. Xavier Rocquefelte
Rennes Institute of Chemical Science
(ISNR - UMR CNRS 6226),
France
‘DEFECT ENGINEERING AND NANOSCALE CHARACTERIZATION
OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL’ Dr. Razvan Burcea | Young Talent
CentraleSupélec,
France
‘LOCAL PROBES OF STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS IN FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS:
THE ID14 NUCLEAR RESONANCE BEAMLINE AT ESRF’ Dr. Chiara Coppi
ESRF, France
Dr. Jozef Bednarčík
Institute of experimental Physics,
Slovakia
‘CUTTING-EDGE XRD APPROACHES FOR
BATTERY MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION’ Dr. Maciej Grzywa
Rigaku Europe SE,
Germany
Dr. Igor Levin
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
USA
‘METASTABLE LAMN7O12: FROM BULK HP SYNTHESIS
TO FILM STABILIZATION’ Dr. Edmondo Gilioli
Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism,
Italy
‘FLASH SINTERING OF OXIDES: IS IT JUST JOULE HEATING?’ Dr. Daniil Lewin | Young Talent
University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany