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

INTRODUCTORY TALK:
'PHOTO-CHEMICAL EFFECTS ON OXIDE LAYERS IN THE HARD
X-RAY REGIME' ABSTRACT (PDF)
Dr. Andrei Salak University of Aveiro,
CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials,
Portugal
salak@ua.pt

OPENING TALK:
'LOW-TEMPERATURE MAGNETISM IN Ni(II)-Fe(III) LAYERED
DOUBLE HYDROXIDES' ABSTRACT (PDF)

PUBLICATION:

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

INVITED SPEAKER(S):

‘PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPY STUDY OF
FERROELECTRIC-RELAXOR TRANSITION IN
Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-BaTiO3 CERAMICS’ Prof. Vladimir Shvartsman
Duisburg-Essen University,
Germany
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED HYDROXIDES FROM SYNTHESIS
TO INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS’ Prof. Gonzalo Abellán Sáez
University of Valencia,
Spain
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘EXOTIC BORIDES UNDER EXTREME CONDITIONS’ Dr. Slavomír Gabáni
Institute of experimental Physics,
Slovakia
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘X-RAY ABSORPTION AND DICHROISM AS UNCONVENTIONAL PROBES FOR ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES’ Dr. Philippe Ohresser
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION: ORGANIC MATERIALS/SUBSTRATE
INTERACTIONS STUDIED BY SOFT X-RAY ABSORPTION AND CORE
LEVEL PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPIES’ Dr. Mathieu Silly
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘PLAY IT AGAIN: RECOVERING HIGH-FIDELITY AUDIO FROM DEGRADED
TAPES USING X-RAY MAGNETIC DICHROISM’ Dr. James Ablett
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
ABSTRACT PDF
'PROBING ENERGY MATERIALS AT THE NANOSCALE: IN SITU BRAGG
COHERENT DIFFRACTION AND NANO-DIFFRACTION INSIGHTS' Dr. Marie-Ingrid Richard
CEA/Grenoble
ESRF, France
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘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
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘LOCAL PROBES OF STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS IN FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS:
THE ID14 NUCLEAR RESONANCE BEAMLINE AT ESRF’ Dr. Chiara Coppi
ESRF, France
‘CUTTING-EDGE XRD APPROACHES FOR
BATTERY MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION’ Dr. Maciej Grzywa
Rigaku Europe SE,
Germany
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘MULTIMODAL ATOMISTIC STRUCTURAL REFINEMENTS OF
FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS’ Dr. Igor Levin
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
USA
ABSTRACT (PDF)
'METASTABLE LaMn7O12: FROM BULK HP SYNTHESIS TO FILM
STABILIZATION' Dr. Edmondo Gilioli
Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism,
Italy
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘FLASH SINTERING OF OXIDES: IS IT JUST JOULE HEATING?’ Dr. Daniil Lewin | Young Talent
University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF THE SUPERIONIC TRANSITION
IN AX2 COMPOUNDS WITH THE FLUORITE STRUCTURE’ Dr. Alain Chartier
CEA/Saclay,
France
ABSTRACT (PDF)
'SURFACE X-RAY SCATTERING FOR FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
– BEYOND THE SINGLE-CRYSTAL PARADIGM' Dr. Alina Vlad
Synchrotron SOLEIL,
France
ABSTRACT (PDF)
‘STRAIN-INDUCED MODULATION OF ELECTRONIC AND
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES IN Fe3O4’ Dr. Mariia Holub | Young Talent
AGH University of Krakow,
Poland
ABSTRACT (PDF)
'TOWARD A SELF-DRIVING LAB FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
FUNCTIONAL OXIDES' Dr. Guilhem Dezanneau
University Paris-Saclay,
France
ABSTRACT (PDF)
'MAGNETIC AND STRUCTURAL DOMAIN WALLS DYNAMICS IN A
TWO MAGNETIC SUBLATTICE SYSTEM' Prof. Joaquim Agostinho Gomes Moreira
University of Porto,
Portugal
ABSTRACT (PDF)
Dr. Klaus Attenkoffer
Synchrotron ALBA,
Spain
'QUANTUM COHERENCE IN A SPIN-PEIERLS-LIKE SYSTEM
(Et-2,6-diMe-Pz)(TCNQ)2' Prof. Erik Čižmár
P.J. Safarik University,
Slovakia
ABSTRACT (PDF)