Special Session 4
INTERFACES IN CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS: STRUCTURE, THERMODYNAMICS, KINETICS, AND ALLOYING EFFECTS (SS4)

Understanding the chemistry, diffusion, electronic properties and dynamics of interfaces is central to controlling and predicting the engineering and functional properties of materials. Recent advances in characterization techniques and computational modeling have enabled a detailed examination of interfacial structural, electronic and chemical states and their impact on microstructure formation and evolution. This symposium aims to bring together experimentalists and computational researchers whose work focuses on the fundamental science of interfaces in materials. Different classes of interfaces will be of interest with a special focus on grain boundaries and crystalline interphase boundaries.


TOPICS:

• Interfacial motion including grain evolution and phase transformations.
• Compositional effects, including segregation and the impact of alloying on interface energy and diffusion processes.
• Interface structure and chemistry in multi-component systems, including high entropy materials and oxides.
• Mechanisms of interfacial diffusion and transformations in extreme environments (including irradiation, temperature, and stress).
• Approaches to engineering interfacial properties, linking fundamentals of interfacial structure and chemistry, materials processing, and engineering behavior.
• Correlation of electronic properties of interfaces and ionic diffusion, electrical conductivity or thermal transport.

ORGANISER(S):

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  Prof. Fadi Abdeljawad Northwestern University,
  USA
  fadi@northwestern.edu

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  Apl.-Prof. Dr. Sergiy Divinski University of Münster,
  Germany
  divin@uni-muenster.de
  

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  Prof. Christian Liebscher Ruhr University Bochum,
  Germany
  christian.liebscher@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
  

PUBLICATION:

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

INVITED SPEAKER(S):

• Prof. Wolfgang Rheinheimer
  University of Stuttgart,
  Germany
  

• Dr. Lorenz Romaner
  Technical University of Leobeh,
  Austria
  

• Dr. Peter Schweizer
  Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials,
  Germany
  

• Prof. Oana Cojocaru‐Mirédin
  INATECH
  Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg,
  Germany
  

• Prof. Yuichi Ikuhara
  University of Tokyo,
  Japan
  

• Prof. Reza Kamachali
  BAM,
  Germany
  

• Prof. Eugen Rabkin
  Technion – Israel Institute of Technology,
  Israel
  

• Prof. Shen Dillon
  University of California Irvine,
  USA
  

• Prof. Tim Frolov
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
  USA
  

• Prof. Eric Homer
  Brigham Young University
  USA