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

A detailed understanding of the chemistry, diffusion, and dynamics of interfaces is essential for the design and development of advanced materials with tailored structural, functional, and engineering properties. Although the critical role of interfaces in materials science has long been recognized, recent advances in experimental characterization and computational modeling have provided unprecedented insight into the fundamental mechanisms governing interface structure, chemistry, and transport. These developments are transforming our understanding of how interfaces control microstructure formation and evolution pathways, and ultimately material performance.

This symposium will bring together researchers employing both experimental and computational approaches to advance the fundamental understanding of materials interfaces. Contributions spanning a broad range of material systems are welcome, with particular emphasis on grain boundaries and crystalline interphase boundaries, including their structure, chemistry, dynamics, and role in governing materials behavior.

Topical areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• 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.
• Interfaces in functional materials.
• 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. Shen Dillon University of California,
  Irvine, CA USA
  sdillon1@uci.edu

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

INVITED SPEAKER(S):

Info will be available soon!