A. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

• A.1 Making Materials from The Bottom-Up: from Nuclei and Clusters to Application
• A.2 Nano-Alloys: Theory, Synthesis & Characterization
• A.3 Nano/Meso-Structured Carbon Materials: Theory and Experiments
• A.4 Fundamentals, Characterization and Application of Atomic-Layer Deposited Materials
• A.5 Inorganic Analogues to Graphene
• A.6 Micro-Nanofabrication of Biomedical Devices: Biomems-Nems, Labs-On-A-Chip and Organ-on-a-Chip
• A.7 Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology

B. Materials for Energy Applications

• B.1 Materials for Hydrogen Production, Storage, and Fuel Cells
• B.2 Advances on Biofuels: Materials, Characterization, Processing and Testing
• B.3 Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage (MATECSS)
• B.4 Hybrid Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
• B.5 Advanced Polymer Photochemistry: from Fundamental Science to Material Technology
• B.6 Photovoltaics, Solar Energy Materials and Technologies
• B.7 Advances in Electrochemical Energy Storage

C. Soft Matter and Biomaterials

• C.1 Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces for Medical Applications and Health
• C.2 Biomedical Applications of Nanoparticles
• C.3 Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration
• C.4 Materials and Interfaces Based on Biomolecular Self-Assembly
• C.5 New Trends in Polymer Chemistry and Characterization
• C.6 Soft and Biological Matter
• C.7 Structure-Property Relationships in Biological and Bioinspired Hybrid Materials

D. Structural Materials

• D.1 Advanced Structural Materials: Synthesis, Mechanics, Properties and Applications
• D.2 Effect on Concrete of Supplementary Cementitious Materials and Smart Additives
• D.3 Aeronautical and Aerospace Processes, Materials and Industrial Applications
• D.4 Materials in Nuclear Science and Technology
• D.5 High Entropy Alloys: Synthesis, Characterization and Potentials Applications
• D.6 NACE: Corrosion and Metallurgy
• D.7 Materials and Advanced Coatings for Harsh Environments and Cutting-Edge Applications

E. Material Characterization

• E.1 Advances in Scanning Probe Microscopy for Functional Imaging of Material
• E.2 Microscopy of Materials and Nanomaterials
• E.3 In Situ/Operando and Computational Studies of Electrochemical Energy Materials
• E.4 Structural and Chemical Characterization of Metals and Alloys
• E.5 Materials Characterization in The Stem: Applications, Insights and New Methods
• E.6 Particle Accelerators for Science & Engineering of Materials

F. Functional MaterialsÂ

• F.1 Chalcogenide Semiconductor Research and Applications
• F.2 Functional Materials Based on Perovskite-Type Oxides and Mixed Oxide-Anion Solids: Ferroics, Superconductors and Related Materials
• F.3 Advanced Catalytic Materials
• F.4 Shape-Memory and Self-Repairing Materials
• F.5 Sensing Materials
• F.6 Smart Synthesis, Emergent Properties and Advanced Characterization of Multifunctional Oxides
• F.7 Phase Transitions in Functional Materials: from Fundamentals to Applications
• F.8 Advances in Functional Semiconducting Materials
• F.9 Materials and the Environment

G. General

• G.1 Active Matter and Processes out of Equilibrium
• G.2 Materials Science and Engineering Education: The General Public to Future Scientists and Engineers
• G.3 Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Issues in Materials Science
• G.4 Strategies for Fostering Academy-Industry Relationships
• G.5 Low Cost Instrumentation - Empowering Science in Developing Countries

H. Materials for Electronic, Magnetic and Optical Devices

• H.1 Advances in Organic and Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Electronics and Photonics
• H.2 Memristive Devices - from Fundamentals to Applications

I. Workshop

• WMC 3rd NANOMXCN: Mexico-China Workshop on Nano Materials / Science / Technology: Renewable Energy and Environment Remediation

Key Topics

• Mining, mineral processing and metallurgy
• Geology and geochemistry
• Functional materials incorporating nanoparticles
• Energy
• Environment
• Biomaterials
• Manufacturing
• Thin films
• In addition to AXAA's traditional focus areas of XRF and XRD, analytical methodologies including neutron scattering, micro-XRF/XFM, tomography, total scattering/PDF, SAXS and XAS

Main Conference Topics

• Conservation and Alteration
• New Methods and Analytical Processes
• Paleontology and paleoenvironment
• Technical Art History and Archaeometry at the nano-, micro-, and macro scale

Probing Hierarchically Complex Historical Materials and Their Modes of Characterization and Alteration

The World Largest Multidisciplinary Conference & Art Festival

• Symmetry Festival 2013, Delft
• Symmetry Festival 2009, 2006, 2003, Budapest
• Symmetry Congress 1998, Haifa
• Symmetry Congress 1995, Washington D.C.
• Symmetry Congress 1992, Hiroshima
• Symmetry of Structure Symposium 1989, Budapest.
  

Scientific programme

Methods and techniques:

• High resolution diffraction and topography
• X-ray reflectometry and small-angle scattering
• Microdiffraction and nanodiffraction
• Coherent diffraction imaging
• Absorption and phase contrast imaging and tomography
• Resonant (anomalous) scattering
• Fluorescence imaging
• Time resolved methods
• Theory and simulations of X-ray scattering

Applications:

• Material science (from 0D to 3D objects)
• Nanomaterials and nanoscience
• Life and environmental sciences
• Non-destructive testing (including industrial needs and cultural heritage)

Instrumentation:

• X-ray optics and instrumentation
• Advances in laboratory instrumentation and applications
• Advances in synchrotron instrumentation and applications
• Experiments at X-ray free-electron lasers

• Interactions of X-rays with matter and fundamental parameters
• XRS Instrumentation (X-ray sources, optics and detectors)
• Quantification methodology and metrology
• TXRF, GIXRF and related techniques
• Microbeam techniques, confocal XRF and X-Ray imaging
• Mobile and portable XRF
• Synchrotron XRS, XAFS, high resolution XES, and RIXS
• PIXE instrumentation and applications
• Electron induced XRS
• WDXRS
• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• XRS in Art and Cultural Heritage
• XRS in Advanced Materials and Nanoscience
• XRS in Earth and Environment sciences
• XRS in Industrial Quality and Process Control
• XRS in Life Sciences and Forensics
• Recent Scientific Developments by XRS Instrumentation Manufacturers (reserved to exhibitors)

Plenary speakers

• Susumu Yamamoto - Inst. for Solid State Phys. - Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  "Probing carriers and molecules on oxide surfaces by X-ray"
• Emmanuelle Schmitt - Polytechnique (France)
  "Structural and functional studies of the translation initiation factor e/alF2"
• Serena DeBeer - Max Planck Institute (Germany)
  "X-ray spectroscopic studies of Biological Dinitrogen Reduction"

Topics

• Biology / Health
• Chemistry and Physico-chemistry â€" in situ reactivity â€" Soft matter
• Electronic and magnetic property of matter â€" Surfaces and Interfaces
• Diluted Matter
• Matter & material properties: Structure, Organisation Characterisation, Elaboration
• Cultural heritage, archaeology, environment, geosciences

• Temporal resolution and dynamics
• Spatial resolution
• Multi beamline Measurements

A satellite workshop will be held on Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th of January, 2016 at SOLEIL:

HI-SPEARÂ (HIgh resolution SPEctroscopies for Applied Research)

Plenary session

Transport and Mass Storage in Macro- and Nanosized Solids

Symposia & program

• Materials
• Semiconductors
• Biomaterials
• Energy
• Nanomaterials

Workshops & Tutorials

Sustainable knowledge and preservation of Cultural Heritage for future generations

Advanced materials and technologies for renewable energies - AMREN-2 (5 - 6 May 2016)

Function-assembly of nano-materials towards electronics, energy and biological applications (one day symposium)

Application of synchrotron tools

Plant & Agricultural Science

Art, Art History & Cultural Heritage

• Atomic spectrometry (ICP OES, ICP-MS, GD, AAS, etc.);
• Molecular spectrometry (UV-Vis, NMR, Raman, IR, etc.);
• Organic and inorganic mass spectrometry (TIMS, MALDI, LC-MS, GC-MS);
• X-ray spectrometry (XRF, XRD, XANES, PIXE, etc.);
• Hyphenated techniques;
• Laser spectroscopy;
• Imaging techniques;
• Nuclear techniques (Mössbauer spectroscopy, Gamma spectroscopy, NAA);
• Material sciences (micro, surface and interface analysis);
• Environmental and geochemical analysis;
• Archaeometry and cultural heritage;
• Biological applications;
• Food analysis;
• Clinical and pharmaceutical analysis;
• Speciation analysis;
• Mass spectrometry in post-genomics and proteomics;
• Miniaturisation and nanotechnology;
• Fuels and biofuels;

The conference is organised by the iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences, a group of multi-disciplinary research laboratories administered by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Department of Sciences and Technology (DST) of the Republic of South Africa

The PIXE conference is a biennial event with a long tradition of being the international forum to discuss recent developments and future prospects in particle induced X-ray spectrometry. The conference brings together physicists and scientists from different fields of application including biology and medicine, environmental and earth sciences, cultural heritage and materials research.

Topics

• Fundamental processes of ionisation, X-ray emission and absorption
• Fundamental parameter
• PIXE software
• PIXE methodology and facilities
• PIXE of complex and layered samples (mapping, depth profiling)
• Confocal PIXE and PIXE tomography
• Atmospheric aerosols
• Environmental and earth sciences
• Extra-terrestrial applications
• Biology and medicine
• Forensic science
• Archaeometry and Cultural Heritage
• Materials Science

Following on from the very successful inaugural event of 2011, the IOP Materials and Characterisation group are pleased to announce another one day Cultural Heritage Science event. The objective is to introduce and discuss both cutting edge and traditional science behind the preservation of our heritage, and the ethical framework which shapes its experiments. For this event we have a select number of invited speakers who are experts in their respective field. The topics under discussion will embrace a diverse range such as ethics in heritage science, heritage materials, museum artefacts and their conservation, and different scientific techniques and their applicability.

The event offers a fantastic occasion for new and experienced colleagues along with those with a curious interest to share best practice and build relationships for future collaborative research. The meeting will take place in the newly opened Mary Rose Museum at Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard and will conclude with a guided tour of the new museum and excellent conservation facilities. Places are limited due to the venue size and so early registration is advised.