It is a great pleasure and honour to invite colleagues from academia and business, as well as young researchers and students from all parts of the world to attend the Materials Science Conference. The conference, scheduled from October 11-14, 2021 is organized by Prism Scientific Services in collaboration with The University of Queensland.

Â

The conference will underpin the need and importance of collaboration and cooperation by individuals from a wide range of professional backgrounds. Materials Oceania will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers from all over the world to present latest findings and to exchange their ideas. This in turn paves the way for further discoveries, which most often happen where disciplines and specialists meet and congregate. In fact the development of materials was, is and will be fundamental for all technological applications, and in the entire field of applied science targeting the improvement of quality of life for humanity. At the end of the materials conference, we hope that attendees will feel they have generated the most up-to-date information available.

Â

We hope that you will join us for a symphony of outstanding science, and to also take a little extra time to enjoy the spectacular and unique beauty of Brisbane City.

Start: 02/10/2020 03:30 PM End: 02/10/2020 04:30 PM

Please note the given time above is CEST (CEST = UTC + 2; BST = UTC + 1)

Location: Zoom online

Organized by: Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung and Diamond Light Source, UK

Topic

Effects of annealing and pressure on the Grazing Incidence X-ray Scatterings of Conjugated Polymer blends used in Organic Solar Cells

Presenter:

Dr Benjamin Agyei-Tuffour, University of Ghana, GH

Summary

This presentation shows the results of an experimental study of the effects of pressure and annealing on the conjugated polymer chain configurations in poly (3-hexylthiophene) and [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT:PCBM) blends that are used in bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs). Annealing and the application of static loads on P3HT:PCBM blends on glass substrates were investigated. Microscopy and grazing incidence x-ray scattering techniques were adopted to analyze the surface morphologies, nano-/micro-structures and the chain configurations in the conjugated polymer blends. The OPV devices fabricated resulted in the I-V characteristics that have large dependence on the changes in the nano-/ micro-structures of the polymer blends. The pressure induced polymer chain configurations that were in the direction of the applied pressure (edge-on), led to a reduced lamellae spacing between the polymer units. This increased the crystallinity in the blend and played significant role in the organic solar cell performance. The findings of the study are discussed to influence the design and control of the nano-/micro-structures and the performance of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells.

Registration fee

These lectures are free and can be attended via Zoom by to up to 100 attendees.

The lectures will be recorded as well, and (with permission of the presenter) will be made available online afterwards for a broader educational reach.

To participate, use the meeting join link here.

For further questions, please contact scattering@bam.de.

What makes a detector ideal for electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) applications? How can it affect the technique and the field? And what results could be achieved with a DECTRIS ELA detector integrated into a NION IRIS spectrometer? Tracy C. Lovejoy, COO at NION, who has recently co-authored a peer-reviewed article on a characterization of a hybrid pixel detector, will present the results of NION's research and share his outlook on the new era of EELS. Together with Luca Piazza from DECTRIS, he will answer your questions about the performance of hybrid pixel detectors, their integration in the spectrometer, and the potential of this experimental setup.

We introduce MIEZE, a variant of the spin-echo technique optimized for the study of dynamic processes in magnetic materials. We show how MIEZE can be applied to these materials with the help of several examples: fluctuations around the Curie point in iron, spin dynamics in paramagnetic Ho₂Ti₂O₇ and weak crystallization of fluctuating skyrmion textures in MnSi.

Presenter: Dr Johanna Jochum from Technical University Munich, Germany

Organized by Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung und -prufung and Diamond Light Source, UK.

Each in this series of online lectures on scattering and diffraction is free and can be attended via Zoom by to up to 100 attendees.

The lectures will be recorded and (with permission of the presenter) will be made available online afterwards for a broader educational reach.

To participate, use the meeting join link here.

Time-resolved synchrotron X-ray total scattering gives access to the dynamic atomic structure during in situ and operando experiments providing access to multi-length scale information. Here the unusual redox properties of ceria-based catalysts are probed following the formation of an oxyhydride phase during the activation of hydrogen using X-ray total scattering and X-ray absorption spectroscopy.

Presenter: Dr Adam H. Clark from Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Organized by Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung und -prufung and Diamond Light Source, UK.

Each in this series of online lectures on scattering and diffraction is free and can be attended via Zoom by to up to 100 attendees.

The lectures will be recorded and (with permission of the presenter) will be made available online afterwards for a broader educational reach.

To participate, use the meeting join link here.

Organized by Czechoslovak Association for Crystal Growth and Slovak Expert Group of Solid State Chemistry and Physics

Topics

• Trends in development of materials research
  
• Education of materials science at the universities
  
• Information about the research programmes of individual institutions
  
• Information on equipment for preparation and characterisation of materials
  
• Results of materials science research

Dear Friends and Colleagues

We are thrilled to announce that the 2020 ACA Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography, to be held at Purdue University on May 31^st to June 7^th, is now open for applications.

The ACA Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography is a week long program that is now well into its third decade of instruction here in the United States. The course is directed towards Single-Crystal Chemical Crystallography and Powder Diffraction techniques, as applicable to small molecule studies and is designed to instruct attendees in the theory and practice of these two aspects of crystallography. Mornings are full with lectures on the theory of the experiment and afternoons and early evenings are covering hands-on workshops.

More information can be found at https://acasummercourse.net/ or https://acasummercourse.net/application/. To submit your application, please visit the address https://acasummercourse.net/2020-application/

Please do not hesitate contacting us at info@acasummercourse.net with any questions you might have

For the organizers,

Matt Zeller, Purdue University

Christos Malliakas, Northwestern University

Charlotte Stern, Northwestern University

Allen Oliver, Notre Dame University

Following the success of the past editions (DESY 2016, Oxford 2013, Aussois 2011), the 4th international conference on Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering will be hosted outside Europe for the first time.

Topics will include:

• Electronic orderings, magnetism, interfacial phenomena, quantum materials, soft matter, phase transitions and inhomogeneity;
• Symmetry, topology, artificial structures, reduced dimensionality, structure and dynamics;
• Coherence, imaging, nanodiffraction, reflectivity, polarization and energy analysis (REXS in RIXS);
• Instrumentation development, multimodality, diffraction limited sources and XFELs;
• Theory and simulation, modeling and data analysis.

Keeping updated on the latest trends in material science across a wide range of industries can be an intimidating task. Realizing this imperative, PRISM is set to organize International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering which is going to take place during September 16-18, 2019 at Melbourne, Australia with a view to promote awareness and enhance research aiming in developing solutions for the challenges encountered.

This materials science conference will provide an international medium to share and exchange the theoretical and experimental studies and research related to the electronic, electrochemical, ionic, magnetic, optical, and biosensing properties of solid state materials in bulk, thin film and particulate forms. It focuses on synthesis, processing, characterization, structure, physical properties and computational aspects of nano-crystalline, crystalline, amorphous and glassy forms of ceramics, semiconductors, layered insertion compounds, low-dimensional compounds and systems, fast-ion conductors, polymers and dielectrics.

Materials Oceania aims to bring together leading academic scientists, industrialist, research scholars, students, delegates and exhibitors to exchange and share their experiences, research results about all aspects of Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Chemistry and Physics. This engineering conference is also providing a platform to the companies and/or institutions to present their services, products, innovations and research results.

Meet the Objective Business sector with individuals from and around the globe concentrated on finding out about Materials science and Engineering, this is the best chance to achieve the biggest collection of members from all over the world. This materials science conferences in australia will lead you to get disperse data, meet with current, make a sprinkle with another product offering and get name acknowledgement at this occasion. Widely acclaimed speakers, the latest methods, strategies, and the most up to date overhauls in Materials science and Engineering are signs of this meeting.

Â

For more details please visit:Â https://www.materialsconferenceaustralia.com

The European Powder Diffraction Conference, EPDIC, is a biannual conference dedicated to all aspects of the analysis of polycrystalline materials by diffraction methods. Each EPDIC has the aim to highlight the latest developments in powder diffraction including methodology, data analysis and instrumental advances. EPDICs traditionally bring together scientists from institutes, universities and instrumentation companies to discuss the progress in academic and industrial research related to powder diffraction. The 17th edition of EPDIC (EPDIC17) will take place in the town of Šibenik, an emerging star of the Croatian Adriatic coast.

• Mechanical properties of ceramics, composites and porous materials
• Coatings to resist wear, erosion and tribological loadings
• Fiber, matrices and interfaces, CMCs
• Transparent ceramics
• Ultra high-temperature ceramics and ternary compounds
• Tribological behaviors
• Heat and corrosion resistances
• Thermal and environmental barrier coatings
• Processing
• Microstructure
• Mechanical properties relations
• Joining and machining of ceramics and composites
• Functionally graded materials and systems
• Mechanics and characterization techniques

Symposia

• Characterization, modeling and theory
• Electronic and photonic materials
• Nanomaterials
  
• Energy materials and technologies
• Manufacturing
• Soft materials and biomaterials

Session 1: Design to function

• Structure and properties
• Design, modeling and simulation of polymer systems
• Polymer synthesis
• Characterization
• Macromolecular self-assemblyÂ

Session 2: Function to application

• Energy, optics and electronics
• Biomedical applications
• Environment
• High-perfomance materials
• Surface and interface
• Biomimetic materials