Symposium NN: Structure-Property Relations in Amorphous Solids
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- November 25-30, 2012
- Boston, Massachusetts
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Meeting Chairs:
Chennupati Jagadish, Thomas Lippert, Amit Misra, Eric Stach, Ting Xu
This symposium will address the fundamental questions of how to characterize the structure of amorphous materials and how to correlate structural signatures to material properties. Unlike crystalline materials, amorphous materials do not possess long-range translational order. Instead, various properties of amorphous materials sensitively depend on short- to medium-range ordering. Further structural complexity can arise from anisotropy, heterogeneity, and hierarchical packing. Due to structural commonalities among a broad range of amorphous solids and transferable experimental/numerical techniques for studying them, this symposium will cover amorphous solids of all compositions (metals, network formers, and polymers) and processing histories (vitrified through the glass-transition, deposited, and deformation- or radiation-induced). Relations of structure to all materials properties, including optical, electrical, transport, and mechanical, will be addressed.
- Structure-property relations of metallic glasses, oxide glasses, and polymeric glasses
- Novel experimental structural characterization (fluctuation microscopy, nanodiffraction and imaging, 3-D atomic probe, etc.)
- Structural signatures beyond isotropic short-range ordering (medium-range ordering, structural anisotropy, heterogeneity, hierarchical packing, etc.)
- High-fidelity atomic structural models (ab initio calculations, classical molecular dynamics, hybrid reverse Monte Carlo method, etc.)
- Understanding optical, electrical, transport, and mechanical properties for amorphous materials from their structures
- Structural evolution (gradual or abrupt polyamorphism transition) of amorphous materials influenced by their environment, including temperature, chemistry, stress, or irradiation
- Commonalities among different classes of amorphous materials
Richard K. Brow (Missouri Univ. of Science and
Technology),
Juan de Pablo (Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison),
Wai-Yim Ching
(Univ. of Missouri),
Takeshi Egami
(Univ. of Tennessee),
Michael Falk
(Johns Hopkins Univ.),
Bernhard Frick
(Inst. Laue-Langevin, France),
Huajian
Gao (Brown Univ.),
Julia Greer (California Inst. of
Technology),
Liping Huang
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.),
Todd
Hufnagel (Johns Hopkins Univ.),
Akihisa
Inoue (Tohoku Univ., Japan),
Humanshu
Jain (Lehigh Univ.),
John
Lewandowski (Case Western Reserve Univ.),
Ju Li (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology),
Mo Li (Georgia Inst. of Technology),
Jay Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.),
Peter K. Liaw (Univ. of Tennessee),
Jian Lu (City Univ. of Hong Kong),
Evan Ma (Johns Hopkins Univ.),
Steve
W. Martin (Iowa State Univ.),
John
Mauro (Corning, Inc.),
Daniel
Miracle (Air
Force Research Lab),
Joseph Poon
(Univ. of Virginia),
Mark Robbins
(Johns Hopkins Univ.),
Tanguy Rouxel
(Univ. de Rennes, France),
Jan Schroers
(Yale Univ.),
Christopher Schuh
(Massachusetts Inst. of Technology),
Howard
Sheng (George Mason Univ.),
Frans
Spaepen (Harvard Univ.),
Paul Voyles
(Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison),
Weihua
Wang (Inst. of Physics, CAS, China),
Michael
Widom (Carnegie Mellon Univ.),
Yue
Wu (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
Alain Yavari (CNRS, France),
Jian-Min
Zuo (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Yunfeng ShiRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180
Tel 518-276-6729
Fax 518-276-8554
shiy2@rpi.eduMichael J. Demkowicz Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel 617-324-6563
Fax 617-252-1175
demkowicz@mit.eduA. Lindsay GreerUniversity of Cambridge
Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Pembroke St., Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
Tel 44-1223-334308
Fax 44-1223-334567
alg13@cam.ac.ukDespina Louca University of Virginia
Dept. of Physics
382 McCormick Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22904
Tel 434-924-6802
Fax 434-924-4576
dl4f@virginia.edu
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