Symposium CM1-Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure

High pressure is an important route for synthesizing materials that cannot be obtained in ambient conditions. The process of new materials discovery applying high pressure can be significantly accelerated as demonstrated in recent research combining state-of-the-art simulation approaches and experimental techniques. With rapid developments in materials prediction algorithms and the explosion of supercomputing capacity, accelerated discovery of new materials based on computational data is attracting much research interest. Progress in this highly interdisciplinary research field is expected to have a long-term impact in materials, applications and devices.

Different theoretical approaches have been shown to be effective in the search for materials with emergent properties, while most of the algorithms are still under rapid developments. One session of the proposed symposium will be dedicated to the developments and applications of theoretical methods for predicting phase transitions and the related properties of materials under pressure, motivating a discussion towards more efficient algorithms.

One or two sessions of the proposed symposium will be dedicated to the experimental synthesis and characterizations of superconductors, topological insulators and two-dimensional materials under extreme strains. Invited speakers will deliver presentations from fundamental method developments to engineering applications, boosting the synergy between simulation and experiment for accelerated new materials discovery.

• Topological insulators
• Phase transition and melting
• Superconductivity
• Superhard materials
• Theoretical methods for crystal structure prediction
• Two-dimensional materials
• Carbon materials
• Molecular crystal and intermolecular interactions
• Glass and amorphous materials
• Synchrotron and neutron techniques

• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _0 (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _1 (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _2 (University College London, United Kingdom)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _3 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _4 (Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _5 (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _6 (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _7 (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _8 (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _9 (Sichuan University, China)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _10 (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _11 (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _12 (Stony Brook University, USA)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _13 (Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, India)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _14 (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _15 (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• CM1_Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions Under Pressure _16 (Washington State University, USA)