Symposium CM02-Structure–Property Relations in Non-Crystalline Materials

This symposium will address the fundamental questions of how to characterize the structure of non-crystalline materials and how to correlate structural signatures to material properties. Non-crystalline materials include glass-forming liquids and supercooled liquids, glasses, and amorphous solids (which, unlike glasses, do not exhibit a glass transition). Non-crystalline materials share the common feature that they do not possess long-range translational order. Instead, the properties of these materials are sensitive to 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 non-crystalline materials and transferable experimental/numerical techniques for studying them, this symposium will cover glasses and amorphous solids of all compositions (metals, network formers, polymers) and processing histories (vitrified through the glass transition, deposited, deformation- or radiation-induced). Relations of structure to all materials properties including optical, electrical, transport, and mechanical will be addressed.

Topics will include:

Structure-property relations of metallic glasses, oxide glasses, chalcogenide glasses, and polymeric glasses
State-of-the-art structural characterization including scattering, diffraction, imaging, tomography techniques
Structural signatures from short-range ordering to medium-range ordering, structural anisotropy, heterogeneity, and hierarchical packing
Model glasses and in silico testing using ab initio calculations, molecular dynamics, mesoscale simulations, and hybrid methods
Understanding optical, electrical, transport, and mechanical properties for non-crystalline materials from their structures
Structural evolution of non-crystalline materials due to thermal, chemical, mechanical or irradiation agitations
Commonalities among different classes of non-crystalline materials
Emerging applications of non-crystalline materials

Invited Speakers:

Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Joerg Loeffler (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland)
Juan de Pablo (University of Chicago, USA)
Richard Brow (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
Yannick Champion (SIMAP, Grenoble, France)
Juergen Eckert (Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria)
Takeshi Egami (University of Tennessee, USA)
Michael Falk (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Bernhard Frick (Institut Laue-Langevin, France)
Huajian Gao (Brown University, USA)
Julia Greer (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Lindsay Greer (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Liping Huang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Himanshu Jain (Lehigh University, USA)
Golden Kumar (Texas Tech University, USA)
John Lewandowski (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Ju Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Peter Liaw (University of Tennessee, USA)
Evan Ma (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
George Quinn (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Jan Schroers (Yale University, USA)
Frans Spaepen (Harvard University, USA)
Haizheng Tao (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
Weihua Wang (Institute of Physics, China)
Lothar Wondraczek (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
Edgar Zanotto (Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil)
Josef Zwanziger (Dallhousie University, Canada)