Call for Papers

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This symposium will focus on the transport properties and behaviors of crystalline materials resulting from defect- and disorder-driven departures from a perfect lattice. Extrinsic disorder, both structural and chemical, can be harnessed as a tool for targeted engineering of material performance (e.g., doping in electronic materials and microstructure tailoring in thermoelectrics). However, it can also detrimentally affect function via the accumulation of defects during the out-of-equilibrium conditions in synthesis and operational environments including temperature gradients, stresses, and chemical activity. In semi-conducting and insulating materials, lattice disorder plays a defining role in a myriad of properties including optical behaviors and thermal transport. In metallic systems, the tradeoff between local chemical ordering and disordering ultimately determines the functional properties of chemically-complex and entropically-stabilized systems. In all cases, novel, advanced methods are rapidly evolving for synthesizing, characterizing, understanding, predicting, and designing disorder-driven performance. One section of this symposium will focus on the characterization of disorder-driven behaviors, particularly thermal performance, of materials subjected to conditions that generate extrinsic defects and chemical disorder. A second section will focus on advanced computational methods used to predict the functionality of disordered lattices, particularly those seeking to bridge microscopic ab initio- and meso-scales. A final, linking section will specifically target design works demonstrating successful integration of computation, synthesis, and characterization of systems which exploit engineered defects and disorder for novel function.

Topics will include:

• Defect-derived transport behaviors
• Quasiparticle breakdown
• Optical and electronic properties
• Characterization of defects and disorder
• Measurements of defect-derived properties
• Synthesis and characterization of alloys
• Theory of defects—point defects, dislocations, interfaces

Invited Speakers (tentative):

• Valentino Cooper (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• Olivier Delaire (Duke University, USA)
• Flyura Djurabekova (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Giorgia Fugallo (Université de Nantes, France)
• Giulia Galli (The University of Chicago, USA)
• Samuel Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Yongjie Hu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• Miaomiao (Mia) Jin (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Ankita Katre (Savitribai Phule Pune University, India)
• Yee Kan Koh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
• Martin Kuball (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
• Mingda Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Georg Madsen (Technischen Universität Wien, Austria)
• Jonathan Malen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Michael Manley (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• Navaneetha Ravichandran (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India)
• G. Jeffrey Snyder (Northwestern University, USA)
• Lilia Woods (University of South Florida, USA)

Symposium Organizers