This SYMPOSIUM and ROUND TABLE topics will address 3 main concepts at large:
I. Alloys and Magnets:
Magnetism and magnetic materials,
Fundamentals of magnetism
Spintronics
Nd-Fe-B; RE-Co; Sm-Fe-N: processing & properties
Raw materials, resources, mining, extraction & recycling
Nanomagnetism and magnets with reduced dimensionality
Rare earth free permanent magnets
Modeling & measurements
Coercivity & physical properties
Microstructure & properties characterization
Magnets applications
Complex intermetallics,
Magnetic compounds
Spin glass magnets
Large unit cell compounds
Composites
In situ TEM observation of magnetic nanostructures
Amorphous and nanostructured alloys,
Formation and stability
Soft magnetism in amorphous alloys
Additive manufacturing of duplex bulk amorphous alloys
Applications
Quasicrystals and aperiodic crystals.
Aperiodic order(s) in Nature
Aperiodic magnetic order and aperiodic magnetic compounds
Rare-earth based quasicrystals
Transport properties of aperiodic crystals and quasicrystals
Surface nanostructures on quasicrystals and related compounds
Surface chemistry of quasicrystals and aperiodic crystals.
II. Intelligent Materials:
Computational Simulation of Intelligent Sustainable Advanced Materials (ISAM), including simulation of atomic and molecular structures, and of mechanical, thermoelectric, and magnetic properties
H2-Storage Advanced Materials with emphasis on enhancing the storage kinetics with respect to dissociation, diffusion and trapping of hydrogen
Amorphous Materials aiming at high stability and mechanical formability
SPD Nanomaterials aiming at the principles to increase the ductility at still high strength
Advanced Thermoelectrics optimizing the efficiency by constraints and defects
Magnetic Materials, including advancements of coercivity and magnetostriction by means of exchange coupling mechanisms
Semicrystalline Polymers, with special emphasis on the role of dislocations for macroscopic strength
Current Intelligent Sustainable Advanced Materials like Graphene, CNTs, High Entropy Alloys
ISAM Industrial Applications, and the trend of increasing commercialization of materials (amorphous & nanocrystalline materials, magnetic materials, and others)
Nano-Analytic Methods comprising diffraction line profile and texture analysis, including Synchrotron and neutron radiation, dilatometry, and positron annihilation spectroscopy
III. Surfaces and Interfaces:
Formation, preparation and stability of surfaces, interfaces, and grain boundaries
Characterization of surfaces, interfaces and grain boundaries of metals, alloys, oxides and semi-conductors
Solid-liquid interfaces, including biological surfaces and interfaces
Surfaces, interfaces and grain boundaries of nano-objects and nano-particles
Architectured and nanostructured materials
Thin films and coatings
Supported nano-objects
Advanced microscopies of surfaces and interfaces (Transmission electron microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy)
Dr. Florian Kongoli holds 3 degrees: a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science/University of Montreal, Canada and a Doctor of Science Degree/Tohoku University, Japan. Since 1996 he is CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc., (www.flogen.com) a Sustainable High Tech applied research institute incorporated in Canada and USA that today have offices and representations in more than 15 Countries around the world while carrying out high tech projects in more than 40 countries. Since 2007 he is Chairman of FLOGEN STAR OUTREACH (www.flogen.org), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to (1) achieving sustainability through science and technology, (2) raising the profile of science and engineering in the society and (3) properly honoring scientists and engineers. Since 2003 Dr Kongoli has been President of the Organizing Committee of the Sustainable Industrial Processing Summits (SIPS) held every year in several countries around the world with an average participation of 500 authors from academia, industry, government and the entrepreneurship world representing an average of 80 countries. Dr Kongoli has about 25 years of rich scientific and applied technology experience through direct involvement in numerous invited engagements in all continents. He has worked with more than 60 well-known chemical and metallurgical companies and several well-known universities around the world. Dr. Kongoli is has published 77 books and about 190 scientific articles in the last 10 years and has delivered in numerous countries about 200plenary, keynote and invited presentations as well as articles, technical reports and research presentations. He has served in many leadership positions in national and international organizations. Dr. Kongoli is an Elected Member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (EMAAS) and member of the Industrial Achievement Award Committee of International Federation of Automatic Control. In 2017 he was Awarded “The Environmental Tech CEO of the year 2017” by CEO-Monthly magazine in UK and in 2019 was given the official title of Honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro by a special Legislative Decree voted unanimously by the Rio de Janeiro City Council. He is Editorial Board member of several International Journals. He has participated in business and government delegations in numerous countries accompanying Prime Ministers, Minister and other government officials. A more detailed biography can be found at: http://www.flogen.com/elt/pdf/Kongoli_Short-CV.pdf Latest news can be found at: https://www.flogen.org/?p=33
Jean-Marie Dubois owns a PhD in Physics from Polytechnic National Institute, Nancy, France, a Dr Hon. Causa from Iowa State University,USA and another from Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil. He is a former overseas fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K. and a professor at Dalian University of Technology, China. He was recently elected as Honorary Member of Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of Lorraine Science Academy and correspondent of Stanislas Academy, Nancy, France. Distinguished Director of Research at CNRS, France, he chairs the professional committee of CNRS that is dedicated to materials chemistry, nanomaterials and processing. His research topics have revolved around metal physics and engineering of complex metallic materials. He is the author of more than 250 scientific articles in refereed journals, 14 international patents, and 7 books. After establishing structure models for metallic glasses and quasicrystals, Prof. Dubois became interested in applied properties of these materials: heat insulation, low adhesive properties and infrared light absorption, cold-welding and solid-solid adhesion in vacuum of Al-based complex intermetallics against steel. His general interest is on understanding the surface energy of those materials and their scaling properties in relation to their electronic structure and crystal lattice complexity.
Dr. Vincent Fournée is a CNRS research director at the Jean Lamour Institute. He received his Ph.D in 1998 from University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. During 1999-2001, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Ames Laboratory (USA) and at Nagoya University (Japan). He joined the CNRS in Nancy in 2002. His research group ‘Metallurgy and Surfaces’ focus on the structure-property relationship in complex intermetallic compounds with large unit cells, using surface science methods and theoretical calculations. He has published > 130 publications in refereed journals, >20 invited talks, 7 patents, 5 book chapters, > 200 communications in international conferences. He has received a fellowship from the Monbusho (1998) and from the JSPS (2000) ; obtained a research Prize from the Region Lorraine (2006) ; a research Prize from the Industrial Society of the Est Region (2011). He has been PI or co-PI of more than 20 different projects in the field of complex intermetallics.
