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 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 managed, involved, or actively participated in about 200 projects, 40 types of reactors, 10 industries, in 45 countries and in 6 continents. Dr. Kongoli has published 113 books and more than 200 scientific articles. He has delivered in numerous countries around the world about 220 plenary, 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 and in many Professional Award Councils such as the Industrial Achievement Award Committee of International Federation of Automatic Control. He is Editorial Board member of several International Journals.
He is an elected Honorary Member of the Lorraine Academy of Sciences and Elected Member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded in 2017 the title "The Environmental Tech CEO of the year 2017" by CEO-Monthly UK magazine. He was awarded Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of his contribution toward sustainable development through FLOGEN Sustainability Framework by Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Czech Republic)/Faculty of Applied Informatics. He is honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro and Laureate of Gold Medal of the City of Nancy, France. In 2022 he was honored by the Congressman elect of Rio de Janeiro State, Alan Lopes, who will propose to the State Congress to adopt FLOGEN Sustainability Framework developed by Dr. Florian Kongoli in the state law for evaluating any proposed public or private project in the state. Also, in 2022 he was invited to give the Opening Sustainability Plenary Lecture at the United Nation Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 February 2022 about FLOGEN Sustainability Framework at the International Year of Glass 2022.
He has participated in business and government delegations in numerous countries accompanying Prime Ministers, Ministers and other government officials.
A more detailed biography can be found at: http://www.flogen.com/elt/pdf/Kongoli_Short-CV.pdf
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 elected as Honorary Member of Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of Lorraine Science Academy, of Engineering Academy of Slovenia, of the European Academy of Sciences, and correspondent of Stanislas Academy, Nancy, France. Distinguished Director of Research at CNRS, France, he served as the chair of the professional committee of CNRS that is dedicated to materials chemistry, nanomaterials and processing. He was the founding director of Institut Jean Lamour, the largest research laboratory dedicated to materials science in France. He received numerous awards among which the Fray and Stoddart Prizes of Flogen Star Outreach.
His research topics have revolved around metal physics and engineering of complex metallic materials. He is the author of more than 300 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.
Mariana Calin is currently associate professor and Metallic Biomaterials Group leader at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden), Germany. Prior to joining IFW Dresden in 2006, M. Calin was a faculty member at the Materials Science & Physical Metallurgy Deparment, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Mariana Calin has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship (1996-1998, Dortmund University) provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2010 she received the Institute for Complex Materials Research Prize for her work on titanium-based biomaterials. Her primary interests are in the phase transformations and mechanical behavior of metallic materials, with focus on Ti-based biomaterials, metallic glasses and nanostructured alloys. M. Calin has co-authored over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals including the Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Applied Physics Letters, and has delivered many presentations on her research at international conferences. She has ample experience with large-scale European research projects.
Prof. Dr. Spomenka Kobe, Scientific Advisor at the Department for Nanostructured Materials at Jožef Stefan Institute, was until 2018 for 16 years acting as a Head of this department. She is a full professor at the International Postgraduate School “Jožef Stefan” and a Slovenian Academy of Engineering member.
She initiated rare-earth magnet research activities in Slovenia. She was the coordinator of the European project “Replacement and Original Magnet Engineering Option” - ROMEO (FP7-NMP) and “A novel circular economy for sustainable RE-based magnets« - MaXycle (ERA-MIN).
She was 20 years the Leader of the National Research Programme “Nanostructured Materials,” and until 2017, the Slovene director of The International Associated Laboratory between CNRS, Nancy, France and Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is also a member of the Governing Board of eseia (European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance), the International Postgraduate School “Jožef Stefan,” and the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Leoben.
Job related skills: processing of intermetallic alloys including rare-earth transition-metal, permanent magnets, hydrogen-storage materials, quasicrystals, magnetocaloric materials, complex metallic alloys, influence of magnetic field in crystallization, application of RETM permanent magnets in ecology, effect on processing on microstructure and physical properties. Applied research has included the development and large-scale production of a large variety of magnetic materials, and in strong collaboration with industry; it has involved product development, quality control and troubleshooting at the factory-floor level.
In 2019 Prof. Dr. Spomenka Kobe received the prestigious Fray International Sustainability Award for “Leadership in developing new technologies that contribute to global sustainable development in the environment, economy, and social points of view.” In her honor, one of the Symposia in the frame of SIPS 2019 (Sustainable Processing Summit & Exhibition) was named “Kobe International Symposium on Science of Innovative and Sustainable Alloys and Magnets.”
