Session

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

1: Electronic and Magnetic Materials and Magnets

Spintronics – Fundamentals and Applications

Soft- and Hard Magnetic Materials and Applications

Multi-Functional Magnetic Materials, Functional and Magnetic Composite Materials and Applications

Bio-Magnetism

Electric Machines, Drives, Control, Transformers

Magnetics Recording: AMI and Robotic Intelligence System

Recording Media

Write and Read Heads

Energy-Assisted Recording

All-Optical Recording and Other New Recording

Recording Systems and Modeling

Sensors and High-Frequency Devices: Magnetic Field Sensors (Non-Recording), Sensors (Not of Magnetic Fields), Microwave and Millimeter Wave Materials and Devices

Magnetoelectronic and Magnetocaloric-effect Materials and Phenomena

Magnetization Dynamics and Micromagnetics

Quantum Materials: Cooperative States, Superconductivity, Spin Liquids, etc.

Structured Materials and Applications

Materials for non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing (including ferroelectrics, phase change, RRAM, magnetic)

Permanent Magnet and Electromagnet – Development and Applications

 

2. Piezoelectric and Dielectric Materials. 

Fundamentals of ferroelectrics and multiferroic materials (theory, modeling and experiments)

Low dimensional structures and interfaces: fundamentals, processing, and properties

Processing of piezoelectric crystals, ceramics, thick and thin films, composite, polymers, glassceramics and MLCCs.

Piezoelectric single crystals, ceramics and thin films

Lead free dielectric and piezoelectric materials. 

Structure characterization and properties of ferroelectric materials (dielectric, piezoelectric, ferroelectric, pyroelectric, electrocaloric, flexoelectric, photovoltaics and photocatalytics, etc.)

Applications of ferroelectrics (sensing, transducing, thermal imaging, energy harvesting and storage, etc.)

Piezoelectric MEMS and NEMS (resonators, energy harvesters, sensors, actuators, and transducers)

Wearable and implantable devices (biosensing, neural stimulation, prosthetics, hard coatings)

High Dielectric constant materials for capacitor applications

Dielectric and piezoelectric applications

 

3: Energy and Energy Storage Materials

Energy materials, light harvesting assemblies

Energy conversion processes (catalysis and photocatalysis)

Solar fuels (hydrogen production, CO2 reduction)

Inorganic, organic and hybrid photovoltaics

Photosynthesis and biofuels

Materials for Energy Storage, Fuel cells, storage batteries and supercapacitors

Plasmonics, OLEDs and light display systems

Hydrogen generation

Thermoelectric materials and devices

Materials for nuclear energy applications

Environment protection

Sustainable and green materials

Wireless Energy Transfer Technology for EVs and other applications

 

4: Bioplastics, Biomaterials, Polymer Composite and Environmental Materials 

Polymer Materials; Nanocomposites and hybrid nanomaterials

Polymer blends, films, fibres, networks and porous materials

Characterization, modelling and simulation of molecular and materials properties in bulk, solution, and thin films

Polymer Engineering; Advanced multiscale processing methods

Polymer Synthesis, Modification and Self-assembly; Including designer polymer architectures, mechanisms and kinetics, and supramolecular polymerization.

Polymers for energy generation and storage; Polymer membranes for separation technology; Polymers for opto- and microelectronics

Polymer synthesis and reactions

Polymer structures

Physical properties of polymers

Polymer surface and interfaces

Functional polymers

Supramolecular polymers

Self-assembled materials

Biopolymers and bio-related polymer materials

Polymer engineering 

Polymer applications in energy storage and conversion, separations, membranes, adhesives, functional coatings, sensing, adaptive and reconfigurable materials, electronics, photonics, biomaterials, and nanocomposites.

 

5: Computational Materials, Physics and Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, and Modeling

Computational modeling of materials properties and phenomena 

First-principle calculations, Density-functional theory

Atomic and molecular-scale simulations: Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics techniques

Semi-empirical: tight-binding, ab-initio methods and embedded-atom methods

Other modeling techniques using macroscopic input: FE-methods.

Electronic, magnetic, dynamical, transport, mechanical, growth, formation process and thermo-dynamical properties of nanoscale systems and materials.

Structure-property relationships for new materials in conjunction with data informatics,

Novel capabilities of computational tools, technical software and shareware, or cyberinfrastructures.

Application and development of existing and emerging theoretical and simulation approaches for the study of materials in their entirety (organic and inorganic).

 

6: Ceramics Engineering, Science and Glass Materials and Technology

Conservation and traditional ceramics

Raw materials for advanced and sustainable ceramics

Processing and assembly of composites combining ceramics and glasses with other classes of materials such as ceramic-metal and ceramic-plastic hybrids.

New methods, new ways to use traditional methods, and overcoming challenges

Ceramic Matrix Composites

Materials and processes for traditional ceramics and glasses

Thermal and Environmental Barrier Coatings

Bio-ceramic Applications

Green Manufacturing

Ceramics in Environmental Applications

Increasing the strength of glass for structural integrity

Luminescence glasses/crystals and photonics materials

Judd-Ofelt Theory and analysis to Ln3+ in optical materials 

Interaction of glass within the human body

Improving manufacturing and quality control of glasses, including furnace flow modeling

Secondary processing including controlled crystallization, phase transformations, tempering, ion–exchange, coatings, and decoration.

Factors affecting durability and long-term performance, including chemical and physical corrosion, and fatigue.

 

7: Metals, Alloys, and Metallurgy Technology and Applications

metallurgy

alloys, liquid alloys, traditional steel

base metals (include iron, nickel, lead and zinc)

ferrous and non-ferrous metals

noble metals (include tantalum, gold, platinum, silver and rhodium)

precious metals

transition metals

metalloids

semi-metals

metallicity

rare metals

synthetic metals

wear, creep, welding and joining

 

8: Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Instrumentation and Materials Characterization

Fundamental processes in radiation physics

Interaction mechanisms for example scattering and absorption of photon and particle radiations

Mathematical methods in radiation physics, reference data

Radiation sources, detectors and detector materials (gas, scintillation, semiconductor detector etc..) 

Accelerator and radionuclide spectra and other properties

Radiation fields from point and extended sources

Detector response functions

Radiation shielding materials 

Advanced Characterization Techniques such as X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (XRF), X-Ray Imaging Tomography (XTM), X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS), X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Raman and Optical Spectroscopies, Electron Microscope, Scanning Probe Microscopy Methods etc.

 

9: Nanomaterials, Thick and Thin Films and Surface Sciences

Nanomaterials: Nanoparticles, coatings and thin films, inorganic-organic hybrids and composites (i.e. MOFs), membranes, nano-alloys, quantum dots, self-assemblies, graphene, nanotubes, etc

Synthesis/assembly of organic, inorganic, and hybrid nanomaterials

Theory, and simulation of nanostructures (nanomaterials and assemblies, nanodevices, and self-assembled structures), 

Nanobiotechnology, Nanofabrication

Methods and tools for nanoscience and nanotechnology, and self- and directed-assembly

Characterization of mesoscopic properties

Applications: Any application of new nanomaterials or new application of nanomaterials

Surfaces, Interfaces, and Colloidal Behavior

Metallurgical, Protective, and Hard Layers

Mechanics and Nanomechanics of Thin Layers

Thin Film Devices, Sensors, and Actuators

Condensed Matter Film Behavior.

 

10: Materials Processing, Tribology and Coating Technology

Processing techniques used in manufacturing components from metals and other materials.

Casting, forming, and machining.

Additive processing and joining technologies.

Evolution of material properties under the specific conditions met in manufacturing processes.

Design and behavior of equipment and tools

Effects of processing parameters on the macro- and micro-properties of all engineering materials.

Innovations/ Improvements in processing techniques of all types of engineering materials including sustainability.

Surface treatments and coatings deposition, functionalization, modelling and characterization

Interface and interaction science, adhesion and Adhesives

Multi-functional, composite/ hybrid, graded and multilayers coatings

Smart surfaces and coatings, Self-healing surfaces

Surface nanoengineering, nanocoatings and Ultra-Thin Films

Tribological coatings, wear and corrosion protection

Surface engineering/ coatings in sustainable energy, conversion, optical, electric, photovoltaic and magnetic applications

Biointerfaces, Biomedical/ Bioactive surfaces and coatings

 

11. Engineering Technology for Industrial Applications.

Operations Research

Production and Operations Management

Quality Control and Management

Maintenance Engineering

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Systems Modeling and Simulation

CAD/CAE/CAM

Automation and Robotics

Machine Tools and Manufacturing Processes

Mechanical Design and Dynamics of Mechanism

Fluid Mechanics, Combustion and Engineering Physics

Heat and Mass Transfer

Vibration Measuring and Reliability Analysis

Finite Element Analysis for Mechanical Engineering

Mechatronics Design Control Systems

Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Sensors and Applications

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Applied Computer for Civil and Environmental Engineering

Construction Engineering and Management

Geographical Information Systems

Geotechnical Analysis and Design

Infrastructure Life-Cycle Management

12.  Special session: International Collaboration on Materials Technology Supported by AUN/SEED-Net, JICA

Special session: International Collaboration on Materials Technology Supported by AUN/SEED-Net, JICA

A session for focused discussion on research progress of the international partners participated in the collaborative education program (CEP) supported by AUN/SEED-Net, JICA

Research topics include, but not limited to 

Advanced materials

Nanomaterials

Polymer chemistry 

Functional ceramic materials and applications

Energy materials

Photocatalysts

Electroctalytic and sensor materials

Photonic and biomedical devices

Processing and applications of thin films 

Materials for civil engineering applications

Novel processing and characterization techniques

 

13. Special session:100th Anniversary of the discovery of Ferroelectricity (Invitation only)

 

Josef Valasek (April 27, 1897 – October 4, 1993)

Ferroelectric phenomenon in materials was identified for the first time about 100 years ago in 1920 (paper presented at the American Physical Society (APS) Meeting in Washington, DC, April 1920), at the University of Minnesota, MN, USA; by then a graduate student Joseph Valasek working under the supervision of Prof. W. F. G. Swann. Before this announcement, some prominent physicists had envisaged and even predicted the possibility of an analogous electrical behavior in some materials to that of the well-established hysteresis behavior of magnetic materials. Debye’s work tried to put the concept of Curie temperature in some solids in 1912 but it Schrodinger in the same year who formalized the term ferroelectricity. The names ferroelectrics, ferroelectricity, etc. are fully symbolic of the hysteresis loop-like behavior originally displayed by the magnetic materials. Later on when the physics of ferroelectrics was formalized, most of the terminology, e.g. Curie constant, Curie temperature, etc. that characterized the hysteresis loop or its related characteristics, was inherited from the magnetic materials. Over the years basic ferroelectricity concepts were significantly developed. The observed ferroelectric hysteresis loop between electric polarization vs applied electric field in the then well-known material, Rochelle salt, was presented at the April meeting of the APS, held at, then known as, the National Bureau of Standards or NBS (currently known as the National Institute for Standards and Technology or NIST). Interestingly, even though Valasek submitted the abstract but it was presented by Swann (and Valasek was not present). It happened to be a unique case of the earlier predictions but it did not catch the attention of many researchers working in the field of electronics. Whatever the reason, there was a little attention paid to this newly identified effect in Rochelle salt in 1920s. In late 1920, Valasek’s paper was submitted to Physical Review and that appeared in April 1921. Both ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism are the observational or experimental characteristics of a special class of materials which were not predicted by any basic theoretical approaches to start with at that time.

Saxena, Avadh Behari, and Bhalla, Amar S. 100th Anniversary of the discovery of Ferroelectricity: How did it impact the Current Day Physics. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.2172/1633563.

 

14. Special session: Luminescence Glasses, Crystals and Related Functional Materials for Photonics and Scintillation Material Applications

This is spectial session for any kind of  luminescence  glass and crystals for photonics, scintillation materials and their applications. Related functional materials are also in the theme of this session. 

 

15. Special Session: Young Professional and Students Division (invited only)

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16. Special Session: Research 2 Startups (invited only)

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17. Special Session Dedicated to Prof.Dr.Pichet Limsuwan’s Life Time Achievements (invited only)

This special session is dedicated to Prof.Dr.Pichet Limsuwan, a profoundly inspirational physicist, whose contributions cover an extraordinary range in Physics and Materials in Thailand. 

 



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