Topics
The focus of Joint RQ 17 & ISMANAM 27 Conference is on metastable materials, their synthesis, structure, properties and applications. The subjects covered will include, but are not limited to:
Materials
- Metallic glasses and other glasses
- Amorphous materials
- Nanostructured and nanocrystalline materials
- Low-dimensional materials
- Compositionally complex (high entropy) alloys
- Thin films, coatings, multilayers
- Highly defective and other metastable, disordered materials
- Composites and architectured materials
- Materials for energy conversion and storage
Processing
- Rapid solidification
- Additive manufacturing
- Mechanical alloying and mechanochemical synthesis
- Thermomechanical processing
- Thin film deposition
- Surface treatments: mechanical, chemical, implantation, irradiation
- Combinatorial techniques
Structural characterization and thermal analysis
- X-ray and neutron diffraction
- Electron microscopy, analysis, atom-probe tomography
- Local probes, Mössbauer spectroscopy, EXAFS ...
- Thermal analysis techniques
Computational modelling
- Atomistic simulation
- Machine learning
- Materials design
Phase transformations and their kinetics
- Amorphisation
- Devitrification
- Phase separation
- Rejuvenation of glasses
- Relaxation in liquids and glasses
- Liquid-liquid transitions
- Order-disorder transitions
Properties and applications
- Physical (magnetic, electrical, optical, ...)
- Mechanical (strength, elastic, plastic, tribological ...)
- Chemical (incl. catalytic)
