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Symposium BB: Solution Synthesis of Inorganic Films and Nanostructured Materials

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Solution Synthesis of Inorganic Films and Nanostructured Materials

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the synthesis of a wide range of advanced functional inorganic materials using chemical solution routes.  These processes, such as sol-gel, metallo-organic decomposition, polymer-assisted deposition, hydrothermal growth, citrate route, hybrid route, colloidal synthesis, and chemical-bath deposition, provide cost-effective manufacturing of nanostructures/nanoparticles/ nanocomposites and offer coating of large-area and high-quality inorganic films.  Developments in such synthesis approaches have opened new avenues to achieve enhanced and/or novel functionalities for advanced applications in electronics, photovoltaics, sensors, actuators, memory devices, magnetic sensors, spintronics, energy storage devices, etc.

This symposium will provide a forum for discussion of the latest progress in research and development of chemical-solution deposition of inorganic functional and multifunctional materials.  The emphasis will be on growth mechanisms; fabrication of films; nanocomposite films; porous networks; nanorods; nanoparticles; self assembly of multiphase materials; advanced characterization methods; and application of these materials in forefront technologies.  The materials to be covered include insulators, semiconductors, conductors, superconductors, nitrides, carbides, ferroics, multi-ferroics, and thermoelectrics.  Interdisciplinary topics related to materials science, chemistry, and physics will be presented.  The symposium is intended to promote information exchange between researchers from universities/national labs and engineers from various industries in order to highlight recent research advancements, accelerate the development of these processes and materials toward various applications, and steer future research directions.

Session topics will include:

• Solution synthesis of metal-oxide, carbide, and nitride films
• Fabrication of nanostructures and nanocomposite films
• Solution-based patterning and self assembly
• Colloidal methods for nanoparticle synthesis
• Process-property relationships
• Solution-processed dielectric, ferroelectric, and multiferroic oxides
• Semiconductors and transparent conducting materials
• Solution-based films and nanostructures for energy applications
• Magnetic and superconducting films/composites by solution approaches
• Applications of solution-processed materials

A joint session with Symposium HH: Nanocomposites, Nanostructures, and Heterostructures of Correlated Oxide Systems is being considered.

Invited speakers include:

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb (Georgia Inst. of Technology), Geoff Brennecka (Sandia National Labs), C. Jeffrey Brinker (Sandia National Labs and Univ. of New Mexico),Melanie Cole (U. S. Army Research Lab), Sanjay Mathur (Univ. of Cologne, Germany), Thomas M. McCleskey  (Los Alamos National Lab.), David B. Mitzi (IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr.), Christopher B. Murray (Univ. of Pennsylvania), T. Nakajima (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan), Teresa Puig (Inst. de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain), Theo Schneller (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Univ. of Technology, Germany), Dmitri Talapin (Univ. of Chicago), Susan Trolier-McKinstry (Pennsylvania State Univ.).

Symposium Organizers

Menka Jain
University of Connecticut, Institute of Materials Science and Dept. of Physics
Unit 3046, 2152 Hillside Rd., Storrs, CT 06269
Tel 860-486-4090, Fax 860-486-3346
mjain@phys.uconn.edu  

Xavier Obradors
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain
Tel 34-935-801-853, Fax 34-935-805-729
obradors@icmab.es 

Quanxi Jia
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MPA-CINT
MS K771, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Tel 505-667-2716, Fax 505-665-9030
qxjia@lanl.gov 

Robert W. SchwartzMissouri University of Science and Technology
110 ERL, Rolla, MO 65409-0840
Tel 573-341-7887, Fax 573-341-4979
rschwartz@mst.edu