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Symposium YY: Rare-Earth-based 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

Rare-Earth-based Materials

Scientific interest in the applications of rare-earth-based materials and their hybrids is ever increasing in many different fields, including energy, catalysis, magnetism, photonics, electronics, cosmetics, and biomedical applications.  This fact is counterbalanced by economic and political issues related to the global availability of rare-earth elements.  The question to ask is: Are these materials actually rare?  Researchers working with these materials on a given application are often unaware of the problems encountered in different disciplines.  Therefore, a timely opportunity needs to be created to concentrate, in a single symposium, to spur the interest of scientists working on rare-earth-based materials and hybrids from various perspectives, including science and revolutionary technologies.

The aim of this symposium is to offer a forum of discussion for scientists, engineers, policy makers, and industries involved in the research, development, fabrication, and applications based on rare-earth materials.

Session topics will include:

• Synthesis and characterization of rare-earth-based materials and hybrids
• Size-scale effects in rare-earth compounds
• Modeling and simulation opportunities and challenges
• Energy applications including ionic conductivity
• Optical, photonic, electronic, and magnetic properties and applications
• Use of rare-earth oxides in cosmetics
• Biomedical applications, including therapeutics, sensing, imaging, and toxicity
• Policies on rare-earth availability

Invited speakers include:

Donald Baer (Pacific Northwest National Lab), Anthony Cheetham (Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Michael Coey (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), J. de Hosson (Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands), Ram Devanathan (Pacific Northwest National Lab), Jay Dickerson (Vanderbilt Univ.), Lina Ghibelli (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata, Italy), Dominique Givord (Inst. Néel, CNRS Grenoble, France), Satoshi Hirosawa (Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Japan), Kazuhiro Hono (National Inst. for Materials Science, Japan), John Kilner (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Larry Merkle (U. S. Army), Andre Nel (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), Yoshihiko Sadaoka (Ehime Univ., Japan), Dean Sayle (Cranfield Univ., United Kingdom), Osvaldo Serra (Univ. San Paolo, Brazil), Harry Tuller (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Eric Wachsman (Univ. of Maryland).

Symposium Organizers

Sudipta Seal
University of Central Florida
Advanced Materials Processing Analysis Center (AMPAC)
Nanoscience Technology Center (NSTC)
and Mechanical Materials Aerospace Engineering (MMAE)
Engineering Bldg. 1, Rm. 381, P. O. Box 162455
Orlando, FL 32816
Tel 407-823-5277 or -1458, Fax 407-882-1462
sseal@mail.ucf.edu 

Aldo R. Boccaccini
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Institute of Biomaterials
Cauerstr. 6
D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel 49-9131-85-28601
aldo.boccaccini@ww.uni-erlangen.de 

Kelly Nash
The University of Texas, San Antonio
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249-0697
Tel 210-458-6153, Fax 210-458-4919
kelly.nash@utsa.edu 

Enrico Traversa
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)
1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
Tel 81-29-860-4891
traversa.enrico@nims.go.jp