2025 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Symposium MF01-Frontier Plasma Technologies

Plasmas have great potential to advance the frontier of materials science to its fullest because of its feature to add energy into matter in a unique way that leads to complex physics and chemistry. Plasma science also involves materials research in many disciplines. The broad international materials community has been enjoying the fruit of plasma technologies for improved material properties and new scientific innovation. It is crucial to have a plasma-focused symposium specifically designed for the synthesis, processing, and applications for materials at different length scales. The symposium will focus on advancing a deeper scientific understanding of the relationships between plasma conditions, materials properties, and performance to elucidate their inter-correlations. Furthermore in-situ diagnostics, materials characterization, and performance assessments through experimental and simulation modeling approaches will be highlighted. Insights gained and new materials developed from this symposium will cover many new research areas in materials science, including nanomaterials, biomaterials and sensors, catalysis, energy storage/harvesting materials, semiconductors and microelectronics, and materials at extreme conditions, etc. Applications of big data management and predictions via machine learning and artificial intelligence for the optimization of effective plasma synthesis and processing will also be discussed.
This symposium aims to gather plasma subject matter experts from the international materials research community. The main objective is to facilitate potential collaborations of mutually interested directions by presenting new discoveries and sharing experiences in resolving difficult technical challenges related to plasmas. The symposium provides an excellent venue to identify new technologies and materials. Multi-disciplinary collaborations can also arise from this symposium through discussions and networking. Early career seekers, including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and entry-level industry engineers can also have plenty of opportunities to feature their excellence in materials science by plasmas through contributed oral and poster presentations.

Topics will include:

  • Plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition
  • Plasma catalysis
  • Plasma characterization and in-process measurements
  • Plasmas for biomaterials/biosensors
  • Plasmas for medicine
  • Plasmas for semiconductors and microelectronics
  • Plasma-induced solution electrochemistry
  • Plasma surface engineering and processing
  • Plasma synthesis/functionalization of new nano and quantum materials
  • Plasma synthesis and treatment of materials for extreme conditions
  • Plasma treatment and chemistry for energy harvesting and storage
  • Simulation modeling: plasma physics and chemistry, nucleation & growth, interfaces
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning for plasmas

Invited Speakers:

  • Nabiel Abuyazid (LAM Research Corporation, USA)
  • Jan Benedikt (Kiel University, Germany)
  • Ageeth Bol (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Heeyeop Chae (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea)
  • Jane Chang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • Patrick Cullen (The University of Sydney, Australia)
  • Renee Frontiera (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Daniel Hiller (Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany)
  • Devon Jensen (Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc., USA)
  • Michael Johnson (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
  • Katie Lutker-Lee (TEL Technology Center, USA)
  • Vandana Miller (Drexel University, USA)
  • Richard van de Sanden (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands)
  • Koichi Sasaki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  • Saravanapriyan Sriraman (LAM Research Corporation, USA)
  • Nozomi Takeuchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Yasunori Tanaka (Kanazawa University, Japan)
  • Lea Winter (Yale University, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Chi-Chin Wu
U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Laboratory
Army Research Directorate
USA

Yun-Chien Cheng
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Taiwan

Katerina Kusová
Institute of Physics, The Czech Academy of Sciences
Division of Solid State Physics
Czech Republic

Elijah Thimsen
Washington University in Saint Louis
Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
USA

Topics

biomedical catalytic coating energy storage nanostructure nucleation & growth sensor