Tutorial Sessions

Leading researchers from the U.S. DOE presented lectures on the neutron and x-ray facilities, characteristics of the sources and related beamlines, principles of scattering and spectroscopy, data processing and modeling, and topics on applications to a variety of scientific subjects.

This tutorial provided a comprehensive overview of molecular self-assembly and liquid crystallinity in organic electronics.

The tutorial highlighted strategies that address challenges in plasmonics and metamaterials, spanning novel synthetic methods, advanced nanostructure characterization, and ultimate integration into diverse areas such as energy conversion, flat optical components and nanoscale optoelectronic devices.

This tutorial focused on the fundamentals and applications of several advanced characterization techniques to understand the atomic and electronic structures of energy materials, especially batteries and electrocatalysts.

The morning session covered Fundamentals of Density-Functional Theory and the afternoon session covered Quantum Chemistry in Continuum Environments.

This tutorial introduced approaches and tools for quantifying not only the technological performance impacts of selecting specific materials and processes, but also their economic, environmental, societal and human health impacts.

This tutorial was designed for young researchers who are active in the field of thin-film solar cells and wanted to learn the fundamentals of characterization methods that are being used in research and development of these materials and devices.

The tutorial included two sections: Nanogenerators—From Sustainable Power Source to Self-Powered Systems and Piezotronics, Piezo-Photonics and Piezo-Phototronics—From Electrochemical Catalyst to 2D Materials.

This tutorial reviewed the recent developments in the rapidly growing field of defects and magnetic properties of a broad spectrum of 2D materials through a combination of theoretical and sensitive experimental approaches. 

The tutorial gave an overview of some unresolved theoretical and experimental problems in the field of nanoscale thermal transport.

This two-part (theoretical and experimental) afternoon tutorial dove into topics related to (1) lattice dynamics and phonon thermal transport calculations and (2) measurements of thermal transport that inform our understanding of underlying phonon behaviors.

This tutorial covered various aspects of quantum behavior of oxides. The tutorial focused on the transport properties and electronic structures of quantum oxide materials, and novel imaging techniques and theoretical approaches for characterization of the materials.