Symposium 4: Material Property Characterization, Simulation and Control
13:30-17:30, June. 6th, 2012 (Wednesday); Place: Room 305C, 3^rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Urs Meier, Emeritus Professor, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

Co-Chair:

Dr. Serguei V. Savilov, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

13:30-13:35

Chair’s Introduction

13:35-13:55

Keynote Speaker:
Title: Diffuse Neutron Scattering as a Probe of Mesoscopic Structure
Dr. Ray Osborn, Senior Scientist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

13:55-14:15

Title: Seeing the Invisible-Ultrasonic Force Microscopy for True Nanoscale Subsurface Elastic Imaging of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Dr. Oleg V. Kolosov, Reader, Lancaster University, UK

14:15-14:35

Title: A Novel Method to Obtain Yield Strength and Work Hardening Rate from Nanoindentation
Dr. Alexander Hartmaier, Professor, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum; Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS); Germany

14:35-14:55

Title: The Application of Innovative Photo-catalytic Materials for the Degradation of Atmospheric Pollutants
Dr. Dimitris Kotzias, Professor, European conmission-Joint Research Center, Italy

14:55-15:15

Title: Monitoring the Relability of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Components in Civil-structures with the Means of Structural Health Monitoring
Dr. Urs Meier, Emeritus Professor, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:50

Title: Electron Microscopy and Related Techniques in Study of Structured Carbon Materials
Dr. Serguei V. Savilov, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

15:50-16:10

Title: Atomic Column-to-column Compositional Analysis of Materials from High Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Dr. Sergio I. Molina, Professor, University of Cadiz, Spain

16:10-16:30

Title: Accurate Evaluation of Intermolecular Properties in van der Waals and H-bonded Complexes
Dr. B. Fernandez, Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

16:30-16:50

Title: pH Dependent Conformation and Intramolecular Dynamics of PAMAM Dendrimers
Dr. Yi Liu, Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, USA

16:50-17:10

Title: Quick Observation of Nano-scaled Chemical States by Micro-X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Dr. Yuji Baba, Principal Scientist, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan

17:10-17:30

Title: Development in a New Electrochemical Coating Process Using Zn-Al-Ag Alloy and Its Applications
Dr. Said Robles Casolco, Materials Researcher, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Campus Puebla, Mexico