| Scope |
Understanding and controlling phonon properties of materials are important to applications such as thermoelectric power generation, thermal management, solid state ion conduction, catalysis, etc. With the advancements in computational methods like ab initio and atomistic simulations, data-driven methods and thermal metrology, we are now able to predictively model and probe phonon properties accurately and design and engineer materials with desired properties. This symposium focuses on understanding phonon properties relevant to inorganic, organic, lower dimensional, disordered materials as well as discussing novel modeling methods, data-driven strategies, and experimental methods. The topics of presentations are sought to include but not limited to:
- Ab initio lattice dynamics and Peierls Boltzmann transport equation methods
- Molecular dynamics methods, phonon potentials
- Mesoscale modeling methods
- Machine learning based phonon property evaluation and materials design/search
- Experimental measurement of phonon properties |