| Scope |
Ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) processing is enabling transformative advances in modern materials science and engineering by expanding the accessible materials design space for synthesis and manufacturing under extreme temperatures, rapid heating/cooling, and strongly non-equilibrium conditions. These capabilities are increasingly important across the energy, aerospace, defense, and manufacturing sectors, where conventional processing routes are often limited in microstructural control, throughput, and scalability. This symposium will highlight recent progress in ultrahigh-temperature-enabled synthesis and manufacturing pathways across a broad range of material systems, including nanomaterials, alloys, ceramics, and composite materials. Particular emphasis will be placed on how ultrahigh-temperature processing governs phase transformations, defect evolution, and microstructure control, as well as materials performance in extreme environments. The symposium will also feature emerging approaches that integrate ultrahigh-temperature processing with data-driven modeling to accelerate process optimization and enable predictive control. By bringing together researchers in synthesis science, advanced manufacturing, characterization, and computational design, this symposium aims to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and identify new opportunities for ultrahigh-temperature processing to drive next-generation materials innovation.
The topics cover but are not limited to: (1) Ultrahigh-temperature synthesis and processing routes; (2) ultrahigh-temperature manufacturing and scale-up; (3) materials behavior under ultrahigh temperatures; (4) Fundamental science of UHT materials (thermodynamics, kinetics, defects, interfacial phenomena); (5) computational modeling and data-driven control. |