| Scope |
The past decade has seen major advances in our understanding of gain boundary and hetero-phase interface structure, the mechanisms by which they migrate, and their influence on microstructure evolution as a result of profound advances in theory, simulation, and experimental characterization at the single interface/grain boundary level and microstructure scales. The goal of the Hume-Rothery Symposium is to assess the state-of-the-art in our community's understanding of gain boundary and hetero-phase interface structure and properties, and the impact of these on interface migration mechanisms/how interfaces move. These, in turn, have a profound impact on microstructure evolution; the second theme of this Symposium. This includes the evolution of grain/phase size, morphology, crystallographic texture, and orientation relations.
This invitation-only symposium will bring together experts in theory, computation, characterization, and experiments in areas including, but not limited to:
• Grain boundaries and hetero-phase interfaces
• Interface & grain boundary structure
• Bicrystallography
• Disconnections
• Mechanisms of grain boundary and interface migration
• Interface/grain boundary thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
• Diffusional transport along interfaces
• Grain growth and recrystallization
• Crystallographic texture evolution
• Electron microscopy-based characterization of interface structure and interface dynamics
• Novel microstructure evolution simulation and experimental methods
• Materials processing techniques that exploit our understanding of how interfaces develop and interact
(NB: This symposium only accepts invited abstracts) |