| Scope |
Affordable, reliable, and energy-efficient technologies are essential for the sustainable development and electrification of modern societies. Continued advances in energy conversion, storage, thermal management, and solid-state cooling require the development of multifunctional materials with tailored electrical, thermal, ionic, and electromechanical transport properties. Ceramic and electroceramic materials play a critical role in enabling these technologies through their unique functionalities, stability, and coupled transport behavior.
This symposium aims to convene leading researchers from academia, national laboratories, and industry to discuss recent advances in the design, synthesis, characterization, understanding, and application of energy materials for sustainable technologies. Emphasis will be placed on ceramic and ceramic-enabled materials for energy conversion, electrochemical energy storage, solid-state refrigeration, thermal management, electrochemical transport, and multifunctional coupled phenomena. Researchers and scientists working in ceramic-based energy materials and related fields are invited to participate in this symposium sponsored by the ACerS Energy Materials & Systems Division.
Abstracts are solicited in (but not limited to) the following topics:
• Materials for solid-state energy conversion and coupled transport phenomena (thermoelectric, thermionic, piezoelectric, electrostrictive, pyroelectric, ferroelectric, and charge–heat–mechanical coupling phenomena)
• Solid-state refrigeration and advanced cooling technologies (Peltier and Thomson cooling, caloric materials, thermomagnetic cooling, chip-level cooling, and thermal-functional integration)
• Advanced thermal management and heat rejection materials (high thermal conductivity ceramics, heat spreaders, heat exchangers, thermal barrier coatings, radiative cooling, and phonon engineering)
• Solid-state ionics and electrochemical energy materials (ceramic electrolytes, batteries across all chemistries, supercapacitors, ion-conducting ceramics, and electrochemical transport phenomena)
• Interfaces, defects, and microstructure engineering in energy ceramics and electroceramics
• Energy-efficient power electronics and multifunctional energy materials (dielectric materials, electroceramics, coupled multifunctional properties, and energy-related electronic materials)
• Advanced characterization, operando methods, and modeling approaches for energy materials |