About this Symposium |
| Meeting |
2027 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Chemistry and Physics of Interfaces
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| Sponsorship |
TMS Functional Materials Division
TMS Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division
TMS: Chemistry and Physics of Materials Committee
TMS: Computational Materials Science and Engineering Committee
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| Organizer(s) |
Nutth Tuchinda, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Rebecca A. Gallivan, Dartmouth College
Wenwu Xu, San Diego State University
Ryan Sills, Rutgers University
Daniel Moore, Sandia National Laboratory
Sergii V. Divinskyi, University of Muenster
Kaka Ma, Texas A&M University |
| Scope |
A detailed understanding of interface phenomena is key to the development of advanced materials with tailored microstructures and optimal properties. While the broad importance of interfaces to materials science has long been recognized, recent advances in computational methods, characterization techniques, and their coupling with artificial intelligence have enabled new discoveries and elucidated insights into the elementary mechanisms by which interfaces form and evolve in response to a multitude of external stimuli.
This symposium aims to bring together researchers with experimental and computational efforts aimed at gaining a fundamental understanding of materials interfaces, from thermodynamics to nonequilibrium phenomena. The symposium will consider various classes of interfaces, including grain boundaries, crystalline interphase boundaries, solid-liquid interfaces, and free surfaces in a whole spectrum of materials from pure substances to multi-component alloys and ceramics.
Topics of choice for this symposium include but are not limited to:
1. Interatomic potential development and its use to model interfacial properties.
2. Advanced characterization techniques and their use in revealing interface structure.
3. Fundamental mechanisms underpinning interfacial dynamics.
4. Compositional effects on interface properties.
5. Grain boundary structure-property relations.
6. Solid-liquid interface properties and anisotropy.
7. Interface thermodynamics and kinetics, phase transitions, and microstructure evolution (grain growth, solidification, recrystallization).
8. Atomic structure and associated defects in interfaces. |
| Abstracts Due |
07/01/2026 |
| Proceedings Plan |
Undecided |