About this Symposium

Real time, in-situ and in operando observations of the dynamic behaviors of materials across different spatiotemporal scale can provide important and critical information for understanding the materials behavior in different conditions. Many innovative and emerging advanced imaging techniques can provide the temporal and spatial insights that other indirect conventional experimental techniques cannot access to. These may include optical, laser, electron, X-ray, neutron imaging techniques, and other emerging methods. Integrating those imaging techniques in heating, isothermal holding, and cooling under controlled atmospheres, and/or stress/strain conditions, valuable real time thermodynamic and kinetic data can be generated for a variety of materials and processes. This symposium may encompass a broad range of materials science topics enabling cross-cutting opportunities for multiple disciplines (structural materials, manufacturing processes, energy materials, functional materials, biomaterials, etc.) but it focuses primarily on real time imaging techniques, which are enhanced with advanced approaches. Presentations are solicited on the conceptual introduction or the application of these methods to materials science and industrial processes, as well as on development of such techniques.

Topics include, but not limited to:
· Real time optical (e.g., visible light, white light, laser, IR, UV, high/low speed) and non-optical (e.g., scanning probe, electron, ultrasound, X-ray, neutron) imaging techniques
· In-situ, in-operando, in-vitro, and in-vivo imaging techniques, such as thermal imaging furnace and other real time imaging methods
· Confocal techniques, including fluorescence and reflection types, which may be equipped with capabilities such as heating/cooling chambers, gas chambers, mechanical testing, Raman spectroscope, mass spectrometry, and FTIR
· Microscopic and/or telescopic imaging methods include hot thermocouple, resistance heating, and sessile drop techniques used for high temperature phenomena
· Techniques to generate thermodynamic and kinetic data, useful for phase diagram constructions, oxidation/corrosion modeling, phase formation kinetics studies, etc.
· Materials used in the manufacturing of real time imaging devices
· Novel technologies and methodologies for emerging imaging devices

Joint sessions with other symposia may take place if mutual benefits are found.