International Workshop on Interfaces at Bear Creek Bear Creek Mountain Resort • 101 Doe Mountain Lane • Macungie, PA • 18062 •
September 28-October 1, 2015
Workshop Program
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Monday September 28, 2015
3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Arrival at the Inn at Bear Creek
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Welcome Reception and Dinner
Session I – Opening Session
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. M. P. Harmer (Lehigh University)
Welcome and Perspectives Summary
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Session II – Grain Growth I |
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(Chair: Greg Rohrer) |
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9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. |
Carl Krill (Ulm University) Probing the sociology of grain growth: Cyril Stanley Smith, German beer and microstructural mapping in 4D |
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9:20 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. |
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9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. |
Tony Rollett (Carnegie Mellon University) How Grain Boundary Transitions Sustain Abnormal Growth |
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Discussion
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10:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. |
Session II Continued- Grain Growth II |
(Chair: Tony Rollett) |
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10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. |
Elizabeth Holm (Carnegie Mellon University) Network models for predicting rare microstructural events |
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10:50 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. |
Michael Hoffmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Grain growth transitions in perovskites: What do we know? What is important? What are we still missing? Where should we go to? |
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11:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
Discussion |
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11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. |
Five Minute Poster Preview I - (Chair: Chris Schuh- MIT) |
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12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. |
Session III – Nanograin Stability (Chair: Reiner Kirchman) |
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1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. |
Chris Schuh (MIT) Thermodynamically stabilized nanostructures: nanoduplex alloys |
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1:50 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. |
Chris Marvel (Lehigh University) The Influence of Contamination on the Thermal and Phase Stability of Nanocrystalline Ni-W Alloys
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2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Kris Darling (Army Research Lab) Microstructure and mechanical properties of bulk nanostructured Cu–Ta alloys consolidated by equal channel angular extrusion |
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Discussion
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3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
Coffee
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Session IV- Interface Diffusion and Transformations (Chair: Michael Hoffmann)
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3:15 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. |
Patrick Cantwell (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) Grain Boundary Complexion TTT Diagrams
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3:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. |
Shen Dillon (University of Illinois Urbana) The effect of grain boundary complexions on grain boundary transport
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3:55 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. |
Jian Luo (University of California San Diego) From Understanding Complexions in Binary Alloys to Stabilizing Nanoalloys Using “High-Entropy Grain Boundary Complexions” |
4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. |
Discussion
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4:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Poster Viewing Session I |
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6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Session V – Tailoring Interfaces for Electronic Applications |
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(Chair: Steve Garofalini) |
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9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. |
Ming Tang (Rice University) |
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Tailoring the Morphological Evolution of Interfaces in Lithium Battery Electrode Materials |
9:20 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. |
Ed Webb (Lehigh University) Atomic Scale Exploration of Intercalation and Diffusion in Graphite Grain Boundaries |
9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. |
Steve McIntosh (Lehigh University) Insights into Oxygen Anion Transport in Layered Oxides via In-Situ Powder Neutron Diffraction |
10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |
Greg Ferguson (Lehigh University) Studies of a Thermodynamically Unstable Oxide: Thin Films of Gold Oxide and Its Use in Selective Surface Chemistry |
10:20 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Discussion |
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11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. |
Coffee |
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11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Five Minute Poster Preview Session II |
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12:00 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:10 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. |
Session VI- Solid/Liquid Surface Interactions (Chair: Ed Webb) |
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1:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
Jim Gilchrist (Lehigh University) Large-area nanoparticle films by continuous automated Langmuir-Blodgett assembly and deposition |
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1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. |
Joelle Frechette (John Hopkins University) Large out-of-contact elastohydrodynamic deformation due to lubrication forces |
1:50 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. |
Steve Garofalini (Rutgers University) |
2 :10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Discussion |
2:30 p.m. -2:45 p.m. |
Coffee |
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2:45p.m. - 4:05 p.m. |
Session VII –Insights from First Principles Calculations |
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2:45 p.m. – 3:05 p.m. |
Michael Widom (Carnegie Mellon University) Bismuth and tungsten impurities in nickel |
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3:05 p.m. – 3:25 p.m. |
Heather Jaeger (Lehigh University) Simulating electronic processes in molecular materials |
3:25 p.m.-3:45 p.m. |
Andrew Rappe (University of Pennsylvania) |
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Interfaces between polar domains in oxides: Dynamics and Functionality |
3:45 p.m. -4:05 p.m. |
Discussion |
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4:05 p.m. -4:30 p.m. |
Coffee |
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4:30 p.m. -6:00 p.m. |
Poster Viewing Session II |
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6:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m. |
Cocktail Hour |
7:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. |
Conference Dinner and Special Entertainment |
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Thursday October 1, 2015
7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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9:00 a.m. – 10:10 p.m. |
Session VIII – Corundum Conundrums |
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(Chair: Martin Harmer) |
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9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. |
Arthur Heuer (Case Western Reserve University) Al2O3 is a Wide-Band Gap Semiconductor: A Half Century of Myopia! |
9:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. |
Helen Chan (Lehigh University) Nanoscale Metal-Ceramic Matrix Composites by Reduction of Mixed Oxides |
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9:50 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. |
Discussion |
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10:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. |
Session IX – Mechanical Behavior |
10:10 a.m. -10:30 a.m. |
Tim Rupert (University of California Irvine) Using amorphous complexions to tailor the mechanical behavior of nanostructured metals |
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10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. |
Rick Vinci (Lehigh University) Fracture testing inside an SEM
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10:50 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. |
Reiner Kirchheim (Institut für Materialphysik Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) |
11:10 a.m. -11:30 a.m. |
Brandon Krick (Lehigh University) |
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11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. |
Discussion |
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12:10 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:20 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Session X – Architectured Materials (Chair: Carl Krill) |
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1:20 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. |
Nicolas Argibay (Sandia National Labs) |
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Correlating surface microstructure evolution to regimes of friction in metals |
1:50 p.m. -2:10 p.m. |
Natasha Vermaak (Lehigh University) |
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Exploiting interfaces in topology optimization for architectured materials |
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2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Discussion |
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2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Session XI – Conference Summary and General Discussion |
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Greg Rohrer (Carnegie Mellon Uinversity) |
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3:00 p.m. |
Depart |
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