Cette école thématique a pour objectif de réunir des communautés très variées de chercheurs en sciences de la matière : elle intéressera les physiciens de la matière « dure » (électrons fortement corrélés et nanosciences) et de la matière molle, les chimistes et les biologistes, autour du thème fédérateur des symétries.

Anno 2014 marks the United Nation's International Year of Crystallography, a discipline on which is based the analysis of materials by neutron and X-ray diffraction. Since discovery of the latter by Laue and the Bragg's, over a centenary ago, the method excels and still evolves with the up-come of most modern sources. Recently X-ray free-electron lasers became available, high-energy synchrotrons are being refurbished, neutron reactors built and spallation sources driven to new scales; while future facilities, as energy-recovery linacs have been technically designed. Hand-in-hand with achievements in detector development, instrumentation and computing power, these installations continuously drive into new possibilities for materials analysis. The present symposium shall expose those latest developments for the materials science applications, demonstrating both pioneering experiments and well established methods. Modern diffraction methods of synchrotron and neutron radiation, combined simultaneously with time resolved or imaging techniques allow a multi-dimensional insight into materials. Thus information from an ensemble of individual grains in a polycrystalline material, time resolved in situ investigations can be obtained from materials undergoing mechanical, chemical or electric load under working or extreme conditions. Last but not least, coherent-beam diffraction opens new aspects of data acquisition and analysis in both spectroscopic and space resolved domains.

Contributions are sought in the fields of metallurgy and materials forming; energy materials in realistic conditions; response of functional materials under parametric load; materials under extreme or exotic conditions. Particularly contributions using an innovative approach in their application or from the novel upcoming facilities with unprecedented possibilities are desired.
The methods shall cover time and lengths scales from sub-picoseconds to days and sub-angstrom to meters, respectively.

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Topics will include:

In-Situ Processes Â

• Time resolved
• Complex environments
• Extreme conditions

Single Grain Resolved Studies Â

• Embedded grain characterization
• Grain statistics
• Orientation relationships
• Subgrains

Strain Scanning Â

• Strains and residual stresses
• Multiple length scales
• Grain resolved strain

Texture Â

• Three-dimensional reciprocal space mapping
• Texture evolution
• Local texture

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Liquid, Amorphous, Nanocrystalline and Distorted Materials Â

• Pair distribution function
• Diffuse scattering
• Phase transformations
• Local structure

Materials Imaging / Tomography Â

• Real time imaging
• High resolution tomography
• Combined diffraction tomography

Exotic and Novel Experimental Developments Â

• Coherent beam diffraction
• Fourier reconstruction
• X-ray photo-correlation spectroscopy
• Ultrafast processes
• The future arrived: X-ray free electron lasers

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Course of specialization for learning the Pair Distribution Analysis method, a very useful tool for studying glasses, liquids and amorphous materials, as well as crystalline or partly crystalline materials.

Addressed to scientists working in the structural characterization of materials. The course is aimed at present and future users of the Materials Science and Powder Diffraction beamline (MSPD) at ALBA who are interested in getting experience with the Pair Distribution Function method:from sample preparation to analysis of the experimental Pair Distribution Function. The hands-on course will also present the possibilities of the data taken at laboratory sources.

Participants are expected to bring their own laptops. The following programs will be used: pfgetx3 and pdfgui. Attendees are encouraged to install the software in advance (please contact Inma Peral to solve any technical issues with the installation)

Registrations already completed. To register in the waiting list, send an e-mail to [email protected]

There is no registration fee for the workshop, but you must register in order to get a reservation. The number of attendees is limited to 25. If the number of attendees is exceeded, participation of as many research groups as possible will be promoted.

The workshop will be given by the beamline staff, Laura Barrio, researcher of the Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica, CSIC and Mauro Coduri, researcher of the Istituto per la Energetica e le Interfasi (Lecco, Italy).

Shedding light on correlated electrons

The 2015 MaNEP Winter School combines introductory courses with more specialized lectures in the field of correlated quantum matter. The school aims at a broad introduction to topics of current interest in condensed-matter physics. This year, a special focus is devoted to spectroscopies of materials with strong electron correlations, especially time-resolved techniques. Three long lectures will provide an introduction to these materials and their electronic structure, to the fundamental aspects of optics and non-linear optics in solids, and to superconductivity and topological superconductors. Five shorter lectures will cover: neutron scattering, recent advances on cuprate superconductors using photoemission and resonant spectroscopies, introductions to time-resolved spectroscopies and to the theory of non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly-correlated systems. The school targets an audience at the doctoral and post-doctoral levels. A background in general condensed-matter physics should be sufficient. All lectures are given in English.

The advanced experimental techniques using ultrabright and tunable X-ray, VUV or IR synchrotron and free electron laser radiation are indispensable tools to investigate the properties of matter with unprecedented space, spectral and time resolution.  Tightly focused beams of high intensity and coherence are especially well suited for chemical, morphological and structural characterization of materials under operando conditions. The topical sessions will focus on some of the major challenges of our century -  engineering materials capable of transforming efficiently chemical energy and solar energy into electricity and fuel. Opportunities also exist with x-rays for tackling challenges associated  with developing high capacity energy storage devices. The recent achievements in studies of interfacial electrochemical processes and charge transfer phenomena will be reported with selected presentations illustrating the potentials of the instruments, operated at the large scale facilities, with emphasis on the latest developments. We solicit abstracts demonstrating the recent achievements using synchrotron and FEL-based analytical methods spanning from all types of XRF, scattering (including RIXS and CDI), spectroscopy (including XRPES and XES) and X-ray imaging and microspectroscopy (SPEM, XPEEM, SXTM, TXM).Â

SA1 Synchrotron Studies of Processes in Energy Conversion, Electronic Devices and Other Materials I

• Charles Fadley, UC, Davis, "Looking Into Buried Interfaces with Soft/hard X-Ray Photoemission and Standing-Wave Excitation"
• Franz Himpsel, University of Wisconsin, "Synchrotron-Based Spectroscopy Shedding Light on Solar Cells"
• Gregory Hughes, Dublin City University, Ireland, "Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Metal Oxide Semiconductor Structures"

SA2 Synchrotron Studies of Processes in Energy Conversion, Electronic Devices and Other Materials II

• Benedetto Bozzini, University Lecce, Italy, "In-situ Characterization of PEMFC, SOFC, and Supercapacitor Components"
• Wanli Yang, ALS-LBNL, "Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Battery Materials"

SA3 Free Electron Laser and Synchrotron Studies at the Molecule-Surface Interfaces I

• Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Ultrafast X-ray Studies of Interfacial Charge-Transfer Dynamics"
• Sujoy Roy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Unraveling Topological Properties of Spintronic Materials Using Coherent X-rays"

SA4 Free Electron Laser and Synchrotron Studies at the Molecule-Surface Interfaces II

• Philippe Wernet, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Germany, "Valence Electron Rearrangements During Chemical Reactions in Real Time"
• Wilfried Wurth, Universität Hamburg, Germany, "FEL-Based Techniques to Explore Photochemistry and Transient States of Molecules on Surfaces"

SA5 Characterization of Nanostructured and LD Materials Using Synchrotron-Based Methods I

• Burkhard Beckhoff, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany, "Analysis and Speciation of Nanoscaled Materials by Means of Grazing-Incidence and High-Resolution X-ray Spectrometry"
• Andrea Goldoni, Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy, "Growth and Characterization of LD Materials for Applications in Energy and Sensor Devices"
• Petra Rudolf, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Netherlands, "Effect of Interfacial Interactions: Graphene Growth on Metallic and Insulating Surfaces"

SA6 Characterization of Nanostructured and LD Materials Using Synchrotron-Based Methods II

• Andres Santander, Centre de Sciences Nucleaires et de Sciences de la Matiere, France, "Novel 2D Electron Gases at the Surface of Transition-Metal Oxides"
• Claus Schneider, FZJ-Germany, Germany, "XPEEM: Recent Achievements and Future"

SA7 Â Synchrotron Analysis Poster Session

To be held at Resort Hotel Schwielowsee, Werder (near Potsdam)

The school's concept:

In research and development of solar cells, the issue of microstructure and its impact on the device performance is often regarded inadequately, mostly because of insufficient knowledge about analysis and simulation methods. Apart of the microstructural properties of completed thin films in semiconductor devices, it is also of concern how the microstructure develops during growth.The school aims at giving insight into various techniques for microstructural analysis as well as simulation methods of the growth of crystalline materials, apart from a session on electrical materials and device characterization. Each session will comprise a keynote lecture of an expert in the corresponding field, followed by a 2-3 hours hands-on tutorial, giving the participants the possibility to get deeper into the topic, with the help of a specific question to be solved in teamwork practices. Two poster sessions are also planned as evening events, which intensify the discussions and scientific exchange between experts and participants.

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Confirmed invited speakers

• Thomas Kirchartz, FZ Jülich, Germany (electrical characterization of
  solar-cell materials and devices)
• Joachim Mayer, RWTH Aachen, Germany / Ernst-Ruska Center,
  FZ Jülich, Germany (transmission electron microscopy)
• Anthony D. Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
  (electron backscatter diffraction)
• Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal, ILL Grenoble, France (Rietveld refinement of
  diffraction data)
• Ingo Steinbach, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (Phase-field theory and application to solidification of multi-crystalline solar cell materials)
• Xiaowang Zhou, Sandia National Laboratories, U.S.A. (molecular dynamics)

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The Institute of Complex Systems, the Institute for Advanced Simulation and the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science are pleased to announce the 46th IFF Spring School 2015 on Functional Soft Matter taking place from 23 February until 06 March 2015 at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany. The IFF Spring School 2015 intends to give an introduction to and an overview of current research topics of soft matter systems with the emphasis on biological and technological functionality.

The ISIS Molecular Spectroscopy Group will hold its next science meeting at the Cosener’s House, Abingdon on the 29th and 30th of January 2015. This year’s meeting will focus on the following thematic areas:Â

• Catalysis & Energy
• Nanostructured Materials
  
• Modelling & Simulation
• Quantum Matter
  
• Soft Matter & Biology

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Keynote lectures will be followed by a number of oral presentations on a given thematic area.

The Australian Synchrotron's annual User Meeting showcases some of the best research and investigations undertaken at the facility, and provides our user community with updates on the latest developments and technical advances in synchrotron science, both at home and at our sister light sources overseas. Organised by the Australian Synchrotron User Advisory Committee, the 2014 meeting will again be held at the award-winning National Centre for Synchrotron Science (NCSS).

Topics:

• Advanced Materials
• Beamlines, Instrumentation and Techniques
• Biological Systems
• Earth and Environment
• Energy Materials
• Imaging
• Radiotherapy and Radiobiology
• Soft Matter
• Structural Biology
• Surface Science

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In the last decades experiments based on synchrotron radiation and coherent radiation generated by free electron lasers (FELs) and conventional lasers have contributed a great deal to the understanding of the physics in novel superconductors. Although the origin of the superconductivity in these materials is still a pending problem, it is time now for a critical analysis of the results so far obtained and looking forward for a new roadmap. Aim of the workshop is to bring together some of the most expert scientists in the field to discuss the role that synchrotron and FELs sources can play for advancing our understanding of the superconductivity mechanisms in novel and exotic materials.

Invited Speakers

• Sergey Borisenko (IFW Dresden, Germany)
• Andrea Damascelli (University of British Columbia, Canada) abstract
• Donglai Feng (Fudan University, China) abstract
• Atsushi Fujimori (University of Tokyo, Japan) abstract
• Antoine Georges (Collége de France, France)
• Giacomo Ghiringhelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) abstract
• Makoto Hashimoto (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) abstract
• Bernhard Keimer (Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Germany)
• Dragan D. Mihailovic (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
• Luca Perfetti (École Polytechnique, France) - abstract
• Kosmas Prassides (Durham University, UK & Tohoku University, Japan) abstract
• George Sawatzky (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Dirk van der Marel (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

Scope/topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Kinetics of Complex, Multiphase and Hybrid Processes
• Catalysts Synthesis and Characterization
• New Catalytic Processes
• Catalytic and Multiphase Reactors
• Polymerization Reactors
• Electro-, Photo- and Sono-Chemical Reactors
• Phase Equilibrium and Phase Transport
• Innovation and Separation Processes
• Membrane Processes
• Membrane Science
• Simulation and Separation Equipment Design
• Hybrid and Membrane Processes
• Structured Systems, Meso and Micro Reactors
• Non-conventional Energetic Technologies in Chemical Processes
• Synthesis and Design of Processes
• Simulation, Optimization, Planning and Control of Processes
• Energy Integration and Optimization
• Bioreactors and Bioprocesses (new applications and configurations)
• Modeling of bioprocesses
• Systems biotechnology
• Biorefinery
• Advanced bioseparation technologies
• Clean Energy from Fossil Resources
• Emission ControlEfficiency and New Energy Carriers
• Capture, Storage and Use of CO2
• Sustainable Processes and Products
• Green Solvents: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
• Green Polymers from Renewable Resources
• Green Organic Synthesis Routes
• New Biosynthetic Strategies
• High Pressure and Supercritical Processes
• Ionic Liquids: New Reaction/Separation Media
• Fine Chemistry
• Nano-structured Materials, Catalysts
• Intelligent Materials
• Intelligent Polymers
• Coatings and Surface Treatments
• Biodiversity conservation
• Bio-drug discovery
• Bioenergy
• Bioenvironmental Engineering
• Marine Biochemicals
• Environmental Engineering & Management
• Sustainable & Clean Technologies
• Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
• Chemical Engineering educational challenges and development
• Chemical Reaction Engineering
• Thermodynamics
• Multiphase flows
• Crystallization Distillation, absorption and extraction
• Rheology
• Product Engineering and Development
• Nanomanufacturing
• Energy and Nuclear Sciences
• Mathematical modelling in chemical engineering
• Macromolecular Science and Engineering
• Advanced Materials Processing
• Multiscale Modelling
• Biochemical Engineering
• Physical Chemistry
• Radiochemistry
• Biophysical Chemistry

The conference covers contemporary problems of crystal engineering namely synthesis, structure and dynamics, and indeed these issues are the heart of chemistry itself. This symposium will focus on all aspects of structural chemistry, including multidisciplinary areas and this unique gathering will offer the opportunity for scientists from many different countries to exchange their scientific experience as well as to intensify their cooperation to partners. This conference, jointly hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University and IISER-Kolkata, is being organized to celebrate International Year of Crystallography.

Organised by IOP Thin Films and Surfaces Group

ISSC-20 is the latest meeting in the series of interdisciplinary surface science conferences covering all experimental and theoretical aspects of surfaces, interfaces and nanoscale physics and chemistry.

Themes

• System integration from atomic, molecular, nano to meso scale towards optimised design of energy materials
• Design of material systems to optimizer the energy enrichment of renewable sources for photochemical, thermal-to-electric conversion, and mechanical-to-electric conversion systems
• How interfacial chemistry takes place in the energy-related processes, focusing on design principles of efficient (electro)catalysts, in-situ characterization methods and theories in energy conversion and storage
• New materials and innovations for energy applications, including new light harvesting materials/semiconductors, plasmonics-enhanced energy conversion, new catalysts for biomass conversion, and energy-related bioinspiration/biomimetic systems         Â
  

The Joint Users' Meeting of the synchrotron light source ANKA and the Karlsruhe Nano-Micro Facility KNMF will be organized in two sections this year, with an update of the current status of ANKA and the KNMF as well as research highlights of users on the 13th of October. KIT scientists will introduce users and especially students to the three special themes with a topical breakfast meeting on Monday. Parallel sessions on "Synchrotron- and lab-based lithography" and "Research using synchrotron-based infrared spectroscopy" will take place the second day. Many different training courses for users will be provided at ANKA Tuesday afternoon.

The themes represent the major scientific headings for the meeting and reflect the key position of these topics in contemporary materials chemistry. However, in assembling the programme we are also keen to see subjects such as theory and modelling, ionic liquids and liquid crystals represented across the different subjects.

• Biomaterials Chemistry

  Encompassing biomaterials for tissue engineering, biomaterials for healthcare, green biomaterials and advanced synthesis methods of biomaterials

• Electronic and Magnetic Materials

  This will encompass the relationship between the chemistry and the electronic and/or magnetic properties of inorganic, molecular, hybrid and nano materials using both experimental and computational/theoretical approaches.

• Energy Materials

  Encompassing all aspects of Materials Chemistry related to energy conversion, storage and fuel generation.

• Nanomaterials Chemistry

  Encompassing synthesis, characterisation and application of materials whose functionality depends on their nanoscale dimensions.

• Porous Materials

  This will encompass the chemistry and properties of porous materials for sorption, storage and separation.

• Soft Matter Materials Chemistry

  Including wide and varied aspects of soft matter materials showing the power of the interplay between a priori design and physical function.

Nanoparticles can be viewed as a new type of "atom" with size dependent physical, optical and electronic properties that make them suitable for a wide variety of applications. There are many open questions in the field of nanoparticle synthesis and assembly.Â

For example:

• How does the nanoparticle-nanoparticle potential govern nanoparticle formation or assembly?Â
• Can one design a nanoparticle from the ground up, according to theoretical predictions, which will self-assemble into a given nanoparticle superlattice structure?Â
• How does the assembly process vary with nanoparticle shape (e.g., spherical, rod, triangular, square, etc.) and the ligand coating which surrounds each nanoparticle?Â
• Can one make more robust nanoparticle superlattice structures, of macroscopic size (millimetre to centimetre), which can be moulded, milled and machined into desired shapes?Â
• Can one make nanoparticles that are stable at high temperature so that their assemblies can be melted, alloyed and cast?    Â

These questions cannot be answered in isolation. A successful attack on these difficult questions requires the coordinated and collaborative effects of nanoparticle theorists, synthesizers, and assemblers.

Format

The Faraday Division have been organising high impact Faraday Discussions in rapidly developing areas of physical chemistry and its interfaces with other scientific disciplines for over 100 years.

Faraday Discussions have a special format where research papers written by the speakers are distributed to all participants before the meeting, and most of the meeting is devoted to discussing the papers. Everyone contributes to the discussion - including presenting their own relevant research. The research papers and a record of the discussion are published in the journal Faraday Discussions.

Aims

The purpose of this Faraday Discussion meeting is bring together a diverse group of scientists to discuss the latest developments in nanoparticle theory, synthesis and assembly in order to generate new ideas and engender new collaborations between these groups.

Themes

• Nanoparticle synthesis - physical chemistry of nanoparticle shape and ligand control
• Theoretical insights into nanoparticle synthesis and nanoparticle assembly
• Nanoparticle self-assembly
• Nanoparticle directed assembly        Â