Introduction

Over the last decade or so, there has been immense progress in the development of tools, both experimental and theoretical, for probing the solid/fluid interface at the nanoscale. These advances open the way towards mechanistic understanding, and potentially prediction, of chemical processes occurring at this interface. Amongst the fields beginning to benefit from such effort is corrosion science, which is primarily concerned with degradation of metallic materials immersed in either liquid or gaseous environments, and control thereof. Corrosion science does not always attract the plaudits of other more fashionable subjects, but is nevertheless of huge strategic importance. This statement is increasingly true as we move towards a world where every atom counts, e.g. in maintaining the performance of nano-devices, as well for ensuring sustainability through optimum use of natural resources.

Aims

The aim of this Faraday Discussion is to bring together experimentalists and theoreticians concerned with understanding at the nanoscale interfacial chemical processes relevant to corrosion and its control.

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.

Themes

• Solid/Fluid Interface

In this session, studies concerned with nanoscale elucidation of the structure and fundamental chemical processes (e.g. ion adsorption) at solid/fluid interfaces will be discussed. Particular attention will focus on the solid/aqueous solution interface, as it is of central importance to corrosion. Contributions will cover experimental work, with particular emphasis on in situ studies using state-of-the-art probes, and theoretical modeling.

• Corrosion Scales and Passive Films

Substrate adhered corrosion scales and passive films, which can both significantly affect corrosion (e.g. a passive film can reduce corrosion to a negligible rate), will be the topics of discussion here. Experimental/theoretical studies of both engineering and model (e.g. single crystal) substrates will be presented. Relationships between the composition-structure-chemistry-corrosion resistance of the scales/films will be addressed, together with insight into processes governing their initiation and growth, including the impact of environmental conditions

• Localised Corrosion

Spatially confined corrosion phenomena (e.g. pitting), which can lead to rapid failure of otherwise corrosion resistant substrates, will be of concern in this session. Studies aiming to understand at the nanoscale the combined influences of substrate microstructure/geometry, mechanical distortion, and fluid chemistry on local corrosion initiation/progression will be presented. Modeling of these processes will also feature, as prediction of their occurrence is of huge technological concern

• Corrosion Control

To complement the above sessions, this final session will address nanoscale understanding of corrosion control methods. In particular, it will be concerned with approaches where chemistry plays a key role, namely coatings, paints, and corrosion inhibitors. Topics of discussion will centre on those critical to gain mechanistic insight into corrosion resistance performance, including substrate bonding, structure/morphology, interfacial transport, and degradation mechanisms.

Introduction

The crystallisation phase transformation process and the resulting creation of crystalline materials from liquid phase precursors are central to the science and process engineering of materials in their broadest sense. Crystallisation involves two distinct stages: nucleation and growth. Due to the nano-scale size domain within which the nucleation process functions it is a much less understood process compared to the growth process. As a result, elucidating the fundamental physics and chemistry that govern the formation and structure of the nucleation supra-molecular transition state remains one of the truly unresolved 'grand challenges' of the physical sciences.

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.Â

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.Â

Themes

• Molecular self-assembly in nucleationÂ
  This session will focus on the transition pathway, and its associated molecular assembly process, for solute molecules as they aggregate and stabilise into clusters prior to their subsequent development in the growth stage into facetted crystals. The session will seek to examine the latest results from both experimental studies and advanced molecular and synthonic modelling.Â

• Nucleation kinetics and mechanismsÂ
  The session will focus on the mechanistic processes underpinning the nucleation process, i.e. whether single/2-step, progressive/instantaneous, homo/heterogeneous etc. and The role played by secondary nucleation processes in modifying nucleation behaviour will be examined and the session will also seek to examine the latest research in kinetic modelling of the nucleation process.Â

• Solvent interactions as determinants in the nucleation pathwayÂ
  This session will seek to examine the role played by crystallisation environment, notably solvent choice (whether polar/apolar, protic/aprotic and molecular size/shape) and resultant solution structure, in dictating the nucleation process. The role played by solution ideality as well as the influence hydrogen bonding and synthon architectures for directing specific solute-solute interactions will be examined.

• Nucleation in complex multi-component and multi-phase systemsÂ
  This session will examine nucleation within complex crystallisation environments for situation where the presence of multi-components and phases are found to significantly change crystallisation behaviour and crystallisability of a material, e.g. in an extreme case leading to oiling out. Understanding the influence of phase composition, molecular speciation and chirality on behaviour and how this effects the solid form properties of the resultant crystals produced (polymorphic form, crystal size and crystallinity) will be also examined.Â

Aims

This meeting aims to bring together this growing body of theoretical and experimental work from both the academic and industrial spheres in order to assess recent progress, highlight on-going challenges in the domain area and route-map future work still needed.

The goal of Asia-Pacific Symposium on Solid Surfaces is to present new concepts, techniques and applications of atomically controlled processes at surfaces, interfaces and nanostructures. The Symposium covers:

• Surface/Interface Structures and Properties
• Thin Film Growth and Application
• Electronic Transport and Nano-Electronics
• Surface and Interface for Electronic Devices
• Nano-Magnetism and superconductors
• Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, and Related Nanomaterials
• Molecular Assembly and Molecular-Based Devices
• Atomic and Molecular Manipulation

Language

The conference official language is English.

Presentation

Presentation style is oral

The XXXIII Scientific Readings named after academician N.V. Belov are organized by Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN) Faculty of Physics and Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of Russian Academy of Sciences and will take place in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia on 16 â€" 17 December 2014.
The official language of the conference is Russian.
The Readings are held annually since 1982. The conference program includes plenary and poster presentations on the development of scientific fields which N.V. Belov conducted pioneer research in, as well as memories of him.
Conference topics
·        Fundamental aspects of crystallography and symmetry theory
·        X-ray structure analysis, modern methods and equipment
·        Scientific basis for the creation and development of new methods for crystalline materials, technologies and equipment for the creation and processing of materials
·        Properties of crystalline materials
·        First principles calculations of electronic structure and physical properties of solids
·        Memories of N.V. Belov
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Application deadline is 15 November 2014.

The school is intented primarily for younger scientists with some experience of structure analysis who wish to improve their understanding of the underlying principles and practice.

The main focus of the school is on chemical and materials science. Topics to be covered will include:

• Growth and evaluation of non-macromolecular crystals
• Space group determination
• Background theory to data acquisition for small molecules and inorganics
• Practical aspects of data collection
• Practical aspects of data processing
• Fourier syntheses
• Patterson syntheses and direct methods for crystal structure determination
• Charge flipping
• Refinement of inorganic, organic and metal-organic structures
• Derivation of results
• Random and systematic errors
• Twinning
• Validation of results
• Crystallographic databases (CSD, ICSD, etc)

10th International Conference On Physics Of Advanced Materials (ICPAM-10)

ICPAM-10 is intended to be a forum of physicists, chemists, material scientists, physicians, engineers and artists for discussion and exchange of ideas and results, both in fundamental and applied research of advanced materials and will consist of invited and contributed papers during plenary, oral and poster sessions.

Young researchers, PhD and MSc students are warmly invited to attend the 1st Autumn School on Physics of Advanced Materials (PAMS-1). PAMS-1 will take place at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in paralel with ICPAM-10 and will be focused on both fundamental information and on the current research activities in order to provide an interdisciplinary expert training.

The two-related satellite events: The 3rd International Festival of NanoArt and 1st Art and Science Photography Exposition and Workshop Iasi 2014, both public events devoted to promote and offer access to art and science in a new view, invite talented artists and scientists to present their artwork publicly for the first time in Romania.

The tenth biennial International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials will be held in scenic Cape Cod at The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, Massachusetts from the 21-26 September 2014.

This prestigious and long running conference will bring together delegates from around the world to discuss how to characterize, predict and analyse the fatigue damage of structural materials.

The traditional and well-received single oral presentations will allow sufficient time for follow-up discussions, friendly debate and relaxed participation.

The entire conference program is deliberately scheduled with equal significance to our poster sessions, themed in relation to the oral presentations and assessed for certificated awards via a process of peer review.

This is a significant opportunity for you to join colleagues from around the world to exchange and discuss new ideas and findings and to present your work as a poster or oral presentation.

Topic List

The conference will be covering the following themes:

• Structural metals and alloys pertinent to the aerospace, marine, off-shore, power generation and land based transportation industries
• Novel experimental methods to characterise fatigue damage and crack growth
• Overload/underload, arbitrary loading sequences, service spectrum loads, combined HCF/LCF
• Residual stress effects on fatigue damage and crack growth, measurement of internal stresses
• Extreme environments, including the effects of corrosion, oxidation, abrasion, elevated or cryogenic temperatures
• Innovative theoretical approaches, computational and analytical methods
• Life prediction methodologies for structural metals and alloys
• Fatigue mechanisms in advanced alloys and metallic systems
• Micro-structurally short cracks

Nanomaterials 2014 is divided into two chapters : the scientific school MSnows 2014 and the industrial day Trans Nano Forum (10th September).

MSnows 2014

Because the size of magnetic object could be shrink down to typical magnetic characteristic length like (domain size, domain wall thickness, exchange length ..) or typical electrical transport length like (electron mean free path, spin diffusion length ..) new spintronic properties were recently discovered. Consequently a lots of effort is focussing on the study of a single nano-object and their applications. The aim of this workshop is to gather different scientific community on this particular topic of the manipulation of spin and Magnetisation at the nanometer scale.

Trans-Nano-Forum

This international event aims at:

• Informing industrial companies about issues and opportunities of nanomaterials revolution,
• Promoting a responsible approach of their development,
• Providing networking and partnering opportunities between European companies and research stakeholders.

The full day conference includes plenary session, workshops, flash presentations, and a BtoB matchmaking session organized by Enterprise Europe Network, with a special focus on 3 main industrial sectors: Energy, Transport & Packaging. Societal issues will also be emphasized.

The International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials is a premier forum to showcase the latest results in the science and technology of carbon materials, with an emphasis on diamond. This will be the 25th event of the series, a longevity sign of the constantly renewed interest and consistent progress made in the science and technology of carbon-based materials.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Sumio Iijima (Meijo University, Nagoya University, NEC and AIST, Japan) has won the 2014 Diamond and Carbon Materials Award for his exceptional achievements in carbon nanoscience, in particular for his seminal work on carbon nanotubes.

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Topics:

This conference will present the latest research on the growth, fundamental aspects of the properties and structure of carbon- and diamond-based materials as well as their application spanning nanoelectronics, quantum computing, electrochemistry and biotechnology. Topics will include:

• CVD growth of diamond and production and properties of nano-crystalline of diamond
• Utilization of quantum effects for quantum computing, magnetometry and cryptography based on single defects
• New developments and applications of carbon allotropes for bio- and environmental sensing
• Manufacturing of pn and pin-junctions for deep UV-LEDs and power devices by way of progress in growth and doping of diamond
• Growth of graphene and CVD of carbon nanotubes
• Use of carbon nanotubes in electronics, supercapacitors and batteries
• Applications of nano-diamond in drug delivery
• Use of graphene in displays, RF electronics, supercapacitors, batteries, electrochemical and biochemical sensing as well as metal- replacement in power devices

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Fourth International Conference

Energy, the environment and human health have emerged as strategic priorities not only in research but in all aspects of our lives. Hybrid materials have already demonstrated good promise in addressing and offering solutions in each of these priority areas.

The main objective of this large interdisciplinary conference is to bring together, at a truly international level, people with shared interests in hybrid materials, including:

• Polymer chemists, physicists and engineers
• Biomaterials chemists, physicists and engineers
• Organic chemists
• Inorganic chemists
• Solid state chemists
• Sol-gel chemists
• Composites scientists
• Colloid chemists and physicists
• Zeolite, meso- and microporous materials scientists
• Broad nano- and materials scientists

Each day will start with a Plenary Lecture followed by 3 parallel symposia focusing on the following topics:

• Biohybrids and biomaterials
• Functional hybrid nanomaterials, nanocomposites and their applications (this symposium will run in two streams)
• Functional porous materials

Organised by the IOPÂ Ion and Plasma Surface Interactions Group

Co-sponsored by the IOP Energy, VacuumThin Films and Surfaces, Ion and Plasma Surface Interactions and Printing and Graphics Science Groups, and the EPSRC Supergen SuperSolar Hub.

This one day meeting provides a forum to help assess the current state of the art. It brings together a list of distinguished invited speakers whose expertise covers the range of photovoltaic technologies.

Organised by IOP BRSG: Magnetic Resonance Group

The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers interested in silicon-based quantum technologies. Topics covered will include experimental and theoretical approaches to quantum coherent control, spin resonance, atomic scale lithography, device fabrication and electronic transport, using silicon-based devices.

The conference is a satellite meeting previous to "27^th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics" (LT-27). AToMS will have two main goals. The first one is to promote the exchange of new ideas on recent topics of Magnetism and Superconductivity between internationally distinguished scientists as well as local researchers in the field. The second one is to dedicate part of the meeting to celebrate the academic and scientific career of Julián Sereni, Professor at Instituto Balseiro, and one international distinghished scientist in the study of Cerium-based strongly correlated electronic systems.

Topics

The conference will cover, though not exclusively, the following issues:

• frustration and exotic order in magnetic systems,
• quantum phase transitions,
• strongly correlated electronic systems,
• coexistence between superconductivity and magnetism,
• new superconductors,
• soft condensed matter in superconducting and magnetic materials,
• superconductivity at the mesoscopic-scale

Organizers

Chair: Gladys Nieva
Co-chair: Daniel Domínguez
Víctor Correa
Yanina Fasano
Daniel García
Mariano Gómez Berisso
Pablo Pedrazzini

The 9th Liquid Matter Conference will take place at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 21-25 July 2014. Previous conferences in this series were held in Lyon (1990), Firenze (1993), Norwich (1996), Granada (1999), Konstanz (2002), Utrecht (2005), Lund (2008), and Vienna (2011). The conference is organized jointly by the Liquids Section of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, the University of Lisbon, and the School of Engineering of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute (ISEL).

The conference will start on the morning of Monday 21 July 2014, and finish around lunchtime on Friday, 25 July 2014. The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists working on the liquid state of matter and closely related topics, such as soft matter and biophysics. The rapidly growing field covered by this conference series therefore includes the physics, chemistry, biology, and chemical engineering of liquid matter as well as several areas of applied research.

The conference will consist of plenary lectures, topical symposia with keynote lectures and contributed oral presentations, as well as poster sessions. The highlights of the conference will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

Topics

• Ionic Liquids and Liquid Metals
• Water and Solutions
• Liquid Crystals
• Polymers, Polyelectrolytes, Biopolymers
• Colloids
• Films, Foams, Surfactants, Emulsions
• Confined Fluids, Interfacial Phenomena
• Supercooled Liquids, Glasses, Gels
• Driven Systems, Rheology and Nanofluidics
• Active Matter
• Biological and Biomimetic Fluids

Fatigue and Fracture at all Scales

This prestigious and long running conference will bring together delegates from around the world to discuss how to characterize, predict and analyze the fatigue and fracture of engineering materials.
NT2F14 will focus on all aspects of fracture and fatigue of wide range of materials (structural metals and alloys, advanced alloys and metallic systems, ceramics and glass, polymers, elastomers and composites, smart and functional materials, geo-materials and ice, cementitious materials for concrete, biomaterials), components and structures (welded components and weldments, pipelines, pressure vessels and other energy components, thin films, multi-layers, coatings and membranes, aerospace and aeronautics applications, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and nanoscale components, shipbuilding, automotive industry), with special emphasis on multiscale approaches and applications to renewable energy materials and challenging environments. This is a significant opportunity for you to join colleagues from around the world to exchange and discuss new ideas and findings and to present your work as a poster or oral presentation.

Photon14 is the largest optics and photonics conference in the UK and the seventh in the series, following Photon02 (Cardiff), Photon04 (Glasgow), Photon06 (Manchester), Photon08 (Edinburgh), Photon10 (Southampton) and Photon12 (Durham). Photon14 will be held at Imperial College London and is an umbrella conference series embracing both 'Optics and Photonics 2014' and 'QEP-21' and has a common social programme

Photon14 will comprise:

• Optics and Photonics 2014
• QEP-21 the latest in the series of conferences initiated in 1973 by the IOP Quantum Electronics and Photonics Group.
• An exhibition of the latest optics and photonics technology
• Plenary Lectures

Topics

• Active and adaptive optics
• Advances in imaging and displays
• Advances in lasers
• Advances in THz technology
• Biophotonics
• Computational photonics
• FASIG - Fringe Analysis Special Interest Group
• Fibre optic sensors
• Fibre optics and waveguides
• Lighting design
• Manufacturing of optics
• Metamaterials, nanophotonics and plasmonics
• Nonlinear photonics
• Optical and quantum metrology
  
• Optical diagnostic in engineering
• Optical environmental sensing
• Optical vortices, polarization, coherence and non-Gaussian beamsÂ
• Photonic energy harvesting
• Photonic systems
• Quantum coherent control
• Quantum dots, nanocrystals, and low dimensional materials
• Quantum information
• Quantum optics
• Silicon and carbon photonics
• Structured optical materials and biomimetics
• Trapping and manipulation
• Ultrafast and attosecond optics