Saturday 11 September 2010

17:00 – 19:00

Welcome Reception and Registration

Sunday 12 September 2010

8:00

Registration opens

Solid State Chemistry - Oxides and Intermetallics

9:30 – 10:15

Low temperature oxygen mobility in non-stoichiometric oxides

Werner Paulus
Université Rennes, France

10:15 – 10:40

O1. Charge compensated doping: a general route towards preparing low density polymorphs of inorganic materials

Martijn Zwijnenburg
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

10:40

Refreshments

11:10 – 11:55

Functional transition Metal Oxides: trigonal bipyramidal versus octahedral coordination

Mas Subramanian
Oregon State University, USA

11:55 – 12:15

O2. A Realistic and Consistent Molecular Model of Cement Hydrate

Rouzbeh Shahsavari
MIT-CEE, USA

12:15 – 12:35

O3. Growth of large size periodically-poled KTiOPO4 crystals from thin periodically-poled KTiOPO4 substrates

Alexandra Peña
Institut Néel - CNRS / UJF, France

12:35

Lunch Break

Multifunctional Materials

14:30 – 15:15

Nudging the Neumann's principle:  new multifunctional materials from symmetry breaking

Paolo Radaelli
University of Oxford, UK

15:15 – 15:40

O4. In-situ synthesis of Al2O3-ZrO2 coating on porcelain tiles with a continuous laser furnace

Vassili Lennikov
CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

15:40

Refreshments

16:10 – 16:55

Frustration and grace under pressure: three tales about novel oxides

John Mitchell
Argonne National Laboratory, USA

16:55 – 17:15

O5. Half-metal ferromagnetic behaviour and large negative magnetoresistance in the lacunar spinel compound GaTi4-xVxS8

Laurent Cario
Université de Nantes – CNRS, France

17:15 – 17:35

O6. Mn3O4 nano-octahedra: synthesis, characterisation, magnetic and photodecomposition properties

Bao-Lian Su
The University of Namur, Belgium

17:35 – 19:30

Poster Session 1
Solid State Chemistry – Oxides and Intermetallics And Multifunctional Materials

Monday 13 September 2010

8:00

Registration opens

Multiferroïc Materials

8:30 – 9:15

Multiferroic materials with spin superstructures

Yoshinori Tokura
University of Tokyo, Japan

9:15 – 9:40

O7. The Phase Diagram of Multiferroic BiFeO3 studied by Powder Neutron Diffraction

Philip Lightfoot
University of St Andrews, UK

9:40

Refreshments

10:10 – 10:55

Current progress of research on spin-driven ferroelectrics

Tsuyoshi Kimura
Osaka University, Japan

10:55 – 11:15

O8. Tailored synthesis of copper- and cobalt-oxide nanosystems for photocatalytic H2 production

Alberto Gasparotto
INSTM Padova Unit and Dept of Chemistry - Padova University, Italy

11:15 – 11:35

O9. Applied electric field study of multiferroic LuFe2O4 by neutron and x-ray diffraction

Shane Lawrence
Curtin University of Technology, Australia

11:35

Lunch Break

Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage

13:30

Functional perovskite-type materials for energy technologies

Anke Weidenkaff
Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

14:15

O10. Mesoporous lead titanate film as ferroelectric matrix for multiferroic composites

Paula Ferreira
CICECO, University of Aveiro, Portugal

14:40 – 16:10

Poster Session 2
Multiferroïc Materials
Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
New high Tc superconductors
Nanomaterials (focusing on nano-effects)

16:10 – 16:55

Search for Materials and the Role of Size Effects

Joachim Maier
Max Planck Institute, Germany

16:55 – 17:15

O11. Synthesis and Transport Properties of Metal Oxides with Cage-like Structure Containing “Rattling” Cations 

Michitaka Ohtaki
Kyushu University, Japan

17:15 – 17:35

O12. Compatibility of proton conducting La26O27(BO3)8 electrolyte with standard cathode materials

Kostiantyn Kravchyk
CNRS/IMN Nantes, France

19:00

Coaches depart for the Conference Dinner from outside the Conference Centre

Tuesday 14 September 2010

8:00

Registration opens

New high Tc superconductors

8:45 – 9:30

Spin fluctuations in Fe-based superconductors: what have we learned?

David Mandrus
Nielsen Physics Building/ORNL,USA

9:30 – 9:55

O13. Fe1+ySexTe1-x superconductors: phase diagram, crystal growth, structural and magnetic properties

Ekaterina Pomjakushina
Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

9:55

Refreshments

10:25 – 11:10

Crystal chemistry of iron-based superconductors

Dirk Johrendt
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany

11:10 – 11:30

O14. Optical Investigation of the Charge Dynamics in Ba(CoxFe1-x)2As2

Leonardo Degiorgi
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

11:30 – 11:50

O15. Magnetism and superconductivity in FeAs-based superconductor Ba1-xKxFe2As2 probed by muon spin rotation

Kazuki Ohishi
RIKEN, Japan

11:50

Lunch

Nanomaterials (focusing on nano-effects)

13:45 – 14:30

Design and construction of complex nanostructured coatings by bottom-up approaches

David Grosso
Collège de France, France

14:30 – 14:55

O16. Si-transition metal nano-templates (MSin- building blocks for inherently nanostructured materials and low-dimensional structures

Gueorgui Gueorguiev
Linköping University,Sweden

14:55

Refreshments

15:25- 16:10

Inorganic nanomaterials: 1500 years of success story

Markus Niederberger
Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials, Switzerland

16:10 – 16:30

O17. Growth and characterization of In and Fe doped ZnO nanowires and nanoribbons

Belen Aleman
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

16:30 – 16:50

O18. Self-assembly and Red-light emission of Novel Morphology-controllable Y2WO6:Eu3+Microspheres

Jiao Wang
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

16:50

Closing remarks

17:00

End of conference