Conferences

We are delighted to announce the 5th International Conference of Materials – Advances in Material Innovation, scheduled to take place in Basel, Switzerland, from September 25–27, 2024.

The goal of this conference is to unite leading scientists, researchers, and industry experts worldwide, facilitating the exchange of insights on recent advancements in Materials Characterization, Processing, and Manufacturing. The focus areas include Nanotechnology in Material Sciences and Engineering, Optical, Electrical, and Magnetic Materials, Soft, Biological, and Bio-materials, Fibers, Membranes, and Thin film, Sensing Materials, as well as Materials and devices for energy and solar fuels. Additionally, discussions on the integration of AI and ML in Material research will be featured.

The event is sponsored by MDPI and the open-access journal Materials. Following three successful editions in electronic format, the 2022 conference was held in Barcelona, Spain. We anticipate that the conference will offer attendees a unique opportunity to stay informed about the latest research and to connect with colleagues from around the world.

Although the call for abstracts is now closed, you can still be part of this amazing conference. Register today and keep up with the latest trends and insights in materials science! Early Bird fees are valid until 15 July 2024.

And there's more: interested parties can still submit in the poster category. For details, simply email us at [email protected].

For further details about the conference, please click here to visit the website.

We look forward to welcoming you in Basel!

Sincerely,

Prof. Dr. Maryam Tabrizian and Prof. Dr. Federico Bella
ICM2024 Chairs

https://sciforum.net/event/ICM2024

The international conference entitled Conference on Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and its Applications belongs to the conference series organized under the auspices of the International Dielectric Society (IDS), aiming to bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss recent advances and future trends in science and technology in the area of materials and dielectric properties. Started in 2001, and having already been held in several European countries, the 12th edition—BDS Lisbon2024—will happen for the first time in Portugal, in Lisbon, from September 1st to 6th, 2024, at the Rectorate of the NOVA University of Lisbon, Campolide Campus.

Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS) is a powerful experimental technique that allows us to investigate the molecular dynamics of materials that respond to an outer oscillating electrical field. Nowadays, combined methods and equipment covering up to 16 decades of frequency allow us to explore a panoply of time-scales ranging from short-range and very local processes to long-range cooperative processes, activated under a set of predefined temperatures (and pressures). Besides molecular dynamics, charge transport and interfacial phenomena in heterogeneous disordered systems are also able to be characterized, as well as confinement and non-linear effects. Moreover, time-dependent events can be dielectrically monitored as chemical reactions, molecular interconversion, phase transformations and physical ageing. BDS has been applied in different fields of science and technology ranging from pharmaceutics and biology to energy and the environment. Therefore, a variety of materials can be investigated by BDS, like molecular and macromolecular compounds, plastic crystals, ionic liquids, liquid crystals, eutectic systems and newly emerging functional materials as self-healing/recyclable dynamic networks.

Considering the multidisciplinary approach and the broad set of applications of the technique, this meeting is also open to researchers outside of the dielectric community whose research could start new synergies at both experimental and theoretical levels.

The following topics will be addressed in the devoted sessions:

• S01 Polymer Dynamics;
• S02 Soft Matter Dynamics and Phase Transitions in Amorphous, Partially Ordered and Ordered Systems;
• S03 The impact of external variables in dielectric properties;
• S04 Water, Hydrogen Bonded and Biological Systems;
• S05 Charge Transport and Interfacial Effects;
• S06 Monitoring of Chemical Reactions, Crystallization process and Physical Ageing;
• S07 Ferroelectrics and Ceramics;
• S08 BDS in relation to other Spectroscopic or Scattering Techniques;
• S09 Confinement Effects;
• S10 Modeling, Theory and Simulation;
• S11 Industrial Applications.

https://sites.fct.unl.pt/bds2024lisbon