Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Dislocations in Ceramics
Discussion Leader: Sara Gorske (California Institute of Technology, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Xufei Fang (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
"Mechanics-Tailored Functional Ceramics via Dislocations: A Scale-Bridging Approach"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Microstructural Engineering for Ceramics Design
Discussion Leaders: Alfredo Sanjuan (Purdue University, United States) and Julian Ebert (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Cristina López Pernía (Brown University, United States)
"Unraveling Interfacial Shear Resistance and Toughening Mechanisms in Advanced Ceramic Nanocomposites"
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Sara Gorske (California Institute of Technology, United States)
"The Influence of Microstructure on Brittle Ceramic Fracture as Investigated by In-Situ Synchrotron Techniques"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Celia Chari (Harvard University, United States)
"Deciphering the Ancient Nanotechnologies of Numbered Jun Glazes"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Huiming Guo (University of California, Irvine , United States)
"Designing Nanostructure Exsolution-self-assembly in a Complex Concentrated Oxide"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Moritz Lukas Weber (Forschungszentrum Jülich and Berkeley Lab, Germany)
"Space Charge Effects on the Reaction Kinetics of Metal Exsolution Reactions and the Coalescence of Exsolved Nanoparticles at Complex Oxide Surfaces"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Matthäus Siebenhofer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Ion Migration in Mixed Conducting Oxides for Fast Conductivity Modulation in Neuromorphic Devices"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Understanding Defects to Unlock Advanced Properties in Ceramics
Discussion Leaders: Danny Hermawan (Purdue University, United States) and Huiming Guo (University of California, Irvine , United States)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Bernadette Cladek (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States)
"Compositional Effects on Local Disorder in Triple Conducting Oxides with Neutron and X-Ray Total Scattering"
9:10 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Moritz Kindelmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)
"Controlling Cation Segregation to tune the Conductivity in Ceramic Proton Conductors"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Bharathi Bandi (IIT Bombay, India)
"Chemical Oscillation at the Grain Boundary of Aliovalently-Doped Solid-Oxide Electrolytes"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Zipeng Xu (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
"Energy Anisotropy, an Excess Driving Force During Grain Boundary Motion"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Marc Pascal Zahler (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
"Grain Boundary Segregation in Doped SrTiO3 : Impact of Aliovalent Dopants on Space Charge and Grain Growth"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:50 am
Rawan Halabi (Israel Institue of Technology, Israel)
"The Influence of Point Defects on Conventional and Flash Sintering Using MgO as a Model System"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Insights from Leaders in Ceramics Research
Discussion Leader: Jun Meng (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Insights from Leaders in Ceramics Research
W. Craig Carter (MIT, United States)
Elizabeth Dickey (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
Taylor Sparks (University of Utah, United States)
Diletta Giuntini (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes