CMSE | The 8th Global Conference on Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE2019)

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Ian Baker, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, U.S.A.

Prof. Ian Baker obtained his B.A. and D. Phil. in Metallurgy and Science of Materials from the University of Oxford. He joined the Faculty of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, in 1982. He was the Director of the NIST-funded Center for Nanomaterials Research at Dartmouth from 2002-2005 and the Director of the NIH-funded Dartmouth Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence from 2010-2016. He is a Chartered Engineer (U.K.) and a Fellow of ASM International, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. More...

Speech Title: The Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of the Alumina-Forming Austenitic Stainless Steel Fe-20Cr-30Ni-2Nb-5Al
Abstract: There is an increasing need for affordable high temperature (~750^oC) structural alloys for both fossil fuel and concentrated solar power applications. Alumina-forming austenitic (AFA) stainless steels are a way to fulfil this need. In this presentation, we discuss the microstructure and mechanical properties of a model AFA stainless steel Fe-20Cr-30Ni-2Nb-5Al (in at. %). This alloy contains three different precipitates, i.e. More...

Prof. Sigitas Tamulevičius, Member of the European Materials Research Society, Professor of the Physics Department, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Republic of Lithuania

Prof. Dr. Habil. Sigitas Tamulevičius, obtained his Physics Engineer degree from the Moscow Engineering Institute in Physics (Moscow, former USSR) in 1979, a Ph.D. degree from the University of Vilnius (Lithuania) in 1984, Doctor Habilitus degree from Kaunas University of Technology (1994). From 1990 to 1991, he was a postdoc at Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). More...

Speech Title: Plasmonic properties of metallic nanoparticles in colloidal solutions and 2-D ordered systems
Abstract: The optical properties metals such as gold (Au), silver (Ag) and copper (Cu) are interesting because they support collective excitations of free electrons called surface plasmons (SPs). SPs generate strong electromagnetic (EM) fields that enable various electro-optical applications in molecular sensing, medical therapy, solar cells, photodetectors, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates, ultrafast optical switches, opto-mechanical devices, photocatalysis, nano-antennas and metamaterials [1]. More...

Prof. Xianghua Zhang, Research director, Laboratory of glasses and ceramics, Institute of Chemistry, University of Rennes I/CNRS, France

Dr. Xiang-Hua Zhang is Research director of the CNRS (French National center for scientific research). He got his bachelor in Zhejiang University, China in 1983 and PhD degree in University of Rennes I, France in 1988. He worked in the laboratory of glasses and ceramics, a joint laboratory CNRS-University of Rennes I until 1996 when he left to find the Umicore IR glass company, the world leader for molded chalcogenide glass optics. More...

Speech Title: Infrared optical materials for thermal imaging
Abstract: Thermal imaging is more and more widely used for commercial and defence applications because it provides additional information to visible images. Thermal imaging is generally realised in the infrared region between 8-12 µm, corresponding to an atmospheric window and also to the maximum thermal emission of objects at room temperature. There are however very few materials transparent in this spectral region. More...

Prof. Kazutoshi Haraguchi, Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Japan

Prof. Kazutoshi Harguchi was born in 1950 in Japan. He graduated from Kyushu University in 1973 and received his PhD from Kyushu University in 1978. He joined Kawamura Institute of Chemical Research (KICR) in 1978. He worked in Liverpool University, UK as a post-doctoral fellow in 1979-1981. He became a director of KICR in 2001, and a general manager (senior director) in 2006-2014. From April 2014, he is a professor of Nihon University. He was also a visiting professor of the University of Tokyo. He was a vice president of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan during 2016-2018. More...

Speech Title: Large retractive tensile force generation in chemo-mechanical actuators system composed of nanocomposite gels
Abstract: Transparent chemo-mechanical systems that directly transform chemical energy into mechanical energy have attracted significant attention due to their simple structures and mechanical-power-generating efficiencies. These systems are utilized in many fields such as artificial muscles, soft robots, smart valves, sensors, and drug-release technology. The most important factor in constructing an effective soft actuator is the generation of sufficiently large mechanical force and/or deformation to meet the needs of the application, preferably with excellent responsiveness, reversibility, and repeatability. However, it is difficult for polymer hydrogel actuators to satisfy all requirements. More...