High Temperature Materials Chemistry
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by Michio Yamawaki and Gerd M. Rosenblatt
High Temperature Materials Chemistry
by Michio Yamawaki and Gerd M. Rosenblatt
The IUPAC Conferences on High Temperature Materials Chemistry (HTMC) were initiated by the Inorganic Division’s Commission on High-Temperature Materials and Solid State Chemistry in 1977 and have become the premier international venue for exploring the combination of chemistry and materials science as they affect understanding, production, and utilization of high-temperature materials.
The eleventh conference in the HTMC series was held 19–23 May 2003 in Tokyo, Japan, the first time that an HTMC conference has been held in Asia. It was organized by Prof. Michio Yamawaki of the University of Tokyo with the help of Professors T. Terai, S. Nagasaki, and K. Morita. The Tokyo conference provided significant opportunities for constructive interchange between basic and applied researchers, with particular emphasis on material synthesis, nuclear energy application, and electronic functional materials. The fundamental contributions were primarily in the areas of thermodynamics, gas phase/liquid phase/solid phase chemistries, and interface chemistry.
There were about 140 papers and 140 participants from 16 countries at this successful meeting. The number of papers and participants was somewhat smaller than anticipated because of the unexpected spread of the SARS epidemic in some parts of the world and because of the Iraq war.
To ensure productive dialog between basic science and applications and among industry, research laboratory, and academic scientists, the conference, following tradition, was held with no parallel sessions and with lots of opportunities for formal and informal discussions. The majority of the papers were presented in poster sessions. In addition, there were 7 invited plenary lectures, 18 keynote lectures, 6 shorter oral presentations, and 5 hands-on demonstrations of computerized thermodynamic databases.
Among the plenary lectures, to be published in a future issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry, were the following:
• “Phase Diagram Calculation and its Application to Alloy Design” (K. Ishida, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
• “Interaction of Water Vapor with Oxides at Elevated Temperatures” (N. Jacobson, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, USA)
• “Crystal Growth of Superconductive Oxide from Oxide Melts” (Y. Shiohara, International Superconductivity Technology Center, Tokyo, Japan)
• “Stability of Lix, LixHy and LinOm Clusters and their Relevance to Fusion, Primodal, and Hypervalent Molecules” (C. H. Wu, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany)
• “Actinide Research Related to Nuclear Fuel and Fuel Cycle” (J. P. Glatz, ITU, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Keynote lectures by leaders of their fields covered the following topics: high-temperature mass spectrometry, NMR measurement and X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) techniques; a number of forefront experimental and modeling studies of ceramic materials and oxides; and studies of alloys, photocatalytic materials, SnO2 nanotubes, molten salts, supercritical fluids and fuel cells. These papers, along with the other oral and poster presentations, illustrated the tremendous variety of physical and chemical techniques that are utilized, and of systems that are studied, under the umbrella of “high-temperature materials.”
The two meetings that immediately preceded HTMC-XI in this well-established and successful IUPAC series were in Jülich, Germany (2000) and State College, Pennsylvania, USA (1997). Following a pattern of meeting every three years on a different continent, the next conference, HTMC-XII, is scheduled for 2006. It will be held in Vienna, Austria, and will be hosted by Prof. Adolf Mikula of the University of Vienna <Mikula@ap.univie.ac.at>.
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- President’s Column
- “It's A Chemical World!”– The Overwhelming Success of A Poster Competition
- IUPAC in Ottawa
- Safety Training Fellows Visit Japan, South Africa, and USA in 2002 and 2003
- A Central Position for Hydrogen in the Periodic Table
- Samsung Gives Gift to the IUPAC Macromolecular Division
- Pirketta Scharlin Received the 2003 Franzosini Award
- Letters from Readers
- Chemistry's Contributions to Humanity–A Feasibility Study
- The Use of AFM in Direct Surface Force Measurements
- Ionic Strength Corrections for Stability Constants
- Critically Evaluated Propagation Rate Coefficients in Free-Radical Polymerizations: Part III. Methacrylates with Cyclic Ester Groups (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Minimum Requirements for Reporting Analytical Data for Environmental Samples (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Atomic Weights of the Elements 2001 (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Regulatory Limits for Pesticide Residues in Water
- Provisional Recommendations
- On the Claims for the Discovery of Elements 110, 111, 112, 114, 116, and 118 (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Measurement of the Thermodynamic Properties of Single Phases, Vol. VI
- Progress in Polymer Science and Technology
- Solubility Equilibria–in Honor of Heinz Gamsjäger
- Introduction to Modern Inorganic Chemistry
- High Temperature Materials Chemistry
- Plasma Chemistry
- Organo-Metallic Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry in Africa
- qPCR Technology
- Heterocyclic Chemistry
- Macromolecules
- Polymer Biomaterials
- Photochemistry
- Mark Your Calendar
- Index for 2003
Artikel in diesem Heft
- From the Editor
- Contents
- President’s Column
- “It's A Chemical World!”– The Overwhelming Success of A Poster Competition
- IUPAC in Ottawa
- Safety Training Fellows Visit Japan, South Africa, and USA in 2002 and 2003
- A Central Position for Hydrogen in the Periodic Table
- Samsung Gives Gift to the IUPAC Macromolecular Division
- Pirketta Scharlin Received the 2003 Franzosini Award
- Letters from Readers
- Chemistry's Contributions to Humanity–A Feasibility Study
- The Use of AFM in Direct Surface Force Measurements
- Ionic Strength Corrections for Stability Constants
- Critically Evaluated Propagation Rate Coefficients in Free-Radical Polymerizations: Part III. Methacrylates with Cyclic Ester Groups (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Minimum Requirements for Reporting Analytical Data for Environmental Samples (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Atomic Weights of the Elements 2001 (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Regulatory Limits for Pesticide Residues in Water
- Provisional Recommendations
- On the Claims for the Discovery of Elements 110, 111, 112, 114, 116, and 118 (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Measurement of the Thermodynamic Properties of Single Phases, Vol. VI
- Progress in Polymer Science and Technology
- Solubility Equilibria–in Honor of Heinz Gamsjäger
- Introduction to Modern Inorganic Chemistry
- High Temperature Materials Chemistry
- Plasma Chemistry
- Organo-Metallic Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry in Africa
- qPCR Technology
- Heterocyclic Chemistry
- Macromolecules
- Polymer Biomaterials
- Photochemistry
- Mark Your Calendar
- Index for 2003
