Funds are requested to help support the Material Measurement Symposium to be held at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California, April 9-13, 2012. The funds requested will be used to support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows attending the meeting.
The Material Measurement Symposium will consist more than 100 conference papers, including 15 invited talks, 58 contributed talks, and more than 30 contributed posters over 15 technical sessions (13 oral and 2 poster). The focus of the symposium is on emerging characterization techniques that hold the promise the help reveal the microscopic mechanisms underpinning the performance and life time of energy storage and conversion systems. This symposium will bring together scientists and engineers across various disciplines to address the most challenging issues in characterizing materials and energy systems in transient and nonequilibrium states.
, which is one of the biggest annual conferences in the research community. The Material Measurement Symposium was consisted of 123 conference papers, including 15 invited talks, 58 contributed talks, and more than 50 contributed posters over 15 technical sessions (13 oral and 2 poster). Symposium topics include spectroscopic techniques for the investigation of energy storage materials, in-situ electron microscopy studies of battery materials, nanoscopic and microscopic investigation of energy harvesting and storage materials, examination of electrochemical reactions, novel techniques for material characterization, structure and properties of organic and inorganic photovoltaics, nanoscale investigation of fuel cells, electrical and mechanical properties of metal and oxides, functional polymers and molecules, materials synthesis, and characterization of thin film surfaces. Selected technical papers in the symposium will be published as MRS conference proceedings, which will be electronically archived in MRS publication sites and indexed in the Scientific Citation Index and searchable by Web of Science. The symposium has showcased the research frontiers in local probing techniques and in situ measurements in materials sciences and significant advances in understanding material behaviors in energy harvesting and storage systems as well as their performance optimization, safety analysis, failure diagnosis, and lifetime prediction. The symposium has included reports on the development and implementation of in situ techniques such as scanning probe, microscopy, spectroscopy, tomography, scattering, activation, and radiation measurements, which are capable of addressing fundamental mechanisms in materials synthesis, process and applications. In addition to providing a platform for discussing state-of-the-art local and in-situ characterization methods, this symposium help in formulating the outstanding research needs, grand challenges, applications, and development pathway for this rapidly emerging field. This symposium has brought together scientists and engineers across various disciplines to address the most challenging issues in characterizing materials and energy systems in transient and nonequilibrium states. The diversity of the symposium is also reflected in the global representations from the United States, Asia and Europe as well as broad R&D perspectives from small and large companies, academia, research institutes, and federal research laboratories. The extensive interactions among industry, academia and research institutions could catalyze collaborations. The symposium also offered a great opportunity for scientists of multiple disciplines, such as chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering, electrical emerging, mechanical engineering, etc, to learn about the latest development in in situ measurements in interdisciplinary materials research in processing, structure, property and applications, and interact with each other to gain deeper and broader fundamental understandings and generate new research ideas and innovations.
