Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Ceramics Functionalization via Defects and Interfaces
Discussion Leader: Jiayue Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:05 pm
Nitin Padture (Brown University, USA)
"Ceramics Science of Halide-Perovskite Solar Cells"
4:05 pm - 4:10 pm
Discussion
4:10 pm - 4:25 pm
Lucas Robinson (Purdue University, USA)
"Interfacial Properties and Microstructure Evolution of Ceramic and Metallic Heterostructures"
4:25 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
Emerging Ceramics Processing Techniques
Discussion Leaders: Somnath Mandal (University of California, Irvine, USA) and Matthew Duarte (University of California, San Diego, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Nathan Nakamura (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
"Microwave Radiation-Assisted Synthesis of Ceramic Oxide Thin Films: Electromagnetic Field Effects on Atomic Structure and Phase Transitions"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
David Kok (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Ultra-Rapid Formation of Single Phase High-Alumina Spinel During Flash Sintering"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Jaehun Cho (Purdue University, USA)
"High Temperature Mechanical Behavior of Flash-Sintered Yttria Stabilized Zirconia via In Situ Microcompression Tests"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Gottlieb Uahengo (University of Califonia, San Diego, USA)
"Preparation of Rare Earth Stabilized Nanocrystalline Zirconia with Tunable Optical/Mechanical Properties"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Lu Song (Tsinghua University, China)
"Laser Melted Oxide Ceramics: Multiscale Structural Evolution with Nonequilibrium Features"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Quynh Yen Nguyen (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
"Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Hollow Sphere Photonic Glasses for High-Temperature Stable Non-Iridescent Structural Coloration"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Designing Advanced Ceramic-Based Materials: Composition and Structure
Discussion Leaders: Mohammad Asadikiya (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) and Joshua Gild (University of California, San Diego, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Yuanyuan Zhou (Brown University, USA)
"'Life' of Halide Perovskites: Crystallize from the Solution and Degrade in the Environment"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Berta Domènech (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
"Self-Assembly as a Tool to Obtain Ceramic-Based Nanocomposites with Exceptional Mechanical Properties"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Laura Turcer (Brown University, USA)
"High-Temperature Interactions Between Environmental Barrier Coating Ceramics and Calcia-Magnesia-Alumino-Silicate (CMAS) Glass"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
William Bowman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Nanostructured Solid Ionic Hydrogen Barrier Coatings: Engineering Defect Chemistry and Interfaces for Corrosion Resistance"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
George Burton (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
"Study of Space Charge Regions in BaCe0.8Y0.2O3-d – Ce0.8Y0.2O2-d Hydrogen Separation Membrane via Atom Probe Tomography"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Brett Ley (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
"Wafer-Scale Controlled Spalling and Reuse of (100)-Oriented Germanium"
10:55 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: Career Panel
Discussion Leaders: Diletta Giuntini (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) and Elias Penilla (University of California, San Diego, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Paths in Ceramic: Research, Teaching, Industry, Management
Monika Backhaus-Ricoult (Corning Incorporated, USA)
Kenneth McClellan (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Nitin Padture (Brown University, USA)
Alexis Lewis (National Science Foundation, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes