Symposia & Program

D-4 Advanced Ceramics and Composites for Energy and Sustainable Society

Organizers:

Representative

Yasuro Ikuma	Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan

Correspondence

Takaaki Taniguchi	National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Hajime Wagata	Meiji University, Japan
Tomoaki Watanabe	Meiji University, Japan

Co-Organizers

Srinivasan Anandan	International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, India
Kuan-Zong Fung	National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Gregory Kia Liang GOH	Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore
Younghee Kim	Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology, Korea
Shih-Kang Lin	National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Nicola H. Perry	Kyushu University, Japan
Naoki Wakiya	Shizuoka University, Japan
John Wang	National University of Singapore, Singapore

Scope:

The increasing demand for energy requires the development of new technologies and materials of energy generation and efficient use of energy. Especially the experience of current global warming derives us to the research area of achieving sustainable society. Ceramic materials and composite materials are some of the materials that have been studied extensively for the generation of energy especially to achieve sustainable society. Another approach would be to make efficient use of energy, leading to the society that uses less energy.

This symposium focuses on ceramic materials and composite materials that have potential for obtaining any form of energy and on technologies that require less energy compared to conventional method, while maintaining sustainable society.

Topics:

1. Advanced ceramic materials
2. Transparent ceramics
3. Low temperature processing
4. Photocatalyst
5. Nanocrystals, mesocrystals and single crystals
6. Ceramic matrix composites
7. Functional materials
8. Ceramics, composites and nanohybrids for energy and environment

Keynote Speakers & Invited Speakers (tentative)

Prof. Te-Wei Chiu	National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan "Preparation of Pr2NiO4-CeO2 nanocomposite for Cathode of Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cell"
Prof. Shenglei Che	Zhejiang University of Technology, China "Ferrite-Polymer Composites for the Manufacturing of Magnetic Devices by Injection Molding Process"
Distinguished Prof. Wei-Hsing Tuan	National Taiwan University, Taiwan "Ceramic/metal substrates for thermal dissipation"
Prof. Dinghua Bao	Sun Yat-Sen University, China "Dielectric relaxation of lanthanide-doped pyrochlore structure bismuth titanate thin films"
Dr. Minoru Osada	National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Prof. Gregory Kia Liang Goh	Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore "Hydrothermal synthesis of thermochromic nanocrystals"
Prof. Shao-Ju Shih	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan "Surface modification of starting powder for SrTiO3-based transparent ceramics"
Dr. Chun-Yi Chen	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan "Ti-Nb-Ta-Zr-O Mixed Oxide Nanotubes Array for Biomedical and Photoelectrochemical Applications"