www.fems.org Member Society News - 06/2015 Welcome Welcome to the second FEMS National Materials Mem- run up to EUROMAT 2015, the first steps towards EU- ber Society newsletter. It is their vector for communi- ROMAT 2017 are being taken by the Hellenic Metallurgi- cating widely across on current activities, new cal Society HMS and the Hellenic Society for Science and developments or conferences. FEMS branding is the Technology of Condensed Matter (HSSTCM) to organise EUROMAT Series and we look forward to meeting up the next EUROMAT conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. again during EUROMAT 2015 and the Materials Week- We hope you enjoy reading this newsletter and that it end in Warsaw from September 19 to 24, 2015 which is promotes networking between the Materials Societies organised by the Polish Materials Society PTM in collab- in Europe. oration with the Warsaw University of Technology, the Yours, Margarethe Hofmann venue of EUROMAT 2015. In addition to preparing the FEMS President

Portugal MATERIAIS 2015 ymers and composites. There will be oral presentations XVII Congress of SPM and VII International Materials and poster sessions. Symposium A career prize will be awarded by Materiais 2015 aims at examining relevant Materials ar- SPM for the first time this year, eas with the purpose of promoting a better understand- in order to recognize, encourage ing of Materials’ behaviour and applications as related and promote excellence in re- to more efficient and sustainable forms of : energy pro- search and development in the duction and storage ; new biomedical uses ; structural area of Materials in Portugal. intelligent materials ; efficient use of materials in build- ings, transport, electronics, mechanics, materials and MATERIAIS 2015 will be held at art, among others. Porto, on 21-23 June. More infor- SPM-Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais has active mation at http://paginas.fe.up. groups in all class of materials : metals, ceramics, pol- pt/~materiais2015/wd

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SF2M is creating a new thematic group : Metallic addi- The National network of metallurgy was launched last tive manufacturing supported both by industrial compa- October and is hosted by SF2M. Its board was consti- nies and academic research laboratories. The group will tuted with a President from industry (Marjorie Cavar- focus on metallurgical issues (powder influence, beam roc, Safran) and a vice-President from academic re- interaction), development and optimisation of metallic search (Jean-Luc Bechade, CEA). The group first actions structures. It is open to international cooperation. Con- comprise thematic schools and classes online support, tact : [email protected] participation to European cluster EUREKA “ Metallurgy 1 Europe ”, demand for ESRF industrial applications... It is new materials and material architectures. The optimi- open to European initiatives and cooperation. Contact : sation of Material Selection and guided design of ma- [email protected] terials owes much to the concept of maps developed by Professor M.F.Ashby. Mapping the Future of Materials Science It is important from both a pedagogical viewpoint and A special symposium organised by SF2M, to be held from the viewpoint of developing clear synthesis of how September 7th, 8th and 9th 2015 in Sèvres the various crucial aspects of materials science are relat- In the past 60 years the subject of Materials Science ed to attempt to map the Future of Materials Science. has undergone a profound and rapid evolution .The basic A short Symposium based on the concepts developed concepts of traditional Metallurgy which encompassed in the Gordon Conferences of combining clear overviews the extraction of Metals from minerals and the utili- of a topic and lively and challenging debate is an ideal sation and understanding of their properties as useful format. Thus SF2M is organising a short Symposium on engineering materials have been quantified and broad- the topic of “ Mapping the Future of Materials Science ” ened to an astonishing degree .Materials Science now which will include such topics as new views of struc- includes a wide variety of metallic and non-metallic ma- ture property relationships, advances in microstructural terials in which the structural and functional properties analysis of metallic and non-metallic materials, struc- can be controlled and related directly to the needs of tural and functional materials and their applications in engineering design. In addition Materials Science con- new buildings, the crucial role of interfaces in materi- tributes to the important socio-technological issues of als, opportunities from new manufacturing methods Sustainability and Recyclability. and bio-inspired materials for the future. The meeting An important aspect of the evolution of Materials Sci- will start with an invited lecture by Professor Ashby. ence has been the development of data bases for both It will welcome students and provide many opportu- materials and processes which help in the optimal de- nities for discussion of student posters. Information : sign of components and more recently the design of http://www.sf2m.asso.fr/materialsfuture2015

United Kingdom IOM3 on the move New IOM3 website During the 2014 rent review for our London office, Work on the new IOM3 website has been progressing 1 Carlton House Terrace, the Crown Estate (IOM3 land- rapidly over the last couple of months and you will see it lord) provided an offer to purchase the remaining por- in its new guise by April. We hope you will like its totally tion of the Carlton House Terrace lease. The Institute new look, clearer navigation and calls to action. The site Trustees carried out a detailed review of the propos- will provide IOM3 with a platform for developing more al and reached a unanimous decision to surrender the interactive content for members in the future, will facil- lease and to seek an alternative London location. A vote itate online joining for new members and allow current by Council to acquire the freehold of an office building members to update their profile, contact data and pref- on Euston Road was approved and we have now formal- erences more easily than before. ly completed this purchase. Visit www.iom3.org/euston-road for further details. RECENT and UPCOMING EVENTS – supported by FEMS Rolls 2015 22–24 April, Birmingham Continuing the successful series of conferences on roll- ing mill rolls for metals processing. http://bit.ly/1u0pVIt

ICMAC 2015 24–25 June, Bristol A forum for those interested in composites manufac- turing, from the academic and industrial worlds. http://bit.ly/10QXTnf

Parsons 2015 Materials World – there’s an app for that 14–17 September, Loughborough The Materials World magazine app was launched for The 2015 conference will focus on the challenge of in- smartphones and tablets on 2 April ! creased flexibility in thermal power plant, and industrial Visit http://app.materialsworld.org to view the short and aero gas turbines and generators, whilst maintain- trailer and find out more. ing high efficiency. http://bit.ly/femsparsons 2 Greece News from HMS The 4th Internation- ICEAF IV will be the fourth event of a biennial confer- al Conference of En- ence series, gathering high-level scientists and engi- gineering Against neers from all over the world. The scope of the Confer- Failure (ICEAF IV) ence is to attract interdisciplinary work dedicated to will be held in Skia- understanding the underlying physics of engineering thos, Greece on 24- failure, experimental and theoretical failure analysis, 26 June 2015. ICEAF model the structural response with regard to local and IV is co-organized by global failure and structural design for preventing of en- the Laboratory of Technology & Strength of Materials gineering failure. (LTSM) and the Hellenic Metallurgical Society (HMS), under the auspices of the Federation of European Mate- Information regarding ICEAF IV can be found at the of- rial Societies (FEMS) and the European Aeronautics Sci- ficial website of the conference : ence Network (EASN). http://ltsm.mead.upatras.gr/lab/lang_en/conference/view/6

REACH.OUT ! courage those of us that spend time in outreach activ- Advanced Mate- ities and this is why one of its partners, the European rials are behind Materials Research Society (EMRS) has set up a pres- more than 70% tigious award (REACH.OUT !). of all technical in- novations today. The Hellenic Society for the Science and Technology of Have you won- Condensed Matter (HSSTCM) has been at the heart of dered how would this project since its very beginning and two members it be if the general of its Administrative Board play key roles in it ; this is public could realise why it is one of the first societies that will use these this and supported free products for its outreach activities. The HSSTCM more our work? It seems that most of us find it hard to aims to exploit them to stimulate the Greek public’s at- communicate the importance of our field to the people tention towards Advanced Materials and to make people around us. Even t-shirt designers realise our weakness : understand the relevance of our field to solving every- 943 Facebook users “Like” a t-shirt with the message : day problems. HSSTCM aims to make the Greek public “I am a Materials Engineer. I solve problems you don’t realise that world-class work on new materials takes know you have in ways you can’t understand.” place all around the country by adding Greek labs on the For this reason, the EU project STIMULATE is creating a project’s map ; by encouraging its members to use the free-to-use film and an educational game. These media project’s free products for their outreach activities it products will be released soon and will be available in all hopes that it will uncover a world of unlimited possibil- EU languages ; they will be great tools for the Materials ities in a country that desperately seeks for solutions. Community’s efforts to stimulate the general public’s You can find more info at www.materialsfuture.eu, as interest towards our field. The project wants also to en- well as ways of taking part.

The IIMEC 2015 Summer School in “ Advanced Material Systems : Experimentation & Modeling ” will be held July 13-18, 2015, in Thessaloniki Greece. The Summer School is organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in collaboration with Texas A&M. The scope is to famil- iarize students with the state of the art in advanced composite materials production, testing, constitutive law modeling, micromechanics and homogenization methods and theory. For more information visit the website : http://iimec2015.web.auth.gr or contact Prof. N. Michailidis ([email protected]) 3 WERKSTOFFWOCHE 2015 “ WERKSTOFFE FÜR DIE well as international success of the German economy is ZUKUNFT ” - MATERIALSWEEK 2015 “MATERIALS based directly and indirectly on the solutions of materi- FOR THE FUTURE” als science and engineering. Because of this, innovative materials have an important share in the economic wel- fare of our society.

The exhibition “ MATERIALS FOR THE FUTURE ” offers ideal conditions for producers, processors and applica- CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION FOR MATERIALS AND tors of materials as well as for producers of machines, APPLICATIONS facilities and testing equipment to present their prod- ucts. The exhibition thereby contributes to the under- The “ Werkstoffwoche 2015 ” at Messe Dresden standing of the potential of innovative materials. (www.messe-dresden.de), Dresden Germany is the cen- Details of the conference and exhibition and the over- tral Congress in German language with an Industrial view of all symposia can be found on the congress Exhibition for all application-oriented questions regard- homepage www.werkstoffwoche.de ing the key topic “Materials for the future“. It presents new product and process developments and serves as CONGRESS CONTACT a communication platform between materials experts DGM - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V. from industry and science. At the same time, it is the Petra von der Bey, ideal forum to discuss solutions for specific application Hahnstraße 70 issues or to find new partners from the industry for suc- 60528 Frankfurt (Germany) cessful cooperation. T +49 (0)69 75306-750 ; Whether energy, transport, communication, health or [email protected] safety all megatrends of the future are based on the www.werkstoffwoche.de development of innovative materials. The national as [email protected]

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Conference NANOCON’14 welcomed experts from 35 countries Nanocon 14 provided an excellent opportunity to be- come acquainted with the results of research and de- velopment of nanomaterials in the and abroad as well as to meet the world’s leading scientists working on nanotechnology. This event was organized by the Czech Society for New Materials and Technol- ogies on 5 - 7, November 2014 in Brno, in cooperation with the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Mesoscopic Solar Cells “, was performed by Professor Materials (RCPTM) at the Faculty of Science of Palacky Michael Graetzel from the Ecole Polytechnique de Lau- University in Olomouc and with the company Tanger Ltd. sanne (Switzerland) and FEMS “ Materials Innovation During the three days of the conference almost 90 lec- Price ” winner 2011. Another plenary lecture was given tures on 5 different thematic areas of research and by Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski from Carnegie applications of nanomaterials were presented for four Mellon University in Pittsburgh (U.S.A.) on “ Nanos- hundred participants from 35 countries of four con- tructured Functional Materials by Taming Radicals ”, by tinents. NANOCON´14 confirmed that it is the largest which he outlined the wide range of applications of pol- event of its kind organized in the Czech Republic and is ymer materials for nanomaterials used in medical sec- the same time one of the largest conference in the field tor, cosmetics and electronics. of nanotechnology in the Central European region. The Dr. Tasilo Prnka award (the promoter of nanotech- The opening plenary lecture entitled “ The Advent of nology in the Czech Republic), for the best lecture of

4 young scientists under the age of thirty three was re- concrete industrial, medical or environmental applica- ceived by Simona Steponkiene from the National Cancer tions. However plenty of great contributions from fun- Institute in Vilnius (Lithuania). Her lecture was focused damental research have been presented in the confer- on application of functionalized quantum dots in target- ence. Such continuity is exactly what science needs,” ed cancer therapy. 250 posters were presented and the says Professor Radek Zboril’, the director of the Re- best poster was won by Alexander Kromka from the In- gional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials stitute of Physics Academy of Sciences (CZ) illustrating and chairman of the conference. More than 40 percent fabrication of 3D diamond membranes for microfluidic of the participants came from abroad this year. Most systems. Also amongst the top three poster was that of foreign participants came from Russia, Slovakia, Po- Fatma Yalcinkaya from the Textile Faculty of Technical land and Germany and from distant countries, including University Liberec (CZ) describing production of antibac- U.S.A., China, Brazil, India or Japan. terial textile material obtained by weaving electro spun We like to advertise NANOCON’15, to be held in Brno on PVB/copper oxide nanocomposite fiber covered yarn. October 14th to 16th, 2015 (www.nanocon.eu). “ This year’s conference underlined the dynamic increas- Shortened information given by Jirina Shrbená, Conference Pro- ing quality of research of nanomaterials in the Czech gram Committee Chair and Head of Nanosection of the CSNMT. Republic and the emphasis on R&D to be finalized in

METAL 2015 the years, and thematic focus was also changed in ac- cordance with modern trends in the metallurgical indus- The Czech Society for try. In 2011 conference moved to Brno and the Confer- New Materials and ence Proceedings was published in the Thomson Reuters Technologies partially - Web of Science/Web of Knowledge incl. CPCI database. cooperate on organiz- Since 2012, the entire conference is fully conducted in ing of conferences, as English. It brought an unprecedented interest of lectur- one of its activities. ers. In 2014, 23th International Conference on Metal- One of them with a lurgy and Materials conference was held in Brno, again long, almost 25-year tradition, is the international con- and 432 persons from 26 countries participated at the ference METAL. According to our information, there is conference. In 2015, the conference METAL 2015 will no similar conference with such an extent and history in be held on June 3rd – 5th 2015 in Brno, Czech Republic, Central Europe. (www.Metal2015.com) and has the following thematic The fi rst, which was called “ Metallurgical Symposium ” structure : SESSION A - Advanced Iron, Cast Iron and was held in 1992. From the outset, Tanger Ltd. Has been Steelmaking ; SESSION B - Metal Forming ; SESSION the main organizer. VSB - the Technical University of Os- C - Steel Products – properties ; SESSION D - Modern trava has participated in the preparation of the scientifi c Trends in Surface Engineering ; SESSION E - Non-Fer- content as guarantors of the conference and its individ- rous Metals and Alloys ; SESSION F - Economics and ual sections. Management of Metallurgical Production The number of participants has gradually increased over Jiri Kliber, CSNMT and Tasilo Prnka, Tanger Ltd.

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