Abstract Deadline - May 4, 2020 Montecatini Terme - Italy - September 21-29/2020 15th International Ceramics Congress September 21-25/2020 CelebratingYEARS 1970-2020 9th Forum on New Materials September 26-29/2020 www.cimtec-congress.org CIMTEC Invitation to Attend! CIMTEC 2020 - 15th International Conference on Modern Materials and Technologies - will be held in Montecatini Terme, Italy, September 21 to 29, 2020. It will feature the 15th International Ceramics Congress (September 21-25) and the 9th Forum on New Materials (September 26-29), each of them including a number of international Symposia and Conferences. As a major longstanding event for the international materials community in 2020 celebrating its 50th Birthday, CIMTEC will gather together a large and qualified audience of materials scientists, physicists, chemists and of experts of a wide range of the most demanding application engineering areas of modern materials, from the molecular and nanoscales to large complex integrated systems. The Chair, Co-Chairs and CIMTEC 2020 Committees Members invite you to foster the progress in the field by contributing with your expertise to what promises to be a very comprehensive and exciting event, and to enjoy the immense unique artistic heritage and wonderful landscape of Tuscany. Pietro Vincenzini General Chair CIMTEC Conferences National Research Council, Italy Co-Chairs CIMTEC 2020 Mrityunjay Singh Ohio Aerospace Institute, USA World Academy of Ceramics Takashi Goto Tohoku University, Japan International Ceramic Federation Robert P.H. Chang Northwestern University, USA International Union of Materials Research Societies CIMTEC 2020 Montecatini Terme, September 21-29, 2020 15th International Ceramics Congress 9th Forum on New Materials September 21-25, 2020 September 26-29, 2020 Symposium CA - Advances in Processing Science and 2 Symposium FA - 3D Printing and Beyond: State-of-the-art 23 Manufacturing of High Performance Ceramics and Composites and New Paradigms for Additive Manufacturing Technologies Focused Session CA-9 - Bio-inspired and Bio-enabled 3 Processing Symposium FB - Materials Issues in Flexible and 24 Stretchable Electronics for Device Reliability and Performance Focused Session CA-10 - Functionally Graded Materials 3 Focused Session CA-11 - SHS Ceramics 4 Symposium FC - Research Advances on Micro/Nano 25 Systems and their Applications Focused Session CA-12 - Ceramic Joining: From Macro- to 4 Nano-length Scales Symposium FD - Recent Advances in Multiferroic and 25 Special Session CA-13 - Big Data Enhanced Technology for 5 Magnetoelectric Materials and Applications Ceramic Advancements Symposium FE - Functional Nanomaterials for New 26 Symposium CB - Quantification of Microstructures using 6 Generation Solid State Chemical Sensors Data Analysis and Machine Learning Methods Symposium FF - Electromagnetic Metamaterials and 27 Symposium CC - Modelling, Simulation and Testing of 7 Metasurfaces: Recent Research Achievements and New Mechanical and Thermomechanical Properties of Bulk Paradigms Ceramics, Coatings and Composites Symposium FG - Advances in Inorganic Luminescent Symposium CD - High and Ultra High Temperature 7 Materials and Applications 28 Ceramics and Composites for Extreme Environments FH - 4th International Conference 29 Symposium CE - Progress in Nano-laminated Ternary 8 Emerging Materials, Technologies and Applications for Carbides, Nitrides and Borides (MAX/MAB) Phases and Non-volatile Memory Devices Derivatives Thereof (MXenes) Symposium FI - Graphene and Other Emerging 2D-layered 30 Symposium CF - Advances in Functional Materials for Energy 9 Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties and Potential Harvesting, Storage and Solar Fuels Applications Symposium CG - Ceramic Thin Films and Coatings for 10 Symposium FJ - Advanced Photocatalytic Materials for 30 Protective, Tribological and Multifunctional Applications Energy and Chemistry in Transition and for Environmental Applications Symposium CH - Porous Ceramics for Environmental 11 Symposium FK - Stimuli Responsive and Multifunctional 32 Protection, Energy-related Technologies and Advanced Polymers: Progress in Materials and Applications Industrial Cycles Symposium FL - State-of-the-art Research and Applications 32 Symposium CI - Progress in Electroceramics Research 12 of Shape Memory Alloys Symposium CJ - Materials Demands Towards Next 13 Symposium FM - Smart and Interactive Textiles - From 33 Generation Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems Nano-engineered Textile Fibres to Integrated Wearable Symposium CK - Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Materials and 14 Systems Technology Challenges Symposium FN - Embodying Intelligence in Structures and 34 Symposium CL - Inorganic Materials Systems for Advanced 15 Integrated Systems Photonics Symposium FO - Biological, Biohybrid and Bioinspired 36 Symposium CM - Development and Application of Functional 16 Materials: From Electronics and Photonics to Medicine Transparent Conducting and Semiconducting Oxides FP - 13th International Conference 37 Symposium CN - Geopolymers, Inorganic Polymers and 17 Medical Applications of Advanced Biomaterials and Sustainable Materials Nano-biotechnology Symposium CO - Science and Technology for Silicate 18 Focused Session FP-6 - Next Generation Implantable Neural 38 Ceramics Interfaces: New Developments in Materials and Technology Symposium CP - Refractory Materials Challenges to Meet 18 Focused Session FP-7 - Progress in Wireless Body Sensor 38 Current and Future Industry Needs Networks for Healthcare Applications CQ - 9th International Conference 20 Focused Session FP-8 - Progress in 3D Bioprinting of Soft 39 Advanced Inorganic Fibre Composites for Structural and Tissues and Organs Thermal Management Applications th CR - 9 International Conference 21 Information to Authors & Participants 40 Science and Engineering of Novel Superconductors 15th International Ceramics Congress September 21-25, 2020 CA-3 Polymer-derived ceramics Symposium CA (novel preceramic polymers systems, conversion mechanisms, innovative processing for precursor-derived Advances in ceramics, composites, hybrid materials, fibres, coatings, foams; structural and functional characterization, modelling Processing Science of materials, processes and functions) CA-4 Microwave processing and Manufacturing (microwave-material interactions, temperature control during processing, non-contact temperature sensing, microwave assisted synthesis, melting, coating, joining, of High Performance theory and modelling of processes, hybrid processes, scale- Ceramics and up, structural and functional characterization of materials) CA-5 Novel sintering approaches - Spark Plasma, Flash Sintering, Cold Sintering, Laser Sintering Composites (mechanisms and control of SPS, FS and CS, modelling and simulation of electrical field and flash-activated densification, This symposium will highlight recent progress in the hybrid techniques, sintering dynamics, pressure and solvent processing science and manufacturing of advanced effects, phase constitution and crystallization, materials ceramics and composites. Covered are the conventional properties…) powder processing routes, and emerging unconventional or novel techniques capable of embodying ceramic materials with unique properties not possible or difficult to be achieved with traditional methods; approaches that may International Advisory Board also conceive simplified and/or environmentally benign and energy saving “green” processing cycles. Interest Co-Chairs: is for dense and porous bulk materials, (nano)particle Rajendra K. BORDIA, Clemson University, USA reinforced/functionalized composites, thick and thin films, Gary L. MESSING, Penn State University, USA (Convener) laminated and graded structures, hybrid and hierarchical Ralf RIEDEL, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany nanostructures. Rational improvements of the conventional Masahiro YOSHIMURA, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan methods of powder synthesis, processing and sintering; mechanisms and kinetics involved by novel fabrication Members: techniques; new directions and challenges for the design at Hiroya ABE, Osaka University, Japan Umberto ANSELMI-TAMBURINI, University of Pavia, Italy atomic/molecular scale of complex high performing, micro-, Florence BABONNEAU, Chimie de la Matière Condensée, Paris, meso- and macro-structures with optimized properties for France desired performance; developments in theory, simulations Francis CAMBIER, INS-BCRC, Mons, Belgium and testing will be focus areas of interest for this symposium. Thierry CHARTIER, University of Limoges, France Mari-Ann EINARSRUD, Norwegian University of Science & Session Topics Technology, Norway Begona FERRARI, CSIC, Instituto de Ceramica y Vidrio, Spain CA-1 Advances in conventional powder processing routes Shinobu FUJIHARA, Keio University, Japan - Powder synthesis and characterization(solid state, solution Gregory K.L. GOH, Institute of Matls Research and Eng., A*STAR, Singapore processes, sol-gel, hydrothermal, combustion synthesis, Olivia GRAEVE, University of California, San Diego, USA mechanosynthesis , laser/microwave/plasma assisted Thomas GRAULE, EMPA, Switzerland synthesis…; structure, chemistry, morphology, state of Olivier GUILLON, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany aggregation, packing, flowability, sinterability, …) Masashi HASEGAWA, Nagoya University, Japan - Colloidal processing (surface chemistry, rheology, Shmuel HAYUN, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel agglomerate softening/removal, new surfactant/ Yoshihiro HIRATA, Kagoshima