Topic: Solid State II: Advanced Ceramics and Functional Materials

Ceramic materials present structural beauty, substance and valuable applications. Recent developments, via innovative synthesis, have facilitated intelligent architectural design and control spanning all length scales.

• Architectural design
• Robust mechanical, thermal and chemical properties by design
• Oxides
• Theory and Simulation     

Session: Solid State II: Advanced Ceramics and Functional Materials - Tuesday 3 July (am)

Keynote
Richard Catlow
University College London, UK

Room temperature ferromagnetism in Ge1-xMnx nanowires
Jaideep S Kulkarni*, Olga Kazakova, Michael A Morris and Justin D Holmes
University College Cork, Ireland

Manganese perovskite nanoparticles as potential new tools for cancer therapy by magnetic hyperthermia
G Goglio*, E Duguet, S Vasseur, C Derot, E Hadova and E Pollert
Université Bordeaux 1, France

Sol-gel synthesis of indium oxide: formation of high pressure phase (corundum-type In2O3) under ambient conditions and ageing-induced mesocrystallisation
Alexander Gurlo* and Ralf Riedel
Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Ordering of the Bi-O' network in Bi3+ Pyrochlores
Andrew L Hector*, Stuart J Henderson, Paul F McMillan, Olga Shebanova and Mark T Weller
University of Southampton, UK

Tunable shape-memory materials synthesised via entropy-driven ring-opening metathesis polymerisation of bile acid-based macrocycles
Julien E Gautrot* and X X Zhu
Université de Montréal, Canada