Symposia
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The eight symposia of CMSC 2025 are:
Additive Manufacturing of Materials
Material Challenges and Innovations in Energy storage, Transportation, and Utilization
Advanced Materials Characterization and Testing
Computational Materials Science and Engineering
Manufacturing and Joining of Materials
Advanced and Novel Materials
Materials Science and Engineering Education and Outreach
Materials and Interactions with the Environment
Symposia Descriptions
Additive Manufacturing of Materials
The advancement of additive manufacturing (AM) has opened a new design space for materials. This symposium covers the exploration of process parameters and the resulting structure and properties, as well as various designs and strategies to control the structure of the material at various length scales ranging from the microstructure to the topology in periodic cellular materials.
Parameters and microstructure/properties of printed parts; design principles of printed materials; structure architecture with AM; microstructure architecture with AM.
Material Challenges and Innovations in Energy storage, Transportation, and Utilization
This symposium will explore the role of materials in energy storage, their safe transportation, and safe usage in a world that is in constant demand for portable energy. The topics of discussion include, but are not limited to hydrogen technology, novel battery technology, solid state energy storage, and so on.
Hydrogen fuel cell; Hydrogen storage; Hydrogen embrittlement; Sodium ion batteries; Lithium based batteries; Solid state capacitor; Solid oxide fuel cell
Advanced Materials Characterization and Testing
This symposium covers novel characterization techniques and strategies, or novel ways of using existing techniques for the characterization of a material’s properties, structure, and the relationship between the two.
Electron microscopy; X-ray microanalysis; Elemental and chemical analysis of solids; Electron probe spectroscopy; Diffraction and crystal orientation techniques; Vibrational spectroscopy; Scanning probe microscopy
Computational Materials Science and Engineering
This symposium covers the development, improvement, and novel use of computational methods in materials discovery and exploration, and the prediction of microstructure and properties of materials.
Molecular dynamics; AI and machine learning in materials discovery; CALPHAD; Cellular automata; Phase field; Multiscale simulation; Materials data and informatics; Finite element.
Manufacturing and Joining of Materials
This symposium covers the manufacturing of materials (aside from additive manufacturing) and the joining of materials.
Welding; Brazing and soldering; Micro-joining; Bulk deformation; Forging; Forming and shaping; Casting technology; Solidification-based processes; Novel heat treatment of materials
Advanced and Novel Materials
This symposium is a venue for the dissemination of research in the continual development of advanced materials as well as the development of novel materials for both structural and functional properties.
Nanomaterials; Nanostructured materials; High entropy alloys; Bulk metallic glasses, Low dimension materials; Defect engineering; Microstructure architecture and engineering; Microstructure evolution; Electronic packaging; Biomimetic materials; Magnetic materials.
Materials Science and Engineering Education and Outreach
This symposium is intended for experience and idea sharing for engaging and interesting youths and students in the field of Materials Science and Engineering.
Pedagogical and andragogical practices; Emerging issues and practices in education; Engineering design education; Educational tools and technologies.
Materials and Interactions with the Environment
This symposium covers research on the interaction between materials and the environment. The focus can be on the effect of the environment on the materials (e.g. corrosion, degradation) as well as the effects of the use of materials on the environment.
Corrosion; Corrosion protection; Polymeric degradation; Irradiation damage; Biodegradation; Sustainable materials; Recycling of materials.
