The 6^th International Workshop on Combinatorial Materials Science and Technology was held at the Rusutsu resort on the island of Hokkaido. This workshop series brings together people with an interest in combinatorial, parallel, and high throughput techniques in materials science. A broad range of topics was covered, from polymers, to catalysts, to thin films. Presentations covered new parallel synthesis tools and analytical techniques. The meeting served as a showcase of combinatorial and high-throughput experimental approaches to materials development.

Future meetings

The locations and approximate times of the next two Workshops have been decided by a group of people present at the meeting:

October 22 (tentatve), 2012: Charleston, South Carolina, United States

2014: CSIRO, Australia

List of people present at the meeting:

• Michael J. Fasolka (National Institute of standards and Technology, USA)
• Toyohiro Chikyow (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
• Ichiro Takeuchi (University of Maryland, USA)
• Alfred Ludwig (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
• Jochen Lauterbach (University of South Carolina, USA)
• Wilhelm Maier (Saarland University, Germany)
• Tim Muster (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
• Danielle Kennedy (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
• Seong Ihl Woo (KAIST, Korea)
• Kenjiro Fujimoto (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
• Mikk Lippmaa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Deborah Lau (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
• Jason R Hattrick-Simpers (University of South Carolina, USA)
• Yuji Matsumoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• John Perkins (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
• Martin Green (National Institute of standards and Technology, USA)

This list forms a tentative basis for putting together an organizing committee for future Workshops.

Invited speakers

• Dr. Kate Beers (National Institute of Standards and Technology, economic impact)
• Dr. Martin L. Green (National Institute of Standards and Technology, functional materials)
• Prof. Wilhelm F. Maier (Saarland University, fuel cell catalysts)
• Prof. Seung Bin Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, phosphors for white LEDs)
• Prof. Kenjiro Fujimoto (Tokyo University of Science, electrostatic spray deposition)
• Dr. Robert Zarnetta (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, shape memory alloys)
• Prof. Achim Walter Hassel (University Linz)
• Dr. Ji-Won Choi (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, transparent conducting oxides)
• Prof. Brian Hayden / Ms. Mei Wu (University of Southampton)
• Dr. Jens Emmerlich (Aachen University)
• Dr. Calum J. Drummond (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, amphiphile nanoparticles)
• Dr. Carl G. Simon, Jr. (National Institute of Standards and Technology, polymer scaffold libraries)
• Prof. Joost J. Vlassak (Harvard University)
• Prof. Seiichi Hata (Tokyo Institute of Technology, amorphous alloy libraries)
• Prof. Andrew J. Gellman (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Dr. Nam Nguyen (National Institute of Materials Science, memory devices)
• Dr. Masahiro Goto (National Institute of Materials Science, combinatorial sputtering)
• Dr. Tim Muster (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

Organizing committee

Scope

• Combinatorial approaches to
  • electronic materials
  • optical materials
  • magnetic materials
  • ferroelectric materials
  • smart materials
  • polymers
  • homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts
  • water splitting
  • Nanomaterials and nanotechnology

• Composition-spread techniques and mapping of ternary phase diagrams
• Diffusion multiple techniques
• High-throughput characterization techniques
• Computational combinatorial chemistry
• Materials informatics and data mining
• Knowledge and data management systems
• Process monitoring, control and optimization

Proceedings

The workshop proceedings will be published in an open-access journal, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. Those who wish to publish proceedings, should submit a manuscript for a 4 to 8-page paper to the workshop organizers for peer review at the start of the meeting.

The submission deadline was November 15.

Contact

For further information, please contact either Dr. Toyohiro Chikyow or Prof. Mikk Lippmaa.

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