Abstract submission is now CLOSED.
Call for Abstracts
Abstracts are sought that represent the breadth of interests and capabilities across the combined CNMS, SNS, and HFIR user communities. Contributed oral and poster presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts. Poster presenters, who are graduate or undergraduate students at the time of the presentation, will also be eligible for Best Student Poster Presentation. Sessions covering a wide array of topics are planned and specific submissions in the following areas are particularly encouraged:
Joint CNMS/SNS/HFIR sessions – One goal of this meeting is to advance collaboration, understanding, and interactions between the nanoscience and neutron communities. Submissions at the intersection of these areas or considered of broad interest to both user bodies are sought, including topics in:
- Hard Functional Materials – Covering aspects of structure and phenomena in bulk, thin-film, and nano-versions of materials including, but not limited to ferroelectrics, thermoelectrics, superconductors, correlated electron materials, photovoltaics, batteries, etc.
- Soft and Bio-Functional Materials – Covering aspects of structure, electronic, ionic, dynamic, etc., phenomena in soft and bio materials and interfaces.
Confirmed invited speakers include: Edwin Fohtung (New Mexico State University), Jacob Jones (North Carolina State University), Diana Mitrea (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital), Dvora Perahia (Clemson University)
CNMS focused sessions – Abstracts expanding upon the core areas of work at CNMS are sought, including those focused on:
- Interface Directed Assembly – Work aiming to understand the impact of interfacial architecture on the formation, structure, and response of functional materials including aspects of directed molecular assembly, assembly of higher-order systems, reorganization and response of assembled materials in soft matter.
- Directed Nanoscale Transformations of Materials – Work aiming to understand and control the dynamic changes of chemical and structural states that materials undergo in confined and non-equilibrium conditions including how energy is transferred from an electron or ion beam or scanning probe tip to a material, how energy and mass are transferred at the atomic and molecular scale, how confinement affects locally driven chemical reactions, and how reaction processes and pathways affect the selection and confinement of reaction products.
- Electromechanical Phenomena – Work aiming to understand and develop control of how materials move in response to an electric field to deliver new functionalities in the field of electromechanical phenomena and to develop new user capabilities including understanding fundamentals of electric field induced mass flow, elucidation of electromechanical phenomena under dimensional confinement, and control of electromechanical phenomena through external interfaces.
- Heterogeneities in Low-Dimensional Materials – Work aiming to understand the critical roles of compositional and structural heterogeneities on electronic phenomena in low-dimensional materials in order to tailor physical properties critical for energy conversion processes including understanding the roles of atomic defects on electron scattering and excitation processes and controlling mesoscopic boundaries for tailoring transport of charge and excitations.
Confirmed invited speakers include: Michael Filler (Georgia Tech), Lincoln Lauhon (Northwestern University), Tim Long (Virginia Tech), Natalie Stingelin (Georgia Tech).
SNS/HFIR focused sessions – Abstracts relating to the following areas are sought:
- Quantum Phenomena in Materials – Work aiming to understand emergent properties of materials that are quantum in nature. Topics may include superconductivity, multiferroicity, low-dimensional and frustrated magnetism, orbital fluctuations, quantum criticality, topological insulators, or related phenomena.
- Chemical and Engineering Materials – Work aiming at an understanding the structure and dynamics of chemical systems and novel engineering materials. For instance, the performance of materials under varying environments, fundamentals of structure under extreme pressure and/or temperature conditions, and the effects of processing conditions on material performance.
- Data analysis, modeling and visualization – Work involving advances and ideas in the treatment and modeling of neutron scattering data. For example, development of new algorithms for data analysis, big data modeling, machine learning application to data analysis and collection, and coupled feedback between experiment and theoretical models.
- Materials for energy, sustainability and the environment – Work aiming to understand the structure, dynamics, and functionality of materials related to energy, sustainability, and the environment. For example, studies on photovoltaics, innovations in materials for energy storage or energy harvesting, and discovery of earth abundant, environmentally benign materials.
Confirmed invited speakers include: Rick Archibald (ORNL), Dipanshu Bansal (ORNL), Joseph Curtis (National Institute for Standards and Technology), Alannah Hallas (McMaster University), Fankang Li (ORNL), Jennifer Rupp (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Andrew Stack (ORNL), Hanno zur Loye (University of South Carolina).
