Recent progress in the synthesis of functional nanostructured materials has been rapid.
This symposium features nuclear chemical methods to probe the structure and dynamics of these functional materials at the nano-scale. Nuclear chemical methods such as Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), nuclear resonance scattering (NRS) using synchrotron radiation, positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS), muon spin resonance spectroscopy (muon-SR), and perturbed angular correlation (PAC) are well-suited to probe the behavior on the nano-scale level in contrast to the bulk properties, and can be applied to the characterization of nanostructured materials such as colossal magneto-resistance (CMR), dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) and dilute insulators, self-assembled complexes (SAC), spin crossover complexes(SCC), and so on. The development of nuclear chemical methods and their characterization results for novel functional materials will be presented and discussed.
The symposium features Oral session in Hilton Hawaiian Village (at Dec. 18, and 19).
Preliminary Invited Speakers;
1. Brad Chmelka, UC Santa Barbara (USA), NMR study of nanomaterials.
2. Yoshinori Kobayashi, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), PAS study of nanomaterials.
3. Wataru Sato, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan), PAC study of nano ZnO.
4. Jean-Marc Grenèche, University of Le Mans (France), In field Mössbauer study of nanooxides.
5. Amar Nath, Univ. of North Carolina Asheville (USA), Emission Mössbauer study of superconducting Fe Arsenides.
6. Zhang Tao, Dalian Insititute of Chemical Physics (china)Mössbauer study of novel bimetalic catalysts for CO oxidation in H2.
7. Kenya Kubo, International Christian Univ. (Japan),muon-SR and in beam Mössbauer study of nanooxides.
8. Yann Garcia, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), muon-SR and Mössbauer study of spin crossover complexes.
9. Kamali Saeed, Univ. of California, Davis (USA), Syncrotron Nuclear Resonant Vibrational Study of FeS clusters in NiFe-hydrogenase. |
