" Physics and Chemistry of Multicunctional Materials"

June 25th to July 09th 2006

GENOVA ITALY

  

 
Scientific Programme
Sunday 25 th June - Arrival Day
Monday 26 th June

09.00

9.30

M.Martelli Dean of the Faculty of Sciences — Opening Session

G.Borzone - Introduction

09.30

10.30

S. Kaskel—Desing and Function of Porous Materials

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

F. Decker —Physics and Chemistry of Electrochromic Materials and Devices

12.00

13.00

G.Alfonso —Principles and Phenomenology of Shear-Induced Crystal Nucleation in Polymeric Materials

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Introduction to Practical Work

Tuesday 27 th June

09.00

10.30

S. Kaskel—Nanocomposites: Inorganic Particles and Polymers

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

W. Schlindwein— Pharmaceutical Coating: Materials Properties

12.00

13.00

C. Gimenez Saiz —Physics and Chemistry of Molecular Materials with Electrical and Magnetic Properties

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Practical Work

Wednesday 28 th June

09.00

10.30

L.F. Barquin— From Ferromagnetism at the Micron Scale to Superparamagnetism at the Nanometer Scale

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

W. Schlindwein— Pharmaceutical Coating: Process Technologies

12.00

13.00

M. Duclot —Glasses: Physics, Chemistry and their applications

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Practical Work

Thursday 29 th June

09.00

12.00

Practical Work

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Practical Work

Friday 30 th June

09.00

10.30

P. Capobianco— Materials for Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells applications

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

J. Flokstra— Superconducting Materials, Devices and Applications

12.00

13.00

J. Flokstra —MEMS-Based devices for power sensing and switching

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Practical Work

Saturday 1 st July

09.00

09.45

K.K. Mortensen— Biomaterials-Biopolymers

09.45

10.30

H.U. Sperling-Petersen— Biomaterials-Fractionation of Macromolecules

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

G. Borzone— Hydrogen Storage Alloys

12.00

13.00

General Discussion

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Round Table

Monday 3 rd July

09.00

10.30

R. Burriel— Towards Magnetic Refrigeration: the Magnetocaloric Effect a New Cooling Method

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

K.W. Richter— Experimental Determination and Representation of Phase Diagrams in Alloy Systems

12.00

13.00

G. Litsardakis— Nanotechnology - The Present and Future of Magnetic Recording Media

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Practical Work

Tuesday 4 th July

09.00

10.30

D. Comoretto— Organic Materials for Electronics

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

K.W. Richter— Experimental Determination and Representation of Phase Diagrams in Alloy Systems

12.00

13.00

G. Litsardakis— Metastable Nanocomposite Phases for permanent magnet materials

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Practical Work

Wednesday 5 th July

09.00

10.30

R. L. Peng— Residual Stresses in Dual-Component Materials and their Analysis by Diffraction Methods

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

P. Ferloni— Polymer Electrolytes as Protonic Conductors

12.00

13.00

D. Gatteschi— Molecular Nanomagnets

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Practical Work

Thursday 6 th July

09.00

10.30

B. Orel— The Condensed Ionic Liquids as new Electrolytes for Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical and Electrochromic Cells

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

M. Canepa— Self-Assembled Monolayers: Snapshots from an Immense Landscape

12.00

13.00

A. Saccone— Intermetallic Phases: Synthesis and Applications

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Practical Work

Friday 7 th July

09.00

10.30

D. Marrè— Growth and Characterization of Thin Films of Functional Materials

10.30

11.00

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

12.00

M. M. Cruz— Electric Properties of Implanted Insulators

12.00

12.45

A. Diaspro— There is a Plenty of Photons at the bottom: the multiphoton revolution

12.45

13.00

M. Duclot— Closing Session

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

14.30

Test Evaluation

Saturday 8 th July

09.30

13.00

General Discussion

ECTS Conferring

13.00

14.30

LUNCH

Sunday 9 th July - Departure Day