YUCOMAT 2007 Presented Latest Trends in Materials Science and Engineering on a Small Scale
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YUCOMAT 2007 Presented Latest Trends in Materials Science and Engineering on a Small Scale www.yu-mrs.org.yu On September 10–14, 2007, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, was once more the host of the Yugoslav Materials Research Society (Yu-MRS) Conference: YUCOMAT 2007, sponsored by the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The conference drew several hundred attendees from around the world to hear four plenary sessions in addition to five one-day symposia on the topics of advanced methods in materials synthesis and processing, advanced materials for high-technology applications, nanostructured materials, composites, and biomaterials. The Conference also included a Work shop on the bilateral cooperation between Slovenia and Serbia. Selected manuscripts are scheduled to appear in Materials and Manufacturing Processes, published by Taylor and Francis and Surface Engineering, published by Maney Publishing. At the Opening Ceremony, Dragan Uskokovic, president of Yu-MRS and director of the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, gave a welcoming speech to the attendees. He said, “Following the political change which resulted in the separation of Serbia and Montenegro, last year we took some necessary steps to establish two new societies out of Yu-MRS: MRS of Serbia and MRS of Montenegro….Good news is that we have been invited by the Federation of European Materials Research Societies to join them as soon as possible,
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so I expect that we will become their member possibly by the end of this year and certainly before the next Conference.” During the First Plenary Session, E. Olsson (Chalmers Univ., Stockholm, Sweden) spoke on characterization and manipulation of functional nanostructures using a high-resolution analytical transmission electron microscope (TEM) and a combined scanning probe microscope/ TEM; R. Hull (Univ. of Virginia, USA) presented controlled assembly of epitaxial nanostructures for nanoelectronic applications; S. Kodambaka (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA) talked about semiconductor nanowire nucleation and growth kinetics; R. Sinclair (Stanford Univ., USA) addressed recent developments in nanomaterials; D. Chatain (Research Center on Condensed Matter and Nanosciences– CNRS, Marseille, France) addressed finite size effects on distribution and shape of small particles; and V. Radmilovic (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA) lectured on novel metallic thin films for nano-electromechanical systems applications. During the Second Plenary Session, the following talks were presented: E. Spiecker (Kiel Univ., Germany) on developments in quantitative three-dimensional (3D) structure analysis of thin solid films by TEM; E. Stach (Purdue Univ., USA) on using real time microscopy to quantitatively determine nucleation mechanisms and kinetics during the growth of Si nanowires and carbon nanotubes;
Invited speaker Eva Olsson of Chalmers University, Stockholm, Sweden, opened the First Plenary Session at YUCOMAT 2007.
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