第12届非晶态材料结构会议

12^th International Conference on the Structure of Non-Crystalline Materials (NCM12) will be held in July 7th through July 12th, 2013, in Riva del Garda (Trento) Italy.

网址：http://events.unitn.it/en/ncm12

会议介绍：

Scope

The NCM Conference is devoted since the first meeting to investigations on the structure and dynamics of materials where the long-range order typical of crystals is absent, or modified on different length scales. On 1985, NCM3 in Grenoble was one of the first occasions to debate about the quasicrystals experimentally discovered by D. Shechtman (2011 Nobel Price).

Main subjects of the Conference will include, but are not limited, to the following:

Topics

- Structural modeling of glasses and melts; theoretical aspects
- Short- and medium-range order in glasses and melts (spectroscopy, diffraction, new experimental structural approaches)
- Nucleation and crystallization processes
- Quasicrystals
- Nano-crystalline materials
- Sol-gels and heterogeneous systems
- Nanostructural and microstructural features
- Structural properties of glass surfaces
- Structural evolution under forcing conditions: high pressure, irradiation, photo-structural changes, polyamorphism and reversibility windows; glass to melt transformations
- Relationships between structure and properties: physico-chemical properties (nuclear waste glasses, fast ion conducting glasses, glasses for photonics, specialty materials...)
- Dynamical properties
- Relaxation phenomena

Materials

- Oxide (silica/silicate, borate, phosphate,...), chalcogenide, oxynitride glasses and melts;
- Metallic glasses
- Geological glasses, polymer glasses , bioglasses
- New glass-forming systems
- Amorphous systems, quasycristals, …
- Nano structures in glasses and crystals

Experimental and numerical methods

- Scattering methods (x-ray, neutron)
- Solid-state spectroscopic methods (x-ray absorption spectroscopy, NMR, vibrational spectroscopy methods, ion scattering spectroscopy ...)
- Experiments at extreme conditions (new possibilites using Large Scale Facilities)
- Influence of materials preparation (thermal history, crystal amorphization, etc )
- Microscopy (electron, near-field, surface investigations, ...)
- Numerical modeling including structural modeling, atomistic modeling, and ab initio approches.

重要的日期如下：

• Pre-registration : open for mailing list and suggestions till 31 December 2012

• Call for Abstract: October 2012
• Deadline for abstract submission for Oral/Poster Contributions: 28 February 2013
• Abstract acceptance notification: 15 April 2013
• Registration and Payment: open from 1 April 2013
• Early bird registration deadline: 1 May 2013 (mandatory for Participants with accepted Oral Contribution)
• Deadline for abstract submission for late Poster Contributions: 1 June 2013

• Manuscript Submission: 15 June 2013