Program

LECTURE PROGRAM

POSTER SESSIONS

 

Sunday, May 7th

 

17:30-20:00 Registration

19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception

 

Monday, May 8th

 

9:00-9:30 Conference Opening: Welcome addresses by Prof. Eugen Rabkin, conference chairman and by Dr. Fadil Salih, MOST representative

 

Plenary I (Chairman: Dezső  Beke)          Alon Hall

9:30-10:00

Invited lecture

Helmut Mehrer

History of diffusion – pioneers and landmarks

10:00-10:30

Invited lecture

Yves Brechet

Diffusion and irradiation : the paradoxes of irradiation creep

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

Section 1, Bulk diffusion fundamental (Alon)

Chairman: Vladimir Popov

Section 2, Diffusion and reactions in thin films (Brosh)

Chairman: Dominique Mangelinck

11:00-11:30

Invited lectures

Irina Belova

Application of a new random alloy kinetic formalism to high entropy alloys

Marco Salvalaglio

Complex dewetting scenarios of ulta-thin silicon films

11:30-11:50 Jing Zhon

A high-throughput approach to establish the atomic mobility database in multicomponent alloy

Dezső L Beke

Acoustic emission during grain boundary diffusion induced grain boundary migrations and reactions in thin films

11:50-12:10 Daniel Schneider

Transport properties of hierarchical micro-mesoporous materials

Csaba Cserháti

Kirkendall effect on the nanoscale

12:10-12:30 Sergiy Divinski

Diffusion in high-entropy alloys

Lars P.H. Jeurgens

Directional mass transport of nano-confined metals and alloys in nanomultilayers

12:30-12:50 Luca Messina

Cluster expansion of the Onsager matrix for dilute solid solutions: application to diffusion in Fe-(C, N, O) solid solutions

Christophe Girardeaux

Growth of ultra-thin MgO oxide films onto silicon substrate

13:00-14:30 Lunch

 

Section 3, Reactive diffusion (Alon)

 

Chairman: Christophe Girardeaux

Section 4, Computational studies of

diffusion I (Brosh)

Chairman: Alexander Korsunsky

14-30-15:00

Invited lectures

Alain Portavoce

W and Fe redistribution in Si during annealing and oxidation

Igor Abrikosov

Recent advances in theoretical calculations of lattice-vacancy diffusion coefficients via non equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics

15:00-15:30

Invited lectures

Dor Amram

Phase separation and grain boundary segregation in sintering of nanocrystalline alloys

Dan Mordehai

Climb via vacancy diffusion of edge dislocations in 2D dislocation microstructures

15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:20 Gunther Richter

In situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Observations of the fcc-hcp Phase Transformation in Co Nanowhiskers

Nicolas Stolwijk

A Monte Carlo study of atomic migration by the interstitialcy mechanism in binary random alloys

16:20-16:40 Alexey Rodin

Formation of intermediate phases and supersaturated solid solution in Al-Cu system during diffusion.

Andrei Nazarov

Simulation of atomic jump features and carbon atom migration in α-Fe

16:40-17:00 Dominique Mangelinck

Nucleation and lateral growth during reactive diffusion in thin film of Ni silicide alloyed with Pt

János J. Tomán

Stochastic Kinetic Mean Field model – a new, low-cost, atomic scale simulation technique

17:00-17:20 Ting Luo

Effect of alloying element of W on Ni-silicide formation

Sergey A. Vasilyev

Molecular dynamics simulation of melting of metal nanoparticles using temperature dependence of self-diffusion coefficient

17:45-19:45 Poster Session I

 

Tuesday, May 9th

 

Plenary II (Chairman: Helmut Mehrer)       Alon Hall

9:00-9:30

Invited lecture

Yongho Sohn,

Interdiffusion, reactions and phase transformations observed during fabrication of low enriched metallic fuel system for research and test reactors

9:30-10:00

Invited lecture

Graeme Murch,

The significance and meaning of off-diagonal Onsager phenomenological coefficients

10:00-10:30

Invited lecture

Timothy Weihs,

Atomic diffusion and phase transformations in nanolayered films

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

Section 5, Surfaces and interfaces (Alon)

 

Chairman: Andriy Gusak

Section 6, Diffusion in ionic

crystals I (Brosh)

Chairman: Roni Shneck

11:00-11:30

Invited lectures

Gil Alexandrowicz

Probing microscopic motion without a microscope; matter-wave interferometry experiments of ultra-fast motion on solid surfaces

Maytal Caspary Toroker

Dual mechanisms: hydrogen diffusion and water oxidation catalysis in metal oxide materials

11:30-11:50 Nimrod Gazit

Chemically-induced solid-state dewetting of thin gold films

Alexander Shluger

Electron-stimulated oxygen ion diffusion in thin oxide films

11:50-12:10 Paul Jacquet

Influence of surface curvature in the process of solid-state dewetting of polycrystalline silver layer on amorphous silica

Alexander Korsunsky

Monitoring Li+ diffusion in MNC battery cathodes using TOF-SIMS

12:10-12:30 Vadim Derkach

Grain boundaries effects on hole morphology and growth during solid state dewetting of thin films

Alexander Skripov

Comparison of lithium diffusion mechanisms in complex hydrides LiLa(BH4)3Cl and Li3(NH2)2I via 7Li and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance studies

12:30-12:50 X.L. Yan

Surface segregation of Cu and S in Ni-Cu(S) ternary alloy

13:00-14:30 Lunch

 

Section 7, Diffusion in nanostructured

materials (Alon)

Chairman: Guido Schmitz

Section 8, Thermal processing (Brosh)

Chairman: Nicolas Stolwijk

14:30-15:00

Invited lectures

Lasar Shvindlerman

Structural elements of polycrystal and evolution and stability of nanocrystalline materials

Lijun Zhang

Diffusivity and atomic mobility in alloys

15:00-15:30

Invited lectures

Zoltán Erdélyi

Size dependent spinodal decomposition in Cu-Ag nanoparticles

Filip Geenen

Texture evolution during solid-state reactions – silicides and germanides

15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:20 Zhenbo Wang

Effects of preparation method and interfacial structure on diffusion kinetics of nanostructured materials

Ryusuke Nakamura

Crystallization of sputter-deposited amorphous Ge films: Competition of diamond cubic and hexagonal phases

16:20-16:40 Zaoli Zhang

Preparation and the thermal stability of CuCr nanostructured materials

Dagmara Fronczek

Intermetallics growth during annealing of three-layered light alloys platters manufactured by explosive welding

16:40-17:00 Yusuke Iguchi

Nanolayered diffusion couple method reconsidering on the binary phase diagram: The miscibility gap

Alexander Pokoev

Magnetoplastic effect in metal alloys

17:30-19:30 Poster Session II

 

 

Wednesday, May 10th

 

Plenary III (Chairman: David J. Srolovitz) Alon Hall

9:00-9:30

Invited lecture

Guido Schmitz

Atomic transport in battery materials

9:30-10:00

Invited lecture

Ruslan Valiev

Diffusion-related phenomena in ultrafine-grained materials

10:00-10:30

Invited lecture

Tomoo Katsura

Silicon, oxygen and magnesium self-diffusion of forsterite as a function of water content

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

Section 9, Diffusion in driven systems (Alon)

 

Chairman: Jörg Kärger

Section 10, Diffusion in polymers, disordered alloys, and liquids (Brosh)

Chairwoman: Irina Belova

11:00-11:30

Invited lectures

Boris Straumal

Diffusion-like mass-transfer in Cu-based alloys during high pressure torsion

Gitti Frey

The Diffusion of Molecules in Organic Solar Cells

11:30-11:50 Evgenia Kuleshova

Diffusion role in radiation embrittlement of reactor pressure vessel steels

Bryan Pajarito

Moisture sorption and desorption in epoxy composites reinforced with aligned vinyl ester triangular bars: determination of diffusion coefficient and effect of varied factors

11:50-12:10 Askar Kilmametov

Diffusive and diffusionless phase transitions in severely deformed Cu-Al-Ni shape memory alloys

Alexander Katz-Demyanetz

Mg-based bulk metallic-glasses in the focus of materials science and engineering

12:10-12:30 Andrey Mazilkin

Mass transfer in Al/Ni system under high pressure torsion deformation

Eyal Eshed

Modeling the behavior of high entropy alloys (HEAs) at high temperatures

12:30-14:00 Lunch

 

14:30-18:30 Guided tour to Akko (departure at 14:30 from the Dan Panorama hotel – Conference venue)

 

19:00-21:30 Conference Dinner and Best Poster Awards (Princess Halls – 6 Ha-Kharoshet Street, Haifa)

 

 

Thursday, May 11th

 

Plenary IV (Chairman: Igor Abrikosov)    Alon Hall

9:00-9:30

Invited lecture

David J. Srolovitz

Grain boundary structure and grain boundary dynamics: migration, diffusion, point defect adsorption

9:30-10:00

Invited lecture

Sergiy Divinski

Grain boundary diffusion: recent advances

10:00-10:30

Invited lecture

Mikhail Mendelev

Molecular dynamics simulation of self-diffusion in BCC and HCP metals

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

Section 11, Short-circuit diffusion (Alon)

 

Chairman: Jiri Svoboda

Section 12, Diffusion in ionic

crystals II (Brosh)

Chairman: Paul Heitjans

11:00-11:30

Invited lectures

Boris Bokstein

Atomic interaction in grain boundaries and related phenomena

Blas Uberuaga

The effect of cation disorder on anion and cation transport in pyrochlor

11:30-11:50 Hagit Barda

Metal diffusion along the metal-ceramic interface in partially dewetted thin films

Thomas Neset Sky

Diffusion of donor elements in mono-crystalline zinc oxide: the interplay with zinc vacancies

11:50-12:10 Vladimir Popov

Effect of equal channel and dynamic channel angular pressing of Ni and further heat treatment on its structure and grain-boundary diffusion

Francesco Chiabrera

Grain boundary dominated thin films of strontium-doped lanthanum manganite for μSOFCs

12:10-12:30 Vladislav Kulitckii

Grain boundary diffusion in severely deformed Al-based alloy

Nicolas Stolwijk

Sodium and potassium transport in alkali feldspar: tracer diffusion, ion conductivity and Monte Carlo simulation

12:30-12:50 Aleksei Itckovich

Computer modelling of atomic complexes in grain boundaries

13:00-14:30 Lunch

 

Section 13, Computational studies of diffusion II (Alon)

Chairman: Dan Mordehai

Section 14, Diffusion in solid-gas systems (Brosh)

Chairman: Alain Portavoce

14:30-15:00

Invited lectures

Rafal Abdank-Kozubski

Self-diffusion in stoichiometric and non-stoichiometric triple-defect binary intermetallics: Semi Grand Canonical and Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

Jiri Svoboda

How oxygen can get a precipitate forming alloying element?

15:00-15:30

Invited lectures

Dallas Trinkle

Automated Green function calculation of dilute solute diffusivity

Ulrich Krupp

Numerical analysis of diffusion-controlled internal corrosion by the cellular automata approach

15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:20 Andriy Gusak

Application of Stochastic Kinetic Mean-Field method to nucleation, ordering, and phase competition in reactive diffusion

Roni Schneck

The role of Cr diffusion in the oxidation resistance of W-Cr-Pd alloys at high temperatures

16:20-16:40 Aakash Kumar

Point Defects and Diffusion at the Ni/Sapphire Interface: a first principles Perspective

Kamil Ramazanov

Influence of hydrogen content in working gas on diffusion processes at ion nitriding of martensitic and austenitic steels

16:40-17:00 Luca Messina

Systematic ab initio-based investigation of substitutional impurity diffusion and solute-defect flux coupling in metals

Zoltán Balogh-Michels

In situ XRD experiments on the growth of expanded austenite using different process gases

17:00-17:20 Ravi Agarwal

Solute transport database in Mg using ab initio and exact diffusion theory

Efi Hadjixenophontos

Hydrogen sorption kinetics in MgH2 thin films

 

Friday, May 12th

 

Plenary V (Chairman: Eugen Rabkin)

9:00-9:30

Invited lecture

Jörg Kärger

Microimaging of diffusion in nanoporous solids: novel input for Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and fundamental research

9:30-10:00

Invited lecture

Paul Heitjans

Lithium ion transport – between basics and batteries

10:00-10:30

Invited lecture

Richard Ghez

Constructing an introductory course on diffusion

10:30-11:00 Concluding remarks by Prof. Eugen Rabkin, Conference Chair

11:00-11:30 Farewell coffee and cake