NATO
Advanced Research Workshop
Boron Rich Solids
Sensors for Biological and Chemical Detection, Ultra-High Temperature Composites, Thermoelectrics, Armor
Orlando,
Florida, USA
December
14 - 18, 2009
The objective of this ARW is to discuss the current research and development covering a wide range of topics concerning boron rich solids as sensors, ultra high temperature ceramics, thermoelectric, and armor. A novel biological and chemical sensors made of stiff and light weight boron rich solids are very exciting and efficient for application in medical diagnoses, environmental surveillance and pathogen and biological/chemical terrorism agent detection. Ultra high temperature ceramic composites exhibit excellent oxidation and corrosion resistance for hypersonic vehicles’ application. Boron rich solids are also promising candidates for high temperature thermoelectric conversion. Armor is another very important application of boron rich solids since most of them exhibit very high hardness, which makes them perfect candidates with high resistance to ballistic impact.
The following topic areas will be presented:
- boron rich solids: science and technology;
- synthesis and sintering strategies of boron rich solids;
- microcantilever sensors;
- screening of the possible boron based thermoelectric conversion materials;
- ultra high temperature ZrB2 and HfB2 based composites
- dynamic behaviour of boron rich solids;
- magnetic, transport and high-pressure properties of boron rich solids;
- restrictions of the sensor’s dimensions for chemical detection;
- armor
Key speakers
N. Orlovskaya
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Email: norlovsk@mail.ucf.edu
M. Lugovy
Institute for Problems of Materials Science, Kiev, Ukraine
Email: nil2903@gmail.com
B. Albert
Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Email: albert@ac.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de
L.B. Begrambekov
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
Email: lbb@plasma.mephi.ru
A. Bellosi
Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
Email :alida.bellosi@istec.cnr.it
J.-F. Halet
University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France
Email: Jean-Francois.Halet@univ-rennes1.fr
M. Hebbache
University of Paris, Paris, France
Email: mhe@univ-paris-diderot.fr
M. Ishigami
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Email: ishigami@mail.ucf.edu
Z. Lin
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Email: zlin@lanl.gov
T. Mori
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
Email: MORI.Takao@nims.go.jp
A. Oganov
State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Email: artem.oganov@sunysb.edu
V. Shaternik
Institute of Metal Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
Email: shat@imp.kiev.ua
Y. Sohn
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Email: ysohn@mail.ucf.edu
G. Subhash
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Email: subhash@ufl.edu
M. Trenary
University of Illinoice at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Email: mtrenary@uic.edu
H. Werheit
University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Email: helmut.werheit@uni-duisburg-essen.de
Participants
R. Blair
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Email: rblair@mail.ucf.edu
O. Buzhinskij
SRC RF TRINITI , Troitsk Moscow reg., Russia
Email: buzh@triniti.ru
V.A. Gasparov
Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia
Email: vgasparo@issp.ac.ru
M. Herrmann
Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme, IKTS, Dresden, Germany
Email: mathias.herrmann@ikts.fraunhofer.de
P. Kervalishvili
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Email: kerval@global-erty.net
J. LaSalvia
Survivability Materials Branch, Materials Division U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
Email: jlasalvi@arl.army.mil
J.E. Lowther
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Email: John.Lowther@wits.ac.za
S. K. Mishra
National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India
Email: suman@nmlindia.org
F. Monteverde
Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
Email: frederic.monteverde@istec.cnr.it
J. Rau
Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Rome, Italy
Email: giulietta.rau@ism.cnr.it
L. Sartinska
Institute for Problems of Materials Science, Kiev, Ukraine
Email: sart@ipms.kiev.ua
M. Soliman
Pharmaceutical and Drug Industries Division, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
Email: solimanmohsen@yahoo.com
A.H. Ucisik
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Email: hucisik@gmail.com
H.Y. Xie
Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Shanghai, China
Email: hyxie@eed.sspu.cn
J. Zaykoski
Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division(NSWCCD), West Bethesda, MD, USA
Email: james.zaykoski@navy.mil
Y. Zhao
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Email: yzhao@lanl.gov