Track Categories
The track category is the heading under which your abstract will be reviewed and later published in the conference printed matters if accepted. During the submission process, you will be asked to select one track category for your abstract.
Polymers, ceramics, glass, composite materials, and biomaterials have all been added to the field of Materials Science and Engineering in recent decades. The exploration and production of novel materials are part of material technology and engineering. Because the constraints of available resources are causing some of humanity's most pressing technical difficulties, substantial advances in materials science are predicted to have a significant impact on the future of technology. Materials scientists are particularly interested in learning how a material's history influences its structure, and consequently its qualities and outcomes. Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter at the atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scales. The amazing thing about nanotechnology is that the properties of numerous materials change as the small scale of their dimensions reaches nanometers. Materials scientists and engineers are attempting to understand those advances in characteristics and apply them to the manufacture and manufacturing of materials at the nanoscale level. Materials science is concerned with the discovery, characterization, characteristics, and use of nanoscale materials. Activity on nanomaterials provides a scientific approach to nanotechnology, influencing breakthroughs in metrology and synthesis of materials designed to enable microfabrication work. Materials having structure at the nanoscale offer unique optical, electrical, or mechanical capabilities.
All materials that exhibit improvements above traditional materials employed thousands of years ago are referred to as advanced materials. Advanced materials include smart materials, semiconductors, biomaterials, and nano engineered materials. The study of unique building materials utilized in IT, effective mechanical engineering, space engineering, medicine, and other fields is the focus of Advanced Materials Research. Nano devices have a significant impact on pollution management, human health and longevity, food production, and energy conversion. These are critical enablers that will let humanity to fully exploit the mechanical, magnetic, electrical, and biological system. Smart materials have one or more properties that can be substantially altered in a controlled manner by external elements such as electric or magnetic fields, heat, moisture, light, temperature, pH, or chemical compounds. Sensitive or reactive materials are other terms for smart materials. Sensors and actuators, or artificial muscles, are examples of smart materials applications, particularly as electroactive polymers.
Biomaterials can be defined in terms of healthcare as materials having unique qualities that allow them to interact with living tissue immediately without inducing immunological rejection. Biomaterials are made up of numerous components that interact with biological systems. They can be natural or synthetic, alive or dead. Biomaterials have been used by humans since the dawn of time, but evolution has made them more adaptable and useful. Biomaterials have revolutionized fields like bioengineering and tissue engineering, allowing for the development of new techniques to tackle life-threatening diseases. Different ailments, such as heart failure, fractures, and severe skin lesions, are treated using similar principles and approaches. Work is being done to improve existing procedures and come up with new ones. Biomaterials and medical devices interact with biological systems in an indirect way. Biomaterials can be used to replace or restore lost tissue in medical applications.
The term “energy material” refers to any substance that can react to the discharge of energy. Energy materials are a type of substance that may release significant amounts of chemical energy that has been stored in them. Energy materials are a large category of materials that can be used for energy conversion or transmission. Energy materials may also have a role in lowering the power consumption or output of current devices. Energy materials research encompasses a wide range of topics, including engineering devices. The term “energetic content” encompasses a wide range of substances, ranging from basic automobile fuels like gasoline and diesel to powerful explosives like gunpowder, dynamite, and TNT. Composites are materials made up of two or more actual or artificial components that have diverse physical or chemical properties and are thus stronger than other materials. Composites can be divided into two types: polymer composites reinforced by fibre and composites reinforced by particles. Composites for the polymer matrix are fibre-reinforced polymer composites. Tennis, aviation, rotor blades for helicopters, racquets for football, badminton, and squash, and boats such as kayaks and dinghies all use composites.
A ceramic is a non-metallic inorganic solid made of metal or non-metal components, most commonly crystalline oxide, nitride, or carbide, that is created and then heated to high temperatures. In shearing, stress, and corrosion, ceramic materials are brittle, strong, compressive, and stiff. Covalent (and/or ionic) bonding is extremely strong in ceramics. In engineering ceramics, the primary compositional categories are oxides, nitrides, and carbides. Engineering ceramics are used to manufacture components for applications such as tappet heads, industrial industries, electrical devices, and turbochargers. Glass is the most transparent non-crystalline material and is used in window frames, dinnerware, optics, and optoelectronics for a variety of functional, technical, and decorative purposes. Soda-lime glass, which is made up of about calcium oxide, 75 percent silicon dioxide, sodium carbonate oxide, and a few minor additions, is used to make container glass and conventional glazing. Metallic salts can be used to colour glass, and vitreous enamels can be painted and printed.
Polymer science, sometimes known as macromolecular science, is a branch of polymer research concerned with synthetic polymers such as plastics and elastomers. Researchers in the field of polymer science come from a variety of fields, including chemistry, physics, and engineering. Electronics and electrical devices, textiles, aerospace, automotive, and other industries employ polymer manufacturing. The application of polymer-based substances in electrical engineering, electronics, construction materials, packaging materials, fancy decorative items, automotive, and other fields has advanced the study of material science in recent years. Chemical and physical processes at the two-phase interfaces of solid-gas interfaces, solid-vacuum interfaces, liquid-gas interfaces, and solid-liquid interfaces were studied using surface science and engineering. Surface science and engineering, includes tribology, with a focus on friction, wear, and surface modification techniques such surface treatment, coating, machining, polishing, and grinding. Self-assembled monolayers, heterogeneous catalysis, manufacturing of semiconductor structures, fuel cells, and adhesives are all part of the research.
The application of physics to explain the physical properties of materials is known as materials physics. It is a synthesis of physical sciences such as chemistry, solid mechanics, solid state physics, and matter science. Materials physics is a branch of condensed matter physics that applies basic condensed matter concepts to complicated multiphase media, such as technology materials of relevance. Optical, electrical, and magnetic materials, innovative materials and architectures, material quantum phenomena, non-equilibrium physics, and soft condensed matter physics are some of the current domains in which materials physicists work. Functional materials are essential components of modern society and play an important role in technological advancement. Materials Chemistry is critical in establishing the conceptual framework for the creation, development, and comprehension of new types of matter, whether organic, inorganic, or hybrid. Chemistry is developing a variety of new materials, such as molecular filters, catalysts, sensors, molecular transporters, artificial scaffolds, and light-emitting or electron-conductive ensembles, ranging from nanomaterials and molecular devices to polymers and expanded solids, with the potential for large scientific and societal effects.
Computer materials research necessitates the use of computational approaches to solve interrelated material challenges. Specific mathematical models are available to investigate difficulties on various length and time scales, assisting in the understanding of the nature of material structures and how they efficiently manage material properties. Density Functional Theory is a common computational methodology in the electronic realm, whereas Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo are favoured atomic simulation methods. For materials challenges, the Phase-field Process is commonly utilized on the micron and mesoscale (between micro and nano) regimes.
Crystallography is a discipline of science concerned with determining the arrangement and bonding of atoms in crystalline solids based on the geometric structure of crystal lattices. The optical characteristics of crystals have long been of interest in chemistry and mineralogy for material identification. The study of X-ray diffraction by crystals acting as optical gratings is the foundation of modern crystallography. X-ray crystallography allows chemists to discover the interior structures and bonding patterns of minerals and molecules, including the structures of huge complex compounds like proteins and DNA.
Graphene is the world's first two-dimensional material, as well as the most versatile, thinnest, and strongest. Graphene is a kind of carbon that conducts electricity and heat better than any other material. Graphene is a single layer of graphite made up of sp2 connected carbon atoms organized in a hexagonal (honeycomb) lattice.
Green materials are those that are both local and regenerative. Local materials are unique to the place and bond whatever a group of people creates. Stone, cement, and sand are examples of environmentally friendly items. Plant resources such as bamboo, grasses, wool, and wood have also been employed by humans from the dawn of civilization.
A perovskite is a substance that shares the same crystal structure as calcium titanium oxide, the first perovskite crystal found. The chemical formula for perovskite compounds is ABX3, where A and B are cation’s and X is an anion that bonds to both. A wide range of components can be used to create perovskite structures. Scientists can construct perovskite crystals with a wide range of physical, optical, and electrical properties using this compositional freedom. Selective laser sintering is an additive manufacturing technology that binds powdered material (usually nylon or polyamide) together to make a solid structure by autonomously focusing the laser at spots in space described by a 3D model. It's comparable to selective laser melting in that they're both manifestations of the same idea, but the technological details differ. SLS is a relatively new technology that has been mostly employed for rapid prototyping and low-volume component part manufacture.